Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . espected line, was Nicholas Holt,whose present representative is found in GeorgeW. Holt, one of the most prominent business menand esteemed citizens of Putnam, Connecticut. The ancestral line of Mr. Holt is traced backthrough: George W., Josiah, Jonathan. Zebediah,George, Henry and Nicholas. The name of Holthas a meaning of its own, and is defined by anatithority, Halliwell, as a grove or small for
Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . espected line, was Nicholas Holt,whose present representative is found in GeorgeW. Holt, one of the most prominent business menand esteemed citizens of Putnam, Connecticut. The ancestral line of Mr. Holt is traced backthrough: George W., Josiah, Jonathan. Zebediah,George, Henry and Nicholas. The name of Holthas a meaning of its own, and is defined by anatithority, Halliwell, as a grove or small forest,while on the South Downs of England the name isapplied to a kind of hanging bit of woodland, cor-responding to the German word of holz, whilestill another authority tells that the name is givento a peaked hill, covered with wood. Nicholas Holt, the founder of the family inAmerica, as nearly as can be discovered, came fromRomsey, England, where he was a tanner, andwhere he was probably born in 1602. The firstdefinite information of this far-away fore-fatherwas when he became a passenger on the shipJames, of London, William Cooper, Master, and^ sailed from the port of Southampton, England,. ^2^ ^^^^J Hf//,a^s S^ra jVy^ ^^^^
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