William Holman b. Abt 1595 from Northampton, Northamptonshire, England d. 8 Jan 1653 Cambridge, Ma: Ancestry of Paul Wattenberger

Abt 1595 - 1653 (58 years)

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Name	William Holman
Born	Abt 1595	from Northampton, Northamptonshire, England [1]
Gender	Male
Died	8 Jan 1653	Cambridge, Ma
Person ID	I4282	Paul's Tree
Last Modified	2 Jul 2018

Family Winifred, b. Abt 1600

Children

	1. Hannah Holman, b. Abt 1627, Eng , d. 4 Jun 1685 (Age 58 years) [natural]
	2. Jeremiah Holman, b. Abt 1629, Eng [natural]
	3. Mary Holman, b. Abt 1631, Eng , d. Bef 5 Jan 1674 (Age < 43 years) [natural]
	4. Sarah Holman, b. Abt 1633, Eng [natural]
	5. Abraham Holman, b. Abt 1635, Eng [natural]
	6. Isaac Holman, b. Abt 1640, d. 12 Apr 1663, Cambridge, Ma (Age 23 years) [natural]
	7. Seeth Holman, b. Abt 1642 [natural]
	8. Elizabeth Holman, b. 19 May 1644 [natural]

Last Modified 2 Jul 2018

Family ID F2012 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

From Great Migration Begins:

Migrated on the Defenceon 20 June 1635, "Wm Hoeman," aged 40 husbandman, "his wife, Winifred," aged 35, with "5 children, Hannah, 8, Jeremy, 6, Mary, 4, Sarra, 2, Abraham, 1 quarter," were enrolled at, with certificates of conformity from , as passengers for New England ...

ESTATE:In the 1639 land inventory, "William Holman" held two parcels: "bought of Gerrad [Spencer] a house with six acres of planting ground in the Old West Field"; and "in the Old West Field three acres of planting ground"[CaBOP 48].In the land inventory of 6 September 1642, "William Holman" held five parcels: "in the west end one dwelling house with three acres of land"; "in the West Field three acres"; "in the Fresh Pond Meadow two acres & half"; "on the south side of Charles River six acres more or less being the eighteenth in the lower division of lots"; and "in the upper divison of those lots six acres more or less, being the two & fortieth lot"[CaBOP 107].
In 1645 "William Holman" was granted four acres and a half "on the west side of Monotamye River"[CaBOP 129].In the division of Shawsheen lands on 4 June 1652, "W[illia]m Homan" received Lot #17, fifty acres[CaTR 97].
On 21 October 1671, "administration is granted to Jeremiah Holman and Abra[ha]m Holman upon the estate of their mother Winifred Holman deceased"[ 468].
The inventory of the estate of "Winifred Holman of widow late deceased," taken 23 October 1671, totalled 62lb. 9s. 7d., of which 47lb. was real estate: "the house & three acres of land with the privileges," 24lb.; "three acres land in West Field," 9lb.; "two acres & half in Fresh Pond Meadow," 2lb. 10s.; "one acre of salt marsh," 4lb.; "one acre & half in the Great Swamp," 1lb. 10s.; "on the south side Charles River in the near division two acres," 2lb. 10s.; and "in the far division ten acres," 3lb. 10s.[MPR Case #11748].
Evidence for the marriages for two of the daughters, Hannah and Elizabeth, comes from the settlement of the estate of their brother Abraham. On 21 February 1711/2, Ebenezer Littlefield, Thomas Ross, John Ross, Jeremiah Holman, Nathaniel Parker, Joseph Daniels attorney for Mrs. Eliz[abeth] Adams, Caleb Johnson and Samuel Parker gave a receipt for their shares in the estate[ 259-60, citing MPR 16:507]. Caleb Johnson was son of Hannah (Holman) Johnson; Jeremiah Holman was son of Jeremiah Holman; Nathaniel Parker, Samuel Parker, and the wife of Ebenezer Littlefield were children of Sarah (Holman) Parker; Thomas Ross and John Ross were sons of Seeth (Holman) Ross; and Joseph Daniels was son-in-law of Elizabeth (Holman) Adams, thus accounting for all of the siblings of Abraham Holman who left descendants.
In 1659 various members of the family of JOHN GIBSON {1634, } accused Winifred and Mary Holman of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in at the time[ 237-54].
Pope distributed information on this information in three places, under the surnames "Homan, Hoeman," "Holman, Homar, Holdman," and "Homwood"[Pope 234, 237, 238]. Savage split his information between "Holman" and "Homwood"[Savage 2:451, 457].

Sources
[S243] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33.