In a message dated 12/19/2008 6:58:06 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, robertnicholson1@cox.net writes: Frances, Based on the information below and the information in the e-mail you sent me privately, I can state with almost complete certainty that Robert Holt is NOT a descendant of Germanna's Michael Holt (Hans Michael Hold). There is no evidence that any descendants of Michael Holt were in Prince William Sound, VA; Blount County, AL; or Franklin County, NC. It should be noted that the individual who prepared the information in the e-mail you sent me privately, admitted that he did not have a source for his claims. After arriving from Germany in 1717, Michael Holt and all of his descendants lived in the area of the original settlement for the Second Germanna Colony and then the Madison County, VA area. Starting about 1750, the entire Michael Holt, family including all known descendants, starting moving to Orange County, NC. The last of these descendants were in Orange County, NC in the late 1760s, prior to the Revolutionary War. The area of Orange County, NC where they settled became Alamance County, NC in 1849. In the reconstructed 1790 census for the St. Asaph's and Chatham (I think it was) Districts in Orange County, NC, all of the Holts listed are descendants of Michael Holt. The most authorative source on the family of Michael Holt in this country is the book, "Descendants of Michael Holt", by the late Maudie Marie Holt Marshall. Copies of this book can be found in some libraries and it is available on a CD also. There were numerous English Holts in the Hogg Island area on the south side of the James River and just across from Jamestown and Williamsburg. There were also English Holts elsewhere in VA in the 1700s. Your Robert Holt is almost certainly a descendant of one of these English Holt families. If you know of a descendant of an all male line from Robert Holt, a DNA test will quickly give you the Holt line from which Robert Holt descended. It should be noted that the Michael Holt line has a number of his descendants represented in the DNA data base at Family Tree DNA. Robert Nicholson ----- Original Message ----- From: <KiwisKeeper@aol.com> To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 5:17 PM Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] GERMANNA HOLTS (WAS: DNA study question) > Robert, Looks like I was probably right. Whatever made you think this > wasn't > the same family. Do have have anything on the Holt family? > This means that My grandfather Drake and my grandmother Wilhite Drake were > distant cousins. > > > 1. Charles (1)5 Holt (John B.4, Hans Michael3, Martin2, Johann Jonas1) > was > born 30 March 1762 in Prince William Sound, Virginia, and died 19 > September > 1847 in Blountsville, Blount Co., Alabama. He married Martha Ratliff 15 > February 1785 in Franklin Co., North Carolina. She was born 15 February > 1765 in > Franklin Co., North Carolina (IGI Record), and died 11 May 1854 in Blount > Co., > Alabama (age 89). > > > > In a message dated 12/19/2008 2:02:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > robertnicholson1@cox.net writes: > > If Robert Holt was old enough to fight in the Revolutionary War, it would > support my guess that he is not a descendant of Germanna's Michael Holt > (Hans Michael Hold). > > Robert ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************One site keeps you connected to all your email: AOL Mail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000025)