When Asa Holt was born on 3 May 1742, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Thomas Holt Jr., was 31 and his mother, Hannah Kimball, was 29. He married Dinah Holt on 15 June 1765, in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 20 February 1793, in Wilmington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in South Church Cemetery, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
English, North German, Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a small wood, from Middle English, Middle Low German, Danish, and Norwegian holt, or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word. In England, the surname is widely distributed, but more common in Lancashire and Yorkshire than elsewhere.
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Possible Related NamesHis parents were Thomas Holt, Jr., born in Andover, and Hannah Kimball, born in Boxford, Mass. (sources: Family Search, gravestone inscription & Vital Records of ANDOVER, MA to the end of the year 184 …
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