When John Holt was born on 24 March 1807, in Whitefield, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Holt, was 51 and his mother, Sarah Dawson, was 42. He married Elizabeth Rhodes on 9 August 1830, in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Bury, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851 and Pendleton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 4 June 1857, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
The British West Africa Squadron was formed in 1808 to suppress illegal slave trading on the African coastline. The British West Africa Squadron had freed approximately 150,000 people by 1865.
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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 NamesJust North by Northwest of the sprawling industrial city of Manchester in southeastern Lancashire, England, John Holt was born 24 Mar. 1807 in Half Acre, Whitefield, Prestwich Parish. He was …
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