Mary Holt, Ancient Planter

"Around 1630 the heiress Mary Bayly married Randall Holt, at which point Hog Island in its entirety came into the hands of the Holt family (PB 1 Pt. 1:14; Pt. 2:880; MCGC 17, 44, 63-65; VCR 4;482-483, 551, 556; M&D 44; CBE 41-42, 61."

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Ancient Planter:
Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary By Martha W. McCartney, page 100

Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary By Martha W. McCartney, page398

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103962777

Birth: 1609 Prestbury Cheshire, England Death: 1643 Jamestown James City County Virginia, USA

FATHER: John BAILEY 1575-1620 Mother: Mrs-John BAYLEY

SPOUSE: Randall Or Randolph HOLT Marriage: 1626 Hogg Island, Surry, Virginia .................

Mary Bailey, John Bailey's underage daughter inherited his acreage in the eastern end of Jamestown Island Sometime prior to February 20, 1620. She also inherited his 490 to 500 acres at Hog Island. Mary's guardian's, Robert Evers and Richard Bailey and Bailey's surrogate Edward Grindon. generated income on Mary's behalf by placing her real estate in the hands of tenants. At times Evers personally occupied one of Mary's tracts on Jamestown Island and in September 1628 a tenant named Elmer Phillips was living on her other parcel. In 1626 Sir George Yeardley comenced rentiong Mary's Hog Island property. Mary married Randall Holt I around 1629 and gave birth to a son Randall Holt II shortly thereafter. The Household resided on her property at Hog Island. Mary died sometime prior to August 1, 1643, at which time son Randall Holt II repatented her acreage.

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Parents:

 John Bailey (1575 - 1620)

Spouse:

 Randall Holt (1607 - 1650)

Children:

 Randall Holt (1640 - 1679)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Lawnes Creek Parish Church Cemetery Surry County Virginia, USA

Mary Bailey (Bayly) was the sole heir of father "Ancient Planter"John Bayly, who drowned while crossing the James River Hogg Island to Jamestown in about February of 1620. John held land on both Hogg Island and Jamestown Island. Mary's inheritance would eventually include the entirety of what would become known as Hogg Island.