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Joshua Holden

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Groton, Middlesex County, MA, United States
Death: December 01, 1817 (87)
Rindge, Cheshire County, NH, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Holden and Elizabeth Holden
Husband of Sarah Holden; Huldah Holden and Phebe Stiles
Father of Reuben Holden
Brother of Elizabeth Wheeler; William Holden Jr.; Jemima Holden; Richard Holden; Jonathan Holden and 3 others

Managed by: Douglas Arthur Kellner
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About Joshua Holden

The Holden genealogy : ancestry and descendants of Richard and Justinian Holden and of Randall Holden, pages 120 - 121, has his parents, his place of birth, his birth and death dates, and his three wives. <archive.org>

https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=ful...

Vital records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, vol. 1, page 117, has his birth as Feb. 6, 1729. <archive.org>

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-425G?view=ind... is a handwritten list of marriages in Groton, Mass., showing Joshua Holdin & Sarah Bigelow were married on June 8, 1761.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-4LXC?view=ind... is a handwritten ledger of Groton families showing that Joshua and Sarah had a son, Joshua, on Oct. 28, 1755 (sic) and that Sarah died on March 9, 1767.

Vital records of Harvard, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, page 180, has "Holden, Joshua and Huldah Sampson, Jan. 23, 1770." <archive.org>

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-HZ4S?view=ind... is a handwritten compilation of the Ashburnham (Mass.) birth records:

  • Ruben (sic) born September 18, 1770
  • John born April 21, 1773

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LK9-L1P?view=inde... is a picture of an abstract of the marriage of Joshua to Phebe Stiles on October 4, 1803.

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Joshua Holden's Timeline

1730
February 6, 1730
Groton, Middlesex County, MA, United States
1770
September 13, 1770
Ashburnham, Worcester County, MA, United States
1817
December 1, 1817
Age 87
Rindge, Cheshire County, NH, United States