David Holt

David married Rebecca Belk about 1790 in Natchez, Mississippi. Rebecca was born about 1770 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died after 1805 in of, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Benjamin Holt was born on 01 Apr 1795 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died on 16 Jan 1867 in Brazoria Co, Texas; was buried in Phair Cem, Brazoria Co, Texas.
2. Elizabeth Holt was born about 1796 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died before 1860 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana.
3. William Holt was born in 1797 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died before 1870 in Brazoria Co, Texas.
4. Thomas C. Holt was born in 1800 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died after 1850 in of, Sabine Pass, Jefferson Co, Texas.
5. David J. Holt was born about 1805 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died in 1840 in Brazoria Co, Texas.

Notes:

Left Virginia around 1770 and settled in the Villa Gayoso District of the Mississippi Territory, which later became Jefferson County.(From http://www.ehistory.com/local/gulfcoast/escambia/books/britishwestflorida/0020.cfm this narrative: ".....One typical group, led by Daniel Huay, included 79 white people and 18 slaves; the Huays came out of Pennsylvania and down river via Ft. Pitt in 1770. In the same year a Mr. HOLT, representing settlers from western Virginia, received Council approval for settlement of over 100 families on ten miles of land near the Mississippi.
A map of territory about 1773 names him with the first six settlers of the area. This area was still sparsely settled in 1778 when the British delivered it by treaty to Spain. Inhabited in the main by Tories still loyal to the English throne, the area finally became a possession of the United States in 1798, at which time there were 130 setters in the county, including the Holt family.

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On 10/4/1779 a petition from the citizens of Natchez was presented which read "We his Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects the Inhabitants of the Natchez, beg leave to return you our most sincere thanks for your generous and disinterested attention to our welfare in the Capitulation of Baton Rouge. From every circumstance we had not a right to expect such Terms and are fully impressed with the idea that we owe them to the unexampled bravery of you, the Officers and Men under your command. Altho' the unavoidable event of war has reduced you and your Troops to a situation which greatly affects us, yet we have some consolation from your being in the Hands of a brave and generous Conqueror". Signing the petition were fifty-nine citizens of Natchez, including Dibdall Holt and one of his nephews, James Truly, son of Dibdall's sister Sarah Holt Truly.

Dibdall married Elizabeth Cocke about 1747 in Amelia Co, Virginia. Elizabeth was born about 1720 in Virginia; died after 1800 in Natchez, Jefferson Co, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]