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Essex County Massachusetts Freedom Case Participants 1760 - 1783

Jonathan Holt Jr. (1728-1792)

Andover

Biography: Probably Jonathan Jr. born in Andover in 1728, died 1792. Yeoman.

Comments: Sworn Testimony in SCJ files but no writ or summons.

Casar vs. Samuel Taylor (1772) Sworn signed testimony uncertain

Sources

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• Dated Nov. 12, 1771. Jonathan Holt, Jr. swon, written testimony that John Beverly claimed in 1770 to have horses and "bought an Irish man out of Charleston jail" but Holt did not believe him.
  Citation: Samuel Taylor vs Casar, Superior Court of Judicature June 1772, 15. Suffolk # 132190.