The Holt surname

In the chronology 23 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Holt, Barbara 2 entries, 1784–1801
  • 1784–1818: Naming the father: bastardy bonds and support awards in the county court, 1784–1818
  • August 14, 1801: Barbara Holt names Felty Farmer, who is charged with resisting the constables
• Holt, Bertha 1 entry, 1989
  • March 29, 1989: UNC holds a memorial celebration for Albert Coates
• Holt, Constance D'Arcy Mackay 1 entry, 1936
  • April 4, 1936: The Roland Holt Theatre Collection is given to the University
• Holt, E. M. 3 entries, 1860–1867
  • February 4, 1860: Flat River men organize the Flat River Guards
  • February Term 1865: The court binds Nancy Day, twelve, a girl of color, to John W. Roberts
  • November 19–20, 1867: Black men vote in Orange County's first Reconstruction election
• Holt, Edwin M. 3 entries, 1842–1867
  • April 21, 1842: Michael Holt, planter, magistrate and former legislator, dies suddenly
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
  • November 2, 1867: Orange Conservatives nominate John W. Graham and Edwin M. Holt for the constitutional convention
• Holt, Edwin Michael 1 entry, 1837
  • 1837: Edwin Michael Holt builds a cotton mill on Alamance Creek, then in Orange County
• Holt, Isaac 5 entries, 1797–1848
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  • May 23, 1797: The court names poll inspectors for elections at Hillsborough and southwest of Haw River
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • February 1827 (court term): Anne and Sally Lineberry are indicted for keeping a disorderly house
  • mid-June 1837: An Orange County meeting nominates Willie P. Mangum for Congress
  • May 23, 1848: Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket
• Holt, J. S. 1 entry, 1938
  • summer 1938: Black families in Chapel Hill and Carrboro raise gardens and put up 2,000 quarts in a nurse-led contest
• Holt, Jacob 1 entry, 1855
  • mid-1850s: Warrenton builder Jacob Holt puts up an Italianate house for Mary Southerland on West Franklin Street
• Holt, Jeremiah 2 entries, 1811–1813
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
• Holt, John 2 entries, 1880–1969
  • about 1880: Robert F. Hoke serves as unpaid superintendent of the State University Railroad
  • December 6-7, 1969: Students stage LeRoi Jones's Dutchman as a benefit for the strikers
• Holt, John A. 1 entry, 1880
  • about 1880: Robert F. Hoke serves as unpaid superintendent of the State University Railroad
• Holt, John R. 2 entries, 1839–1848
  • 1839: John R. Holt opens Union Academy in western Orange
  • early August 1848: Sheriff's casting vote sends Hugh Waddell to the state Senate
• Holt, Joseph 2 entries, 1840–1849
  • December 26, 1840: James A. Craig and Joseph Holt offer an enslaved girl from Margaret Murdock's estate for sale at Hillsborough
  • June 4, 1849: Alamance County court holds its first session and elects county officers
• Holt, Lawrence S. 1 entry, 1921
  • 1921: Lawrence S. Holt sets up a trust fund for Episcopal work at the university
• Holt, Lewis Bowen 1 entry, 1843
  • about 1843-1844: Fayetteville carver George Lauder makes Lewis Bowen Holt's tomb-table in the Dialectic Society plot
• Holt, Michael 19 entries, 1775–1842
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  • 1775–1782: The test of allegiance in Orange County, 1775–1782
  • February 1776: Michael Holt turns back from the Loyalist march and later takes the Whig oath
  • February 25, 1781: Pyle's defeat near the Haw River
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • February 26, 1812: The court lets Michael Holt build a public mill on the Great Alamance below Troxler's ford
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
  • 1813: Hillsborough men organize a company to build a cotton and woolen factory
  • May Term 1813: The court orders a road laid off from Michael Holt's old place toward the Guilford road
  • August 10, 1820: Orange County elects Michael Holt to the state senate over Duncan Cameron
  • August 1821 (returns printed August 22, 1821): Orange County elects Michael Holt, Willie Shaw and James Mebane to the General Assembly
  • 1822–1835: Orange County and the 1835 constitutional convention, 1822–1835
  • May 29, 1823: An Orange County meeting declares the state constitution defective and names four delegates for the reform convention
  • August 1823: Orange County voters elect Ruffin, Holt, Mangum and Smith delegates to the reform convention
  • fall 1824: Petitions for a new county west of the Haw circulate at the Haw River regimental muster
  • August 11, 1825: Orange County voters return Willie P. Mangum to Congress and send William Montgomery to the state Senate
  • August 1, 1828: Farmers of Orange, Chatham and Guilford meet to talk about a railroad
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
  • March 12, 1841: Whig district convention at Hillsborough nominates Dr. James S. Smith for Congress, then waits for Wake
  • April 21, 1842: Michael Holt, planter, magistrate and former legislator, dies suddenly
• Holt, Michael W. 6 entries, 1837–1848
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  • June 1837: The university graduates nine seniors and makes Basil Manly a Doctor of Divinity
  • May 19, 1838: A meeting at George Foust's votes that Orange County should be divided
  • early August 1840 (reported August 13): Orange voters elect Willie P. Mangum to the state Senate and a mostly Whig delegation to the Commons
  • May 26, 1840: Orange Whig convention nominates Willie P. Mangum and William A. Graham for the legislature
  • by April 4, 1844: Courthouse commissioners let the contract to John Berry
  • May 23, 1848: Orange Whig convention nominates Hugh Waddell and a Commons ticket
• Holt, Samuel 1 entry, 1849
  • early October 1849: Alamance physicians meet at Graham to organize a county medical society
• Holt, Thomas M. 8 entries, 1870–1895
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  • July 14, 1870: North Carolina Railroad stockholders hold their annual meeting in the Hillsborough courthouse and elect four directors
  • 1879–1883: Building the State University Railroad, 1879–1883
  • early February 1880: Construction of the State University Railroad begins at University Station
  • January 8, 1880: University Railroad directors elect Kemp P. Battle president and Andrew Mickle treasurer
  • October 8, 1880: Chapel Hill women serve a dinner to the convicts building the University Railroad
  • January 8, 1891: Paul C. Cameron is buried from St. Matthew's Church
  • June 5, 1895: Alumni pledge money for an Alumni Hall at the centennial banquet
  • 1895–1901: The University's centennial and the Alumni Building, 1895–1901
• Holt, Virginia R. 2 entries, 1973–1974
  • 1973–1977: Title IX at UNC and in the Chapel Hill schools, 1973–1977
  • April 9, 1974: UNC's physical education department moves to put a new hire in charge of women's athletics
• Holt, William 2 entries, 1811–1812
  • February 28, 1811: The court orders a public bridge over the Great Alamance at Elfand's mill
  • May 28, 1812: The court levies a patrol tax on Black polls and names patrols in the captains' companies
• Holt, William Rainey 1 entry, 1922
  • July 6, 1922: William A. Erwin gives $50,000 for a new Chapel of the Cross

In books and archives 2 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Holt Family family, 4 works
• Holt, Nancy 1 work

In the historical records 1,228 records

312 deeds, 39 records of enslaved people, 107 marriages, 693 court minutes, 28 tax list entries and 49 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Holt marriages in full · Search the name in every collection