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Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 24: Adam Holloway and Hannah ffarrar married, 1681. Marriages: 'Adam Holloway & Hannah ffarrar Maryed.. 5. 1. 81' (5 March 1681, old style).
Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 24: Adam Holloway and Hannah ffarrar married, 1681. Marriages: 'Adam Holloway & Hannah ffarrar Maryed.. 5. 1. 81' (5 March 1681, old style). 5 Mar 1681 (old style) · p. 24
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. The first month is March in the old-style year, which agrees with Pierce's 'March 5. 1681'.
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Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 25: Mary, daughter of Adam Holaway, born 1681/2. Births: 'Mary daught' of Adam Holaway born.. 25. 12. 81' (25 February 1681/2).
Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 25: Mary, daughter of Adam Holaway, born 1681/2. Births: 'Mary daught' of Adam Holaway born.. 25. 12. 81' (25 February 1681/2). 25 Feb 1681/2 · p. 25
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. The surname is spelled Holaway on this page (Holloway on p. 24).
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Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 31: children of Adame Halleway and Hanah, 1684-1689. Concord Registers, Book II: births of Hanah (5 Nov 1684), Elizebeth (1 Apr 1687) and William (16 June 1689), children of Adame Halleway and Hanah his wife.
Concord (Mass.) Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Todd, 1895), p. 31: children of Adame Halleway and Hanah, 1684-1689. Concord Registers, Book II: births of Hanah (5 Nov 1684), Elizebeth (1 Apr 1687) and William (16 June 1689), children of Adame Halleway and Hanah his wife. 1684-1689 · p. 31
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Mary is not on this page (her birth is on p. 25). The three children are not themselves in the tree.
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Middlesex County, Mass., probate case 16185, Nathaniel Oake of Westborough: account of Mary Oke, administratrix (film 007553698, image 772). 'The Account of Mary Oke Administratrix of all and Singular the Goods and Chattels of Nathanell Oke of Westborough': land 620 pounds, personal 215-15, charges and debts paid (the Justice for swearing the appraisers, Daniel Elmer, Joseph How, Mrs Salter of Boston, Adam Holloway, Joshua Rice, and others).
Middlesex County, Mass., probate case 16185, Nathaniel Oake of Westborough: account of Mary Oke, administratrix (film 007553698, image 772). 'The Account of Mary Oke Administratrix of all and Singular the Goods and Chattels of Nathanell Oke of Westborough': land 620 pounds, personal 215-15, charges and debts paid (the Justice for swearing the appraisers, Daniel Elmer, Joseph How, Mrs Salter of Boston, Adam Holloway, Joshua Rice, and others). about 1721-1722 · film 007553698, image 772
Source: FamilySearch, Probate records 1648-1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts), film 007553698, image 772.
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Keep in mind: Transcribed (frames 766-782); a first reading was made. Likely: descriptions Likely, amounts only partly read, and the pairing of several amounts with names is not reliable. The closing allowance, balance and date were not recovered. A line read 'Nathanell & William Oke' is Likely only, and whether it means two sons is unknown. Further parties tagged on 4 Oct 2026: Adam Holloway (1655–1733) (creditor 'to Adam Holloway' in Mary Oke's account (Likely reading in the transcription; Adam Holloway, Mary's father)).
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Westborough loose vital records, 1732-1733 (Digital Commonwealth, 'Vital Records, 1724, 1730-1733', image 9): William and Mary Holloway's children and the death of Adam Holloway, 9 June 1733. A torn slip records the birth of a daughter of William and Mary Holloway (24 Oct 1732), the death of their son Adam (27 Dec 1732) and, in a second hand, 'Adam Holloway Departed this Life the 9th Day of June: 1733:'.
Westborough loose vital records, 1732-1733 (Digital Commonwealth, 'Vital Records, 1724, 1730-1733', image 9): William and Mary Holloway's children and the death of Adam Holloway, 9 June 1733. A torn slip records the birth of a daughter of William and Mary Holloway (24 Oct 1732), the death of their son Adam (27 Dec 1732) and, in a second hand, 'Adam Holloway Departed this Life the 9th Day of June: 1733:'. 1732-1733 · image 9
Source: Digital Commonwealth / Westborough Public Library (public domain).
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Keep in mind: Confirmed as read at full size. The final entry is in a paler, different hand (probably added later) and is unqualified: no 'Sr.', age or parentage. The same slip records the death of a different Adam, son of William and Mary, on 27 Dec 1732, so the June 1733 Adam is the elder man only by inference from other sources. The name of the 1732 daughter reads 'Botty' or Betty. The gravestone, as copied by De Forest (1891) and Kent (1921), reads 7 June: unreconciled.
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Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Town of Northborough (1826), p. 27, footnote: 'Adam Holloway, from Concord, (died in 1733, aged 80,)' and his son Lieut. Wm. Holloway. The footnote says Adam Holloway, from Concord (died in 1733, aged 80), and his son Lieut. Wm. Holloway (died Jan. 6, 1760, aged 71) settled on the farm then owned by Stephen Williams.
Allen, Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Town of Northborough (1826), p. 27, footnote: 'Adam Holloway, from Concord, (died in 1733, aged 80,)' and his son Lieut. Wm. Holloway. The footnote says Adam Holloway, from Concord (died in 1733, aged 80), and his son Lieut. Wm. Holloway (died Jan. 6, 1760, aged 71) settled on the farm then owned by Stephen Williams. 1826 (events 1733, 1760) · p. 27
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Gives the year and age only: no month or day (it supports neither 7 nor 9 June 1733). The same footnote says Lieut. William married Mary, daughter of Simeon Howard, so that Mary is not Mary Holloway of the Oak family.
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Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family (1858), p. 61: children of Thomas and Mary Rice, and Ward's note on Mary Oakes (dau. of Adam Holloway and Hannah Farrar, widow of Nathaniel Oakes of Westboro'). Ward lists Thomas and Mary's children (Meliscent, 15 Apr 1723; Asa, 8 Aug 1726) and notes that Mary Oakes, b. 1682, daughter of Adam Holloway and his wife Hannah Farrar, was the second wife and widow of Nathaniel Oakes of Westboro'.
Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family (1858), p. 61: children of Thomas and Mary Rice, and Ward's note on Mary Oakes (dau. of Adam Holloway and Hannah Farrar, widow of Nathaniel Oakes of Westboro'). Ward lists Thomas and Mary's children (Meliscent, 15 Apr 1723; Asa, 8 Aug 1726) and notes that Mary Oakes, b. 1682, daughter of Adam Holloway and his wife Hannah Farrar, was the second wife and widow of Nathaniel Oakes of Westboro'. 1858 (events 1682-1726) · p. 61
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Ward gives Meliscent b. 15 Apr 1723 but m. 11 Jan 1727-8 (age 4): an internal oddity flagged, not resolved. The page does not mention a later marriage of Mary to John Fay.
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Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough (1862), p. 110: the second half of the list assigning Marlborough families to its twenty-six garrisons (nos. 13 to 26). No. 23, Simon Maynard's Garrison, names Adam Holloway, Benjamin Whitney, Joseph Newton, John Keyes and Abiel Bush. Households of the name Rice appear in nos. 13, 15, 17, 19 and 20. A paragraph at the foot begins a note on where the garrisons stood.
Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough (1862), p. 110: the second half of the list assigning Marlborough families to its twenty-six garrisons (nos. 13 to 26). No. 23, Simon Maynard's Garrison, names Adam Holloway, Benjamin Whitney, Joseph Newton, John Keyes and Abiel Bush. Households of the name Rice appear in nos. 13, 15, 17, 19 and 20. A paragraph at the foot begins a note on where the garrisons stood. 1862 · p. 110
Source: Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Marlborough (1862); Internet Archive (public-domain scan)
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Keep in mind: What the page says: Confirmed: Adam Holloway is listed in garrison no. 23 as stated. The page carries no date; it continues the list begun on p. 109, which Hudson compiled from the committee's assignment of families, and it is a different document from the dated muster of 18 March 1691/2 printed in the Register (vol. 43, p. 372). Nathaniel Oakes is named on p. 109, not on this page. Whether this is our person: Likely, not Confirmed, that this is the tree's Adam Holloway (born about 1653-54, died June 1733 at Northborough), husband of Hannah Hayward: the name and the town fit, but the page gives no age or family. The tree also carries a later Adam Holloway at Westborough, who cannot be ruled out. Hannah Hayward Holloway and Mary Holloway are not named on this page. The Rice names on the page are not tied to anyone in the tree.
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De Forest and Bates, The History of Westborough, Massachusetts (1891), p. 210: Mr. Adam Holloway, Sr., 'Decd June ye 7th, 1733, in ye 80th year of his age'. Among the names that can still be read in the old burying ground, 'Mr. Adam Holloway, Sr., who Decd June ye 7th, 1733, in ye 80th year of his age'; Joseph Wheeler, his wife Elizabeth and their son Aaron were buried in 1747 and 1748.
De Forest and Bates, The History of Westborough, Massachusetts (1891), p. 210: Mr. Adam Holloway, Sr., 'Decd June ye 7th, 1733, in ye 80th year of his age'. Among the names that can still be read in the old burying ground, 'Mr. Adam Holloway, Sr., who Decd June ye 7th, 1733, in ye 80th year of his age'; Joseph Wheeler, his wife Elizabeth and their son Aaron were buried in 1747 and 1748. 1891 (death 1733) · p. 210
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. De Forest does not use the word 'gravestone' (it is Kent, 1921, p. 238, that prints the inscription). The date 7 June differs from the Westborough loose return (9 June); the two are unreconciled.
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Pierce, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy (1892), p. 23: Deacon Jonathan Forbush and Hannah Holloway; Hannah (Hayward) Farrar's marriage to Adam Holloway, 5 March 1681. Entry 7, Deacon Jonathan Forbush (b. 1684), and the paragraph on Jacob Farrar, killed in 1675, and his widow Hannah, daughter of George Hayward of Concord, who 'March 5. 1681, .. married Adam Holloway, of Marlboro'.
Pierce, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy (1892), p. 23: Deacon Jonathan Forbush and Hannah Holloway; Hannah (Hayward) Farrar's marriage to Adam Holloway, 5 March 1681. Entry 7, Deacon Jonathan Forbush (b. 1684), and the paragraph on Jacob Farrar, killed in 1675, and his widow Hannah, daughter of George Hayward of Concord, who 'March 5. 1681, .. married Adam Holloway, of Marlboro'. 1892 (events 1668-1706) · p. 23
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Pierce conflates the widow Hannah (Hayward) Farrar Holloway with her daughter Hannah Holloway, who married Jonathan Forbush (Concord p. 64 gives 2 Jan 1704/5; Pierce prints 1706 and '1705-8'). The Concord record does not make that conflation. THIS COPY carries an earlier reader's pencil marginalia and ink strike-throughs on the page; they are not Pierce's text and are not evidence.
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Vital Records of Concord, Massachusetts, p. 24: Adam Holloway and Hannah ffarrar married, dated 5.1.81 in the record (day, month, year, with no month name printed). In the old Massachusetts calendar the first month was March, which gives 5 March 1680/81; an earlier caption read it as 5 January 1681.
Vital Records of Concord, Massachusetts, p. 24: Adam Holloway and Hannah ffarrar married, dated 5.1.81 in the record (day, month, year, with no month name printed). In the old Massachusetts calendar the first month was March, which gives 5 March 1680/81; an earlier caption read it as 5 January 1681. 1895 · p. 24
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Keep in mind: A printed transcription; the day-month-year digits are printed in the old style ('5. 1. 81') and were first read as 5 January 1681/2; the record prints no month name, and in the old Massachusetts calendar (first month March) the reading is 5 March 1680/81.
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Oak-Oaks-Oakes Family Register (1906), p. 9: Nathaniel I's burial ground and children under guardianship; Nathaniel (2) b. Marlboro 7 June 1704.
Oak-Oaks-Oakes Family Register (1906), p. 9: Nathaniel I's burial ground and children under guardianship; Nathaniel (2) b. Marlboro 7 June 1704. 1906 · p. 9
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Keep in mind: A family-written compilation. The tree has Nathaniel (2) born 1703; the register prints 7 June 1704.
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Kent, Northborough History (1921), p. 238: inscriptions on four slate gravestones in the Old Burial Ground (Mr. Adam Holloway, Decd June Ye 7 1733, in Ye 80th year of his age; Aaron, Elisabeth and Joseph Wheeler). Kent prints the inscriptions of four slate gravestones in the Old Burial Ground on Brigham Street: Mr. Adam Holloway ('Decd JUNE Ye 7 1733 IN Ye 80th YEAR OF HIS AGE'), Aaron Wheeler (d. 12 Apr 1747, aged 19), Mrs. Elisabeth Wheeler (d. 12 Sept 1748) and Mr. Joseph Wheeler (d. 20 May 1747).
Kent, Northborough History (1921), p. 238: inscriptions on four slate gravestones in the Old Burial Ground (Mr. Adam Holloway, Decd June Ye 7 1733, in Ye 80th year of his age; Aaron, Elisabeth and Joseph Wheeler). Kent prints the inscriptions of four slate gravestones in the Old Burial Ground on Brigham Street: Mr. Adam Holloway ('Decd JUNE Ye 7 1733 IN Ye 80th YEAR OF HIS AGE'), Aaron Wheeler (d. 12 Apr 1747, aged 19), Mrs. Elisabeth Wheeler (d. 12 Sept 1748) and Mr. Joseph Wheeler (d. 20 May 1747). 1921 (deaths 1733-1748) · p. 238
Source: Internet Archive (public-domain scan); northboroughhist00inkent.
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Keep in mind: Confirmed. Kent's transcription, not the stones themselves. Adam's 7 June differs from the Westborough loose return's 9 June (unreconciled). Adam's age ('in ye 80th year') puts his birth about 1653-54.
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