"Josiah Holt, son of Jonathan, was born April 10, 1784, in Hampton, Conn., and died Nov. 14, 1846, in Plainfield, Conn. On March 11, 1804, he was married, by Rev. Joel Benedict, to Mary Prior, of Plainfield, Conn., and their children, born in Hampton, were as follows: (1) Eunice P., born Nov. 8, 1804, died Dec. 22, 1813. (2) Betsey Maria, born March 15, 1806, became Mrs. Stephen A. Northrup, and died June 15, 1827. (3) William Leavens, born Oct. 3, 1807, in Hampton, Conn., died March 17, 1885, in Manchester, Va., where he had been engaged for a period of thirty-seven years as agent for the James River Manufacturing Co., having built and started their mills and continued in their management until within a few years of his death, when he retired. He was well known as a mill manager for over forty years, in his native State, in Rhode Island and Virginia.... (4) Joseph Hutchins, born Feb. 5, 1809, married Nancy Haradon, and died May 13, 1887. (5) Susan Porter, born Dec. 10, 1810, married James Madison Webb, of Waterbury, and died Jan. 5, 1880. (6) Frederick Faulkner, born Oct. 29, 1812, married Patience Ardelia West. (7) Mary married John Humes, and died in February, 1827. (8) George Washington was born March 15, 1816, in Plainfield, Conn. (9) Jared Fuller, born March 24, 1818, is supposed to have been lost at sea about 1836. (10) Lucy Ann, born Feb. 3, 1820, married Albert Mowry, and died Sept. 23, 1842.

"During his active life Josiah Holt followed the trade of machinist. In 1821 the family removed to Natick, R. I., lived in Valley Falls from 1823 to 1830, and in 1831 removed to Slatersville. In his old age Mr. Holt made his home with his sisters in Plainfield, Connecticut."

—Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1903, p. 66.

NOTE: Place of burial not known at this time, but some of his family members are in this cemetery.