— born in Newbury, Essex Co., MA:
  2.  Elizabeth HOLT, b. 30 Mar 1636
  3.  Mary HOLT, b. 6 Oct 1638
  4.  Samuel HOLT, b. 6 Oct or Nov 1641

— born in Andover, Essex Co., MA:
  5.  Henry HOLT (Sr.), b. 1644, 
  6.  Nicholas HOLT, Jr.,  b. 1647
  7.  James HOLT, b. 1651
  8.  Priscilla HOLT, b. 20 Jun 1653; d.s.p. 16 Oct 1653

1.  Lucius Manlius Boltwood.  1849.  "Marriages in the Town of Andover, MS., from 1647 to 1700." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 3(Jan): 65-68.  On p. 65:

Nicholas Holt & Hannah Pope (widdow) were married Jun 12, 1658

Nicholas Holt & Widow Prestone married May 21, 1666

2.  Daniel S. Durrie  1864.  A Genealogical History of the Holt Family in the United States: more particularly, Descendants of Nicholas Holt of Newbury and Andover, Mass., 1634-1644.  Munsell, Albany, NY.

3.  Holt Association of America.  1930.  The First Three Generations of Holts in America. Moore Printing Co., Newburgh, NY.

4.  The Preston/Lindsey Trail, self-published (1995) by Rosaline Preston (17369 Road 6 SE, Warden, WA 98857) and Carol Huber  (10508-A Witter Springs Rd., Witter Springs, CA 95493).  On p. 2:

Widow Preston married Nicholas Holt, 21 May 1666.  It is said that this marriage was arranged by Nicholas' sons, they promising that if she should survive their father, they would care for her the rest of her life.  This they did, for Nicholas died 30 Jan 1685 at age 83 and Martha lived until 21 Mar 1703 to about 80 years of age.

5.  Lucius Manluis Boltwood.  1848.  "Deaths in the town of Andover, Ms., from 1650 to 1700."  New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2: 377-381.

p. 378

Nicholas Holt Sen.

Jan 30 1685 ag'd 104 yrs

All other sources give his age at death as 83.

6.  John Farmer.  1829.  Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England.  Carter, Andrews & Co., Lancaster, MA (republ. 1964/69 by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore; online at GenealogyLibrary.com).

p. 148	HOLT, NICHOLAS, Newbury 1635, removed to Andover, and was one of the founders of the church there 1645, died in 1685.  He had sons, Samuel, b. at Newbury, 6 Nov. 1641; Henry; Nicholas; James; and John. He had two daughters b. at Newbury in 1636 and 1638.
p. 351	To the following persons may be added or corrected the year of their admission as freemen of the Massachusetts Colony... Holt, Nicholas, 1637...

7.  National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.  1975.  Founders and Patriots of America Index. (reprinted 1989/93 by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-506).  Numbers are volume and page numbers to the volumes of pedigrees.

p. vii	In each lineage is a Founder who arrived in one of the Colonies between May 13, 1607, and May 13, 1687, and a Patriot ancestor who gave military, civil service, or other aid in establishing American Independence in the period of 1775 to 1784.
p. 114	HOLT... Nicholas (1602-Jan. 30, 1685) m. .... Elizabeth Short MASS XV, 36; XVII, 47; XVIII, 89; XXI, 19, 20; XXIX, 375; XXX, 121, 162; XXXIII, 270... Silas (....-....) m. a. 1776 Sarah Harrington XXIX, 375

Obviously, Nicholas is our founder, Silas is our patriot, and the record we need is in vol. 29, p. 375.

8.  Mary Louise Marshall Hutton, compiler.  1981.  Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, Supplement Number One, 1975-1979.  National Society of Colonial Dames.  (Broderbund CD-506).  On p. 33:

Holt, Nicholas (1602-1685) Mass.; m. Elizabeth Short. Proprietor.

9.  William Armstrong Crozier, ed.  1904.  Crozier's General Armory: a Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor.  Fox, Duffield, & Co., New York (1957, Southern Book Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund CD-368).  On p. 73:

HOLT.  Massachusetts. Nicholas Holt, Newbury, 1635. (Warwickshire.) Azure, two bars or; in chief a cross formée fitchée of the last. CREST -- A squirrel sejant or, holding a hazel-branch, slipped and fructed; all ppr. MOTTO -- Exaltavit humiles.

10.  LDS.  Ancestral File (online).