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<br />United States Department of the Interior
<br />National Park Service
<br />National Register of Historic Places
<br />Continuation Sheet
<br />Holden Roberts Form
<br />Section number _8_ Page 9 prangs County, NC
<br />mmried John Kelly, possibly the neighboring landowner or his son.
<br />The Holden nM Kelly lands, or po.tiorus.Of them, was joined and farmed as part of a larger
<br />holding by an uMremwied assessor of owners using in 1626, Yung Dosch, a wealthy Orange.
<br />Creole kwoun, requested 100 acres of land -... so whidr I now live,-sad several slaves to
<br />Ids old'. Nancy, with uuwcdmu that at her death, tho fund around go to their daagloon Lucy
<br />Walker.° Two deteriorat,d fieldstone chmnows located in worts north of the Holden - Roberts
<br />F.mr moo data h,an tM period of He or Walkef6 eeapations.
<br />On January 1, 1668, Isaac Holden purchased 146 asps, one nod, and theory, perdiesn from
<br />Lwy, Ann Waller, widow of Gage W. Walker for $508." The dead shows that cevasore,
<br />aindvs, and rents were due to the buyer, impheng that Lucy and her family had fan,nag
<br />ventures underway thu ought be e`pe3e1 to yield produce or irrmme, tMugh the nature of
<br />these es not';rufied. Isaac Holden kept the &= only for a dead paint, and, er. June 26,
<br />1371, he .old the 146 awes plus seven mare purchased Gen James Hicks and wine, to his
<br />nephew, Addison I_ linldveyfor$856 8Z° A susnof $2 %.57 morel was UI that was required
<br />of Addeso, at the time of the into, for tuts rurnarming $600 due was his share of his fatheds
<br />estate and oI..dy in his ^• ✓s poesesaon as water.
<br />At the ms of he purchase, Addi,m Holden was a durtp- fume -gent -old Confederate veteran,
<br />wi dower, and die father of several young doOdren His family was well estabnshed In North
<br />Carolina and it is possible to detarmne a oneduig of his life hom docnmentadon that is
<br />av lable. He was boor in 1837, and amuse the younger M ten children Mm to Thomas
<br />lhluned Holden and his wife, Saraa Nichols Hoiden.' Pie yy offer Addiaarls birth, this
<br />father advertised ediMiirngforboys at a charge of thlrty-sie ds= for nu m and five sunsets
<br />Mart.^ cdrougoilwaa important to the HNderu; l2omas's heft of 1552 specifies that money
<br />be set aside to ducar urn thrmsvoangct children. and Addison is maned as Are wins has
<br />theady. benefited Goo scboonag The family's main livelihood. however, some £tern a min
<br />hat theories Holden usesaecd It pazmeraldpheilhldm bym on the thin hhwev ^
<br />Despite this suss at the neq .ad the £mNyss relatively ornIs table arcuvumnces, Thomas
<br />I folder was shadowed by a dal4aon, with Russia, Wood (or Woods) before Im herself, that
<br />had produced a son, William Woods HNden" Orie source relates that this losing man was
<br />taker from his unvovedsheal moMer to live with his finder's (piny after Sarah Holden learned
<br />of his existence. Several decades labs, Willbarr Woods Hddrn became North G+rolua r
<br />nmo nvrstud and unpopubvkecoaswcdon governor:
<br />Thonsin Holdar and his firmly left 0 n County wen bettor the Gva War, moving north to
<br />]Hcas Nonih C mlinq and moss to Itangos County, Purr'. nrao Thongs was again, a
<br />rnesful none, for has will goes usawmore about the dtsposifion of su slaves, and the
<br />handEsg of nulling operations in message and his sorewsoe ensaged°
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