Nielsen Hayden genealogy
William Holman
Abt 1591 - 1653 (~ 62 years)-
Name William Holman [1, 2] Birth Abt 1591 [3] Gender Male Alternate birth Abt 1595 [4] Death 8 Jan 1653 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
[3, 4] Person ID I40738 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ Last Modified 1 May 2024
Family 1 Susanna d. Bef 13 Dec 1624 Marriage 10 Aug 1615 All Saints, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England [3] Family ID F23860 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Apr 2024
Family 2 Winifred Hensman, b. Bef 20 Sep 1601 d. 16 Oct 1671, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 70 years) Marriage 1 Nov 1626 Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England [3] Children + 1. Jeremiah Holman, b. Bef 29 Mar 1629 d. 30 Nov 1709, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age > 80 years)Family ID F23859 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Apr 2024
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Notes - He arrived in 1635 on the Defense with his wife and five children, and settled at Cambridge. He was a husbandman and a shoemaker.
From The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635:
In 1659 various members of the family of John Gibson accused Winifred and Mary Holman of witchcraft, but there is no record of a trial resulting from these charges. Early in 1660, Winifred and Mary charged John Gibson Senior and his wife, Rebecca (Gibson) Stearns, and John Gibson Junior with defamation. Winifred was unsuccessful in her suits against the first three, but Mary Holman won her suit against John Gibson Junior. This defamation suit generated many documents, some of them long and detailed, which are very revealing about the characters involved and about daily life in Cambridge at the time.
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The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee (Boston, 1913) includes a large collection of documents relating to the above, on pages 237-54. This book can be freely read on archive.org and elsewhere.
- He arrived in 1635 on the Defense with his wife and five children, and settled at Cambridge. He was a husbandman and a shoemaker.
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Sources - [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995.
- [S7559] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 8, Family of Degory Priest, Second Edition, originally compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, and Margaret Harris Stover, and re-edited by Margaret Harris Stover. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008.
- [S7560] Travis Dodge Miscia, "The English Origins of Winifred (Hensman) Holman of Cambridge, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176:374, Fall 2022.
- [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.
- [S1739] Mayflower Increasings: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants by Susan E. Roser. 2nd edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995.