Name: HOLT, JOHN Sex: M Date of Death: 1784-1-30 Years : 64 Birth place: VIRGINIA Kinship: HIS DISCONSOLATE WIDOW ERECTED TB STONE Rank Status : LOYALIST ED OF NY GAZETTE & POSTBOY 1759 Occupation : PRINTER TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK Country orig: USA Addl info : HARPERS TOMBS IN OLD NY Epitaph: A due Tribute to the Memory of John Holt Printer to this State, A Native of Virginia, who patiently obeyed Death, awful summons on the 30th of January 1784 in the 64 year of his age/To say that his Family lament him is needless/That his Friends bewail him History: John Holt was a printer and editor of The New York Gazette, New York City’s first newspaper, which was founded by William Bradford, who is buried in the Trinity Churchyard.
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