Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameThomas Hollis (see Vinton 2130) 
Birth29 August 1801
Memo(New Hampshire book)
Death24 June 1873
Memo(MA Death Record)
FatherThomas Hollis (Holbrook 132, page 340) (1773-1859)
MotherPriscilla Hayden (Hayden 124, page 329) (1772-1855)
Spouses
Birth15 September 1810
Memo(New Hampshire book)
Death8 January 1889
Memo(New Hampshire book)
FatherAbijah Allen (Vinton 895, page 189) (1787-1824)
MotherSarah Allen (Allen 91, page 307) (1781-)
Marriage3 December 1826
Marr Memo(NH book)
ChildrenPriscilla Hayden (1835-1914)
Research notes for Thomas Hollis (see Vinton 2130)
Described in the Vinton Memorial as “then of Braintree, now of Milton”.
I found his death record in a database on Ancestry.com titled Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 which says he died 24 Jun 1873 in Milton, had been born about 1802, and was the son of Thomas and Priscilla Hollis.
The younger Thomas, his father also named Thomas, and his father also named (Captain) Thomas are each named in the Vinton book because of who they married, but the Hollis family, per se, is not one of the allied families that John Adams Vinton chose to document. However, with a desire to learn a little more about the Hollis family, I found another book, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, which does cover the Hollis family in some detail.
The Hollis family actually started out in Weymouth, MA (another neighboring town to Braintree), found their way then to Braintree and later to Milton, thus their association with the several other families that are covered in the Vinton book. It was because Abijah Hollis, brother of Priscilla, moved to New Hampshire in 1865 where he engaged in the granite quarrying business and was elected to the New Hampshire legislature, that the family came to warrant coverage in this book.
About Thomas it says that he, like his father, was a granite contractor in Milton where he lived after his marriage. He died in Exeter, NH at the home of his daughter where he was visiting.
I found his death record in a database on Ancestry.com titled Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915 which says he died 24 Jun 1873 in Milton, had been born about 1802, and was the son of Thomas and Priscilla Hollis.
The younger Thomas, his father also named Thomas, and his father also named (Captain) Thomas are each named in the Vinton book because of who they married, but the Hollis family, per se, is not one of the allied families that John Adams Vinton chose to document. However, with a desire to learn a little more about the Hollis family, I found another book, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire, which does cover the Hollis family in some detail.
The Hollis family actually started out in Weymouth, MA (another neighboring town to Braintree), found their way then to Braintree and later to Milton, thus their association with the several other families that are covered in the Vinton book. It was because Abijah Hollis, brother of Priscilla, moved to New Hampshire in 1865 where he engaged in the granite quarrying business and was elected to the New Hampshire legislature, that the family came to warrant coverage in this book.
About Thomas it says that he, like his father, was a granite contractor in Milton where he lived after his marriage. He died in Exeter, NH at the home of his daughter where he was visiting.
Research notes for Deborah Clark (Spouse 1)
Deborah Clark Allen is only mentioned in the Vinton book as a Vinton descendant thus her number Vinton 2130. This despite the fact that her parents were second cousins, both named Allen.
Logically, you would think she would be listed in the Allen chapter, but the Vinton book doesn’t really cover that many generations of Allens. Both of Deborah’s parents were named as children of their respective parents in the Allen chapter but not profiled together as a couple.
But since Deborah’s mother was a descendant of Thomas Vinton, she and her husband are profiled as a couple in the Vinton chapter, as is Deborah and her husband Thomas Hollis.
Logically, you would think she would be listed in the Allen chapter, but the Vinton book doesn’t really cover that many generations of Allens. Both of Deborah’s parents were named as children of their respective parents in the Allen chapter but not profiled together as a couple.
But since Deborah’s mother was a descendant of Thomas Vinton, she and her husband are profiled as a couple in the Vinton chapter, as is Deborah and her husband Thomas Hollis.