12 Mar 1689/90 John married Hannah Pendleton in Sudbury, MA.

On 25 Nov 1677 Rebecca married Jonathan Lawrence in Cambridge, MA.

In 1673 Mary married Justinian Holden (1490) , son of William Holden (638) (ca 1577-) & Margaret Gale. Born ca 1611. Justinian was baptized in Lindsey, Suffolk, on 6 Oct 1611.155 Justinian died in Cambridge, MA in Aug 1691.155

From the Holden Genealogy, pages 44–45:155
    Justinian Holden was a farmer and carpenter, or, as he would now be described, a builder, and as his means permitted accumulated land, eventually devoting himself wholly to his profitable farming interests. Itwascustomaryfortheearlysettlerstohaveatradein addition to their occupation of farming, which they could put to use and financial advantage during the winters and in off seasons. Justinian is variously styled, in the deeds with which his name is connected, as planter, husbandman, carpenter and yeoman. He was a successful man, of good standing in the community. He kept servants, and his farm on the shore of Fresh Pond in Cambridge was valuable property. It was inventoried at the time of his death at £1,075, a goodly amount in those days.
    Justinian was admitted freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Com- pany May 6, 1657, which is proof of his standing in the church.
    He was probably one of the constables of Watertown in 1652 or 1653. He is called of Cambridge in 1664, when he is allowed ten shillings for killing a wolf and a fox. He was elected surveyor of Cambridge in 1672 and again in 1673. In 1681 the county court granted his petition that he be released from military duty by reason of “great deafness and giddiness in the head,” he being then seventy years of age.
    He died in August, 1691, aged eighty years, at his farm in Cambridge.
    By his will he bequeathed his farm to his wife and son, Samuel, until the youngest child should reach the age of twelve years. It is doubtful if the intent of the testator was to entail his principal messuage of 140 acres, but it was found necessary in 1712 for his heirs to petition the General Court to break the entail which resulted from the wording of the will.

From the Holden Genealogy, pages 58–59:155
    Justinian Holden arrived in New England in 1634, but the first mention found of him is in Watertown records, 10 3d mo. 1642, when his lot is mentioned, and on that day it was ordered by the Town that townsmen who had not had farms laid out formerly should take them “ten in a division.” By this vote Justinian Holden obtained a farm of forty acres. The grant was according to “head of persons and cattle,” thirteen acres of upland to each. He was not named among the townsmen, 113 in number, June, 1637. In the inventory of each man’s possessions, made up between 1639 and 1644, his possessions are listed as:
    A homestall of five acres, bounded south with the highway, north by land of George Parkhurst, east by the homestall of Richard Holden and west by that of John Rogers.
    Thirty acres of upland, being a great dividend in the fourth division and the nineteenth lot.
    Forty acres of upland for a farm in the seventh division.
    Three acres and three roods of upland bounded on the north and east by land of Christopher Grant and on the northwest by land of George Parkhurst, and on the west by land of Richard Holden.
    The homestall was on the corner of what is now Grove Street in Belmont and with the other lands was sold to Rev. John Sherman in 1673.
 In 1653, on the first day of the first month, Justinian Holden purchased for £210 the large farm of Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk, from the latter’s estate, consisting of 294 acres, with dwelling house and buildings lying north of Fresh Pond, now within the limits of Belmont, at that time a part of Cambridge and then leased to James KidderuntilMarch,1657. In1660hewasdescribedasofCambridge, and in 1662 was “to sitt in ye foremost seats” in the Meeting House. In the late winter of 1664-5, the town of Cambridge granted lots carrying a right in the cow commons, and Holden, having Lot 128, ten acres, was entitled to two cow commons. In 1684 he received a dividend of fifteen acres out of the common lands beyond the eight-mile limit, between that line and Concord line.
    As noted in a former chapter, while a resident of Watertown he twice filled the important office of constable, which carried with it the duties of collecting rates and making disbursements therefrom on town account, and after becoming a resident of Cambridge was twice surveyor.
    Justinian Holden was probably one of the constables for Watertown in 1652 or 1653, and in 1654 the town owed him £1-1-0 for killing a wolf and a fox.
    In February and March, 1664-5, the town of Cambridge granted lots which should carry an interest in the cow commons, at the same time voting that no more proprietors should be admitted. Justinian Holden had lot 128, ten acres, entitling him to two cow commons. Twenty years later, 24 Mar., 1684, in a division of the lots beyond the eight-mile line, between that and Concord line, he received fifteen acres in the third and fourth “squardrant.”
    He was elected surveyor in November, 1672, and again in 1673.
    In June, 1681, the County Court granted the following petition, which is in the files of the Court:
    “To the Honored Court now sitting at Charles Town this 25th of June 1681 the petition of Justinian Holden of Cambridge humbly sheweth that whereas your Pet^r is disabled by the Providence of God from attending the Countrey service in military exercises by reason of great deaftness, & Giddiness in his head besides other infirmityes of old age, he being now about 70 years of age; he doth humbly crave of this Honored Court that they would please fully to free him from the said exercises, & yr Petr shall humbly Pray &c.”

Will: From the Holden Genealogy, page 60:155
    Abstract of Will of Justinian Holden
    To dear and loving wife and eldest son Samuel Holden, farm house, barn, orchard and all lands adjoining bounded south with the Great Pond, west with “Woods his ditch” into the Little Pond, east by a brook, and north by a ditch, in joint tenancy during the life of the wife, then to son Samuel.
    To son John Holden the house and lands bought of Thorp, and all lands in a straight line to the Sandy Hill and so along the highway leading to the farm house, and so down to the pond, not going over Wood’s ditch, allowing his brethren free ingress, etc., to mill and market.
    To son Isaac Holden twenty acres, bounded by land given by me to my son Isaac, to a ditch called “Woods his ditch,” east to Sandy Hill, and so upon a line to Monottomy.
    To his three sons John, Isaac and Joseph Holden, a parcell of meadow beyond the first ditch next the farm, bounded north by meadow of John Stratton, south by Reuben Luxford, and east by the brook.
    To his four sons, Samuel, John, Isaac, and Joseph Holden, to be divided between them, all his pasture and three wood lots called Shepard’s Swamp.
    Son Isaac Holden to have twenty acres. The executors are to set an orchard of two acres in the Rye field, and care for it until Joseph is of age, when it is to be his.
    To his three daughters, Mary, Grace, and Elizabeth Holden his moveable estate and twenty acres meadow between the farm ditch and Luxford’s ditch.
    Wife Mary to have the use of the whole estate until the youngest child is twelve years of age in consideration of bringing up the young children.
    Lands given to “my sons I give to them and to their heirs lawfully begotten,” or if any of them should die without lawful issue, then the lands “shall go to the surviving sons equally.”
    Wife Mary and son Samuel executors, friends Isaac Amsden of Marlboro, and William Shattock of Watertown to be overseers.
    The mark of Justinian Holden. (With a seal of which the device is obliterated by the silk used to re-
pair the document.)
    Witnessed by John Rutter, Lydia Barron, Jonathan Remington.
    Dated, 12 Aug., 1691; proved 6 Oct., 1691

    An inventory was taken 30 Sept., 1691, by Jacob Amsden and Elless Barron, disclosing personal estate to the value of £80 including his “books,” valued at 15 shillings, and his “armer” valued at £1-16-0, and twx) dwelling houses, two orchards, and land and meadow, including three acres, called Shepard’s swamp in “Cambridge Woods,” to the value of £1073. An additional inventory of £45-09 was filed 6 Sept., 1692.
    On the 12 Aug., 1699, an agreement was drawn up, but which was not signed by Isaac, stating that Samuel, John, Isaac, and Samuel as guardian for Joseph, agree that as no provision has been made by their father for their mother, after the bringing up of the minor children, that each is to cut and house hay for one cow, supply two loads of wood, and that she is to live on the land she now lives upon. They further agree to pay £6-13-4 to their sisters Mary, Grace and Elizabeth, to each when eighteen or married.
    Although probably not so intended the terms of the will created an entail on the principal messuage of 140 acres, and it was found necessary in 1712 for his heirs to petition the General Court to break the entail which resulted from that clause in his will which provided that the lands he had given to his sons should pass to their own lawful issue, or in case of their decease without issue, to pass to the surviving sons equally. The division of the estate had been so irregular that the sons, Samuel, John, Isaac, and Joseph, set forth in their petitions that the “said lands are very mean and poore and by the Devise of their Father aforesaid Parcelled out into Nineteen Several Peices or Alotments So intermixed One among another that the making & fencing Out Necessary ways across the Divisions will be Such an intolerable Charge that all the Timber and Stone that can be procured or gotten on the premises is not Sufficient to Fence the same one time; and the Living is Cut out in so many parcells as Renders it uncapable of Improvement in any Measure for the support of their Familys who are greatly Multiplyed with a Numerous Posterity Since the Testators decease And must necessarily Quit the Estate to provide for themselves and Familys Elsewhere Unless they can be Allowed to pass away their Right and Interest to and among One another So as to make a Comfortable laving for one or more of them and will probably fall into the hands of Strangers and the Minde and Intent of the Testator be thereby Defeated by the Estate passing out of his Name and Family.” For the prevention of which the Court passed an Act permitting the petitioners to convey their respective parts to one another, to be holden of such purchasers respectively, their heirs and assigns forever.
    An adjustment was effected between the sons, and soon parts of the estate were by their own deed transferred to a stranger.
    Nevertheless it became necessary to again petition the legislature, and this was done 16 Nov., 1728, by Benjamin Clark of Cambridge, and his wife Lydia, and John Shattuck and others. Their petition was received 18 Dec., 1725, and allowed the 3 Sept., 1729.

Hannah married Nathaniel Lawrence.

On 15 Oct 1689 when Thomas was 39, he married Jemima Stanhope, daughter of Jonathan Stanhope. Born on 24 Jun 1665. Jemima died on 28 Sep 1748; she was 83.

On 17 May 1677 Jane married Isaac Amsden, son of Isaac Amsden & Frances Perriman (-aft 16 Jun 1693), in Cambridge, MA. Born ca 1656 in Cambridge, MA. Isaac died in Marlboro, MA on 3 May 1727.