Anne Makemie Holden
American figure (1702–1780s)
About Anne Makemie Holden
Lived 1702 – 1788 (aged 85–86). Anne Makemie Holden was a British and American.
Anne Makemie Holden (née Makemie; 1702 1787/1788) was an American landowner of the colonial period and early Republic. The younger daughter of clergyman Francis Makemie, the founder of Presbyterianism in what later became the United States, she was prominent in 18th-century Virginia society.
According to "reliable tradition", Anne Makemie's first marriage was to a "Mr. Blair"; following his death, she married Robert King (1689 May 1755). Her third and final marriage, which took place between 1760 and 1765, was to George Holden, who died in 1774. Reportedly "very patriotic" during the American Revolutionary War,
Having outlived both her parents and her sister, she died between November 15, 1787 and January 29, 1788. She bequeathed a mahogany desk — the "only known relic of the Makemie family" as well as a hundred pounds to ministerial funds and some one hundred and twenty English books to her third husband's family. She bequeathed a tract of land to each of four male relatives, so that they could vote for "real friends to the American Independence" come election time. By the time of her death, she was apparently estranged from her paternal relatives.
She had no children
She is among the 230 women honored in the Virginia Women's Monument at the Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia.
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Who was Anne Makemie Holden?
American figure (1702–1780s)
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Anne Makemie Holden was born in 1702.
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Anne Makemie Holden died in 1788.
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Anne Makemie Holden was British and American.
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