William Holt (1730–1791)[1] was a Colonial American mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia from 1776 to 1777 and again from 1782 to 1783.
He started a Presbyterian settlement in New Kent County, with the Reverend John Jeffrey Smith and owned several mills and a forge in a five hundred acre (2 km2) tract of land.
[1] His children were Elizabeth (1762), William (1765), Daniel, Henry, Samuel, Jane, Mary and John Holt.
[1] In 1776, Holt began his year-long term as the mayor of Williamsburg and on December 17, 1776, he was appointed to the Admiralty Court by the Virginia legislature.
[1] His daughter Elizabeth is said to have married William Coleman who would also become a mayor of Williamsburg.