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Ryves Holt lived in this house and served as Chief Justice of the Three Lower Counties on Delaware from 1745 to 1763, as a member of the Assembly of the Three Lower Counties on Delaware from 1734 to 1737, 1742 to 1744, and 1746 to 1755, and as Speaker of Assembly from 1742 to 1744 and 1746 to 1752. He was probably born in 1696 and died in 1763. The Ryves Holt House was built in 1665 and is the oldest building standing in the State of Delaware. It was listed on the National Register in 1977.
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