THIRTEENTH GENERATION
"HOLCOMB, ...(4928) THOMAS, Dorchester 1633, freem. 14 May 1634, rem. with other friends of Dorchester 1633, freem. 14 May 1634, rem. with other friends of Rev. John Warham 1635 or 6, to Windsor, prob. with two or three ch. had there (4929iii) Abigail, b. apt. 6 Jan. 1639; (4929iv) Joshua, bapt. 27 Sept. 1640; (4929v) Sarah, 14 Aug. 1642; (4929vi) Benajah, 23 June 1644; (4929vii) Deborah, b. 15 Oct. 1646, d. soon; (2464) Nathaniel, 4 Nov. 1648; (4929ix) Deborah, again, 15 Feb. 1651; (4929x) Jonathan, 23 Mar. 1653, d. soon; and the f. d. 7 Sept. 1657. Of his ds. we kn. that Abigail m. 11 June 1658, (4929iii[1]) Samuel Bissell; and Deborah m. 5 Nov. 1668, (4929ix[1]) Daniel Birge; and it is presum. that (4929i) Elizabeth wh. m. 16 Nov. 1654, (4929i[1]) Josiah Ellsworth; and (4929ii) Mary, wh. m. 3 Oct. 1655, were his ds."
-- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary Of the First Settlers of the New England Before 1692" c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/
4929. Elizabeth (poss. Ferguson)
"WILLIAMS, ...JOHN, Windsor 1639, m. 29 June 1644, Mary Burkly, if we follow Parsons in his spelling, Geneal. Reg. V. 364; but a more practised eye reads the name Brelly, Bralley, or Burlly, perhaps the same as Burleigh in our times; and we gain no light from the early dwellers at W. had John, b. 26 Mar. 1646; Nathaniel, 25 Oct. 1647; Rebecca, 20 Apr. 1649; Hannah, 13 Apr. 1651; Mary and Elizabeth tw. 5 Jan. 1653; Abiel, 2 Sept. 1655; and (4929ii_a[1]) Abigail, 31 May 1658; and he d. 1665. Of the five ds. we kn. that Rebecca m. 1670, Obadiah Cooley of Springfield; Hannah m. 1677, Nathaniel Bancroft of Westfield; Mary m. 1678, John Gunn; Elizabeth d. in few wks.; and (4929ii_a[1]) Abigail m. 1681, (4929ii_a) Edward Griswold; Abiel may have d. unm."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"GRISWOLD, ...(9229xiii) *EDWARD, Windsor, prob. s. of the (9228) preced. m. 3 Nov. 1681, (9229xiii[1]) Abigail Williams, perhaps d. of John, had Edward, b. 6 Dec. 1682; and Abigail, 1685; d. at Westfield, 31 May 1688; and his wid. d. 16 Sept. 1690."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
(1633-1700) 11 June 1658 Windsor, Hartford, CT
1688 Simsbury, Hartford, CT
"CASE, ...(4929Iv_a[1]) WILLIAM, Simsbury, br. of Bartholomew, m. 1688, (4929v_a) Elizabeth d. of (4929v) Joshua Holcomb, had Elizabeth b. Sept. 1689; William, 22 Mar 1691; James, 12 Mar. 1693; Rachel, 10 Dec. 1694; Mary, 23 Aug. 1696; Joshua, 1 June 1698; Mindwell, 21 Mar. 1700; and he d. ten days after. His wid. m. 10 Mar. 1704, (4929iv_a[2]) John Slater; next m. (4929iv_a[3]) Thomas Marshall; and d. 26 Feb. 1762. This name was very com. in that region, and I count gr. in 1855, at Yale, ten, but none in Harv. or Dart. catal."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
"MARSHALL, ...(4929Iv_a[3]) THOMAS, Dorchester 1634, freem. 6 May 1635, rem. it is thot. to Windsor; was rep. in Mar. and Apr. 1638; but no more is kn. with certainty. In Stiles, Hist. 698, he is said to m. 2 Mar. 1637, Mary Drake, wh. may have been d. of the first John; and we might suppose, from the same line, the same man m. 10 May 1660, Bethia Parsons, but the darkness is palpable, upon the same page, where he teach. that Thomas Maskell m. that day that same woman; and great distrust springs up, when we see him, p. 735, give the same woman, the same day, to Thomas Haskell."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
1693 E. Hartford, Hartford, CT
"CASE, ...(4929Iv_b[1]) JOHN, Simsbury, eldest s. of the preced. m. 12 Sept. 1684, Mary, d. of Thomas Olcott the sec. had John, b. 6 [[vol. 1, p. 346]] Aug. foll. d. soon, as did the mo. and he m. 1693, (4929Iv_b) Sarah, d. of (4929v) Joshua Holcomb, had John, b. 22 Aug. 1694; Daniel, 7 Mar. 1696; Mary, 1698; Jonathan, 15 Apr. 1701; Sarah, a. 1703; Hannah, a. 1709; and he d. 22 May 1733."
-- James Savage, op. cit.
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In 1639 (4928) Thomas Holcombe was one of those who represented Windsor and Hartford in the forming of the Constitution of the Colony of Connecticut. Though unproven, some say that Thomas is descended from William the Conqueror and Henry I, King of England through Sir John de Holcombe of Dorchester, England, who was knighted and granted the Manor of Holcombe for heroic action in the battle in Palestine in the 3rd Crusade. "Weir states on page 8 "A very complete pedigree of the Holcombes of Devonshire, England starting from John Holcombe, Knight of the XI century is said to exist. Maybe she is referring to the Walter and Harry Holcomb Chart found in the church at Dorchester-on-The-Thames, England. Vivian's chart ends with the listing of the three brothers, Gilbert, Christopher, and Josias... The chart does note that Christopher is said to be the ancestor of the Holcombes of Pembrokeshire in Wales "Gilbert and Ann had no children on the chart. Bowman and McCracken both agree that there were no children... "Jesse Seaver thought that English records indicated that Thomas Holcomb was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England to Ann and Gilbert Holcomb. Several of Seaver's contemporary researchers agreed with him. A disagreement appeared recently; George McCraken writing in The American Genealogist, Vol. 26:109 found that Gilbert Holcomb's oral (noncupative) of 14 October 1623, will stated d.s.p. which meant died without issue and that Gilbert left his estate to his brother-in-law, Richard Bonithon... "Several early authors state he was a member of Reverend Ephraim Huit's church, and Huit was from Kenilworth in Warwickshire. But, no Holcomb births or records were found from the Diocesan Court at Worchester... Bowman has found clues recently that Thomas may have been from county Somerset, the city of Bridgewater. She has recently discovered that one of the early Holcomb births in Connecticut was recorded as James the `eighth'. "Most recently (October 25, 1998), Bowman updated her Volume 2 with the comment that Christopher was the most likely ancestor of Thomas. The birth and death dates normally assigned to the son of Christopher are not correct nor the marriage to Joan Prideaux. The birth and death dates are those of Thomas, the actor, of London who married Francis Bartlett. "In March, 1630, Thomas was in a company which assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, where a large ship of 400 tons, the Mary and John, chartered by Captain Squeb, for the voyage to America, was fitted out. The Mary and John was the first ship of the Winthrop Fleet which brought 1500 Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay Colony... "(Their charter began,) IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick..." "John Hunt (NGSQ 63:1) notes that the early settlers of Dorchester, Suffolk, Mass., like the founders of Plymouth, were in some fear that they might not obtain leave to depart from England. There seems to have been some worry on the part of their organizer, the Reverend Mr. John White, that the group might be considered schismatic by the London authorities headed by the powerful Bishop William Laud. Consider the fact that White's recruiters included two unlike clerics, John Warham, a nonconformist, and John Maverick, a conformist. "Robert Charles Anderson states that... Warham had been minister at Crewkerne in Somersetshire and at Exeter in Devonshire; Maverick had been rector at Beaworthy in Devonshire. It is of note that the church was organized BEFORE they left England. Anderson characterizes this period of migration as `The Era of Gentlemen's Companies'..." "While married to Eno, (4929) Elizabeth was attended in 1669 by John Winthroop the Younger and was recorded in his medical journal (TAG 23:124) as then aged 52... "(4929) Elizabeth was also known as Elizabeth Ferguson... In the spring of 1636, Reverend John Wareham left Dorchester and came to Windsor, Connecticut, bringing his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, with him. Maverick resisted the move and died late in 1635... On 14 April 1654, Thomas along with Edward Griswold, and Samuel Phelps, purchased from John Tinker a 226-acre tract of land in Poqonnoc, including an area called as late as 1863, `Tinker's Swamp'... "Thomas Holcomb died at Windsor, Connecticut, September 7, 1657. His grave was located in an old cemetery near the old homestead at Poquonock, Connecticut. His grave was marked by a brown stone about two by four feet in size. The stone, having crumbled with age, was removed. It was replaced with a new marker that was inscribed with family information, much of which is wrong... "What has happened is that:
-- http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/data/p3.htm#i111
"Several sources claim that Thomas Holcombe married at Dorchester on 14 May 1634 Elizabeth Ferguson. Such a marriage is not on record, and the date is that on which Holcombe was admitted to freemanship. In 1964 Jacobus noted that "[h]er maiden name has been stated as Ferguson, without proof or probability" [McArthur-Barnes 169]." -- Joanne E. Martin joejoannemartin@aol.com; quoted on http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?ferguson::holcombe::484.html from THE GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS, IMMIGRANTS TO NEW ENGLAND, 1620-1633, Vol. II G-0, by Robert Charles Anderson, pub. by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston 1995, pp. 964-967 |
30 June /31 July 1655 Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
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