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Joshua HOLCOMBE

Joshua HOLCOMBE[1]

Male 1640 - 1690  (50 years)

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  • Name Joshua HOLCOMBE 
    Born 7 Apr 1640  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christened 27 Sep 1640  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID LTF8-9RB 
    Vital Records 27 Sep 1640  Granby, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Connecticut births and christenings 
    Religion   [2] 
    Puritan 
    _UID 93861B4AA0F54230859DE41F3D12E651303E 
    Buried Dec 1690  Granby Cemetery, Granby, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died 1 Dec 1690  Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17158  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Dec 2022 

    Father Thomas HOLCOMBE,   b. Abt 1610, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Sep 1657, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth FERGUSON,   b. 1617, Of Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Oct 1679, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married 14 May 1634  Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Family ID F8645  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ruth SHERWOOD,   b. 7 Apr 1643, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1699, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 4 Jun 1663  Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • How this couple became acquainted does not appear, but there was an early migration of some Windsor famlies to Fairfield and it may be that afterwords there was some visiting back and forth.


      NOTE MARRIED
    Children 
     1. Ruth HOLCOMBE,   b. 26 May 1664, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 May 1706, Farmington, New Haven, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 41 years)
     2. Capt. Thomas HOLCOMB,   b. 20 Mar 1666, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1731, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     3. Sarah HOLCOMBE,   b. 23 Jun 1668, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jan 1763, Of Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 94 years)
     4. Elijah HOLCOMB,   b. 4 Apr 1670, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Elizabeth HOLCOMB,   b. 4 Apr 1670, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1762, Terry Plains, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 91 years)
     6. Ensign Joshua HOLCOMBE,   b. 18 Sep 1672, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1727, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
     7. Deborah HOLCOMB,   b. 16 Feb 1674, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Mary HOLCOMB,   b. 1676, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Jul 1745, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     9. Moses HOLCOMB,   b. 4 Jul 1686, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Feb 1700, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 13 years)
     10. Mindwell HOLCOMB,   b. 1687, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1776  (Age 89 years)
     11. Hannah HOLCOMB,   b. 1689, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Mar 1740, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F8498  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Excerpt From: The Descendants of Thomas Holcombe - Holcombe Genealogy-Compiled by James Hallowell Holcombe Jr. 2006
      5. JOSHUA2 HOLCOMBE (Thomas1) was born on 7 Apr 1640 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.[33] He was baptized on 27 Sep 1640 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.[34,35] He married Ruth Sherwood, daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield and Mary (--?--), on 4 Jun 1663 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. [36] He
      died on 1 Dec 1690 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT, at age [50.37,38] He was buried at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. [39]

      How this couple became acquainted does not appear, but there was an early migration of some Windsor families to Fairfield and it may be that afterwards there was some visiting back and forth.
      Joshua took the family and personal property of his deceased father, Thomas, after the latter's death in 1657 and moved to Windsor Center (Simsbury).
      He was granted 4 acres "near Thomas Maskill" at Massaco, Hartford Co., Ct. April 29, 1667.
      "The counsell" of Simsbury "let out" to Joshua "ye lands of Mr. Joseph Persons, " as Parsons was one of the "proprietors (i.e., non-resident land owners) not appearing to carry on plantation dues as fences & reparying fences." [40]
      He was granted original tracts of land in Conn. (Simsbury Patent) by King Charles II, April 23, 1687. Was elected Representative to General Assembly, From Simsbury, 1660, 1671, and 1690 (wr, wg).
      At a special court held at Windsor on 11 September 1676, John Williams, Joshua Holcomb, Nicholas Gozzard, and Nicholas Evans were ordered to post a ?10 bond each for their appearance in court the first Wednesday in December next "to answer for their breach of peace."[41]

      For his probate see Manwaring 1:467, which shows inventory of ?474/8/0 taken Dec. 25, 1690, by John Higley and Samuel Wilcox (Selectmen) and his two brothers, Benajah and Nathaniel. The Puritans evidently did not celebrate Christmas. Records of his probate list his children. However, one
      reference does not list Joshua who was surely living (possibly an error by Manwaring). Seaver lists another child, Joab, not mentioned by McCracken.
      It was his name that should have occupied the second line in the newly cut stone of the Holcombes in the cemetery at Granby. (TAG 44:58-60).

      Children of Joshua2 Holcombe and Ruth Sherwood were as follows:

      31. i. RUTH3 was born on 26 May 1664 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She married Richard Porter, son of Daniel Porter and Mary (--?--), circa 1685/86.

      32. ii. THOMAS was born on 30 Mar 1666 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He married Elizabeth Terry, daughter of Leftenant John Terry and Elizabeth Wadsworth, on 1 Jan 1690. He married Rebecca Pettibone, daughter of John Pettibone Sr. and Sarah Eggleston, on 5 Dec 1700 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.

      33. iii. SARAH was born on 23 Jun 1668 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. She married Isaac Owens. She married John Case, son of John Case and Sarah Spencer, in 1693.

      34. iv. ELIZABETH was born on 4 Apr 1670 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. She married William Case, son of John Case and Sarah Spencer, in 1688. She married Deacon John Slater, son of John Slater and Abiah Gillet, on 10 Feb 1703/4 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. She married Deacon Samuel Marshall.

      35. v. JOSHUA was born on 18 Sep 1672 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT. He married Hannah Carrington, daughter of John Carrington, in 1694. He married Mary Hoskins, daughter of Robert Hoskins and Mary Gillett, in 1709.

      36. vi. DEBORAH was born on 10 Feb 1674/75 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. She married Dr. Daniel Porter before 1699.

      37. vii. MARY was born in 1676. She married John Barber, son of Lt. Thomas Barber and Mary Phelps, on 26 Feb 1701/2 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. She married Ephriam Buell, son of Sgt. Peter Buell and Martha Cogan, on 16 Oct 1713 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.

      38. viii. MINDWELL was born in 1678. She married Theophilus Cook, son of John Cook and Sarah Fisk, on 26 Sep 1721. CAUTION: This person is questionable: Mindwell is often said to be daughter of Joshua Holcomb Sr. and Ruth Sherwood, but their daughter Mindwell was supposedly born about 1678 (who would have been 43 years old when she married in 1721 and far too old to have a large family with Theophilus Cook).

      39. ix. HANNAH was born in 1680. She married Samuel Buell, son of Sgt. Peter Buell and Martha Cogan, on 29 Nov 1711 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.

      40. x. MOSES was born on 4 Jul 1686 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. [42] He was baptized on 29 Oct 1699 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.[43] He died on 16 Feb 1699/0 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT, at age 13. [44]

      41. xi JOAB died on 5 Dec 1723 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT. [45]
      Seaver lists Joab, died 1723 in this family. Bowman places him with Joshua Jr.; McPherson does not list him here either.
      ***See sources attached to the son Joab who died 1723 and another son named Joab who died 1725. Both sons of Joshua Sr.

      Sources:
      [30] Lorraine Cook White, compiler, The Barbour Collection fo Connecticut Town Vital Records: Windsor 1637-1850 (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 2002), Page 194, citing MG. Hereinafter cited as Barbour: Windsor.
      [31] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 25.1.
      [32] Lorraine Cook White, Barbour: Windsor, Page 194, citing MG.
      [33] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 10.1.
      [34] Edwin Stanley Welles, Hartford, Windsor, Fairfield, Page 35.
      [35] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 10.1.
      [36] Edwin Stanley Welles, Hartford, Windsor, Fairfield, Page 10.
      [37] Charles William Manwaring, Manwaring, 1:467.
      [38]McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 30.1.
      [39] Ibid.
      [40] Gerald James Parsons, "Were Joseph and Benjamin Parsons and David Wilton of Beaminster, Dorset, England, The New England Colonists?," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. 143, Whole Number 570 (April 1989). Hereinafter cited as "Joseph Parsons".
      [41] Gerald James Parsons, "The Early Parsons Families of the Connecticut Valley [Part Two]," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Volume 148, Whole Number 592 (October 1994): 345-360.
      [42] Albert C. Bates., Simsbury, Connecticut, Births, Marriages and Deaths (1898).
      [43] Albert C. Bates, compiler, Rev. Dudley Woodbridge his Church Record at Simsbury in Conn. 1697-1710 (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1894), Page 19. Hereinafter cited as Rev. Dudley Woodbridge.
      [44] Bates, Simsbury, Page 21.
      [45] Ibid., Page 157.
      [46] Edwin Stanley Welles, Hartford, Windsor, Fairfield, Page 35.
      [47] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 10.1.
      [48] Lorraine Cook White, Barbour: Windsor, Page 194, citing MG.
      [49] Edwin Stanley Welles, Hartford, Windsor, Fairfield, Page 11.
      [50] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 89.1.
      [51] Lorraine Cook White, Barbour: Windsor, Page 194, citing MG.
      [52] McPherson, Holcombe Genealogy, Page 89.1.
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      [CONTRIBUTION on 25 February 2015 by harrisondavidc1]:
      Page 112 - "A record and Documentary History of Simsbury, 1643 - 1888", by Lucius M. Barber, M.D., published 1931: "Mr. Joshua Holcomb was another of the Simsbury Patentees. He was the eldest son of Thomas Holcomb, the immigrant who came to Windsor at an early date. Joshua was baptized 27 Sep. 1640. In 1663 (4 June in Windsor) he married Ruth Sherwood, who bore him three children. In 1668 the committee allotted to him a house lot of 4 acres, on the east side of the river. Here he soon after settled. His house was north of the present road to Windsor and Hartford, and near the old "Training Ground". He was one of the sound, substantial men of his time, active in ecclesiastical and civil affairs, and greatly respected. He died in 1690. Simsbury records mention his wife as 'Ruth, daughter of Sherrod'. Their daughter Ruth, born Windsor 26 May 1664, married Richard Porter of Farmington. In 1694 "Widow Holcomb" paid taxes in Simsbury." (NEB genealogy)

  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    2. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Joshua HOLCOMBE, person ID LTF8-9RB. (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S64] World Family Tree European Origins Vol. E1, Ed. 1, Br?derbund Software, Inc., (Release date: September 15, 1997 Customer pedigree.), Tree #0054 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S192] Hubbard.FTW.


  

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