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Carney & Wehofer Family
Genealogy Pages
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 1666 - 1731 (64 years)
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| Name |
Thomas HOLCOMB |
| Prefix |
Capt. |
| Born |
20 Mar 1666 |
Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Ensign |
[1] |
| Ensign is a commissioned officer, lowest rank of the Navy or Coast Guard. |
| FamilySearch ID |
KN6C-QCN |
| Name |
Thomas HOLCOMBE [1] |
| _UID |
FE62CC90409B4AA8B6756DDCC1CCF35FDCF5 |
| Buried |
Mar 1731 |
Granby Cemetery, Granby, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America [1] |
| Died |
5 Mar 1731 |
Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut |
| Person ID |
I17191 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
14 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Joshua HOLCOMBE, b. 7 Apr 1640, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 1 Dec 1690, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 50 years) |
| Mother |
Ruth SHERWOOD, b. 7 Apr 1643, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America , d. 10 Sep 1699, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 56 years) |
| Married |
4 Jun 1663 |
Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut |
- 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
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| Family ID |
F8498 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Elisabeth TERRY, b. 16 Dec 1663, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 9 Dec 1699, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 35 years) |
| Married |
1 Jan 1690 |
Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut |
| Children |
| | 1. Thomas HOLCOMB, b. 13 Dec 1690, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 10 Sep 1708, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 17 years) |
| | 2. Daniel HOLCOMB, b. 30 Sep 1692, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 1760 (Age 67 years) |
| | 3. Isaac HOLCOMB, b. 7 Apr 1696, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 1728 (Age 31 years) |
| | 4. Elizabeth HOLCOMB, b. 25 Apr 1699, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F8517 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Rebecca PETTIBONE, b. 19 Mar 1675, Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 13 Oct 1731, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America (Age 56 years) |
| Married |
5 Dec 1700 |
Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut |
- Beckler lists date as 15 Dec 1700
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| Children |
| | 1. Moses HOLCOMB, b. 1702, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 23 Oct 1722, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 20 years) |
| | 2. Stephen HOLCOMB, b. 1704, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 22 Dec 1722, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 18 years) |
| | 3. Benoni HOLCOMB, b. 1706, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Ruth HOLCOMB, b. 28 Apr 1706, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Ebenezer HOLCOMB, b. 28 Apr 1707, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 10 Apr 1708, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 0 years) |
| | 6. Consider HOLCOMB, b. 1710, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 17 Jan 1765, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut (Age 55 years) |
| | 7. Return Ira HOLCOMB, b. 31 May 1713, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 1790, Spencertown, Columbia, New York (Age 76 years) |
| | 8. James HOLCOMB, b. 10 Oct 1715, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 9. Enoch HOLCOMB, b. 9 Aug 1717, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. 11 Mar 1808, Wethersfield, Now Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut (Age 90 years) |
| | 10. Sarah HOLCOMB, b. 5 Sep 1719, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut , d. Yes, date unknown |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F8518 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Thomas HOLCOMB - b. Mar. 30, 1666, Windsor, CT; d. Mar. 5, 1730/1, Simsbury, CT. Son of Joshua HOLCOMB and Ruth SHERWOOD. Will dated May 13, 1729 names wife Rebecca, six sons and two daughters. Inventory of ?869/3/7 taken Apr. 7, 1731. The list of his children may be incomplete and/or in incorrect order. Married first Jan. 1, 1690, and second Dec. 5, 1700, Simsbury, CT Rebecca PETTIBONE (b. Mar. 19. 1675; d. Oct. 1731), daughter of John PETTIBONE and Sarah EGGLESTON. Rebecca was the mother of all but the oldest four children of Thomas. CONFLICT: AFN:3WNI-K3 gives birth as 30 Mar 1666.
Capt. Thomas4 Holcombe (Joshua3 Holcomb, Thomas2 Holcombe, Gilbert1) was born March 20, 1665/66 in Windsor, and died March 5, 1730/31 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.He married (1) Elizabeth Terry January 1, 1689/90.He married (2) Rebecca Pettebone December 5, 1700 in Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT., daughter of John Sr. and Sarah Eggleston.
Notes for Capt. Thomas Holcombe:
Capt. Thomas Holcombe was born on 30 March 1666 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT; Seaver shows birth date as 3-5-1666; McCracken shows it as 20 March on one page, 30 March on another.3,6 He was the son of Joshua Holcombe and Ruth Sherwood. Capt. Thomas Holcombe married Elizabeth Terry on 1 January 1690. Capt. Thomas Holcombe married Rebecca Pettibone, daughter of John Pettibone Sr. and Sarah Eggleston, on 5 December 1700 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT.7 Capt. Thomas Holcombe died on 5 March 1730/31 at Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT, at age 64.8
He left a will on 13 May 1729.
He signed the covenant at the installation of the Rev. Dudley Woodbridge as pastor of Simsbury, 10 April 1697 as did also Ruth Holcombe, either his mother or sister, Elizabeth, probably his wife, and Hannah his sister.
Probate of both Thomas and Rebecca is in Manwaring 3:64. His will is dated 13 May 1729, in which he names wife Rebeckah, eldest son Thomas, son Daniel, five younger sons Daniel, Consider, Return, James and Enoch; two daughters Elizabeth and Rebeckah. Various real estate and a fourth part of the grist mill at the Falls are mentined; executors: wife Rebeckah and son Daniel; witnesses: Nathaniel Higley, John Griffen, Samuel Higley; inventory of ?869/3/7 was taken 7 April 1731 by Benjamin Adams, Joshua Holcombe and Nathaniel Higley. The wife's will was dated 14 April 1731, mentions husband Thomas Holcomb's will, names daughter Rebeckah executrix. This man appears properly on the newly-cut tombstone in Granby Cemetery but his two wives are condensed into one who bears the first name of the first wife and the maiden name of the second. In addition to the children listed by McCracken, McPherson adds also Benoni, Ann, Miriam (b 9 April, 1717), Sarah (b. 5 Sept 1719), making McPhersons total 14 children
Thomas' will: "I, Thomas Holcomb of Simsbury in the County of Hartford, do make this my last will and testament: I give to my wife, Rebeckah, 1/3 part of my moveable estate, to her and her dispose forever, my two guns only excepted. Also, I give her the improvement of the 1/3 part of all my improvable land during all the time she remains my widow, and also the improvement of 1/2 of my dwelling house, both lower and upper rooms, and cellar. I give to myeldest son, Thomas Holcomb, 6 acres of land lying on the north endo of that land I bought of Bissell, west of that I have already given him, being the north corner of myland. I give unto my son Daniel Holcomb 3 acres of land where his house and orchard now standeth, and that free from any incumbrance of improvement by my widow. I give unto my five younger sons, viz., Daniel Holcomb, Consider Holcomb, Return Holcomb, James Holcomb, and Enoch Holcomb, all my lands within fence, both meadow and upland, with all the remainder of the land I bought of Bissell, with all the land given and measured out to me in the last division, and also my lott of land under Popatunock, to them in equal shares. I give to my four younger sons, Consider, Return, James, and Enoch, with my two daughters, Elizabeth and Rebeckah, all the lands that shall or may be set out to me, or properly appertaining to my estate, my Town division agreed on, to them in equal shares; but in case the Town division shall be nullified and a division be made to the proprietors, that then my will is that my two eldest sons, Thomas and Daniel, shall have equal shares with my six other children last named, if such a division be made to the proprietors. I give to my sons, Consider and James, my dwelling house and barn, with my fourth part of the grist mills at the Falls to be to them in equal shares. I give to my two sons, Return and Enoch, my two guns. I give to my two daughters, Elizabeth and Rebeckah, 20 pounds to each. I appoint my wife Rebeckah and son Daniel executors."
Witnesses: Nathaniel Higley, Gohn Griffen, Samuel Higley
- from "Holcomb Genealogy" - https://www.holcombegenealogy.com/g0/p3.htm
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Will: May 13, 1729)
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- [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 Thomas HOLCOMB, person ID KN6C-QCN. (Reliability: 3).
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