| Maternal |
| HOLBROOK, c.1560-aft.1725 |
Related
Families: Saunders | Powyes | Pitts
| Eames | Corbett
|
(1) William Holbrook, born about 1560 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England, died 11 December 1625 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England; married in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, Edith Saunders, died 11 June 1612 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
Children:
(2)
Thomas
Holbrook, born 1589 in England, died 10 March 1677 in Weymouth,
Norfolk Co., Massachusetts; married 12 September 1616 in Glastonbury, Somerset
Co., England, Jane
Powyes, born in England, died 24 April 1677 in Weymouth, Norfolk
Co., Massachusetts.
Thomas and his wife Jane, their
sons John, Thomas, Anne, and Elizabeth sailed from Weymouth, England, on or
near 10 March 1635 with Rev. Joseph Hull's Company. He came from Broadway, Somersetshire,
England, and came ashore at Corchester 7 June 1635, then to the place now called
Weymouth, and built a house there, as he attested in court 2 Noember 1666. He
was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1645. He was a selectman
of Weymouth for five years from 1645 through 1654. Ten acres were granted to
him in the First Division and thirty acres in the Second Division on 14 December
1663.
Thomas,
in Weymouth 1643, may have come several years earlier at Weymouth (whence rem.
the first sett. of Rehoboth in that yr.) and though he was one of the grantees
of Rehoboth, for not going to reside there his share was forfeited in January
1645. All his children probably were brought from England. He was a freeman
in 1643. He was living in Dorchester in 1652, and in Medfield in 1668.
His
will dated 31 December 1668, with codicil 31 December 1673, and proved 24 April
1677 at Weymouth, names wife Jane, three sons, three married daughters, and
grandchildren John, Peter and William Holbrook. A deposition made 7 November
1666 gives Thomas' age as 77 years.
Children:
(3)
Capt.
William Holbrook, born about 1620 in Glastonbury, Somerset,
England, baptized 12 June 1620 at St. Johns, in Glastonbury, died 3 July 1699
at Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; married Elizabeth
Pitts, born about 1622 at Newcastle, Tyne, England, died about
1696 at Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, daughter of William
& Elizabeth Pitts. "Capt. William Holbrook came to
Scituate in 1660, and purchased lands in Conihasseett, adjoining the farm of
Capt. Michael Pierce, on the sowth-west. His house was built on the south side
of the Cohasset road, a half mile west of Capt. Pierce's." He
resided in Weymouth till about 1663, when he removed to Mendon. The Indians
drove him back in 1676 and thereafter he settled in Scituate by 1676. Freeman
1647. Selectman, Deacon, and Captain in militia at Mendon.
Children:
(4) Cornelius
Holbrook,
born 10 November 1662 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, died 14 December
1742 at Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts; married Margery
Eames,
born about 1655 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts.
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