A First Settler of Windsor, Hartford, and Poquonick, CT.

1) Birth: 1601 Death: 7 SEP 1657 in Windsor, CT

Res: in Windsor, CT

Immigration: MAR 1629/30

Came in the Mary and John

Burial: Poquonock, CT

2) Title: The Great Migration Begins Author: Robert Charles Anderson

Publication: Boston 1995 Repository: Call Number: Media: Book

3) Title: Torrey CD New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Author: Clarence A. Torrey

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

4) Publication: 2001 NEHGS

Note: First version to have Torrey's source citations included

Repository: Call Number: Media: Book

HOLCOMB, Thomas (-1657) & Elizabeth [?FERGUSON] (-1679?),

m/2 James ENNO 1658; ca 1633?; Dorchester/Windsor, CT {Warner-Harrington 307;

5) Great Migration Begins: Origin unknown.

Migration 1633 to Dorchester.

Freeman 14 May 1634, Dorchester.

His estate included books.

Birth estimated by about 1609 based on date of marriage.

See George E. McCracken, TAG 57:65-76, 160-69, 225-29; TAG 26:109-10; TAG 44:58-60.

The latter two discuss the fraudulent claim of ancestry for Thomas Holcombe.

6) BURI PLAC Cem. Near His Homestead At Poquonock, Near Hartford,

CT OCCU Farmer for Thomas Holcombe.

7) Sources: for Thomas Holcombe.

7a) "Our Ellsworth Ancestors" by German Ellsworth

and Mary Smith Ellsworth for Thomas Holcombe.

7b) "Thomas Holcombe's Earlier Posterity", George E. McCracken,

The American Genealogist, April 1981, pp. 66-67

7c) "The Holcombes, Nation Builders, A Family Having as Great a Part as Any in

the Making of All North American Civilization,

Their Biographies, Genealogies and Pedigrees," Mrs. Lewis D. McPherson,

(Hannah Elizabeth Weir), 1947, p. 9.

8) Thomas Holcomb, born 1595 in Hall (Devon), England

9) Died September 07, 1657 in Puquonock, Connecticut.

10) He was the son of Gilbert Holcomb and Anne Courtenay.

11) He married Elizabeth Ferguson in Dorchester, Massachusettes.

12) died October 01, 1657 in Windsor, CT

(Source: Stiles, Henry R. The History of Ancient Windsor).

13) He married Elizabeth Ferguson in Dorchester, MA.

14) Thomas Holcomb arrived at Dorchester,, MA in 1628

aboard the "Mary and John" with John Warham's group of puritans

[This date is wrong].

While there, he married fellow passenger Elizabeth Ferguson.

When the group moved to Windsor, Hartford, CT to found that colony,

Thomas and Elizabeth moved with them.

15) By 1639, they moved away from the main Windsor

settlement to his farm in Poquonock.

16) He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford

in the convention that framed the now famous

Constitution of the Connecticut Colony.

17) Thomas Holcomb's old tombstone shows October 1657 as his date of death,

and the probate inventory record shows 1 October 1657.

References to Stiles History of Ancient Windsor and the Colony records

state 7 September 1657. p. 139, Stiles.

Came to Windsor in 1635 or soon thereafter from Dorchester.

Granted a lot 14 1/2 rods wide, which was sold to Josiah Hull in 1639

when he removed to Poquonok where he had the lot next N of Edward Griswold.

His son Joshua had the homestead.

Alt Birth: 1601 Devonshire, England Alt Birth: 7 Apr 1605 Pembroke, Wales

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