Joshua Holcomb, Sr.

Joshua Holcombe

• Birth 07 APR 1640 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
• Baptism 27 SEP 1640 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
• Death 1 Dec 1690 at age 50 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut
• Son of Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth (Unknown) Eno
• Husband of Ruth (Sherwood) Holcomb — married 4 Jun 1663 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holcomb-618

"JOSHUA HOLCOMB Joshua Holcomb was the eldest son of Thomas Holcomb, who immigrated to Windsor and died there in 1657/8. Joshua was born in April 1640. By 1667, he was living at Massacoh (Simsbury); on April 23, 1687, he received a Simsbury land grant from King Charles II for property east of the Farmington River near present day Terry’s Plain. Joshua Holcomb married Ruth Sherwood, possibly the daughter of Thomas Sherwood of Fairfield, CT, with whom he had ten children. Holcomb was known to be "one of the sound, substantial men of his time;" he was active in both civic and religious affairs until his death on September 1, 1690, in Simsbury.

Children of Joshua and Ruth Sherwood:

1. Ruth (born May 26, 1664; married John Porter)
2. Thomas (born 30 March 30; married first Elizabeth Terry; married second Rebecca Pettibone in 1666; died 1731)
3. Sarah (born June 23, 1668; married first Isaac Owens; married second John Case; died 1763)
4. Elizabeth (born 1670; married first William Case; married second John Slater; married third Samuel Marshall; died 1762)
5. Joshua II (born 1672; married first Hannah Carrington; married second Mary Hoskins; died 1727)
6. Deborah (born 1675; married Daniel Porter possibly Carter)
7. Mary (born 1676; married first John Barber; married second Ephraim Buell; died 1745)
8. Mindwell (born 1678; married Theophilus Cook)
9. Hannah (born 1680; married Samuel Buel; died 1740)
10. Moses (born 1686; died 1699)"

“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).”

In 1668 his son Joshua, then a freeman of Windsor, assisted in organizing Simsbury.

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 at 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)

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.

Comments

Burial seen as Granby Cemetery Holcomb Family Memorial, (Burial Place Not Proven), Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, but this is improbable. See discussion: https://www.geni.com/discussions/270403?msg=1656227

References

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Dec 13 2016, 1:32:09 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Holcomb-618 cites
  • The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. I-III, Thomas Holcombe
  • Jesse Seaver, The Holcomb(e) Genealogy: A Genealogy, History and Directory with Illustrations, pp. 11-12 (American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia 1925). Copy available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89063108492;view=1up;seq=34.
  • Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Windsor Marriages, Folio 45. Page 10
  • Find A Grave memorial #54930335 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54930335
  • Windsor Vital Records, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jdevlin/source_files/winds...;
  • The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1851, vol 5, p 63ff
  • Tom Bredehoft, The Next Generation, Bredehoft Family.
  • Selleck, Lillian Lounsberry (Miner). One Branch of the Miner Family (Higginson Book Company, 1928) Page 157-8
  • First Settlers of Simsbury, Simsbury Historical Society. Available at SimsburyHistory.org
  • Connecticut: Early Probate Records, 1635-1730. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006-2019), (A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, by Charles W. Manwaring, R. S. Peck & Co. Printers, Hartford, CT, 1904.). [1] from image: Died 1 Dec 1690
  • History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton : from 1642 to 1845 by Noah A. Phelps, 1845. Thomas Holcomb pg 170.
  • The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. Windsor, Page 149.
    • "Holcomb, Josua, m. Ruth Sharwood, June 4, 1663 Vol. MG"
    • "Holcomb, Josua, m. Ruth Sharwood, June 4, 1663, by Mr. Wocott Vol. Col. 1, Page 45"
    • "Holcomb, Joshua, s. Thomas, bp. Sept. 27, 1640"
    • "Holcomb, Josua, had 3 children b. in Windsor, Dated Aug. 17, 1677 Vol. MG"
• Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records (R.S. Peck & Co., Hartford, 1902) Vol. 1, Page 129-30. He is mentioned in his father's 1657 probate records as "Joshua age 17".