Ahiroam HOLCOMB

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CHRISTENING: He was baptized in Simsbury, CT, April 17, 1698. Religion: religion unknown. Baptized by Dudley Woodbridge. Simsbury Records contain the births of all of the children.

Joshua married Mary GRIFFIN on 28 Oct 1720 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Thomas GRIFFIN and Elizabeth WELTON) was born on 16 Sep 1697 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 20 Aug 1776. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIOGRAPHY: Marey was the daughter of Thomas Griffin and Elizabeth Welton. Spear states that Marey was first married to John Fosbush by whom she had a daughter Lydia in 1720. Seaver states that she was the daughter of Jno. and Anna Bancroft Griffin. Bowman thinks he is in error as she is listed in the will of Thomas.

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Joshua married Mary Or Hannah CARRINGTON in 1694. Mary (daughter of John CARRINGTON and CLARK) was born in 1675 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; died on 13 May 1708 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alt. Death: 1719; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 28 Aug 1719, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; Alt. Death

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Thomas GRIFFIN
He was a member at the Church of Simsbury, Hartford County, CT. Of Thomas Griffins children: Hannah did not marry. Thomas did not marry. Mary married Joshua Holcomb Ill. John died in infancy. John married Eleanor Holcomb. Nathaniel married his cousin, Elizabeth Griffin. Stephen probably married Mary DeLacy,. Eunice married John Scoff, and Benoni married brother Stephen's widow.
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Thomas married Elizabeth WELTON. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: ; Puritan
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• Vital Records: 27 Sep 1640, Granby, Hartford, Connecticut; Connecticut births and christenings

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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.

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[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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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)

Joshua married Ruth SHERWOOD on 4 Jun 1663 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Ruth (daughter of Thomas SHERWOOD and Mary FITCH) was born on 7 Apr 1643 in Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America; died on 10 Sep 1699 in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; was buried on 10 Sep 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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CONFLICT: Beckler lists birth date as 1644

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John married CLARK about 1674 in Of Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. was born in 1653 in Of Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: "Lord" John GRIFFIN
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• Alt. Birth: 1608, Wales, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Birth: Between 1608 and 1609, Wales, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1681, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; Alt. Death
• Alt. Death: 1681, Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut; Alt. Death

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BIOGRAPHY: John Griffin was born in Wales. He was one of the first settlers of Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, and later one of the founders of Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut. He was granted land to manufacture tar and turpentine at Massacco (now Simsbury) before the town was inhabited. He lived in Simsbury and was in partnership with Michael Humphrey.

John married Anna BANCROFT on 13 May 1647 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. Anna (daughter of John BANCROFT and Jane BONYTHON) was born in 1627 in Swarkston, Devonshire, England; died in Aug 1681 in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Hannah BANCROFT
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Anna or Hannah BANCROFT
She came to America at the age of 5 with her parents and brothers on the JAMES in 1632. At the age of 20 she married John Griffin in May 1647 in Windsor, CT, and lived first in Windsor, then Simsbury. They had ten children, including Thomas, our ancestor. All of her ancestors that I found came from England LGB
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