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Personal data Thomas Holcomb 

• He was born in the year 1609 in Eng.
• (note1) .Source 1

  Source: Sheila Collins, Charise Steadman, D. E. Jessup, John Robert Folsom, et al.

• He died on September 7, 1657 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, he was 48 years old.
• He is buried after September 6, 1657 in Windsor, Hartford Co., CT (Palisado Cem.).
• This information was last updated on June 5, 2023.

Household of Thomas Holcomb

He is married to Elizabeth (NN-Holcomb, Thomas).

They got married on May 14, 1634 at Dorchester, Norfolk Co., MA, he was 25 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Nathaniel Holcombe  1648-1740 

Notes about Thomas Holcomb

Thomas Holcomb

Sources: Author: Collins, Sheila; Steadman, Charise; Jessup, D. E.; Folsom, John Robert; et al.; (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: vii Apr MMXXIII)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L18L-Q7C

"... Thomas Holcomb Reason: Anderson's Great Migration Study in Memories Last Changed: June 6, 2022 John Robert Folsom Sex Male Last Changed: July 26, 2018 Sheila Collins

Birth 1609 England Reason: Anderson's Great Migration "Origin Unknown" Last Changed: December 30, 2022 Kat Cap Gal T

Death 7 September 1657 Windsor, Connecticut ... Reason: Didn't become Hartford until 1666.

Burial September 1657 Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Connecticut ...

Reason: Was undoubtedly born in England, but the identity of his parents and the year of his birth remain unknown. Because his age at death is not stated in any extant record, any estimated year of his birth would be pure conjecture. Thomas d. intestate in Windsor, Conn. on Sept. 7, 1657 and his name is on Windsor's Founders Monument located across Palisado Avenue on Windsor Green.

When Thomas died the only cemetery that existed in Windsor was the town's burying ground inside the "Palisado", the palisade enclosed compound surrounding the original central core of the town. The palisade protection was erected in 1637 to protect the Windsor settlers from possible attack from local Native Americans.

In 1968 in The American Genealogist (hereafter TAG), Holcomb and Eno descendant Prof. George E. McCracken published Genealogical Vandalism - Thomas Holcomb's Tombstone. This concerned the story he learned in the mid-20th century that Thomas Holcomb's gravestone and remains had been relocated in the late-18th century and reinterred in the Granby Street cemetery in Granby, Conn. Extensive research clearly indicates Thomas was never disinterred and removed to Granby and is still interred in an unmarked grave at Windsor's Palisado Cemetery. The tombstone in the Granby Street Cemetery bearing his name, together with a purported ancestral line to those actually buried in that cemetery, is a cenotaph with a missing second generation in the ancestral line. More than half of the names inscribed on the Granby monument, including Thomas himself, are NOT buried in Granby Street Cemetery.

One month after the death of Thomas Holcomb, in the Windsor Town Records is the following entry:

1657, October 26. "The Town met and agreed to have the burying place made commodious. David Wilton doth hereby engage Last Changed: May 7, 2022 Kat Cap Gal T
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Immigration 1633 Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, ...
Migration 1633 - Arrived a Dorchester, Massachusetts - Anderson's Great Migration. Reason: Andersons Great Migration
Residence 1633 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, ... Reason: standard.

Religious Affiliation 14 May 1634 First Parish Church of Dorchester, Massachusettes Bay Colony, Massachusetts
Membership Reason:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Parish_Church_of_Dorchester
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Residence 1634 Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Freeman 14 May 1634 Last Changed: April 9, 2022 Charise Steadman
Residence 1635 Windsor, Connecticut Colony, ... Reason: Didn't become Hartford until 1666.
Land Paquannick 25 December 1640 Reason: Holcomb Family History
biography Andersons Great Migration in Memories Section
Arrival/Not on the Mary and John. The Mary & John: Developing Objective Criteria For A Synthetic Passenger List. Robert Charles Anderson*[NEHGR Vol. 147 April, 1993]. No Holcombe/Ferguson Names.
Arrival
1633 [Anderson's Great Migration Study]-Not on the 1630 Mary and John-See in Memories-The Mary & John: Developing Objective Criteria For A Synthetic Passenger List. Robert Charles Anderson*[NEHGR Vol. 147 April, 1993]
Memorial is located at Granby Cemetery cenotaph Reason: Lengthy discussion at memorial #64666718, Find a Grave "suggests" parents then adds them as parents without sources.
Birthplace
The Holcombes Nation Builders P.8 -This book is not considered a reputable source by any recent/educated genealogist. Reason: This book is not considered a reputable source by any published/professional genealogist.

Spouses & Children

Thomas Holcomb Male 1609 - 1657
Elizabeth Female 1617 - 1679
Marriage 14 May 1634 Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Children (10)

[1] Elizabeth Holcombe Female 1634 - 1712
[2] Mary Holcombe Female 1635 - 1708
[3] Abigail Holcombe Female 1638 - 1688
[4] Joshua Holcomb Sr. Male 1640 - 1690
[5] Sarah Holcombe Female 1642 - 1654
[6] Benajah Holcombe I Male 1644 - 1736
[7] Deborah Holcombe Female 1646 - 1648
[8] Lt. Nathaniel Holcombe I Male 1648 - 1740
[9] Deborah Holcombe Female 1650 - 1686
[10] Jonathan Holcombe Male 1652 - 1656
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Brief Life History
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Anderson's Great Migration: ORIGIN Unknown and BIRTH: By about 1609 based on estimated age of marriage. No evidence of exact date. ..."
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