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Joshua Holcomb

Generation 12 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Jeremiah Hayes ← Mary Holcomb ← Thomas Holcomb ← Thomas Holcomb ← Joshua Holcomb

In brief

Born April 7, 1640, in Windsor, Connecticut. He married June 4, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut by Mr. Wolcott. He died December 1, 1690, in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Family

Father
Thomas Holcombe
Mother
Elizabeth ____
Spouse
Ruth Sherwood
m. 1663

Children

  • Ruth Holcomb
    b. May 26, 1664, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. May 21, 1706, in Simsbury, Connecticut
  • Thomas Holcomb · in this line
    b. March 30, 1666, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. January 1, 1690
    m. December 5, 1700, in Simsbury, Connecticut
    d. March 5, 1730/31, in Simsbury, Connecticut
  • Sarah Holcomb
    b. June 23, 1668, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. John/Batholomew Case in 1693
  • Elizabeth Holcomb
    b. April 4, 1670, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. William Case in 1688
    m. John Slater, March 10, 1704
    m. Thomas Marshall
    d. February 26, 1762
  • Joshua Holcomb
    b. September 18, 1672, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. Hannah Carrington in 1694
    m. Mary Hoskins in 1709
    d. February 1726, in Simsbury, Connecticut
  • Deborah Holcomb
    b. February 1674, in Simsbury, Connecticut
    m. Daniel Carter (likely incorrect)
  • Mary Holcomb
    b. 1676
    m. John Barber, February 1701, in Simsbury, Connecticut
    m. Ephraim Buell, October 16, 1713
  • Mindwell Holcomb
    b. 1678
    m. Theophilus Cook, September 20, 1721
  • Hannah Holcomb
    b. 1680
    m. Samuel Buell, November 29, 1711, in Simsbury, Connecticut
    d. March 1740, in Simsbury, Connecticut
  • Moses Holcomb
    b. 1682/July 4, 1686, Simsbury Connecticut
    d. February 1699

Siblings

  • Elizabeth Holcomb
    b. Abt. 1634
    m. Josiah Ellsworth, November 16, 1654, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. September 18, 1712, in Windsor, Connecticut
  • Mary Holcomb
    b. Abt. 1636
    m. George Griswold, October 1, 1655, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. April 4, 1708, in Windsor, Connecticut
  • Abigail/Abigayle Holcomb
  • Sarah Holcomb
    b. August 14, 1642, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. 1654
  • Benajah/Benaiah Holcomb
    b. June 23, 1644, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. Sarah Eno, April 11, 1667, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. January 1736, in Windsor, Connecticut
  • Deborah Holcomb
    b. October 16, 1646
    d. 1649
  • Nathaniel/Nathanell Holcomb
    b. November 4, 1648, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. Mary Bliss, February 1670, in Springfield
    m. Sarah ____, January 1722, in Simsbury, Connecticut
    d. March 1740, in Simsbury, Connecticut
  • Debora/Deborah Holcomb
    b. February 1650, in Windsor, Connecticut
    m. Daniel Birge, November 5, 1668, in Hartford, Connecticut
    d. May 26, 1686
  • Jonathan Holcomb
    b. March 1652, in Windsor, Connecticut
    d. September 13, 1656, in Windsor, Connecticut

Life story

A Simsbury Deputy

Joshua Holcomb was born April 7, 1640, in Windsor, Connecticut, and inherited his father Thomas's property in 1657, becoming a freeman in 1669. He settled in Massaco (later Simsbury) by 1669, receiving land grants there including, in 1687, an original royal land grant, and represented Simsbury as a deputy to the Connecticut General Court in 1670, 1671, and 1690, also serving as selectman in 1687. Joshua died in Simsbury on December 1, 1690; his estate, appraised at over 474 pounds, was distributed among his children three years later, with his sons Thomas and Joshua receiving the largest shares.

Sources (4)
  1. Elizabeth Weir McPherson, The Holcombes, nation builders...their biographies, genealogies, and pedigrees (Washington, D.C.: 1947); digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16006/images/dvm_GenMono002712-00001-0 : accessed 8 July 2026).
  2. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 6 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:964-967; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158319-00290 : accessed 8 July 2026).
  3. Douglas C. Richardson, The Eno and Enos Family in America (1973); digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16006/images/dvm_GenMono002712-00001-0 : accessed 4 July 2026).
  4. George E. McCracken, “Thomas Holcombe’s Earlier Posterity,” The American Genealogist 57 (April 1981): 65-76; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12607/65/143304365 : accessed 17 July 2026).
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