Ruth Sherwood

Generation 12 back

In brief

Born about 1642. She married June 4, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut by Mr. Wolcott. She died September 10, 1699, in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Father

Mother

Spouse

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

Stephen Sherwood
b. Abt. 1638
m. Rebecca Turney
m. Hannah Jackson
m. Mary Adams
Mary Sherwood
b. Abt. 1640
m. Joseph Loomis, June 28, 1659, in Windsor, Connecticut
Matthew Sherwood
b. Abt. 1644
m. Sarah Turney
m. Mary Fitch
d. October 26, 1715, in Stratfield, Connecticut
Abigail Sherwood
b. Abt. 1649
m. Daniel Lockwood
Isaac Sherwood
b. Abt. 1651
m. Elizabeth Jackson

Jane Sherwood
b. Abt. 1611
Thomasine Sherwood
b. Abt. April 1615 in England
Sarah Sherwood
b. c. January 1616, in England
Anna Sherwood
b. Abt. June 1619 in England
Rose Sherwood
b. Abt. December 1620 in England
m. Thomas Rhumball
m. Thomas Barlow
m. Edward Nash
Rebecca Sherwood
b. Abt. October 1622
Thomas Sherwood
b. Abt. 1624
m. Sarah Wheeler
m. Ann Turney
m. Elizabeth ____
m. Sarah Hide abt. 1695

Sources (3)

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).
Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, 6 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005), 6:304-312; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2496/images/42521_b158317-00417 : accessed 14 July 2026).
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).