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Ruth Sherwood
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 ← Ruth Sherwood
Family
Children
- Ruth Holcombb. May 26, 1664, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. May 21, 1706, in Simsbury, Connecticut
- Sarah Holcombb. June 23, 1668, in Windsor, Connecticutm. John2/Batholomew1 Case in 1693
- Elizabeth Holcombb. April 4, 1670, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. February 26, 1762m. William Case in 1688; John Slater, March 10, 1704; Thomas Marshall
- b. September 18, 1672, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. February 10, 17261/17272/17282, in Simsbury, Connecticutm. Hannah Carrington in 1694; Mary Hoskins in 1709
- Deborah Holcombb. February 16, 16741/16752/16762, in Simsbury, Connecticutm. Daniel Carter (likely incorrect2)
- b. 1676m. John Barber, February 26, 1701/1702, in Simsbury, Connecticut; Ephraim Buell, October 16, 1713
- Mindwell Holcombb. 1678m. Theophilus Cook, September 20, 1721
- Hannah Holcombb. 1680 · d. March 11, 1740/1741, in Simsbury, Connecticutm. Samuel Buell, November 29, 1711, in Simsbury, Connecticut
- Moses Holcombb. 16821/July 4, 16862, Simsbury Connecticut · d. February 16, 1699/17002/December 9, 16991
Siblings
- Stephen Sherwoodb. Abt. 1638m. Rebecca Turney; Hannah Jackson; Mary Adams
- Mary Sherwoodb. Abt. 1640m. Joseph Loomis, June 28, 1659, in Windsor, Connecticut
- Matthew Sherwoodb. Abt. 1644 · d. October 26, 1715, in Stratfield, Connecticutm. Sarah Turney; Mary Fitch
- Abigail Sherwoodb. Abt. 1649m. Daniel Lockwood
- Isaac Sherwoodb. Abt. 1651m. Elizabeth Jackson
- Jane Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. 1611
- Thomasine Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. April 1615 in England
- Sarah Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. January 1616/1617 in England
- Anna Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. June 1619 in England
- Rose Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. December 1620 in Englandm. Thomas Rhumball; Thomas Barlow; Edward Nash
- Rebecca Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. October 1622
- Thomas Sherwood (half-sibling)b. Abt. 1624m. Sarah Wheeler; Ann Turney; Elizabeth ____; Sarah Hide abt. 1695
In brief
Born Abt. She married June 4, 1663, in Windsor, Connecticut by Mr. She died September 10, 1699, in Simsbury, Connecticut.
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).