Thomas Holcomb

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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

In brief

Born December 13, 1690, in Simsbury, Connecticut. He married October 1, 1714, in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Thomas Holcomb

Mother

Elizabeth Terry

Spouse

Mary Manning/Hanning

m. 1714

Spouse

Sarah ____

Children

With Mary Manning/Hanning

Thomas Holcomb IV
b. November 1715, in Granby, Connecticut
m. Sarah Loomis, October 5/15, 1740, in Simsbury, Connecticut
d. 1776/ July 24, 1783
Josias/Josiah Holcomb
b. 1717, in Granby, Connecticut
m. Abigail Higley, November 8, 1742
d. July 25, 1805
Sarah Holcomb
b. September 5, 1719
Abigail Rosetta Holcomb
b. 1728, in Granby, Connecticut
d. February 23, 1776
Stephen Holcomb
b. Granby, Connecticut
Moses Holcomb

With Sarah ____

Mary Holcomb · in this line
m. William Hayes, Simsbury, Connecticut
d. March 27, 1760
Damaris Holcomb
m. William Gaines, August 25, 1756
Sybil Holcomb
m. Isaac Moore

Siblings

Full siblings — children of Thomas Holcomb and Elizabeth Terry

Daniel Holcomb
b. September 13/30, 1692, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Hester/Esther Buel, January 1735
d. 1760
Isaac Holcomb
b. April 7, 1696, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Phoebe Cornish
Elizabeth Holcomb
b. April 23/25, 1699, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Gershom Goff, December 3, 1724, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. ____ Gross

Half-siblings — children of Thomas Holcomb and Rebecca Pettibone

Ebenezer Holcomb
b. April 28, 1707
d. April 10, 1708, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Moses Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
d. October 23, 1722
Stephen Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
d. December 22, 1722
Ruth Holcomb
b. Abt. April 1706
m. Joseph Higley, April 1, 1737
Benoni Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
Ann Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
____ Holcomb
b. Abt. October 1709
Consider Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Ruth Griffin, March 21, 1734
d. January 17, 1765
Return Holcomb
b. Abt. May 1713 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Jerusha Adams, January 1733
d. Spencertown, Columbia County, New York
James Holcomb
b. October 10, 1715, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Enoch Holcomb
b. July 11/August 9/September 4, 1717, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Anna Fowler
d. March 11, 1808, in Hampden, Massachusetts
Miriam Holcomb
b. July 11/August 9, 1717, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Noah Case, May 5, 1740
Sarah Holcomb
b. September 5, 1719
Rebecka Holcomb

Life story

A Simsbury Executor

Thomas Holcomb was born December 13, 1690, in Simsbury, Connecticut, son of the militia captain Thomas Holcomb, and married there in October 1714. He was trusted by his neighbors to handle estate matters, inventorying John Cooper's estate in 1732 and witnessing John Higley's will in 1741. Thomas wrote his own will in September 1770, naming a daughter, Mary.

Sources (2)

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).
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).