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

Born

December 13, 1690, in Simsbury, Connecticut

Died

not recorded

Married

October 1, 1714, in Simsbury, Connecticut

Family

Father

Thomas Holcomb

Mother

Elizabeth Terry

Child in this line

Mary Holcomb

Children

Damaris Holcomb
m. William Gaines, August 25, 1756
Sybil Holcomb
m. Isaac Moore

Siblings

Daniel Holcomb
b. September 131/302, 1692, in Simsbury, Connecticut · d. 17602/17701
m. Hester2/Esther1 Buel, January 1, 1735/1736
Isaac Holcomb
b. April 7, 1696, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Phoebe Cornish
Elizabeth Holcomb
b. April 232/251, 1699, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Gershom Goff, December 3, 1724, in Simsbury, Connecticut; ____ Gross
Ebenezer Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. April 28, 1707 · d. April 10, 1708, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Moses Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Simsbury, Connecticut · d. October 23, 1722
Stephen Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Simsbury, Connecticut · d. December 22, 1722
Ruth Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Abt. April 1706
m. Joseph Higley, April 1, 1737
Benoni Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
Ann Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
____ Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Abt. October 1709
Consider Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Simsbury, Connecticut · d. January 17, 1765
m. Ruth Griffin, March 21, 1734
Return Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. Abt. May 1713 in Simsbury, Connecticut · d. Spencertown, Columbia County, New York
m. Jerusha Adams, January 10, 1733/1734
James Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. October 10, 1715, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Enoch Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. July 111/August 91/September 42, 1717, in Simsbury, Connecticut · d. March 11, 1808, in Hampden, Massachusetts
m. Anna Fowler
Miriam Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. July 11/August 9, 1717, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Noah Case, May 5, 1740
Sarah Holcomb (half-sibling)
b. September 5, 1719
Rebecka Holcomb (half-sibling)

In brief

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

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).