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 ← Thomas Holcomb

In brief

Born March 30, 1666, in Windsor, Connecticut. He married January 1, 1690. He died March 5, 1730/1731, in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Family

Father

Joshua Holcomb

Mother

Ruth Sherwood

Spouse

Elizabeth Terry

m. 1690

Spouse

Rebecca Pettibone

m. 1700

Children

With Elizabeth Terry

Thomas Holcomb · in this line
b. December 13, 1690, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. October 1, 1714, in Simsbury, Connecticut
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

With Rebecca Pettibone

Ruth Holcomb
b. Abt. April 1706
m. Joseph Higley, April 1, 1737
Ebenezer Holcomb
b. April 28, 1707
d. April 10, 1708, in Simsbury, Connecticut
____ Holcomb
b. Abt. October 1709
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
Moses Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
d. October 23, 1722
Stephen Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
d. December 22, 1722
Benoni Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
Ann Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
Consider Holcomb
b. Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Ruth Griffin, March 21, 1734
d. January 17, 1765
Rebecka Holcomb

Siblings

Ruth Holcomb
b. May 26, 1664, in Windsor, Connecticut
d. May 21, 1706, 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

Life story

A Simsbury Militia Captain

Thomas Holcomb was born March 30, 1666, in Windsor, Connecticut, son of Joshua Holcomb, and bought land in Simsbury in 1697, the same year he signed the town church's covenant. He rose to the rank of militia captain and built a substantial estate. Thomas wrote his will in March 1729 and died in Simsbury on March 5, 1731; his estate was appraised at nearly 870 pounds.

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).