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

Born

March 30, 1666, in Windsor, Connecticut

Died

c. 1730 · Simsbury, Connecticut

Married

January 1, 1690

Family

Father

Joshua Holcomb

Mother

Ruth Sherwood

Child in this line

Thomas Holcomb

Children

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

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. John2/Batholomew1 Case in 1693
Elizabeth Holcomb
b. April 4, 1670, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. February 26, 1762
m. William Case in 1688; John Slater, March 10, 1704; Thomas Marshall
Joshua Holcomb
b. September 18, 1672, in Windsor, Connecticut · d. February 10, 17261/17272/17282, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Hannah Carrington in 1694; Mary Hoskins in 1709
Deborah Holcomb
b. February 16, 16741/16752/16762, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Daniel Carter (likely incorrect2)
Mary Holcomb
b. 1676
m. John Barber, February 26, 1701/1702, in Simsbury, Connecticut; Ephraim Buell, October 16, 1713
Mindwell Holcomb
b. 1678
m. Theophilus Cook, September 20, 1721
Hannah Holcomb
b. 1680 · d. March 11, 1740/1741, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Samuel Buell, November 29, 1711, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Moses Holcomb
b. 16821/July 4, 16862, Simsbury Connecticut · d. February 16, 1699/17002/December 9, 16991

In brief

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

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.

At a glance

Work

Militia Captain

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).