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Note: Information on early Holcomb (spelled Holcombe) from CD#5, Tree 1711, dated 6/30/96--listed his wife as Mary Smith. On CD#4, Tree#2061, submitted 1/29/96 it is indicated that he attended Haynes University (England?), came to America on the Ship "Mary and John" March 20-May 30, 1630 and landed at Dorchester/Boston, Massachusetts. This tree indicates the wife as Elizabeth Ferguson. Information from internet site of Stephen M. Lawson: Buried at Windsor, but believed that remains were removed to Simsbury, CT, where a memorial marker was placed in 1934. Thomas and wife arrived aboard the "Mary and John" in 1630 and landed at Dorchester, MA. He was recorded as a resident of Dorchester and a freeman on May 4, 1634, but moved to Windsor, CT by 1636. His estate was inventoried on Oct. 1, 1657 at 294/9/8 pounds. His widow and unmarried minor children are listed in the distribution. Information from internet site of Randal Hill Holcombe: Court Record, Pg. 109-3, 1657: Invt. exhibited. Thomas Holcomb arrived at Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1628 aboard the "Mary and John" with John Warham's group of puritans. While there, he married fellow passenger Elizabeth Ferguson. When the group moved to Windsor, Connecticut to found that colony, Thomas and Elizabeth moved with them. By 1639, they had moved away from the main Windsor settlement to his farm in Poquonock. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. Thomas Holcomb's old tombstone shows October 1657 as his date of death, and the probate inventory record shows 1 October 1657. References to Stiles History of Ancient Windsor and the Colony records state 7 September 1657. Thomas is generally believed to be the son of Gilbert and Ann (Courtney) Holcomb, but no definitive proof has been found. CD#10, Tree#4213 indicates--he was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England in 1601, the son of Ann and Gilbert Holcombe. In March 1630, he was among a group that assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, for a voyage to America on the MARY AND JOHN, a 400-ton ship chartered by Captain Squeb and destined for the Charles River in Boston. It was a "Godly company" of 140 persons who, with two ministers, Bishop John Maverick and Bishop John Wareham, gathered for a solemn day of prayer and fasting. The captain protested sailing without pilot or chart, but "the word of God was preached and expounded every day during the voyage." After a journey of 70 days, they arrived at Nantasket on May 30, 1630, where ten of the men left the ship and procured a boat in search of "the promised land." They were ordered to return when others from the company found convenient pastureland for their famished cattle at Mattapan. Tradition has it that the place of landing was the south side of Dorchester Neck, now South Boston, and here they founded the town of Dorchester, named for the town in England. Nearby they found a tribe of Indians, led by a chief named Chickatobot, whose numbers had been devastated by pestilence in 1618, and who seemed depressed and docile. Quoting the Holcomb genealogy, "Much interest was felt for them by the settlers and great efforts were made to civilize and convert them to Christianity, a duty which they felt they owed, as their charter for ground upon which they located was based upon the 'desire to propagate the Christian religion to such as live in darkness, and to bring savages to human civility.' The Indians had but little use for land. They attached but a trifling value to it and parted with it without reluctance." Thomas Holcomb was made a freeman May 14, 1634. In the summer of 1635 some from Dorchester had reached the river and convened at a place where William Homes and others from Plymouth had erected a trading house two years before (at Windsor) and prepared to settle permanently. In November 1635, sixty persons and a large number of cattle came from Dorchester and after much tribulation arrived at the river. In the spring of 1636, Rev. John Wareham, accompanied by his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, left Dorchestr and traveled to Windsor, Connecticut. Before leaving, Holcomb sold his estate to Richard Jones. In 1639, Holcomb moved four miles west to Poquonock, Hartford County, and engaged in farming. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now-famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. There is a dispute as to whether he married Elizabeth Ferguson before or after coming to America, but in any case she was a passenger on the MARY AND JOHN. The genealogy declares that all who bear the name of Holcomb in New England are descended from Thomas through his sons Joshua, Benajah, and Nathaniel. Thomas Holcomb died at Windsor on September 7, 1657 at the age of 56, and hin 1658, Elizabeth married one James Eno or Enno. She died on October 7, 16579. Holcomb's property was inventoried on October 1, 1657, less than a month after his death, and totaled 244 pounds, 9 shillings, 8 pence. It was divided among his widow and children in varying amounts. (This account was rewritten and interpreted somewhat from the Holcomb genealogy compiled by Jesse Seaver and others, published by the American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia, 1925).[charae(2).FTW] Information on early Holcomb (spelled Holcombe) from CD#5, Tree 1711, dated 6/30/96--listed his wife as Mary Smith. On CD#4, Tree#2061, submitted 1/29/96 it is indicated that he attended Haynes University (England?), came to America on the Ship "Mary and John" March 20-May 30, 1630 and landed at Dorchester/Boston, Massachusetts. This tree indicates the wife as Elizabeth Ferguson. Information from internet site of Stephen M. Lawson: Buried at Windsor, but believed that remains were removed to Simsbury, CT, where a memorial marker was placed in 1934. Thomas and wife arrived aboard the "Mary and John" in 1630 and landed at Dorchester, MA. He was recorded as a resident of Dorchester and a freeman on May 4, 1634, but moved to Windsor, CT by 1636. His estate was inventoried on Oct. 1, 1657 at 294/9/8 pounds. His widow and unmarried minor children are listed in the distribution. Information from internet site of Randal Hill Holcombe: Court Record, Pg. 109-3, 1657: Invt. exhibited. Thomas Holcomb arrived at Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1628 aboard the "Mary and John" with John Warham's group of puritans. While there, he married fellow passenger Elizabeth Ferguson. When the group moved to Windsor, Connecticut to found that colony, Thomas and Elizabeth moved with them. By 1639, they had moved away from the main Windsor settlement to his farm in Poquonock. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. Thomas Holcomb's old tombstone shows October 1657 as his date of death, and the probate inventory record shows 1 October 1657. References to Stiles History of Ancient Windsor and the Colony records state 7 September 1657. Thomas is generally believed to be the son of Gilbert and Ann (Courtney) Holcomb, but no definitive proof has been found. CD#10, Tree#4213 indicates--he was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England in 1601, the son of Ann and Gilbert Holcombe. In March 1630, he was among a group that assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, for a voyage to America on the MARY AND JOHN, a 400-ton ship chartered by Captain Squeb and destined for the Charles River in Boston. It was a "Godly company" of 140 persons who, with two ministers, Bishop John Maverick and Bishop John Wareham, gathered for a solemn day of prayer and fasting. The captain protested sailing without pilot or chart, but "the word of God was preached and expounded every day during the voyage." After a journey of 70 days, they arrived at Nantasket on May 30, 1630, where ten of the men left the ship and procured a boat in search of "the promised land." They were ordered to return when others from the company found convenient pastureland for their famished cattle at Mattapan. Tradition has it that the place of landing was the south side of Dorchester Neck, now South Boston, and here they founded the town of Dorchester, named for the town in England. Nearby they found a tribe of Indians, led by a chief named Chickatobot, whose numbers had been devastated by pestilence in 1618, and who seemed depressed and docile. Quoting the Holcomb genealogy, "Much interest was felt for them by the settlers and great efforts were made to civilize and convert them to Christianity, a duty which they felt they owed, as their charter for ground upon which they located was based upon the 'desire to propagate the Christian religion to such as live in darkness, and to bring savages to human civility.' The Indians had but little use for land. They attached but a trifling value to it and parted with it without reluctance." Thomas Holcomb was made a freeman May 14, 1634. In the summer of 1635 some from Dorchester had reached the river and convened at a place where William Homes and others from Plymouth had erected a trading house two years before (at Windsor) and prepared to settle permanently. In November 1635, sixty persons and a large number of cattle came from Dorchester and after much tribulation arrived at the river. In the spring of 1636, Rev. John Wareham, accompanied by his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, left Dorchestr and traveled to Windsor, Connecticut. Before leaving, Holcomb sold his estate to Richard Jones. In 1639, Holcomb moved four miles west to Poquonock, Hartford County, and engaged in farming. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now-famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. There is a dispute as to whether he married Elizabeth Ferguson before or after coming to America, but in any case she was a passenger on the MARY AND JOHN. The genealogy declares that all who bear the name of Holcomb in New England are descended from Thomas through his sons Joshua, Benajah, and Nathaniel. Thomas Holcomb died at Windsor on September 7, 1657 at the age of 56, and hin 1658, Elizabeth married one James Eno or Enno. She died on October 7, 16579. Holcomb's property was inventoried on October 1, 1657, less than a month after his death, and totaled 244 pounds, 9 shillings, 8 pence. It was divided among his widow and children in varying amounts. (This account was rewritten and interpreted somewhat from the Holcomb genealogy compiled by Jesse Seaver and others, published by the American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia, 1925).[charae3.FTW] Information on early Holcomb (spelled Holcombe) from CD#5, Tree 1711, dated 6/30/96--listed his wife as Mary Smith. On CD#4, Tree#2061, submitted 1/29/96 it is indicated that he attended Haynes University (England?), came to America on the Ship "Mary and John" March 20-May 30, 1630 and landed at Dorchester/Boston, Massachusetts. This tree indicates the wife as Elizabeth Ferguson. Information from internet site of Stephen M. Lawson: Buried at Windsor, but believed that remains were removed to Simsbury, CT, where a memorial marker was placed in 1934. Thomas and wife arrived aboard the "Mary and John" in 1630 and landed at Dorchester, MA. He was recorded as a resident of Dorchester and a freeman on May 4, 1634, but moved to Windsor, CT by 1636. His estate was inventoried on Oct. 1, 1657 at 294/9/8 pounds. His widow and unmarried minor children are listed in the distribution. Information from internet site of Randal Hill Holcombe: Court Record, Pg. 109-3, 1657: Invt. exhibited. Thomas Holcomb arrived at Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1628 aboard the "Mary and John" with John Warham's group of puritans. While there, he married fellow passenger Elizabeth Ferguson. When the group moved to Windsor, Connecticut to found that colony, Thomas and Elizabeth moved with them. By 1639, they had moved away from the main Windsor settlement to his farm in Poquonock. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. Thomas Holcomb's old tombstone shows October 1657 as his date of death, and the probate inventory record shows 1 October 1657. References to Stiles History of Ancient Windsor and the Colony records state 7 September 1657. Thomas is generally believed to be the son of Gilbert and Ann (Courtney) Holcomb, but no definitive proof has been found. CD#10, Tree#4213 indicates--he was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England in 1601, the son of Ann and Gilbert Holcombe. In March 1630, he was among a group that assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, for a voyage to America on the MARY AND JOHN, a 400-ton ship chartered by Captain Squeb and destined for the Charles River in Boston. It was a "Godly company" of 140 persons who, with two ministers, Bishop John Maverick and Bishop John Wareham, gathered for a solemn day of prayer and fasting. The captain protested sailing without pilot or chart, but "the word of God was preached and expounded every day during the voyage." After a journey of 70 days, they arrived at Nantasket on May 30, 1630, where ten of the men left the ship and procured a boat in search of "the promised land." They were ordered to return when others from the company found convenient pastureland for their famished cattle at Mattapan. Tradition has it that the place of landing was the south side of Dorchester Neck, now South Boston, and here they founded the town of Dorchester, named for the town in England. Nearby they found a tribe of Indians, led by a chief named Chickatobot, whose numbers had been devastated by pestilence in 1618, and who seemed depressed and docile. Quoting the Holcomb genealogy, "Much interest was felt for them by the settlers and great efforts were made to civilize and convert them to Christianity, a duty which they felt they owed, as their charter for ground upon which they located was based upon the 'desire to propagate the Christian religion to such as live in darkness, and to bring savages to human civility.' The Indians had but little use for land. They attached but a trifling value to it and parted with it without reluctance." Thomas Holcomb was made a freeman May 14, 1634. In the summer of 1635 some from Dorchester had reached the river and convened at a place where William Homes and others from Plymouth had erected a trading house two years before (at Windsor) and prepared to settle permanently. In November 1635, sixty persons and a large number of cattle came from Dorchester and after much tribulation arrived at the river. In the spring of 1636, Rev. John Wareham, accompanied by his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, left Dorchestr and traveled to Windsor, Connecticut. Before leaving, Holcomb sold his estate to Richard Jones. In 1639, Holcomb moved four miles west to Poquonock, Hartford County, and engaged in farming. He was a representative from Windsor and Hartford in the convention that framed the now-famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. There is a dispute as to whether he married Elizabeth Ferguson before or after coming to America, but in any case she was a passenger on the MARY AND JOHN. The genealogy declares that all who bear the name of Holcomb in New England are descended from Thomas through his sons Joshua, Benajah, and Nathaniel. Thomas Holcomb died at Windsor on September 7, 1657 at the age of 56, and hin 1658, Elizabeth married one James Eno or Enno. She died on October 7, 16579. Holcomb's property was inventoried on October 1, 1657, less than a month after his death, and totaled 244 pounds, 9 shillings, 8 pence. It was divided among his widow and children in varying amounts. (This account was rewritten and interpreted somewhat from the Holcomb genealogy compiled by Jesse Seaver and others, published by the American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia, 1925). Our Ellsworth Ancestors Page 2 much as possible relative to the women who frequently were the factors determining the survival of families and of the pioneering society of America. The wife of JOSIAH ELLSWORTH was ELIZABETH HOLCOMB. She was born in 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, the daughter of THOMAS HOLCOMB and ELIZABETH FERGUSON. THOMAS HOLCOMB, the father of ELIZABETH, was one of a company of one hundred forty Puritans who, in March of 1630, assembled at the hospital at Plymouth, Devon County, England, for the purpose of developing plans for their voyage to America. They chartered a 400 ton ship, the Mary and John, and soon set sail. After sailing for seventy days the group arrived 30 May, 1630 at Nantasket, Massachusetts. The party possibly settled just south of Boston. They named the area Dorchester. It was later incorporated into greater Boston. THOMAS married ELIZABETH FERGUSON, a widow, in 1632. THOMAS was made a freeman 14 March, 1634. Within a few years--1635-1636--THOMAS HOLCOMB, with sixty other people, settled Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. He sold his Dorchester property 12 August, 1635. THOMAS represented Hartford County in framing the constitution of the Colony of Connecticut. THOMAS died 7 September 1657, age 57 years. The best information available reports that THOMAS was born in Hull, Devon County, England, about 1600, probably the son of GILBERT HOLCOMBE of Hull, born about 1565, the son of THOMAS H. HOLCOMBE, son of ELLIS HOLCOMBE, son of CHARLES HOLCOMBE (b. about 1472, d. 1528) son of ROGER HOLCOMBE (d. 1489) son of JOHN HOLCOMBE II, son of JOHN HOLCOMBE I of Hull. Ancestry The sources on Thomas Holcombe differ considerably on Thomas' ancestry. Thomas was born in England, most probably in one of the southwestern counties, Pembrokeshire, Wales, or Devonshire. We do not know the date of his birth even approximately, but his wife seems to have been born about 1617 and their first child born about 1634; McCracken believes this would place his birth somewhere about 1610; Seaver says 1601, but does not give any reasoning for that date. Jesse Seaver thought that English records indicated that Thomas Holcomb was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales or Devonshire, England to Ann and Gilbert Holcomb. Several of Seaver's contemporary researchers agreed with him. A disagreement appeared recently; George McCraken writing in The American Genealogist, Vol. 26:109 found that Gilbert Holcomb's oral will stated d.s.p. which meant died without issue and that Gilbert left his estate to his brother-in-law, Richard Bonithon. His research is based on J.L. Vivian's, The Visitations of the County Devon, on pages 474 and 533. Quote from Vivian, page 474, "The Holcombe of Hull . . . The portion of this pedigree from the connencement printed in ordinary type is from Pole land Westcote; that printed in italic is from The Visitation of Devon 1564, Harlequin.Mss. 1080, fo. 403, 1091, fo, 42, b, and 5840, fo.52." I have not been able to determine the father of Thomas Holcomb. Several early authors state he was a member of Reverend Ephraim Huit's church, and Huit was from Kenilworth in Warwickshire. But, no Holcomb births or records were found from the Diocesan Court at Worchester. The Register of Wroxal, 300 @@24, for the year 1634 did list the following; Sarah Huit daughter of Ephraim and Isabell his wife was baptized, and Nathaniel Griswold the son of Samuel Griswold and Anne his wife was baptized. Bowman has found clues recently that Thomas may have been from county Somerset, the city of Bridgewater. She has recently discovered that one of the early Holcomb births in Connecticut was recorded as James the eighth. This could be a clue to ancestry of Thomas Holcomb in that the birth occurred in the third generation of American Holcomb's, i.e. not time to have had eight generations. Bowman lists the ancestry of Gilbert and Ann Courtney Holcomb in her Volume 2 without resolving the question of Thomas' parentage in order that future researchers not duplicate others' efforts in delineating this line. Most recently (October 25, 1998), Bowman updated her Volume 2 with the comment that Christopher was the most likely ancestor of Thomas. The birth and death dates normally assigned to the son of Christopher are not correct nor the marriage to Joan Prideaux. The birth and death dates are those of Thomas, the actor, of London who married Francis Bartlett. The MARY AND JOHN He is usually said, with some reason, to have come on the 1630 voyage of the Mary and John, but there is no proof of it, all passenger lists for that voyage being hypothetical. Robert Charles Anderson in NEHGR, April 1993, addressed the many different lists of passengers on the MARY AND JOHN. He went about objectively establishing specific criteria for determining the likelihood that a specific individual was on the ship. By the criteria he established, which seem reasonable, Thomas Holcombe is not likely to have come on the MARY AND JOHN in 1630. The information here, whether it describes Thomas' voyage specifically or not, does describe the similar circumstances which brought him to Dorchester. In March, 1630, Thomas was in a company which assembled at Plymouth, Devonshire, where a large ship of 400 tons, the Mary and John, chartered by Captain Squeb, for the voyage to America, was fitted out. The Mary and John was the first ship of the Winthrop Fleet which brought 1500 Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Hunt (NGSQ 63:1) notes that the early settlers of Dorchester, Mass., like the founders of Plymouth, were in some fear that they might not obtain leave to depart from England. There seems to have been some worry on the part of their organizer, the Reverend Mr. John White, that the group might be considered schismatic by the London authorities headed by the powerful Bishop William Laud. Consider the fact that White's recruiters incuded two unlike clerics, John Warham, a nonconformist, and John Maverick, a conformist. Robert Charles Anderson states that this group of Puritians was organized by Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorsetshire, and that he solicited the Rev. John Maverick and Rev. John Warham to lead the group and he orchestrated the entire migration process. Warham had been minister at Crewkerne in Somersetshire and at Exeter in Devonshire; Maverick had been rector at Beaworthy in Devonshire. It is of note that the church was organized BEFORE they left England. Anderson characterizes this period of migration as "The Era of Gentlemen's Companies". The Mary and John was destined for the Charles River. This "Godly Company," of 140 persons, assembled with their two ministers in the new hospital at Plymouth, kept a solemn day of fasting and prayer, and chose Bishop John Maverick and Bishop John Wareham to be their officers. There was a dispute with the captain, who refused to attempt the passage without pilot or chart. "The Word of God was preached and expounded every day during the voyage," of 70 days and the ship arrived at Nantasket, May 30, 1630. There is no evidence that any large ship had ever penetrated further into the harbor previous to this time. Massachusetts Ten of the men procured a boat, left the ship at Nantasket, and went in quest of the "promised land." Later they were ordered to return to the ship as other members of the companyhad found a convenient place at Mattapan, where pasture for famished cattle could be had. Tradition has always fixed upon the south side of Dorchester Neck (South Boston) in Old Harbor, as the place of landing. Here they founded the town of Dorchester (named for Dorchester, England), so called to the present day and now a part of the City of Boston. There was a tribe of Indians, of whom Chickatobot was Chief, that dwelt in the vicinity. Whatever may have been their former number and importance before their dwelt in the vicinity. Whatever may have been their former number and importance before their destruction by a pestilence in 1618, our forefathers found them few in numbers, depressed in spirits and, for the most part, very docile. Much interest was felt for them by the settlers and great efforts were made to civilize and convert them to Christianity, and a duty which they felt they owed, as their charter for ground upon which they located was based upon the "desire to propogate the Christian religion to such as live in darkness, and to bring savages to human civility." The Indians had but little use for land. They attached but a trifling value to it and parted with it without reluctance. On whatever ship they crossed, Thomas Holcmbe was in Massachusetts Bay by 4 May 1634 on which day he became a freeman, and he is recorded as a resident of Dorchester. His wife was named Elizabeth but the common statement that her maiden name was Ferguson is highly improbable and completely undocumented. It has lately been suggested that the name "Ferguson" results from a misreading of the correct name on a tombstone, but if so, no one has ever found her recorded on a tombstone. She is not mentioned on the tombstone of her first husband which is reported in McCracken's note in TAG 44:58-60. While married to Eno she was attended in 1669 by John Winthroop the Younger and was recorded in his medical journal (TAG 23:124) as then aged 52, which datum gives us a probable birth year of 1617. As this would have made her only 13 when the Mary and John arrived at Boston, it is probable that the marriage of Thomas and Elizabeth tookplace at Dorchester, and if she came on the same ship as Thomas, she was a child at the time. Winthrop's statement that she was aged 52 in 1669 may, however, be too low, in which case the wedding may have occurred in England. Migration to Windsor In the Summer of 1635 some Dorchester people had already reached the river and sat down at a place where William Homes, and others of Plymouth, had erected a trading house two years before (at Windsor), and made preparations for bringing their families and settling permanently; and in November, 60 persons with a large number of cattle, travelled from Dorchester and arrived in safety at the river, after much tribulation. During the first Winter the sufferings of these persons were intense and they lost nearly all their cattle. Some individuals wandered back to Drochester and others avoided starvation by dropping down the river and taking refuge in a vessel at anchor at the mouth. In the Spring of 1636, Reverend John Wareham left Dorchester and came to Windsor, Connecticut, bringing his flock, including Thomas Holcomb, with him. Maverick resisted the move and died late in 1635. Before leaving Dorchester Thomas Holcomb sold his estate to Richad Jones (8-12-1635). Later, 1639, he moved to Poquonock, Hartford County, four miles west of Windsor, where he engaged in Farming. He was a Representative from Windsor and Hartford in the Convention that framed the now famous Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. "Although Windsor was located in Connecticut, it and the other new settlements on the river were under the political and legal jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They wee governed by a court of five magistrates who held their authority from Massachusetts. These five persons represented the three different communities in Connecticut and consisted of two members from Windsor, two from Hartford, and one from Wethersfield. The citizens of these three towns elected a committee in May of 1635 for the purpose of assisting the Court in enacting local ordinances. On January 14, 1639, a general meeting was held at Hartford; at which time, a separate constitution was written and adopted, the first constitution in America." (Charles Case) (Note: it seems that Saybrook, at the mouth of the river, was not under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony). "Thomas acquired a home lot n the first tier of allotments in Windsor paralleling the Connecticut River. His lot lay between that of Thomas Gunn and Philip Randall and extended westward to the foot of Meadow Hill. His meadow lot lay eastward to the river. The fact that he had lots assigned in the first tier is a strong indication that he arrived when the allotments were originallymade in 1636. By 1649, however, Thomas had moved to a section of land on the Farmington river several miles northwest of Windsor known as Poquonnock where his neighbors were the Griswold brothers -- Edward, Frances and George -- and John Bartlett. His property lay near Indian Neck and Stony Brook. Thomas Holcomb died at Windsor, Connecticut, September 7, 1657. His grave was located in an old cemetary near the old homestead at Poquonock, Connecticut. His grave was marked by a brown stone about two by four feet in size. The stone, having crumbled with age, was removed. It was replaced with a new marker that was inscribed with family information, much of which is wrong. His widow married, second, August 5, 1658, James Eno (Enno) (his second wife). She died October 7, 1679. Some of those who have asserted that Thomas and Elizabeth were married before leaving England believe that the first two of the children were born there, but, the birth dates given below seem to discredit this supposition. It is quite certain that all who bear the name of Holcomb(e) in New England are descended from Thomas Holcomb, through his sons Joshua, Benajah and Nathaniel. Although Thomas Holcomb and most of his descendants usually spell the name `Holcomb', it bears an `e' on Dorchester and Boston records. the rest is under elizabeths name
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