Holbrook, Thomas

Abt 1601 - 1677  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Holbrook, Thomas  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1601	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1677	Medfield, Norfolk Co., MA
  Person ID	I10123	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

  Family	Leland, Experience,   b. Abt 1601
  Marriage	England
  Children	1. Holbrook, Captain John,   b. Bef 06 Apr 1618, Glastonbury, Somerset, England d. 23 Nov 1699, Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA (Age > 81 years)  [Father: Related]  [Mother: Related]   2. Holbrook, Thomas Jr.,   b. Abt 1625, Glastonbury, Somerset, England d. 22 Jul 1697, Braintree, Norfolk Co., MA (Age ~ 72 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   3. Holbrook, William,   b. Abt 1627, England d. 03 Jul 1699, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA (Age ~ 72 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   4. Holbrook, Ann,   b. Abt 1630, England  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Holbrook, Elizabeth,   b. Bef 13 Feb 1630, Glastonbury, Somerset, England d. Bef 05 Aug 1674, Scituate, Plymouth Co., MA (Age < 44 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   6. Holbrook, Jane,   b. Abt 1637, Weymouth, Plymouth Co., MA d. 1679 (Age ~ 42 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F5168	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - Abt 1601 - England Death - 1677 - Medfield, Norfolk Co., MA Marriage - - England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  On the Drake family website they are giving his wife's name as Jane Powis ? From Vinton, John Adams, A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn: THOMAS HOLBROOKE1-for such was the primitive spelling-came from England with his family, and settled in the northern part of Weymouth, on the tide-water, a locality which has long borne the name of " Old Spain." His name is first found in 1640, immediately after the earliest preserved records begin. But he could not then be a new comer. There is reason to think that he was one of the company who arrived in 1624, with Mr. Barnard as their minister, from Weymouth in Dorsetshire; and gave this name to the place previously known as Wessagusset . These colonists "were," says Prince, "another sort of people than the former;" by the former, he means Weston's people who were there before them. They probably had a church embodied before they came, as the records speak of a new organization, Jan. 30, 1638. Mr. Barnard continued to preach in Weymouth about eleven years. That town was incorporated Sept . 2, 1635. Rev. Samuel Newman, educated at Oxford, came to New England m 1639, and settled that year in Weymouth. He, and a majority of his church, removed from Weymouth to Rehoboth in 1643. Among the names of the first proprietors of Rehoboth, we find those of Thomas and John Holbrook; also of Ephraim Hunt . For some reason, now unknown, they did not remove; but forfeited their lots by not taking possession of them, as appears by the following extract from Rehoboth Records: "The 10lh of the ll^mo. 1644, (answering to Jan. 10, 1644-5] at a meeting of the townsmen [selectmen] it was agreed that all those that are underwritten have forfeited their lots for not fencing, or not removing their families, according to a former order made 24"1 8,h mo. [Oct.] 1643; therefore we do enter upon them, for and in behalf of the town, to be disposed of as the town shall think meet." Among the eighteen names which follow, are those of Thomas Holbrook, John Holbrook, and Ephraim Hunt . [Bliss's History of Rehoboth, pp. 29, 30. Thomas Holbrook was a man of some note; as appears from his being chosen "townsman" [nearly equivalent to selectman] in 1641, '45, '46, '51, '52, '54. His will is dated Dec. 31, 1668; proved, April 24, 1677; recorded, Suff. Prob., 6:201. He calls himself " of Weymouth;" mentions his wife Jane, eldest son John, other sons Thomas and William, daughters Anne Rennolds, Elizabeth Hateh, and Jane Drake. Of his grandchildren, John, the eldest, has his sword, Peter his gun, William his musket. Son John is appointed Executor. Rebecca Burrell, Thomas White, and William Chard are witnesses. William Chard was town-elerk of Weymouth many years, and schoolmaster. His name is attached, as witness, to many legal writings.

  
  

• Sources

  [S680] Vinton, John Adams, Vinton Memorial, comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn, 1648.