William Holbrook

Also Capt. William Holbrook

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Life

  1. 1620
    Born
  2. bef. 1655
    Married Elizabeth (Pitts per Vinton)
    before 1655
    compiledprobable
  3. 1699
    Died
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Family

Mother
Jane Powyes b. c. 1600

Baptised during Thomas and Jane's marriage.

inferredprobable
Spouse
Elizabeth (Pitts per Vinton) · married bef. 1655

Died 1701.

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Sources· 1 found
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Pedigree

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Notes

Not on the 1635 passenger list; Davis (1945) suggests the clerk joined one boy’s name to the other’s age, since John was really about seventeen and William about eleven. Freeman 1647. Of Weymouth, then Mendon about 1662-1675, then Scituate. He sold Mendon lands to his brother Thomas. Children include William (1657/8-1714) and Cornelius (1662-1742).

Mollie's typescript· 1 passage

What Mollie wrote about him in The Holbrook and Low Families.

  1. Mollie writes that he settled at Mendon, went to Scituate after King Philip's War instead of returning, and sold his Mendon land to his brother Thomas.

    His brother William had settled in Mendon, but after King Philip's War William did not return there, settled in Situate, but sold his land to Thomas who bequeathed it to his son
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Connections

In his ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that William's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to him.

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