DESCENDANTS OF THE FOUNDERS OF ANCIENT WINDSOR ------NEWSLETTER

Volume 36, Number 3 Established in 1983 Spring 2019

SPRING PROGRAM HELD IN SIMSBURY

On Saturday, March 23, 2019 some of us woke up to a surprise snowstorm that brought six to nine inches of snow to portions of . Fortunately, in the Valley there was only a dusting of snow, and 27 hardy DFAW members and friends attended our Spring Program and Luncheon at the Simsbury United Methodist Church. Attendees from out-of-state included Dwight and Mary Fitch of Townsend, , Naomi Lacasse of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and Patricia and David Wright of New Castle, Pennsylvania. Prior to the formal meeting, some attendees purchased DFAW merchandise from the sales table, browsed the DFAW Cousin Finder notebooks and photo albums shared by Registrar Olivia Patch, and made donations for the door prize drawing.

At 10:30, President Richard Roberts welcomed members. He then introduced Christopher Pagliuco (photo at left), whose presentation was "The Great Escape of Edward Whalley and William Goffe: Smuggled Through Connecticut". After King Charles was beheaded in 1649, England became a commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell for little more than a decade. When the monarchy was restored in 1660, Edward Whalley and William Goffe, who had signed King Charles' death warrant and were among those labeled “Regicides” (king killers), became hunted men and escaped to Connecticut. For more about the Regicides, see the article on page 3.

Our buffet luncheon was catered by Kane's Market of Simsbury and included Lemon Chicken, Red Roasted Potatoes, Herbed Green Beans, Garden Salad, Fresh Rolls and Butter, Beverages, and Dessert.

During a period of announcements, Registrar Olivia Patch presented Registrar and Cousin Exchange reports (see page 11) and Pam Roberts shared a brief Membership report and information about the 2019 New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC). Then some attendees met with our Genealogist, Edwin Strickland; our Membership Secretary, Pam Roberts; or visited the nearby Simsbury (“Hopmeadow”) Cemetery (photo at right). Others attended an orientation tour of the nearby Simsbury Genealogical & Historical Research Library, housed in the building that served as Simsbury’s public library from 1874 to 1986 (photo at left).

Thanks are extended to all who contributed to making the day a success including Olivia Patch, Pam Roberts and Patricia and David Wright for assisting with room set-up/clean-up, Nadine Lester for handling registration, Ruth Shapleigh-Brown for handling sales, Olivia Patch for organizing the door prize, Rudy Maurer and the staff of the Simsbury United Methodist Church, and Laura Riley and the staff of the Simsbury Genealogical & Historical Library.

1 TREKKING ACROSS THE PRESIDENT’S DESK Richard C. Roberts

DFAW has been busy "trekking" since last fall. On October DFAW’s booth (#405) in NERGC's Exhibit Hall received 20, 2018, Board Member Joan Clapp represented DFAW in great visibility, with the Connecticut Ancestry Society, the the exhibit area of the Connecticut Society of Genealogists' Connecticut Professional Genealogists Council, and the Annual Seminar. More recently, on Saturday, March 30, I Connecticut Society of Genealogists as its neighbors. staffed a DFAW display table at the Connecticut Thanks go out to Dwight Fitch (below, right) for booth Gravestone Network Symposium at Saint Sebastian’s coordination and setup, Jennie Hawran (below, left) for help Church in Middletown, Connecticut. with setup, and to all those who provided booth coverage, discussing the history and genealogy of the Founders of However, our biggest road trip so far this year was to Ancient Windsor, sharing lines of descent, distributing Manchester, New membership packets, and encouraging sales.

Hampshire for the Fifteenth New England Regional Genealogical Conference, held April 3-6. For those not familiar with NERGC, it was originally formed over 25 years ago as an association of genealogical societies seeking "to bring affordable, Through the efforts of all who helped at the booth, including cutting edge, Dwight’s wife, Mary, the word about DFAW was spread to National quality many of the over 1,025 conference attendees. The genealogical Settlement of Windsor, Connecticut was our most popular education within the sales item. Ashley Odell is looking forward to learning reach of New more about Ancient Windsor as the winner of DFAW’s England genealogists and family historians at an affordable door prize drawing. regional price". This year's theme was "Family – a Link to the Past & a Bridge to the Future." Altogether, there were NERGC is run entirely by volunteers drawn largely, but not over 95 presentations covering many timely topics entirely from the membership of the societies participating including DFAW's sponsored talk, "Land Records: More in the conference. This year there were 22 Participating than Metes the Eye." presented by our Genealogist, Edwin Societies, including DFAW. Each Participating Society is Strickland (above). required to provide individuals to perform pre and/or post conference work; DFAW was represented by Membership In addition to the usual Wednesday pre-conference Chair Pam Roberts (below), who served as On-Site activities, Ancestors Road Show, Special Interest Groups, Conference Evaluation Chair as well as the Conference’s and Society Fair, this year’s conference included a Library ADA Coordinator. and Archives Showcase on Friday and Saturday. It was nice to see the Windsor Historical Society represented.

Each society also provides 25 volunteer hours during the conference itself. Many thanks are extended to DFAW members Patricia Odiorne and Keith Wilson for serving as volunteers.

2 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF EDWARD WHALLEY AND WILLIAM GOFFE Richard C. Roberts

[This article is based in part on Christopher Pagliuco’s presentation at our Spring Meeting, supplemented by additional sources. RCR.]

Religious and political strife in England culminated in the Although many considered him a hero after by defeating English Civil Wars, which defined seventeenth century Charles I, he soon “became Charles”, leading military English history. Those violent and devastating wars were campaigns against Ireland and Scotland. followed by a period of upheaval that lasted for years.

Parliament vs. the King King Charles I was ruler of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. However, although he was Supreme Head of the Church of England, he had married a Catholic princess, Henrietta Maria of France, resulting in mistrust by English , Scottish Presbyterians, and other Protestants. Further, he had attempted to force the Presbyterian Church of Scotland to use the Church of England’s new Prayer Book. He had dissolved Parliaments and levied new taxes without Parliamentary consent. In addition, he had angered Parliament by failing to call it into session and by imposing taxes to fund his wars in violation of the Magna Carta, which gave the power of taxation to Parliament. By 1642 differences between the king, Parliament, and many of his subjects had become irreconcilable, leading to civil war.

Initially northern and western England, along with much of Ireland, remained loyal to the king, while the southeast, including London, Scotland, and the Royal Navy fought for Parliament. In a reverse migration, some New England Puritans returned to England to fight. When Parliamentary forces defeated Royalists at Marston Moor on July 2, 1644, Charles lost control of the north. The following year Parliamentary forces led Scotland, which had supported Cromwell in the first by Oliver Cromwell defeated Charles’ main army in phase of the war, now supported Charles II, son and the Battle of Naseby on June 14, 1645. heir of Charles I. In an effort to take the throne, Charles II assembled an army that in addition to English Charles surrendered to a Scottish unit and was Royalists included Scottish forces. Early in 1650, eventually turned over to the English Parliament. His Cromwell invaded Scotland. On September 3, 1650 at captors demanded a constitutional monarchy; Charles the Battle of Dunbar in Scotland, Cromwell won refused. Although he escaped in November 1647, he control of most of Scotland, which remained under was recaptured and imprisoned on the Isle of Wight. English occupation for the next 10 years. Exactly a After the Royalists were defeated by Cromwell’s year later, on September 3, 1651 Cromwell defeated Parliamentary forces in the Battle of Preston, August Charles’ remaining Royalist forces at the Battle of 17-19, 1648, Charles was put on trial by a 135-member Worcester (England), ending the “wars of the three Special High Court of Justice. This was technically illegal kingdoms.” In 1651 and 1652 many of the Scots who since it was the king’s court. Charles didn’t think he would had been taken as prisoners of war were deported to lose the case and would not negotiate. However, the court America and sold as indentured servants. found him guilty of high treason. On January 29, 1649 59 commissioners signed his death warrant, and he was Charles II Takes the Throne beheaded the following day. The Protectorate lasted for a little more than 10 years. Cromwell had proved to be a shrewd politician and effective The Protectorate general who could contain both Parliament and the military. Following the king’s execution, the monarchy was However, a political vacuum arose after Cromwell died on abolished and Oliver Cromwell, who indicated that he did September 3, 1658. Eventually Charles II was invited back not wish to become a king, instead became Lord Protector to England and ascended the throne on his 30th birthday, of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Cromwell had been first May 29, 1660. The new Parliament passed the Indemnity elected to the English House of Commons in 1628 and was and Oblivion Act, endorsed by the new king, which forgave a leader in the fight on behalf of the Protestant Reformation. all those who had served on the High Court of Justice except 3 for the 59 who had signed the death warrant of Charles I. secretly returned that night. About that time the Rev. John Of the original 59, 19 had died; Charles II had the bodies of Davenport of New Haven preached a sermon on Isiah 16:3- three, including Oliver Cromwell, exhumed, hanged, and 4, “hide the outcasts; betray not him that wandereth. Let beheaded, and the heads displayed on pikes. Of the mine outcasts dwell with thee.” Practicing what he remaining 40 signers, 25 were captured, tried, and found preached, Rev. Davenport sheltered Whalley and Goffe in guilty. Some were sent to the Tower of London; others were his home until April 30; they then stayed at the home of hanged, drawn, and quartered. Fifteen ran. Of those, 12 William Jones until May 11. fled to the Continent. Three came to New England. In late April news reached Boston that ten Regicides had The Regicides been executed in England, and Massachusetts Governor Major General Edward Whalley, Major General William Endicott received a warrant dated March 5 ordering the Goffe, and Colonel John Dixwell were among the 59 men arrest of Whalley and Goffe. The Massachusetts court labeled as “Regicides” (king killers) and were hunted men. ordered Thomas Kellond and Thomas Kirk to search for Although John Dixwell had a relatively undistinguished them throughout the colonies (a search warrant for Windsor career as a soldier, he was commissioned as a colonel after dated May 11 still exists). On May 11 Kellond and Kirk most of the fighting was over. He attended sessions of the arrived in Guilford. However, William Leete, a Puritan, High Court on a regular basis and was the 38th to sign the sympathized with the Regicides, who were also Puritans. king’s death warrant. In England it was believed that He cooperated with Kellond and Kirk enough to avoid Dixwell had died, and he was never the subject of a search charges of obstructing justice but not enough to insure the or an arrest warrant. Actually, he may have initially fled to capture of the fugitives. Germany. Through Gov. Leete’s delaying tactics, Whalley and Goffe Edward Whalley and William Goffe both came up through had enough time to escape. They hid out at they called military ranks and had served with distinction in the Providence Hill but what is now known as Judges Cave at parliamentary army during the civil wars and at the Battle the top of West Rock in New Haven from May 15 to June of Dunbar. Whalley was Oliver Cromwell’s cousin. He was 11, 1661. It provided a good lookout point for watching for an able soldier, missed only one session of the High Court, ships in the harbor as well as for those who might attempt and was the fourth to sign the king’s death warrant. Goffe, to reach their hideout on foot. As related by John Warner the son of a Puritan minister, was William Whalley’s son- Barber in Connecticut Historical Collections, Richard in-law, having married Whalley’s daughter, Frances. An Sperry, who lived about a mile from the cave, provided them able soldier, he voted for the king’s execution and was the with food each day. Barber suggests that one night a 14th to sign the death warrant. Whalley and Goffe fled to catamount, looking for prey, stuck its head into the mouth North America together on the Prudent Mary, landing in of the cave, greatly terrifying the Regicides. “One of them Boston on July 27, 1660 and initially receiving a warm took to his heels, and fled down to Sperry’s house for safety. welcome. However, on September 22 a royal proclamation Considering this situation too dangerous to remain any was issued offering a reward for the capture of Whalley and longer, it was abandoned.” Goffe, dead or alive. By early the following year the Bay Colony’s Governor, John Endecott, began to wonder whether he should have greeted the Regicides with open arms. On February 22, 1661, he gathered a Court of Assistants to discuss what to do with the two men.

In the 1760s Thomas Hutchinson was in possession of Goffe’s diary and papers and published excerpts in The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. In 1763 Ezra Stiles visited Hutchinson, read the diary, and became interested in piecing together the history of the Regicides. He published A History of the Three Judges of Charles I in 1793. Much of what is now known about the remainder of On June 11 Whalley and Goffe visited Governor Leete, Whalley and Goffe’s “Great Escape” is based on those intending to surrender. Instead he and others sheltered them sources. and provided food. On June 24 they returned to the cave and then moved to a new hideout in the western hills, Whalley and Goffe decided to head south. They left Boston referred to variously as “Hatchet Harbor,” “The Lodge,” on February 26, and, traveling by night and hiding in caves, and “The Third Residence”, which was likely what is now hills, and Native American villages, arrived in New Haven known as Peck’s Hill in the Elderslie Nature Preserve in on March 7, where they were publicly greeted by John Woodbridge, Connecticut. In August they moved to a house Winthrop, Governor of the and in Milford where they lived for two years. On September 5, William Leete, Acting Governor of the . 1661 the Commissioners of the United Colonies met at (At that time the New Haven Colony was a separate colony Plymouth during which they issued a declaration that a with its own governor.) On March 27 they left for Milford diligent search had been made for Whalley and Goffe and and made a show of leaving for New Amsterdam but warning that they were not to be harbored by anyone.

4 In July 1664 commissioners of King Charles II arrived in As with many other historical events, that story of the Boston. When Whalley and Goffe heard that news, they Regicides has been manipulated by later generations. Some moved back to the cave in New Haven until discovered by 130 years later, the ideals of the Parliamentarians -- the some Native Americans. On October 13, 1664, they set out sovereignty of Parliament, the independence of judges, for Hadley in western Massachusetts, traveling only by freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, the right to night. There the Rev. John Russell sheltered them for 15 or silence, and relative religious toleration were evoked in the 16 years. England’s colonies. Although little-remembered by most Americans today, at the time of the Revolutionary War and Edward Whalley is believed to have died in Hadley in late th 1674 or early 1675. Goffe, using the name Walter into the 19 century the Regicides – and those in the Puritan Goldsmith, managed to exchange letters with his wife in underground movement who sheltered them -- were lifted England, who in letters to her husband called herself up as role models for making a stand against for what they Frances Goldsmith and who periodically sent him money. perceived as the tyranny of the monarchy. As Lemuel He removed from Hadley to Hartford about 1676. His last Welles has written, “these Massachusetts and Connecticut known letter, addressed to the Rev. Increase Mather, was men knowingly risked punishment as traitors to shelter dated April 2, 1679. On April 20, 1680 John London of these persons because of their devotion to the high principles for which the strangers stood.” Windsor disposed that he and Robert Howard, also of Windsor, had seen Goffe at the home of Capt. Joseph Bull An 1849 painting by Frederic Edwin Church of the Hudson in Hartford. Some think Goffe died and is buried in River School – West Rock, New Haven – now at the New Hartford; others that he moved back to Hadley in 1680 and Britain Museum of Art, incorporates the Judges Cave along that he died and was buried there. Still others believe that with land and church to represent the ideals on which our

Whalley and Goffe are both buried in New Haven; however, nation was founded. the actual location of burial for both men is unknown. Sometime 1824 and 1830 all three Regicides were On February 10, 1665, John Dixwell met Whalley and commemorated by New Haven through the naming three Goffe in Hadley. He spent the remainder of his life in New streets after them: Whalley Avenue, Goffe Street, and Haven, where he assumed the name John Davids and settled Dixwell Avenue. The town of Cromwell, Connecticut in a house near the Rev. James Pierpont, an ancestor of (formerly the “Upper Houses” section of Middletown) is Aaron Burr and J. P. Morgan. He married the widow Joanna named either directly for Oliver Cromwell or for one of two Ling there on November 3, 1673. She died within a month ships of that name that at one time docked there – and which and he inherited her money and property. In 1677, Dixwell, were named for the Lord Protector. by then 69 or 70 years old, married Bathsheba Howe, who Bibliography: was about 31. They had three children: Mary born June 9, Cowley, Steven. Using Geographic Information Science to 1679; John, born March 6, 1680/1; and Elizabeth, born July Map the Flight of the Regicides in Seventeenth-century 14, 1682, who died young. Dixwell died on March 18, 1689 nd New England. https://www.unh.edu/inquiryjournal/spring- in New Haven “in the 82 year of his age” and is buried 2016/using-geographic-information-science-map-flight- behind Center Church on the New Haven Green. regicides-seventeenth-century-new.

The Angel of Hadley Hutchinson, Thomas. The History of the Province of Beyond the basic facts, there are many legends surrounding Massachusetts Bay from the Charter of King William and the Regicides. One is that during King Philip’s War, Hadley Queen Mary in 1691 Until the Year 1750. Cornhill: Thomas was under attack by Native Americans. All seemed lost & John Feet, 1767. until suddenly an old man with a white beard and a sword Sargent, Mark L. “Thomas Hutchinson, Ezra Stiles, and the appeared. He rallied the militia in a successful defense and Legend of the Regicides.” The William and Mary Quarterly then suddenly disappeared. According to the legend, the 49, no. 3 (1992): 431-448. “Angel of Hadley” was William Goffe. Stiles, Ezra. A History of the Three Judges of King Charles The Aftermath I….Hartford: Eisha Babcock, 1794.

In 1662, the Connecticut Colony was granted a Charter from Welles, Lemuel Aiken. The History of the Regicides in New the Crown which included lands from the Pawcatuck River England. New York: The Grafton Press, 1927. westward to the “South Sea” (i.e., Pacific Ocean). Under the Charter, the New Haven Colony was put under ______. The Regicides in Connecticut. Connecticut rule. A possible contributing factor was New Tercentenary Pamphlet Series, no. 35. New Haven: Haven’s harboring of Whalley and Goffe. Some residents of Published for the Tercentenary Commission by the Yale University Press, 1935. the New Haven Colony, upset by their loss of autonomy, left for a new settlement at Newark, New Jersey. Although Winston, Alexander. “The Hunt for the Regicides.” land was laid out for Governor Leete there, by the summer American Heritage vol. 16, issue 1 (December 1964) https://www.americanheritage.com/hunt-regicides of 1663 he had begun to work towards the union of the New Haven and Connecticut Colonies. He ultimately chose to For more information about the “Regicides,” see remain in Connecticut and served as Governor of the https://westrocktrails.blogspot.com/p/on-trail-of- Colony of Connecticut from 1676 to 1683. He is buried in regicides.html. Hartford. Leete’s Island in Long Island Sound is named for him.

5

AMASA HOLCOMB, SOUTHWICK’S “RENAISSANCE MAN” Richard C. Roberts

As part of the Southwick (Massachusetts) Cultural Council’s 20th Annual Art Show held at the Southwick Town Hall this past April 27 and April 28, the Southwick Historical Society, Inc. mounted an exhibit, “Amasa Holcomb (1787-1875), Renaissance Man of Southwick, Massachusetts.” According to the Society’s press release, Amasa “was an outstanding individual in several areas. Self-taught, he excelled at astronomy, surveying, preaching, manufacturing and teaching.”

Amasa Holcomb was born 18 June 1787, the son of Elijah and Lucy (Holcomb) Holcomb in what was then Granby, Connecticut, had been Simsbury, Connecticut until the previous year, but is now within the “Jog” section of Southwick, Massachusetts. (For more about the “Jog” see Homer Scott’s “Jogging the Line” in the Winter 2008 issue of the DFAW Newsletter, reprinted in The Daughter Towns of Windsor, Connecticut.) He was a descendant of Windsor Founder Thomas Holcomb through both his father and mother. Although Amasa’s death record gives his parents as Elijah Holcomb and Violet Cornish, they actually were his grandparents. In his “autobiography” Amasa wrote that his father’s name was Elisha Holcomb, Jr. [1757--5 October 1841], his father’s father was Elisha Holcomb (who married Violet Cornish, daughter of Capt. James Cornish of Simsbury), and that his great-grandfather on his father’s side was Nathaniel Holcomb 3rd.He also gave his mother’s line as Lucy Holcomb [1764--31 August 1800], Silas, Judah, Nathaniel 2nd.

When Amasa was a boy, there wasn’t a schoolhouse in his district. Instead, he, with other children, was taught by Climena Holcomb (his aunt), Lois Gaines, Bethuel Barber, Samuel Frasier, and James L. Adair in their homes. By the time he was 15, he was asked to teach at a school in Suffield, Connecticut. Although some students were older than he was, his stint as a teacher appears to have been successful but short.

Amasa’s uncle, Abijah Holcomb, born about 1775, went to sea in 1798. He was known to have landed in Ireland but was not heard from again and was presumed to have been lost at sea. Abijah left behind a trove of books including not only classical literature but also books on geometry, navigation, optics, and astronomy. Studying these books on his own, Amasa predicted and prepared himself for viewing a solar eclipse on June 16, 1806. In part because other almanacs had not predicted the 1806 eclipse, he wrote and published his own almanac for the years 1807 and 1808. The Southwick Historical Society, Inc. holds a copy of his 1808 almanac.

In 1808 Amasa married Gillett Kendall, daughter of Noadiah Kendall of Granby, Connecticut. About that time, he became a land surveyor and began teaching students surveying, optics, astronomy, and navigation privately in his home. By 1810 he was fabricating and selling surveying instruments including chains, compasses, protractors, magnets, and leveling instruments as a side business. His early surveying notebook includes a plan of the west lots of “the Wedge”, a tract of land that was made part of Simsbury in 1774 and in 1786 became part of Granby. Prior to 1823 he produced the earliest known map of Southwick; in 1831 he drew “A Correct Map of the Underground Excavation at the Phoenix Mine,” better known today as Old New Gate Prison & Copper Mine in East Granby, Connecticut. The original map is held by the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford.

By 1825 Amasa began a switch from surveying to civil engineering. Then, in 1831 he became an ordained Methodist minister and preached for over 30 years without taking a salary. Amasa performed marriages from 1833-1874, which he recorded in one of his account books. This information was transcribed by DFAW member Patricia L. Odiorne and published in Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc. MASSOG Vol. 42, No. 3.

Meanwhile, Holcomb became the first known manufacturer of telescopes in the United States. About 1826 he built a reflecting telescope for John A. Fulton of Chillicothe, Ohio that was fourteen feet long with a ten-inch aperture and with six eye pieces providing magnifications from 90 to 960. By 1833 he was accepting orders for telescopes in earnest. In his “autobiography” he wrote that when he began this venture, he “never thought of its ever becoming a business of profit”. In 1846, Holcomb retired from telescope making. He served three terms in the Massachusetts legislature, continued to serve as a Justice of the Peace, and was a trustee of Wesleyan University.

Amasa’s first wife, Gillett, died in 1861. He married, second, on 23 January 1862 at East Granby, Connecticut Maria Holcomb, daughter of Daniel and Hepzibah (Griswold) Holcomb. McPherson identifies her as the Maria Holcomb who married William Marble on 17 October 1826. Amasa died at the age of 87 on 27 February 1875 in Southwick, Massachusetts. He, both of his wives, and many family members are buried in the Old Southwick Cemetery.

The Southwick Historical Society, Inc. holds many items documenting Amasa Holcomb’s life including a copy of his autobiography, receipts for his work as surveyor and estate administrator, a record of the marriages he performed between 1833 and 1874, his probate record, and two of his account books, both of which have been reproduced in hard copy and one as a TIFF. Several telescopes and his autobiography are among the collections of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. His “autobiography” was published in part in Hannah Elizabeth Weir McPherson’s The Holcombes, Nation Builders and in full in the Smithsonian’s Holcomb, Fitz, and Peate: Three 19th Century American Telescope Makers.

6 Genealogical Summary

Generation One

1. AMASA1 HOLCOMB, son of Elijah and Lucy (Holcomb) Holcomb, was born on 18 June 1787 in that part of Granby, Connecticut that is now Southwick, Massachusetts (Hannah Elizabeth Weir McPherson, The Holcombes, Nation Builders, Their Biographies, Genealogies, and Pedigrees (Washington: n.pub., 1947), p. 112. Hereinafter cited as McPherson) (Jesse Seaver, The Holcomb(e) Genealogy; a Genealogy, History and Directory.... (Philadelphia: American Historical-Genealogical Society, 1925), p. 95. Hereinafter cited as Seaver) (George E. McCracken, "Thomas Holcombe's Earlier Posterity," The American Genealogist 57 (1981): p. 160. Hereinafter cited as McCracken.) (Find A Grave, online www.findagrave.com, Memorial #28153340. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.) (Granby, CT Vital Records: v. TM1, p. 40, as recorded in the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Connecticut State Library. Hereinafter cited as Granby VRs.). He married 1) Gillett Kendall, daughter of Noadiah Kendall and Ruth (-- ?--), on 10 November 1808 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96.) (Granby VRs: v. TM1, p. 40.) (Granby First Congregational Church Records: v. 2, p. 88, as recorded in the Church Records Index, Connecticut State Library. Hereinafter cited as Granby 1st Ch. Rec.). He married 2) Maria Holcomb, daughter of Daniel Holcomb, Jr. and Hepzibah Griswold (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96) on 23 January 1862 at East Granby, Connecticut (Connecticut Courant 1 Feb 1862, p. 3, online www.genealogybank.com, which refers to her as “Miss Maria Holcomb of East Granby”). He died on 27 February 1875 at Southwick, Massachusetts, at age 87 (Ibid.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153340.) or on 28 February 1875 at age 87 (McCracken, p. 161.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153340.).

GILLETT KENDALL was born on 2 June 1787 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214975.). She died on 2 January 1861 at age 73 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96.). She died on 2 February 1861 "AE 73." (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214975.). Children of Amasa1 Holcomb and Gillett Kendall were as follows: + 2 i. SOPHIA2 HOLCOMB was born on 10 September 1810 at Granby, Connecticut. She married Socrates Gillett, son of Rodolphus Gillett and Eunice Cushman, on 27 November 1834 at Southwick, Massachusetts. + 3 ii. MILTON HOLCOMB was born on 4 October 1812. He married Elvira Gillett, daughter of Moses Gillett and Mary Beach, on 15 August 1834 at Southwick, Massachusetts. 4 iii. CANDACE HOLCOMB was born on 26 August 1815 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.). She died on 22 September 1818 at age 3 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.). 5 iv. ALFRED HOLCOMB was born on 2 May 1818 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153234.). He died on 8 October 1843 at Westfield, Massachusetts, at age 25 (Seaver, p. 99.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153234.); "AE 25." He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). + 6 v. CANDACE HOLCOMB was born on 22 July 1820. She was married to Rev. Sewall Lamberton on 6 October 1844 by her father, Amasa. + 7 vi. HENRY HOLCOMB was born on 5 March 1823. He married Keturah Dibble. 8 vii. AMANDA HOLCOMB was born on 29 May 1825 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153280.). She died on 3 January 1844 "Aged 18 Yrs" (Seaver, p. 99.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153280.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). + 9 viii. FRANKLIN HOLCOMB was born on 22 September 1827 at Southwick, Massachusetts. He married 1) Mary E. Gibbons, daughter of James Hamlin Gibbons and Philura Gibbons, on 27 November 1851 at Southwick, Massachusetts. He married 2) Eliza Gibbons. He married 3) Sara Jane Robinson.

MARIA HOLCOMB was born on 13 November 1804 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96.). She married 1) William Trumbull Marble, son of William Marble and Mary (--?--), on 2 April 1827 at Windsor, Connecticut (Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut.... (1892; reprint Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992), v. 2, p. 465. Hereinafter cited as Ancient Windsor.) or on 17 October 1826 at Windsor, Connecticut by Richard Niles, J.P. (McPherson, p. 113.) (Windsor, CT Vital Records: v. 2, p. 182, as recorded in the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, Connecticut State Library. Hereinafter cited as Windsor VRs.); She died on 29 April 1874 "Aged 71" (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 96.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #34028257.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). There were no children of Amasa1 Holcomb and Maria Holcomb.

7 Generation Two

2. SOPHIA2 HOLCOMB (Amasa1) was born on 10 September 1810 at Granby, Connecticut (Leon S. Pitman, Some Descendants of Nathan Gillett of Windsor and Simsbury, Connecticut (Modesto, CA: n.pub., 1999), p. 35. Hereinafter cited as Pitman.) (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 97.) (Granby VRs: v. TM1, p. 40.). She was born on 12 September 1810 (Find A Grave, Memorial #28050425.). She married Socrates Gillett, son of Rodolphus Gillett and Eunice Cushman, on 27 November 1834 at Southwick, Massachusetts (McPherson, p. 113.) (Pitman, p. 35.) (Seaver, p. 97.); The ceremony was performed by her father, Amasa. She died on 10 August 1895 (Seaver, p. 97.) or on 2 August 1895 "Aged 83 Yrs." (Find A Grave, Memorial #28050425.).

SOCRATES GILLETT was born circa 1801 (Pitman, p. 35.). He died on 5 May 1878 at Southwick, Massachusetts, "Aged 77 Yrs" (Ibid.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28050369.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). Children of Sophia2 Holcomb and Socrates Gillett were as follows: 10 i. CHARLES JOSEPH.3 GILLETT was born on 10 May 1836 (Seaver, p. 97.). He married Julia A. Luck on 21 February 1872 (Ibid.). He died in 1923 (Find A Grave, Memorial #34583416.). He was buried at New Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, p. 98.). He was a cigar manufacturer whose factory/warehouse, originally constructed at Gillet’s Corner, Southwick, was saved from destruction through the efforts of the Southwick Historical Society, Inc. and the local Historical Commission and moved to the Historical Society’s Joseph Moore property. See DFAW Newsletter Vol. 29, No.4 (Summer 2012). JULIA A. LUCK was born on 12 September 1848 at Windsor, Connecticut (Find A Grave, Memorial #34583455.). She died on 7 April 1914 at age 65 (Ibid.). She was buried at New Southwick Cem., Windsor, Connecticut (Ibid.). Seaver gives her name as Julia Lock (Seaver, p. 97.). 11 ii. MARY ELLEN GILLETT was born on 4 March 1840 (Ibid.). She married George E. Hamilton on 6 October 1857 (Ibid.). She died in 1924 (Find A Grave, Memorial #28141917.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). GEORGE E. HAMILTON was born in 1834 (Ibid., Memorial #28141903.). He died in 1913 (Ibid.). He was a butcher in Westfield, Massachusetts. He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). 12 iii. EDWARD GILLETT was born on 27 January 1849 (Seaver, p. 98.). He married Jennie Vining, daughter of Ward Vining and Jane Cecelia Reed, on 10 October 1880 (Ibid.) or on 10 October 1882 (Find A Grave, Memorial #28050043.). He died in 1931 (Ibid.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). He was the proprietor of "Gillett's Fern & Flower Farm." Beginning in 1878 catalogs were issued each year for more than 50 years. JENNIE VINING was born in 1858 (Ibid., Memorial #28050072.). She died in 1942 (Ibid.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.).

3. MILTON2 HOLCOMB (Amasa1) was born on 4 October 1812 (Pitman, p. 33.) (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #74282093.). He married Elvira Gillett, daughter of Moses Gillett and Mary Beach, on 15 August 1834 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Pitman, p. 33.) (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.). He died on 20 April 1886 "Aged 73" (Ibid.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #74282093.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.).

ELVIRA GILLETT was born on 22 January 1811 (Seaver, p. 98.) or on 22 January 1812 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.) (Pitman, p. 33.). She died on 7 November 1886 at Southwick, Massachusetts, "Aged 75" (Ibid.) (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214929.). Children of Milton2 Holcomb and Elvira Gillett were as follows: 13 i. EMMA E.3 HOLCOMB was born on 25 March 1835 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.). She died on 18 September 1839 (could possibly be 10 Sep 1839) "AE 4" (Find A Grave, Memorial #112733243.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). 14 ii. CHAUNCEY HOLCOMB was born on 20 September 1836 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.). He died on 22 May 1864 at age 27 (Find A Grave, Memorial #124574360.) He served Company F, 27th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War. He enlisted 13 September 1861, was mustered in on 20 September 1861, and re-enlisted 25 November 1863. Ultimately promoted to First Sergeant, he was wounded and taken prisoner on 16 May 1864 at Drury's Bluff, Virginia (Bearing Arms, p. 281.) and died of wounds May 22, 1864 (Find A Grave, Memorial #124574360.), or 6 June 1864 at Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia at age 27 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, Holcomb(e) Gen., p. 98). He was buried at Richmond National Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia (Find A Grave, Memorial #124574360.). 15 iii. EMERETT HOLCOMB was born on 27 June 1837 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.). She died on 18 July 1837 "Aged 20 days" (Find A Grave, Memorial #34028200.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). 16 iv. EMMA HOLCOMB was born on 1 December 1840 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, p. 98.).. She married Simeon Palmer, son of Leman Palmer and Salome Root, on 29 April 1869 (Ibid.). She died on 8 February 1923 at age 82 (Ibid.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #30267608.). 8 SIMEON PALMER was born on 23 May 1834 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid., Memorial #30267576.). He died on 1 May 1928 at Westfield, Massachusetts, at age 93 (Ibid.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts, Plot 36B (Find A Grave, Memorial #30267576.), 17 v. ALFRED HOLCOMB was born on 5 May 1843 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.). He married Ellen Elvira Baker on 29 June 1869 (Ibid.). He died on 21 May 1878 at Greenfield, Massachusetts, at age 35 (Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, online www.NewEnglandAncestors.org. Hereinafter cited as Mass VR 1840-1910.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts, Plot 85 B (Find A Grave, Memorial #28153208.). He served in the 27th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War. He enlisted 12 September 1861, was mustered in on 20 September 1861. He sustained burns to both hands from the premature discharge of a cannon on 3 April 1863 at Washington, North Carolina and slight wounds in the leg and shoulder near Petersburg, Virginia on 18 June 1864 (Bearing Arms, p. 341.). He was mustered out on 27 September 1864. ELLEN ELVIRA BAKER was born in 1849 (Ibid., Memorial #28214339.). She died on 15 November 1919 (Seaver, p. 98.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214339.). 18 vi. BIRNEY GELLESPIE HOLCOMB was born on 30 November 1844 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 98.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #43153252.). He married Mary Lydia Palmer, daughter of Leman Palmer and Salome Root, on 5 June 1870 (Seaver, p. 98.). He died on 26 May 1918 at age 73 (Ibid.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #43153252.). He was buried at New Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). MARY LYDIA PALMER was born on 6 July 1850 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #43153290.). She died on 1 January 1945 at age 94 (Ibid.). She was buried at New Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). 19 vii. MARY ELIZABETH HOLCOMB was born on 8 May 1855 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.). She married Wilbert F. Osborn on 3 June 1880 (Ibid.). She died on 13 March 1927 at age 71 (Find A Grave, Memorial #69493245.). She was buried at Meeting House Hill Cem., West Springfield, Massachusetts (Ibid.). WILBERT F. OSBORN was born on 8 July 1853 (Ibid., Memorial #58891445.). He died on 15 May 1900 at age 46 (Ibid.). He was buried at Meeting House Hill Cem., West Springfield, Massachusetts (Ibid.). Their youngest daughter, Nina Osborn, married Thornton Waldo Burgess of Hampton, Massachusetts, author of Old Mother West Wind and other children’s books, and whose property is now Laughing Book Wildlife Sanctuary. 20 viii. WALLACE HOLCOMB was born on 15 July 1846 (McPherson, p. 113.). He was born on 15 July 1856 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, p. 98.). He married Ellen L. Butler, daughter of Burrage Yale Butler and Maria Louisa Forward, on 6 April 1875 (Ibid.). He died in 1941 (Find A Grave, Memorial #191903865.). He was buried at Oak Grove Cem., Section 8, Springfield, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #191903865.). ELLEN L. BUTLER was born on 21 September 1842 (Seaver, p. 98.). She died in 1936 (Find A Grave, Memorial #191903939.). She was buried at Oak Grove Cem., Springfield, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #191903939.); Section 8. They were living in Southwick in 1880, but in 1900 were in Douglas, Colorado.

6. CANDACE2 HOLCOMB (Amasa1) was born on 22 July 1820 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.). She was married to the Rev. Sewall Lamberton on 6 October 1844 by her father, Amasa (Ibid.). She died on 22 October 1900 "AE 80" at Westfield, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #29774024.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.).

REV. SEWALL LAMBERTON died on 30 May 1876 at Westfield, Massachusetts, "AE 57" (Ibid., Memorial #29774069.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). The child of Candace2 Holcomb and Rev. Sewall Lamberton was: 21 i. ELLEN3 LAMBERTON was born on 26 April 1848 (Seaver, p. 99.). She died on 2 April 1871 "AE. 23" (Find A Grave, Memorial #29774043.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.).

7. HENRY2 HOLCOMB (Amasa1) was born on 5 March 1823 (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 99.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28215003.). He married Keturah Dibble (Seaver, p. 99.). He died on 4 May 1897 at age 74 (Ibid.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28215003.). He was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, Holcomb(e) Gen., p. 99.).

KETURAH DIBBLE was born on 9 December 1821 (Find A Grave, Memorial #29585631.). She died on 23 March 1884 at age 62 (Ibid.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). Children of Henry2 Holcomb and Keturah Dibble were: 22 i. AMASA3 HOLCOMB was born on 7 October 1852 (Seaver, p. 99.). He married 1) Eleanor Bronson on 13 September 1878 (Ibid.). He married Julia Lyons on 30 November 1888 (Ibid.). He died on 17 August 1921 at Westfield, Massachusetts, at age 68 (Ibid.). He was buried at New Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #43153171.). 9 JULIA LYONS was born in 1866 (Ibid., Memorial #43153209.). She died in 1933 (Ibid.). She was buried at New Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.).

9. FRANKLIN2 HOLCOMB (Amasa1) was born on 22 September 1827 at Southwick, Massachusetts (McPherson, p. 113.) (Seaver, p. 105.). He married 1) Mary E. Gibbons, daughter of James Hamlin Gibbons and Philura Gibbons, on 27 November 1851 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). He married 2) Eliza Gibbons (Ibid., p. 106.). He married 3) Sara Jane Robinson (Ibid.). He served as a Private in Company F, 27th Massachusetts Regiment and died of measles on 25 December 1861 at the military hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, at age 34 (Bearing Arms, p. 40.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214956.).

MARY E. GIBBONS died on 7 January 1853 "Aged 21." (Find A Grave, Memorial #198387509.); She died on 9 January 1853 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, p. 106.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts Plot 90B (Find A Grave, Memorial #198387509.). Children of Franklin2 Holcomb and Mary E. Gibbons were: 23 i. FRANK GIBBONS3 HOLCOMB was born on 26 December 1852 at Southwick, Massachusetts (Seaver, p. 106.). He married Inez Norman Maynard on 25 December 1879 at Northboro, Massachusetts (Ibid.). He died on 25 March 1922 at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at age 69 (Ibid.). He was buried at Howard St. Cem., Northborough, Massachusetts (Find A Grave, Memorial #130684289.). INEZ NORMAN MAYNARD was born on 16 April 1854 at Northboro, Massachusetts (Seaver, Holcomb(e) Gen., p. 106.).

ELIZA GIBBONS was born in 1837 (Find A Grave, Memorial #28214423.). She died on 6 October 1855 "AE 17" (Ibid.). She was buried at Southwick Cem., Southwick, Massachusetts (Ibid.). There were no children of Franklin2 Holcomb and Eliza Gibbons.

Children of Franklin2 Holcomb and Sara Jane Robinson were as follows: 24 i. CHARLES HENRY3 HOLCOMB was born on 12 November 1859 (Ibid., Memorial #106764903.) or on 14 November 1859 (Seaver, p. 107.). He married Clintina A. Burton, daughter of James E. Burton and Olive A. Robinson, on 23 June 1888 (Ibid.). He died on 23 February 1920 at age 60 (Find A Grave, Memorial #106764903.). He was buried at Pine Grove Cem, Brookline, New Hampshire (Ibid.). CLINTINA A. BURTON was born on 15 May 1857 (Ibid., Memorial #106764904.). She died on 27 March 1934 at age 76 (Ibid.). She was buried at Pine Grove Cem, Brookline, New Hampshire (Ibid.). 25 ii. NEWTON FRANKLIN HOLCOMB was born on 7 October 1861 (Seaver, p. 108.) (Find A Grave, Memorial #106764905.). He married Minnie Burton (Seaver, p. 108.). He died on 29 June 1900 at age 38 (Find A Grave, Memorial #106764905.). He was buried at Pine Grove Cem, Brookline, New Hampshire (Ibid.).

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Many thanks are extended to Patricia Odiorne of the Southwick Historical Society, Inc. and a member of DFAW for her assistance in the preparation of this article.

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