Eleazer Holbrook (1660 - 1726)

Born 20 Dec 1660 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Pond) Whiting — married 14 Jun 1698 (to 18 Feb 1726) in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 18 Feb 1726 at age 65 in Sherborn, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Eleazer Holbrook was born at Medfield, Massachusetts Bay, in December of 1660, a son of Thomas Holbrook and Hannah (Shepard) Holbrook. He married Sarah Pond of Dedham, at Dedham, on the fourteenth of June, 1698.

A selectman at Sherborn for several terms, he also served at several times in the legislature; in his final term there, he "arrived three months late for the 1720 July HR and was excused for the offense."^[1]

Eleazer passed away at Sherborn in mid-February of 1726. Sarah (Pond) Holbrook survived him, and was remarried to Capt. John Whiting of Wrentham in January of 1729.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), p. 1047. See Sources below for details.

• Birth: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NK-HJD : 5 November 2017), Eleazer Holbrook, 20 Dec 1660; citing Birth, Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 721,179. Image of full record, handwritten transcript: Image #8 of 601; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8979-7GRD?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-C6X%3A353350501%2C353406301%2C353426201; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.

• Birth (handwritten transcript by family; image of original transcript shows maiden name of mother): "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4J5-DD6 : 20 May 2022), Eliazer Holbrooke, 20 Dec 1660; citing Birth, Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009438.

• Birth: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCWM-27X : 15 January 2020), Eliazer Holbrok, 1660. Image of printed record: Image #406 of 781, Vital records of Medfield, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, "Medfield Births", p. 62, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSSW-WQ8N-J?i=405

• Birth 1660 (year & location only); legislative record: "Sherborn HR 1710, 11, 18, 20M, 20July; selectman 1709- 12, 22; M Sarah Pond (1679-?1725) in 1698, 5 ch; farmer. Land in Holliston and Douglas. Inactive in the HR. He arrived three months late for the 1720July HR and was excused for the offense." -- Sherborn VR 207; Dedham VR 1:247; 1935 Holbrook g 13; p. 1047, Massachusetts: Legislators of the General Court, 1691-1780 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002), (Orig. Pub. by Northeastern University Press , Boston, MA. John A. Schutz, Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780 A Biographical Dictionary, 1997.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB142/rd/5873295 (by subscription)

• Marriage: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH7W-QMN : 6 November 2017), Eloazer Holbrook and Sarah Pond, 14 Jun 1698; citing Marriage, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 593,353.

• Death: "HOLBROOK... Eleazer, Feb. 18, 1725-6." -- Sherborn VRs Vol.1, "Sherborn Deaths", p. 207; Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/7801/207/142571975 (by subscription)

• Death (links to image of orig. handwritten record): "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-B828 : 20 May 2022), Eleazer Holbrook, 18 Feb 1725; citing Death, Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934229.

• Probate (includes division, with signatures of widow and surviving children): Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) Case 11651: Division

See also (note that online family trees are regarded as reliable only where specific primary, or highly reputable secondary, sources are cited):

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 07 October 2016, 00:14), entry for Eleazer Holbrook(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LCCY-R22); contributed by various users.