Richard Holbrook (abt. 1617 - abt. 1670)

Born about 1617 in England

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Died about 1670 at about age 53 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Richard HOLBROOK was born about 1617 in England.

Richard Holbrook arrived in Massachusetts in 1635.^[1] He married Agnes in 1638 in Dorchester.^[2]

He first lived in Dorchester then Springfield Massachusetts . He moved to Huntington, Long Island, near Oyster Bay where he built the first house in Huntington. His his son Abel was the first white child born there in 1653. (Source needed)

In 1657 or 1658, he moved to Milford, Connecticut, where he died.

Richard Holbrook of Milford, will is dated 29 March 1670^[3] [NHPR 1:2:35]. Names wife Agnis and children: Mary, Hannah and Patience, Abell, Israel, Peletiah, ^[4][5] His inventory was taken on 25 October 1670.^[3]

Research notes

Took an oath in Springfield along with other Holbrooks, this has not been able to be supported by primary evidence.^[6] Brother of Thomas Holbrook of Dorchester, who removed to Medfield and Sherborn. No known connection to Thomas Holbrook of Weymouth, but the two are often conflated.

Sources

1. ↑ COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p Massachusetts; Year: 1635; Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. Accessed from Ancestry.com.
2. ↑ Torrey's New England Marriages before 1700: HOLBROOK, Richard (-will 1670) & 2/wf? [Agnes]/ ____, wid; by 1648?, by 1655?, by 1640?; Dorchester?/Milford, CT/ Huntington, LI {Sherborn Hist. 139; TAG 22:207; Townsend (,5) 65; TAG 9:103; Holbrook Anc. (1942) 11}
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} “New Haven Probate Records, Vol. 1-2, 1647-1703”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-G9NJ-Y : 8 March 2021), New Haven, Connecticut, FHL microfilm 007626739, image 159-160. New Haven Probate Record, 1647-1687, Vol. 1, Part 2, page 35-36.
4. ↑ Will copied by Donald Lines Jacobus, found in Holbrook Manuscript File, Connecticut Historical Society Library, Hartford, Connecticut. https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/111319404/person/140151497078/media/5589720b-5889-49b6-9d9f-b21ebc39a5b3?_phsrc=IzZ2456&_phstart=successSource
5. ↑ Date the will is referenced in New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Vol 3, page 274.
6. ↑ Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Richard Holbrook and Agnes" Webpage: www.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m2051x2052.htm

• COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p Massachusetts; Year: 1635; Original data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012. Accessed from Ancestry.com.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155742938/richard-
• Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636 - 1776
• James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, Before 1692
• Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 3, p 594.
• Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut, CD-Local and Family Histories: CT, 1600's - 1800's, (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), p. 330.
• Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut. New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932, p. 1.
• Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, p. 427.
• Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume Name: Milford, Page 86 "Holbrook, Rich[ard], came to Milford, 1660; d. 1670"
• https://archive.org/details/holbrookalliedfa00lord/page/10