Esther (Nichols) Holbrook (1731 - 1795)

Born 25 Sep 1731 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Holbrook II — married 4 Nov 1750 (to 5 Feb 1795) in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 5 Feb 1795 at age 63 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Esther ^[1] was born 25 Sep 1731 in Newtown, Fairfield, Connecticut.

She died 5 Feb 1795 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States and was buried in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesT.

Children:

• John Holbrook (1751 - 1752)
• John Holbrook II (1753 - 1820)
• Abigail Holbrook (1754 - 1757)
• Philo Holbrook (1756 - 1813)
• Nathaniel Holbrook (1758 - 1828)
• Esther Holbrook Curtiss (1760 - 1818)
• Abel Holbrook (1762 - 1842)
• Abigail Holbrook Hurd (1764 - 1848)
• Anna "Ann" Holbrook Noyes (1769 - 1838)
• Richard Holbrook (1771 - 1771)
• Sarah Holbrook (1773 - 1786)
• Richard Holbrook (1775 - 1822)

• Burial (1795) Seymour, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sources

1. ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74G-6YB : 3 December 2014), Abel Holbrook, 04 Dec 1762; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 January 2018, 17:29), entry for Esther Nichols(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:L8MF-T8C); contributed by various users.

See also:

• George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), p. 19.

• Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, p. 68. . http://www.oxfordpast.com/hp68.html.

• Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), p. 5.

• Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 730. " ... of Newtown ..."

• Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: With Annals of the College History, New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1907, vol 6, p 230.

• Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family, p. 8.

• Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 135.

• Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, p. 95. http://www.oxfordpast.com/ghcemscan95.html.

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852, General Editor - Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997, p. 240.

• Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT. http://www.oxfordpast.com/cem1440.html.

• Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, Barbour Collection - Derby, p. 241. " ... by Rev. John Beach."

• Find A Grave: Memorial #16480174

• Newtown, CT: Vital Records, 1704-1850 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, NEHGS, Boston, 2021) Vol. 1, Page 117.