| Samuel BRIGGS\BRIGS + | ||
| Samuel BRIGGS | ||
| Martha WEATHERHEAD | ||
| Amey BRIGGS | ||
| Martha WETHERHEAD | ||
Person Notes:
[NI0375]
ID Number: A-BRIGGS*-000076
| Benjamin BULLARD | ||
| Benjamin BULLARD | ||
| Henry THORPE | ||
| THORPE | ||
| UNK |
| John "Le Boef" GIFFARD + | ||
| John GIFFARD | ||
| Thomas GIFFARD | ||
| John DE MORTEYN + | ||
| Lucy DE MORTEYN | ||
| Joan DE ROTHWELL + |
| Sylvanus HOLBROOK + | ||
| Selvanus HOLBROOK | ||
| Naomi COOK + | ||
| Molley HOLBROOK | ||
| Samuel THAYER + | ||
| Thankfull THAYER | ||
| Mary SAMPSON + |
| Thomas HOLBROOK + | ||
| William HOLBROOK | ||
| Constance THAYER + | ||
| Thomas HOLBROOK | ||
| Thomas COLES | ||
| Edith SAUNDERS | ||
Person Notes:
[NI0951]
[Holbrook.ged]
Holbrook.
THOMAS HOLBROOK, of Broadway, England, was probably one of the party
who followed their pastor, the Rev. Mr. Barnard, from Weymouth,
Dorsetshire, England, and settled at Weymouth, Mass., giving that name
to the place previously known as Wessagusset. He sailed from Weymouth,
England, March 20, 1635-6, and located in the northern part of the
town near tide water, on what has long since borne the name of "Old
Spain." His name first appears on the records in America in 1640. He
arranged to move to Rehoboth in 1644, but for some reason did not,
thereby forfeiting his lot there. He was six times chosen selectman
from 1641 to 1654, in the latter year removing to Dorchester. In 1668
he had removed to Medfield, where he died in 1677, age 76 years. In
his will he gave his sword to one grandchild, his gun to another, and
his musket to a third.
His sons were requested, in regard to their mother, "to be helpful to
her in all ways as she is ancient and weak of body." To his son, John,
he gave a double share of the estate.
His wife, Jane; son, John, and three other children, came over from
England with him. She was then thirty-four.
HOLBROOK The family of Holbrook is ancient and distinguished in
England. The ancient coat-of-arms is: A chevron between three
martletts. Several other coats-of-arms were borne by different
branches of the family in England.
(I) Thomas Holbrooek, or Holbrooke, the immigrant ancestor, aged
thirty-four, of Broadway, England, with wife Jane, aged thirty-four,
and children, John, aged eleven; Thomas, aged ten; Anne, aged five,
and Elizabeth, aged one, came from Weymouth, England, about 1628. He
settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1640, and was on the committee
to lay out the way from Braintree to Dorchester. He was admitted a
freeman, May, 1645. He was selectman several years. His will was dated
December 31, 1669, with codicil, December 31, 1673. He died 1674-76.
His widow Jane died before April 24, 1677, when administration of the
estate was granted to his son John. Children: John, born 1617; Thomas,
mentioned below; Captain William, died 1699, lived at Scituate; Ann,
married (???) Reynolds; Elizabeth, married Walter Hatch; Jane, married
(???) Drake.
(II) Thomas (2) Holbrook, son of Thomas (1) Holbrooek, or Holbrooke,
lived at Scituate, Weymouth and Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1653 he
bought a farm of fifty-three acres in Braintree, and later became the
owner of much real estate. He married Joanna (???), who survived him.
He made his will, July 25, 1695, and administration on his estate was
granted his widow, August 19, 1697, and his eldest son, Thomas. In the
will he mentions Thomas as his eldest son, and Peter, to whom he gives
"all that estate of lands and meadows in Mendon which he had formerly
purchased of his brother William." Children: Thomas, buried at
Braintree, December 20, 1728; John, born October 15, 1653, at
Braintree; Peter, mentioned below; Joanna, born October 30, 1656;
Susanna, married Andrew Willet, of Boston; Joseph, born February 12,
1660, died young.
(III) Deacon Peter Holbrook, son of Thomas (2) Holbrook, was born
September 6, 1656, died 1712-13. He settled in Mendon, where he
inherited lands from his father, most of which was afterwards included
in Bellingham. He was an important man in his time. His will was made
January 16, 1711-12, and proved May 29, 1713. He married (first) Alice
(???), who died April 29, 1705. He married (second) Elizabeth Pool,
who survived him, and married (second) Robert Ware, of Wenham, and
died 1724. Children: John, born September 24, 1679, at Braintree;
Peter, October 16, 1681, Mendon; Silvanus, August 15, 1685; Joannah,
March 7, 1686-87; Richard, May 30, 1690; Eliphalet, mentioned below;
William, March 28, 1693-94; Samuel. February 27, 1695-96; Mary,
October 14, 1702.
(IV) Eliphalet, son of Deacon Peter Holbrook, was born January 27,
1691-92, died October 19, 1775, at Bellingham. He is called "yeoman."
He married, November 17, 1716, Hannah Rockwood, born August 15, 1692.
Children: Ebenezer, born June 3, 1717, at Mendon; Seth, February 26,
1721, at Bellingham; Eliphalet, mentioned below; Noah, December 6,
1727; Caleb, January 14, 1731; Elijah, May 6, 1736, died May 2, 1740;
Joanna, July 21, 1738.
(V) Eliphalet (2), son of Eliphalet (1) Holbrook, was born October 25,
1725. He died intestate, and administration was granted his son Henry,
on whom the homestead was settled, April 10, 1778. He married,
November 26, 1753, Abigail Wight, who died September 3, 1808.
Children: Olive, born April 4, 1755; Henry, mentioned below; Martha,
October 11, 1758; Caleb, November 1, 1760; Peter, November 23, 1762;
Seth, July 17, 1765; Nathan, July 24, 1768; Peruda, March 24, 1770;
Eliab, February 20, 1772, died October 16, 1775; Eliphalet, February
9, 1774, died October 15, 1775; Abigail, June 9, 1776, died aged six
weeks; Abigail.
(VI) Ensign Henry Holbrook, son of Eliphalet (2) Holbrook, was born
August 27, 1756, died at Bellingham, his native town, October 1, 1833,
aged seventy-seven. He was a soldier in the revolution in the company
of Captain Jesse Holbrook on the Lexington Alarm, April 19, 1775, and
served from May 9 until August of that year in Captain Samuel Cobb's
company, Colonel Joseph Read's regiment. He was also in Captain Jesse
Holbrook's company, Colonel Wheelock's regiment in 1776 on the Rhode
Island Alarm; in Captain Samuel Fiske's company, Colonel Ephraim
Wheelock's regiment, in Rhode Island in 1777; also in Captain Amos
Ellis's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes's regiment, in Rhode Island in
1777-78, and in Captain Nathan Thayer's company, Colonel Ebenezer
Thayer's regiment in the Continental army in New York in 1780. He
married (first) December 20, 1780, at Bellingham, Elizabeth Cook, born
July 16, 1753, died at Bellingham, August 4, 1803 (gravestone). He
married (second) Eunice Badger, born June 17, 1769, died March 10,
1818. Children, born at Bellingham: Eliphalet, April 13, 1782; Eliab,
mentioned below; Anna, March 29, 1786; Henry, July 31, 1790.
(VII) Eliab, son of Ensign Henry Holbrook, was born at Bellingham, May
6, 1784. He married there (intentions dated October 15, 1809) Betsey
Ide. Children, born at Bellingham: Elizabeth, June 25, 1811; Lurania,
October 31, 1815; Eliab, mentioned below.
(VIII) Eliab (2), son of Eliab (1) Holbrook, was born at Bellingham,
October 8, 1817. He married (first) April 25, 1839, Hannah Pickering,
who died January 9, 1841. daughter of Ellery Thayer. He married
(second) June 23, 1842 (intention at Bellingham, May 15, 1842). Julia
Ferry Morse. She was born July 9, 1817, daughter of Eliakim Morse (see
Morse VI). Child of first wife: Helen Angelia, born at Bellingham,
April 26, 1840. Children of second wife, born at Bellingham; Hannah
Elizabeth, August 23, 1843; Gilbert M., March 31, 1845; Hiram Pond,
February 15, 1848; Edward, mentioned below.
(IX) Edward, son of Eliab (2) Holbrook, was born at Bellingham, July
7, 1849. He attended the public schools of Bellingham and Hopkinton,
Massachusetts, and after his schooling became a clerk in the store of
Bigelow, Kennard & Company, dealers in watches, jewelry and silverware
in Boston. From the age of sixteen to twenty-one he was with this
house, and then he became a salesman for the Gorham Manufacturing
Company, manufacturers of silverware, in 1870. He subsequently became
the agent of the company in New York, in 1887 was elected treasurer of
the company and in 1894 president. Since then he has filled both
offices and he is one of the best known and most prominent silver
manufacturers in this country. The period covered by this connection
with the Gorham Manufacturing Company has marked an epoch in the
development of the silverware industry, more important than any that
has occurred during the past century, as the growth of that industry
has been of larger extent during the time of Mr. Holbrook's official
connection with the Gorham Manufacturing Company, than for all of the
one hundred years previous and during this remarkable development of
the manufacture of silver as an industry.
He was one of the charter members and organizers of the Silversmiths
Company of the United States in 1905 and became its first president,
an office he is still filling. He is a director of the Rhode Island
Hospital Company of Providence, Rhode Island; of the Merchants
National Bank of New York City; of the Harriman National Bank of New
York City; of the Garfield Safe Deposit Company of New York City; of
the American Brass Company, the leading brass manufacturing concern of
the United States; of the American Coal Company, and the General Fire
Extinguisher Company. He is a member of the Union League of New York,
the Union Club, the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the New England
Society of New York, the Hope Club of Providence, Rhode Island, the
Pilgrims, an American Club of London, England. In politics he is a
Republican. Mr. Holbrook is one of the few Americans who have had
conferred upon them the medal of the Legion of Honor of France by the
French government.
He married. February 18, 1874, in Boston, Frances, born in 1854,
daughter of John J. Swift, of Boston. Her father was president of the
Boston & Fitchburg Railroad Company. Her mother, Mary (Hichborn)
Swift, was of the old Hichborn family of Boston, to which Admiral
Hichborn belongs. Children: 1. John Swift, born in Boston, March 4,
1875; married, in April, 1907, Grace, daughter of John J. Sinclair,
vice-president of the Gorham Manufacturing Company. 2. Lilian, born
March 7, 1878; married, January 3, 1906, the Count Guillaume de
Balincourt, and now resident of Neuilly sur Seine, France.
on the "Marygold"
sailed with Henry Kingman & his family
sailed with Rev. Joseph Hull's Company
The genealogy of the Holbrook Family, as written by Albert Holbrook in
1893, is presented in scanned format because the handwriting is
subject to interpretation. For best results, save the images and print
them from a graphics program.
The descendancy to the son of Albert8:
Thomas Holbrook
John Holbrook (2)
Ichabod Holbrook (15)
David Holbrook (17)
Ichabod Holbrook (22)
Nathaniel Holbrook (31)
Abel Holbrook (38)
Albert Holbrook (85)
Charles William (II) Holbrook (95)
Page 1: An introduction to the genealogy. Albert8 states that this was
mostly transcribed to the fifth generation from the work of the Rev.
Abner Morse, printed in 1855.
Page 2: Thomas Holbrook leaves England in 1635, and settles in
Weymouth, MA
Page 3: John Holbrook, son of Thomas
Page 4: Children of John with details of Ichabod (15)
Page 5: Children of Ichabod (15); David and children of David
Page 6: Children of David continued; Ichabod (22) and his children
Page 7: Children of Ichabod (22) continued; Nathaniel (31) and his
children
Page 8: Children of Nathaniel (31) continued plus details of his life
Page 9: Continuation of information on Nathaniel (31)
Page 10: Continuation of information on Nathaniel (31)
Page 11: Nathaniel (33), son of Nathaniel (31), and his children
Page 12: Continuation of line of Nathaniel (31)
Page 13: Benjamin, son of Nathaniel (31)
Page 14: Benjamin, son of Nathaniel (31) continued
Page 15: Ruth (Holbrook) Hollis, daughter of Nathaniel (31)
Page 16: Mary (Holbrook) Stetson, daughter of Nathaniel (31)
Page 17: Continuation of information on Mary
Page 18: Esther (Holbrook) Thayer, and Abel, children of Nathaniel
(31)
Page 19: Albert, author of the genealogy, and his children
Page 20: Albert's children continued, including Charles William (II)
Page 21: Harriet Smith (Holbrook) Bartlett, daughter of Abel
Page 22: Family of Harriet continued
Page 23: Family of Harriet continued
Page 24: Family of Harriet continued, plus Charles William (I), son of
Abel
Page 25: Lydia (Holbrook) Stetson, daughter of Nathaniel (31)
Page 26: Family of Lydia continued; plus Joel son of Nathaniel (31)
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(see Armstrong genealogy for Holbrook Family Register)
Decorative top to half of Family Register for Albert Holbrook and Abby
Olney Angell
Enlargement of first panel | Enlargement of second panel showing dates
of birth
Enlargement of marriage panel | Enlargement of died panel
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Charles William Holbrook (II), son of Albert, died December 11, 1935,
at the age of 87. The December 12th Providence Journal obituary states
that he was "president of the Holbrook Raw Hide Company, continuously
operated by the Holbrook family for more than a century..." The
company was started by his father and uncle, Charles William Holbrook
(I), as the A. and C. W. Holbrook Company. In 1906 the company was
incorporated as the Holbrook Raw Hide Company.
His last residence was 24 Langham Road, Providence. He was first
married to Miss Sarah D. King who died in 1918, and then, in 1925,
Miss Carrie Jeffers, who died in 1927. Charles William Holbrook (II)
was buried in the Holbrook family lot in the North Burial Ground,
Providence. The picture in the obituary looks remarkably like the man
above, including the full beard and the distinctive nose.
The Albert Holbrook family lived on a farm in what is now Lincoln.
Charles' brother Uriah was a physician in Providence, and his brothers
George A. and Albert Jr. worked with him in the family business.
Mentioned as surviving were nieces Mrs. George W. Sweet, and Mrs.
Norman M. Robertson.
Not part of the material purchased, but added as additional
information, are pages from the 1885 Providence Directory. On page 238
are the Holbrook listings, and on page 615 is the business listing,
under Pickers, for A. & C. W. Holbrook.
Family Notes:
[NF104]
[Holbrook.ged]
See picture of Church in Armstrong Genealogy file
| William TRAVIS | ||
| Susanna TRAVIS | ||