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died single
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Samuel Holbrook was made freeman of the Colony Oct.12,1681. Resided in Weymouth.
He did not have a dau. Hannah who m. John Dyer of Braintree, as often printed (See Am. Gen. Vol.15
p.50).
11-168 - Widow Lydia administrator of husband Samuel Holbrook, Jun.4,1696.
5-4 N.S. - Widow Lydia bonded with Ichabod Holbrook of Weymouth & William Drake, blacksmith of Weymouth, June 1697.
5-6 N.S. - Samuel Holbrook, John Vincent & Ephraim Burrell of Wey. bonded Jul.7,1716.
11-168, Oct.3,1695, Inventory - House barns, orchard, lands adjoining £150. 3 1/2 meadow & flatts belonging to it in Braintree. Fourscore acres land purchased of Thomas Randall in Bridgewater bounds. £273/14/.
11-311 - Account of Lydia on Samuel Holbrook, housewright, deceased, Jul.8,1697. Debts paid to Enoch Lovell, John Staples, Azirikim Pierce.
17-283 - Real estate divided, Jun.28,1711. Cannot be divided without prejudice. Samuel eldest son accepts it, saving to his mother Lydia Allen wife of Joseph of Braintree her dower, he paying his brothers & sisters Elizabeth Wales, wife of Elkanah of Braintree, weaver, John Holbrook & Sarah Holbrook of same town, & Abiah Holbrook, a minor, £23/5/6 to each and at death of their mother £11/12/9 each.
S.P.37-267 - Will of Lydia Allen, widow, dated Apr.2,1745, proved Jun.11,1745 mentions sons John and Abiah Holbrook, dau. Elizabeth Wales, son William Hunt, daughter Hannah Dyer, grandsons Samuel & Joseph Holbrook, sons of her son Samuel, grandson Nathaniel Wales, daughter Sarah Hunt, deceased.
(Hannah Dyer was her former dau. in law, widow of son Samuel & wife of Henry Dyer of Boston.)
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as 2nd wife
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4th cousins
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Resided on West St. in 1806. Bates says he may have lived in the Capt. Samuel French place, later Collins place, N. side, where Blue Hill Cemetery now is. In 1803 Bates says he was in the employ of Gen. Ebenezer Thayer & probably resided in the old Thomas Faxon house west of Washington St. near Hollis Ave. which blew down in the gale of 1815
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married 1st -?, She was not Deborah Damon of Scituate as stated in Vinton Memorial. Deborah Damon m. Feb.8,1666 at Scituate Thomas Woodworth, not Thomas Holbrook who married 2nd near 1690 Mary White of Weymouth.
The Vinton Memorial (1858) p.336 says he had a 1st wife Deborah Damon, born 1645, dau. of John Damon of Scituate, married her in 1666. (error) I find no confirmation of it. (see over) His will dated Oct.16,1728 proved Jan.9,1728/9 mentions only wife Mary and children Thomas, Hannah, Mary Copeland, grandson Seth Copeland.
He was elected surveyor of highways 1698, constable 1705.
He was a soldier 1676 in King Philip's War, and a grantee of a Naragansett township (Bedford, N.H.), alive in 1728 when the list was made, but grants not made until 1733.
Scituate V.R. (Mayflower Descendant Vol.1 p.233)
These may certifie, whom it may concern, that whereas Trustrum Davis of Scituate hath been a suitor to my daughter Sarah Archer and if they shall proceed to marry I shall not hinder these proceedings: Brantery the 16 of March 1695. Thomas Holbrooke, Mary Holbrooke (witness) Stephen French, Joseph Polle.
These may certifie all persons whom it may concern that Trustrum Davis and Sarah Archer of Brantry were married the 19th of March 1694/5. Tristram Davis son of Robert of Yarmouth was born 1654, m. Sarah Archer & had dau. Elizabeth in 1695, then disappears - Deane's Hist. of Scituate.
S.P.27-15 - Will of Thomas Holbrook of Braintrey. To wife £33/6/9 due me from Seth Copeland & £13 due me from Benj. Dyer. To w. Mary improvement of 1/2 of estate. To son Thomas my long gun, cane with ivory head. To dau. Hannah Holbrook £30. To grandson Seth Copeland my little gun that was his uncles lately deceased. Rest to two daughters Mary Copeland, Hannah Holbrook. Wife Mary executor. Oct.16,1728 - Jan.9,1728(9).
Wit: Joseph White, Wm. Hunt, Benj. Allen.
27-165, Inventory, Feb.12,1728(9):
House barn, orchard meadow & pasture £830
100 a. in the woods called Iron Works land £300
1 share of land in Chochato £35
5 a. cedar swamp £15.