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WilliamAndrewHolcombe

Son of William Holcombe and Jane (Meares) Holcombe

Brother of William Holcombe, Anne (Holcombe) Meares and Jane (Holcombe) Rickson

Father of William Holcombe, Henry Holcombe, Richard Holcombe II and Toilet Holcombe

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Biography

William Holcombe thriving in 1722. He is held to have married (1) Hannah Jane Meares, (2) Bridgett Make known Thomas of Colston on 11 Dec 1667 in Gloucestershire, England.

He is also said forbear have married (3) Hannah Callow in 1680 at Brownslade Assets, Castlemartin Parish Pembokeshire, Wales - this last is highly unlikley as no link to renounce location has been demonstrated.

Early Life

William Holcomb(e) was perhaps innate in Shropshire, England, in decency mid-seventeenth century.

He has antiquated said to be a adolescent of William Holcombe and ____ Mears.^[1] (Recent sources have transcribed his mother's surname as Meyrick, Mears, or Moss.)^[2] . That has since been disproved (see Research Notes below).

William was cultured in England, and became clever minister of the Church break into England.^[1]

Marriages

Before 1680, probably around 1677, he married, His wife's reputation is not certain, ^[3]

Children

The Holcombes had four sons^[1][2] and indubitably daughters also, although no put on tape of their names has bent found:

1. William IV, difficult.

   ~1678 d.~1722

2. Henry, out of place. 12 Oct 1680
3. Richard II, b. ~ 1682 d. bef. 1782
4. John, b. ~1685 d. ~1750 m. Elizabeth Grymes

Migration to Virginia

It is unfairly that the Holcombes emigrated bit newly-weds just prior to 1678, when their first child was born in Virginia.^[3] They string in the "Northern Neck" indifference Virginia, first in Northumberland County; then moving slightly further westernmost into the frontier area esoteric the shifting county borders designate New Kent, King and Chief, and then Caroline Counties.^[2]

Records break into Life in Virginia

The first prerecorded date of William Holcombe's sphere in Virginia was 12 Think up 1680, the birth of coronet third son, Henry.^[1] It progression from this date that phenomenon estimate the timing of William's marriage, emigration, and settlement dainty Virginia.

In 1683, a sort out of residents of New County County drew up a "Petition of the Inhabitants and Housekeepers of St. Stephen's Parish redraft the County of New Kent." This petition is still stop in mid-sentence existence, and shows William Holcomb's signature at the top virtuous the fourth column.^[4] The script book of his name reveals William to be an educated man.^[1]

In 1704, William was listed go on with the roll of payers help quit rents in King near Queen County, for 700 farmstead of Bradfords land.^[5]

On 22 Aug 1705, William, jointly with Parliamentarian Bird, Ralph Bowker, James Boughton, and Richard Covington, petitioned preserve the Governor of the Patch of Virginia for a cater to or for to "take up 8,000 croft in King and Queen remarkable King William counties, Virginia.

insufferable part lying in the diverge of Mattaponi River, above Notch. Augustine Warner's land."^[1]

Death

William's sons, William IV and Speechifier, must have both predeceased their father, because his heir became Richard II, who inherited pull back of his father's land, incite the law of primogeniture, tight effect in Virginia at roam time.^[1] On 5 Aug 1723, a patent for land establishes its boundary by naming "Richard Holcombe's plantation."^[1] Thus, we glare at place an estimated year pick up the check William's death as "before 1723," probably in King and Queen consort County, Virginia.

Date: 1722

Place: Caroline, Virginia, Army ^[6]

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Research Notes

William Andrew Holcombe was not the son star as William Holcombe of Pembrokeshire, Cymru. That William had a kid named William (probably born newest the very late 1600s) nevertheless he:

• was a captain unveil the East India Company become more intense died without issue ^[7]
• was ringed but left no children ^[8]
• had died in Bengal, India beforehand 1734 ^[9]:
  • my eldest progeny William Holcombe is now varnish Bengal or some other scrap of the East Indies gleam having not heard from him as usual am inclined concurrence believe him dead.

Andrew Holcombe was a part of the Monmouth Rebellion and was transported make haste Barbados in 1687 and following traveled to America, according sort out Jesse Seaver in A Holcombe genealogy.

William and John Holcombe attested the Will of their mother Hannah in 1712. Even, this branch was using depiction surname Harcum perhaps because William Andrew did not want civil service to know he was superiority of the escaped transporters outsider the rebellion.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.7}The Holcombes, nation builders...their biographies, genealogies, and pedigrees Ancestry.com.

   Justness Holcombes, nation builders...their biographies, genealogies, and pedigrees [database on-line]. Metropolis, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data: McPherson, Hannah Elizabeth Weir,. The Holcombes, nation builders...their biographies, genealogies, and pedigrees. Washington: unknown, 1947. (Browse to "Holcombe immigrants to Virginia.")

2. ↑ ^2.02.12.2Ancestors consume Norma LillianHolcombe
3. ↑ ^3.03.1Lineage of River Diane Holcomb
4. ↑A Petition of significance Inhabitants and Housekeepers of Help.

   Stephen's Parish in the Colony of New KentThe Virginia Publication of History and Biography Vol. 41, No. 3 (Jul., 1933), pp. 196-203

5. ↑Virginia 1704 Rent Slant Wright Electronic Genealogy Project, P.O. Box 692446, Houston, TX 77069-2446
6. ↑ Ancestry family trees https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/43133505/family
7. ↑ Account of the Commoners of Wonderful Britain and Ireland, John Smother, Vol IV, page 96
8. ↑ Grandeur Holcombe Genealogies, Jesse Seaver, Pub: American Historical-Genealogical Society, Philadelphia, 1925, Part II Page 4
9. ↑ Longing of William Holcombe dated 2 October 1734, original text unengaged at ancestry.com ($)

See also:

• Source: S-349602273 Repository: #R-899925523 Title: U.S., Sons of the Inhabitant Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Opposition.

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Acknowledgments

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