Individual Details

Scituate Town Records - digitized on Ancestry, but copy of the original. First part of the filming is vital records - p.97, image 220, begins a list of livestock marks and various other entries. At the top of p. 97 it says, "Old Record, Vol. 5, p.1". There is an index of sort, but very hard to follow.
p.125/197 No date - dates vary from 1659-1739, old page numbers inconsistent - probably the son William since it follow entries for Samuel, but could be his father.
William Holbrook, one brown mare of a brown bay culler a noch or half peny cut out of har Right eare in the hinder pt of the eare
and one yearling Colt of a brown bay Culler a noch or half peny cut out of his Right eare in the hinder part of the eare.


Holbrook webpage
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Capt. William Holbrook, born about 1620 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England, baptized 12 June 1620 at St. Johns, in Glastonbury, died 3 July 1699 at Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; married Elizabeth Pitts, born about 1622 at Newcastle, Tyne, England, died about 1696 at Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, daughter of William & Elizabeth Pitts. "Capt. William Holbrook came to Scituate in 1660, and purchased lands in Conihasseett, adjoining the farm of Capt. Michael Pierce, on the sowth-west. His house was built on the south side of the Cohasset road, a half mile west of Capt. Pierce's." He resided in Weymouth till about 1663, when he removed to Mendon. The Indians drove him back in 1676 and thereafter he settled in Scituate by 1676. Freeman 1647. Selectman, Deacon, and Captain in militia at Mendon.

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Birth: Jun. 12, 1620
Glastonbury
Somerset, England
Death: Jul. 3, 1699
Scituate
Plymouth County
Massachusetts, USA

He was christened at Glastonbury, Co.Somerset on Jun 12,1620, the son of Thomas Holbrook and Jane Powys Holbrook. He arrived in New England with his parents, and the family settled in Weymouth,MA.
He married, first, about 1643, Elizabeth Pitts.
He married, second, about 1696, Abigail (Wright) Sharpe Clapp, the widow of Robert Sharpe and Thomas Clapp, and daughter of Richard Wright and Margaret ____ Wright.
Children(by first marriage): Samuel Holbrook, Elizabeth Holbrook Sprague Bick, Mehitable Holbrook Sprague, William Holbrook Jr, Cornelius Holbrook, John Holbrook, Millicent Holbrook, and Persis Holbrook Farrow.

Christen	12 Jun 1620	Saint Johns, Glastonbury, Somerset, England
Marriage	1643	Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts - Elizabeth Pitts\Petts
Death	3 Jul 1699	Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts

Spouse	Elizabeth Pitts\Petts ( - 1696)
Child	Samuel Holbrook (1643 - 1712)
Child	MAHITABLE HOLBROOK (1648 - 1719)
Child	Elizabeth Holbrook (1649 - 1690)
Child	Jane Holbrook (1652 - )
Child	Hopestill Holbrook (1656 - 1706)
Child	William Holbrook (1657 - 1714)
Child	Cornelius Holbrook (1662 - 1742)

Father	Thomas Holbrook (1589 - 1677)
Mother	Jane Powyes ( - )