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             Husband: John HOLBROOK (1 2 3 4 5 6)
                Born: 19 OCT 1699 (7 8)
             Married: 27 AUG 1723 in Derby, New Haven, CT (46 47 48 49)
                Died: 05 JUN 1752 (9 10 11)
              Buried: in Old Episcopal Cemetery, Elm Street, Ansonia, New Haven, CT (12 13 14)
              Father: Abel HOLBROOK
              Mother: Hannah MERWIN
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Abigail GUNN (15 16)
                Born: 16 SEP 1707 (17 18 19)
                Died: 07 FEB 1783 (20 21 22)
              Buried: in Old Episcopal Cemetery, Elm Street, Ansonia, New Haven, CT (23 24 25)
              Father: Abel GUNN
              Mother: Agnes HAWKINS
             Spouses: John BEACH
Children
01               (M): John HOLBROOK (26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34)
                Born: 12 AUG 1726 (35 36)
                Died: 28 JAN 1801 (37 38 39 40)
             Spouses: Esther NICHOLS; Abigail BEERS
02               (F): Abigail HOLBROOK
                Born: 27 JUL 1729 (41 42 43)
                Died: 29 JUN 1738 (44 45)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 68.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp68.html.]
  2. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
    April 23, 1752, he deeded two parcels of land to his son John, Jr. One piece being part of Quaker Farms purchase on Rockhouse Hill, bought from Abraham Persons.
  3. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 320.
  4. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.
    ... His residence was adjoining the old Episcopal grave-yard. He and his wife Abigail gave the ground for this grave-yard and the site for the first Episcopal church. He was one of the reliable, successful men of his day ....
  5. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 2, p 76.
  6. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 6.
    ... between the dwelling houses of Abel Gunn and John Holbrook ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/006.html.]
  7. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 3.
  8. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 241.
  9. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  10. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 241.
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 815.
  12. Ibid., 815.
    Here lies intered the | body of Mr John Holbrook | who departed this life June 5 1752 | in the 53 year of his age.
  13. Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem224.html.]
  14. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, 215.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/elmstcemscan215.html.]
  15. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 68.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp68.html.]
  16. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), vol 2, p 76.
  17. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  18. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 229.
  19. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 320.
  20. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  21. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 189.
  22. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 815.
  23. Ibid., 815.
    Here rest the body | of Mrs Abigail Beach | widow of the Rev John Beach | of Newtown | departed this life | Feb 7 1783 | in the 76th year of her age.
  24. Old Episcopal Cemetery Photograph - Ansonia, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem222.html.]
  25. 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Elm St. Cemetery, 219.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/elmstcemscan219.html.]
  26. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 19.
  27. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 37, 67 - 71.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp37.htm
    http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp67.html.]
  28. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 55.
    ... Dec. 11, 1775...Committee of Inspection ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/055.html.]
  29. Ibid., 59.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/059.html.]
  30. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 7 - 8.
    ... He lived on Great Hill, a part of Derby at that time, in the house built by his father between 1740 and 1745 ... He left the Episcopal Church... at the beginning of the war, because the pastor, Reverend Mr. Mansfield, preached and talked submission to the King of England... Captain John was one of the town's most reliable and trustworthy men..... When building the church at Oxford, he gave the committee liberty to cut any timber of his for its erection, excepting three trees, which they were strictly forbidden to touch. On looking around they found these trees to be just what they wanted and took them expecting to effect a reconciliation with him. They appointed a meeting. John wouldn't attend - "They" had forgotten their honor and he would have nothing to do with them.
    [[Captain John Hull].]
  31. Gordon Markiewicz, Tories in Oxford? 4.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/Tories4.html.]
  32. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 730.
    ... resided on his father's homestead adjoining the Episcopal burying ground until his death, Jan. 28, 1801, aged 74.
  33. Ibid., 729.
    ... withdrew from the Episcopal church at the beginning of the Revolution ... complained of by Dr, Mansfield, as given in Dr. E. E. Beardsley's History of the Episcopal Church in Conn.
  34. 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.
  35. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  36. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.
  37. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 8.
  38. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 95.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan95.html.]
  39. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 241.
  40. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 730.
  41. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  42. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 240.
  43. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.
  44. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  45. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.
  46. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 3.
  47. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 229.
  48. Susan Woodruff Abbott, Families of Early Milford, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 320.
  49. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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