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             Husband: John HOLBROOK (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
                Born: 12 AUG 1726 (10 11)
             Married:
                Died: 28 JAN 1801 (12 13 14 15)
              Buried: in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (16 17)
              Father: John HOLBROOK
              Mother: Abigail GUNN
             Spouses: Esther NICHOLS
               Title: Jr.
                Wife: Abigail BEERS (18 19)
                Born: 17 APR 1724 in Newtown, Fairfield, CT (20)
                Died: 19 FEB 1797 (21)
              Buried: in Great Hill Cemetery, Seymour, New Haven, CT (22 23)
              Father: Samuel BEERS
              Mother: Sarah
             Spouses: Noah TOMLINSON

Footnotes

  1. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 19.
  2. 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.]
  3. 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.]
  4. Ibid., 59.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/059.html.]
  5. 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].]
  6. Gordon Markiewicz, Tories in Oxford? 4.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/Tories4.html.]
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 5.
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 729.
  12. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 8.
  13. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 95.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan95.html.]
  14. 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.
  15. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 730.
  16. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 95.
    Holbrook, Capt. John, died Jan. 28, 1814, age 75 yrs. (Revolutionary War Marker, Flag).
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan95.html.]
  17. Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/cem794.html.]
  18. Dorothy A. DeBisschop, Historical Personalities of the Lower Naugatuck Valley, 68.
    [http://www.oxfordpast.net/hp68.html.]
  19. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 471, 473, 477, 478.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/471.html.]
  20. Complied by Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 31, Newtown 1711- 1852 (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 11.
  21. Holbrook, Mary Louise, The Holbrook Family of Derby, Connecticut (New Haven, CT, Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1932), 8.
  22. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 100.
    Chapman, Samuel, died Nov. 14, 1817, age 62 yrs.
    Tomlinson, Noah, died Sept. 14, 1794, age 62 yrs.
    Holkbrook, Abigail, late relict of Noah, and comfort of Capt. John Holbrook, died Feb, 19, 1797, age 74 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan100.html.]
  23. Great Hill Cemetery Photograph - Seymour, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem527.html.]

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