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Female Hopestill Holbrook Click to view Hopestill Holbrook in the family tree

Hopestill was born in 1647 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts.1   Hopestill's father was William Holbrook and her mother was Elizabeth Pitts.  Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holbrook and Jane Powyes. She had four brothers and six sisters, named Samuel, Cornelius, William, John, Elizabeth, Jane, Mehitable, Experience, Millicent and Persis.  She was the fourth oldest of the eleven children.  She died at the age of 59 on January 12th, 1706 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts.1 

Family Details of Hopestill's family with Samuel Read

1 "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson"
Further sources/citations:
"New England Marriages: Prior to 1700" @ p. 615, "The ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835, of Litchfield, Maine, by Walter Goodwin Davis." @ p. 100,131, "History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family" @ p. 33-35, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register.  4 vols. 1860–62; rpt. ed." @ 2:441-3; 3:518, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545352893

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