BENAJAH HOLCOMB

• Death Notes
  • Sgt. Benajah Holcombe was born on 23 June 1644 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT
    b. 23 June 1644, d. 25 January 1736
    

• General Notes
  •    He was the son of Thomas Holcombe and Elizabeth (?). Sgt. Benajah Holcombe married Sarah Eno, daughter of James Eno and Anna Bidwell, on 11 April 1667 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT.6,7,5 Sgt. Benajah Holcombe died on 25 January 1736 at Windsor, Hartford Co., CT, at age 91.7
    McCracken: death date . . . "misappropriated for his mythical brother Thomas as on the newly-cut Holcombe tombstone in Granby Cemetery. His unusual first name occurs some 16 times in the Old Testament but was not sufficiently familiar to the compilers of the Phelps Genealogy who, at least several times, if not always, call him Benjamin. Benajah appears not to have moved to Simsbury with his two brothers, and I have had more difficulty in tracing his descendants than those of his brothers. The reader is cautioned to verify every statement, particularly what Mrs. McPherson has to say of him. He married at Windsor, April 11, 1667, his stepsister, Sarah Enno or Eno, born at Windsor, 16 June 1649, daughter of James Enno or Eno by his second wife Anna Bidwell, who was perhaps the daughter, more probably the widow of Richard Bidwell, This Anna was the mother of all the Eno children. Dr. Stiles, under "Holcombe," kills off this Sarah in April 1732, which is about five years earlier than the death of Benajah but under "Phelps" (2:565) he makes her marry, secondly, Samuel Phelps (William, William), born at Windsor, 5 Sept 1642, died at Simsbury, 21 Oct 1741. The first wife of the said Samuel Phelps was Abigail Williams, born Windsor, 31 May 1658, daughter of a John Williams who married at Windsor, 29 June 1644, Mary Burlly. Mary (Burlly) Williams died 18 April 1681, having been married, as the record says, 37 years and sometime later this John Williams married again, this time to that Ester or Hester ----, who had married, first, James Eggleston (Bigod), and second as 4th wife, James Enno or Eno aforesaid. John Williams died in 1712 aged 96 and Esther/Hester died in 1720. See also The American Genealogist 56:169. Under "Phelps" Stiles inserts a marriage of the aforesaid Samuel Phelps to an Elizabeth with some children born in Boston. This marriage is unknown to the Phelps Genealogy and I have made no attempt to solve the problem beyond making certain that there were Boston births to a Samuel and Elizabeth Phelps whoever they were.
    
    Mathew Grant records the birth of two children in Windsor 17 Aug 1877.
    
    This family stayed in Windsor when the others went to Simsbury.
    
    Reference=A-6
    
    

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