Section VL: Descendants of William Holbrook

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Generation One

1. WILLIAM1 HOLBROOK was born about 1575[1], and died between 1615 and 1635[1]. He married EDITH _____, who was born about 1562[1], and died in 1612[1].
Children:
+2i.THOMAS2 HOLBROOK of Broadway, Somersetshire, England, United Kingdom, b. in March 1599[10] of Broadway; d. about 1 Feb. 1677; m. on 12 Sept. 1616[10] in Glastonbury, Somerset, England[10] JANE POWYS, b. in 1601[1], d. about Feb. 1677[10].
3ii.REBECCA HOLBROOK, b. about 1600/1; d. about 1600/1.
4iii.JOHN HOLBROOK, b. about 1600/1; d. about 1600/1.

Generation Two

2. THOMAS2 HOLBROOK (William1) of Broadway, son of (1) William1 and Edith (_____) HOLBROOK, was born in March 1599[10] of Broadway, and died between 1 Feb. 1677 and 10 March 1677. He married in Glastonbury[10], on 12 Sept. 1616[10], JANE POWYS, who was born in 1601[1], and died about Feb. 1677[10].
Children:
5i.JOHN3 HOLBROOK, bp. on 6 April 1618[10] in Glastonbury[10]; d. on 23 Nov. 1699[6].
+6ii.WILLIAM HOLBROOK, bp. on 12 June 1620[10] in Glastonbury[10]; d. about Sept. 1699[7]; m. (1) before 1655[10] ELIZABETH PITTS, b. about 1624[1], d. in 1696[7]; m. (2) ABIGAIL WRIGHT, d. in 1707[7].
7iii.THOMAS HOLBROOK, b. in 1625[11]; d. on 22 July 1697[6].
8iv.ANNE HOLBROOK, b. in 1630[6, 11]; d. about 1700.
9v.ELIZABETH HOLBROOK, b. in 1634[7, 11]; d. in 1674[7].
10vi.JANE HOLBROOK, b. about 1637[11]; d. about 1680[7].

Generation Three

6. WILLIAM3 HOLBROOK (Thomas2, William1), son of (2) Thomas2 and Jane (POWYS) HOLBROOK, was born on 14 June 1620[1], was christened on 12 June 1620[10] in Glastonbury[10], and died between 17 July 1699 and 31 Dec. 1699[7]. He married (1st) before 1655[10], ELIZABETH PITTS, who was born about 1624[1], and died in 1696[7]. He married (2nd) ABIGAIL WRIGHT, who died in 1707[7]. [9]
Children of: William3 HOLBROOK and Elizabeth PITTS:
11i.ELIZABETH4 HOLBROOK, b. about 1660; d. about 1700.
12ii.HOPESTILL HOLBROOK, b. about 1660; d. about 1700.
13iii.SAMUEL HOLBROOK, b. about 1660; d. about 1700.
14iv.JANE HOLBROOK, b. about 1660; d. about 1750[7].
+15v.MEHITABLE HOLBROOK, b. about 1649[1]; d. about 1720; m. on 20 July 1670[4] in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts, United States[4] (AMX-16) JONATHAN SPRAGUE, b. in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts[3, 5] on 28 May 1648[3, 5], d. in Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States[4] in Sept. 1741[4], son of (AMX-9) William and (PF-12) Millicent (EAMES) SPRAGUE.
16vi.PERSIS HOLBROOK, b. about 1660; d. in 1696[7].
17vii.WILLIAM HOLBROOK, b. on 23 June 1657[7]; d. on 19 Nov. 1714[7].
18viii.CORNELIUS HOLBROOK, b. on 19 Nov. 1662[7]; d. on 14 Dec. 1742[7].

Generation Four

15. MEHITABLE4 HOLBROOK (William3, Thomas2, William1), daughter of (6) William3 and Elizabeth (PITTS) HOLBROOK, was born between 1634 and 1656[1], and died between 20 July 1670 and 1766. She married in Weymouth[4], on 20 July 1670[4], (AMX-16) JONATHAN SPRAGUE, son of (AMX-9) William and (PF-12) Millicent (EAMES) SPRAGUE, who was born on 28 May 1648[3, 5] in Hingham[3, 5], was christened on 28 May 1648[8] in Hingham[8], and died in Sept. 1741[4] in Smithfield[4]. [2, 4, 5, 7, 9]
Children: See (AMX-16) Jonathan SPRAGUE


1. Donna Spence, to Dave Thaler, e-mail.
2. Thomas Edward Bond, Jenckes - Jenks Genealogy (San Francisco, California: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1952), 5.
3. Warren Vincent Sprague, Sprague Families in America (Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing Co., 1913), 127.
4. Ibid., 132.
5. Frank William Sprague, "The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 63 (April 1909): 148.
6. John Osborne Austin, One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982), 131.
7. Ibid., 132.
8. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:1737.
9. George Walter Chamberlain, The Spragues of Malden Massachusetts (Boston: privately printed, 1923), 3:1737.
10. Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003), 3:352; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 8 June 2011).
11. Ibid., 3:353.