Bissell Family History

Notes on Samuel Holbrook, Sr. ancestry chart:

Thomas Holbrook, b. Abt 1500, father was Richard, b. Abt 1470, Dundry, Somerset.  Agnes’ father was Nicholas Derell, b. Abt 1546, Malreward, Somerset; her mother was Alice.  

Thomas Holbrook, born 1589 in England, died 10 March 1677 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts; married 12 September 1616 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England, Jane Powyes, born in England, died 24 April 1677 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.
        Thomas and his wife Jane, their sons John, Thomas, Anne, and Elizabeth sailed from Weymouth, England, on or near 10 March 1635 with Rev. Joseph Hull's Company. He came from Broadway, Somersetshire, England, and came ashore at Corchester 7 June 1635, then to the place now called Weymouth, and built a house there, as he attested in court 2 Noember 1666. He was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1645. He was a selectman of Weymouth for five years from 1645 through 1654. Ten acres were granted to him in the First Division and thirty acres in the Second Division on 14 December 1663.
        Thomas, in Weymouth 1643, may have come several years earlier at Weymouth (whence rem. the first sett. of Rehoboth in that yr.) and though he was one of the grantees of Rehoboth, for not going to reside there his share was forfeited in January 1645. All his children probably were brought from England. He was a freeman in 1643. He was living in Dorchester in 1652, and in Medfield in 1668.
        His will dated 31 December 1668, with codicil 31 December 1673, and proved 24 April 1677 at Weymouth, names wife Jane, three sons, three married daughters, and grandchildren John, Peter and William Holbrook. A deposition made 7 November 1666 gives Thomas' age as 77 years.

Children:

1. John, born 1617 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England, died 23 November 1699 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co.,

    Massachusetts.

2.William, born 1620, died 3 July 1699.

3. Thomas, born 1624 in England, died 22 January 1697 in Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts.

4. Anne, born 1629 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England, died 3 July 1699 in New London, New London Co., Connecticut.

5. Elizabeth, born 1631, died 1674.

6. Jane, born 1635 in Glastonbury, Somerset Co., England, died 1680 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. 

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 Capt. William Holbrook came to Scituate in 1660, and purchased lands in Conihasseett, adjoining the farm of Capt. Michael Pierce, on the south-west. His house was built on the south side of the Cohasset road, a half mile west of Capt. Pierce’s.  He resided in Weymouth till about 1663, when he removed to Mendon. The Indians drove him back in 1676 and thereafter he settled in Scituate by 1676. Freeman 1647. Selectman, Deacon, and Captain in militia at Mendon.  From Samuel Dean’s history.  This man was also an ancestor of Lucille Ball, along with other ancestors of hers such as Robert White/Bridget Algar and Anthony Eames/Margery, 

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Jane Powyes’s mother was Elizabeth; her father was William Powyes, b. Abt 1568, Glastonbury.

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Elizabeth Pitts was William and Elizabeth’s only child. They left Ipswich for America aboard the Diligent on 10 Aug 1638, and settled at Hingham.