Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

Esther Holcombe

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of John Brown — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 23 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Holcombe 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Bliss   
  • Birth Date:
  • Feb 1684 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Dec 1775 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hop Meadow Cemetery, Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Brewster Higley
  • Marriage Date:
  • 17 Feb 1708/1709 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Higley (Ahnentafel No:11 )

  Elizabeth Higley

  • Notes: 

  • Esther Holcombe's given name is also seen as Hester.

• Sources for Esther Holcombe

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 73, Marriage record for Brewster Higley and Esther Holcomb.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/01/2015).
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, p. 20.
  • ⁴ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 100, 104-105.