Ancestry of
Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

David Holcomb

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Boris Johnson — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 496 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Holcomb 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Buell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Oct 1696 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 23 Feb 1784 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Buttolph
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Mar 1722 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Eli Holcomb (Ahnentafel No:248 )

• Sources for David Holcomb

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Case #1415, Hartford, Probate file for David Holcomb.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 79, Marriage record for David Holcomb and Mabel Buttolph.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1982, Vol. 58, p. 236.
  • ⁴ American Ancestors, "Boris Johnson: Foote Ancestry", incorrectly gives David's name as Daniel, (accessed 04/15/2020).
  • ⁵ Chapin, Gilbert Warren, The Chapin Book of Genealogical Data with Brief Sketches of the Descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin, Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: Chapin Family Association (1924), 70, 241.
  • ⁶ Seaver, Jesse, The Holcomb(e) Genealogy: A Genealogy, History and Directory . . ., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Historical-Genealogical Society (1925), 46.
  • ⁷ Welles, Albert, History of the Buell Family in England: From the Remotest Times Ascertainable from Our Ancient Histories, and in America, New York: Society Library (1881), 41.

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