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Name: William HOLCOMBE
Title: II
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1645 in of Pembrokeshire, Wales, or Shropeshire, England
Death: 1722/1723 in Caroline, Va
Note: William Holcombe was born in England, about 1650 and received his education there, becoming a minister of the Church of England.
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He married, either in Devonshire, England, or in Pembrokeshire, Wales (the records not being clear as to which place). His wife has not yet been identified.
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William and his wife must have emigrated as newly-weds just prior to 1678 when their first child was born in Virginia, settling in St. Stephen's Parish in the County of New Kent.
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William Holcombe is recorded as being the father of a son, Henry Holcombe, born in St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland Co., Va., Oct. 12, 1680. (Church Records of Births - some deaths- in St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland Co., Va,
1661-1810. Published as Virginia Colonial Abstracts, published by Beverley and Charlotte R. Fleet.)
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Among the executive papers of the Colony of Virginia of 1683 there was found in 1928 a "Petition of the Inhabitants and Householders of St. Stephen's
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Parish in the County of New Kent" (Virginia). "To the Rt. Honorable Sr Henry Chickeley, Kt, His Majesty's Deputy Governer and Capt Genl of Va and to the Honorable Council of State" asking for permission to elect a new vestry. Sir Henry acted
as Deputy Governer from 1678-1680 and from Aug. 1680 to Dec. 1682. From this it can be inferred that the petition was signed before 1683. This petition was signed by "William Holcombe" and in his autograph we can see the good penmanship of a
well educated man.
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In 1682, New Kent was a county of far-flung frontiers which was more populous in the east than it was in the west. In that year it held 1,802 tithables making it the second most populated county in Virginia. Tithables in that period
represented about 37% of the population making New Kent's total population about 4,870, no children under 16 being tithables.
Change Date: 30 APR 2000
Father: William HOLCOMBE b: 1622 in Shropeshire, England
Mother: Unk MEARS b: 1632 in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Marriage 1 Mrs William HOLCOMB b: ABT 1669 in Wales
Married: 1680 in Pembrokeshire, Wales, British Isles
Children
William HOLCOMBE b: ABT 1678 in St. Stevens Parish, Northumberland Co., Va
Henry HOLCOMBE b: 12 OCT 1680 in St. Stevens Parish, Northumberland Co., Va
Richard HOLCOMBE b: 1682 in Virginia
John HOLCOMBE b: ABT 1685 in St. Stevens Parish, New Kent Co., Va
