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     Clarissa Sheldon married Jonathan Post, son of Dr. Asa Post and Mary Holcombe, on 16 February 1818.¹

     Leroy Lester Holcombe was born on 17 May 1906 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Leroy Lester Holcombe married Bertha Julia LaPlanche. Leroy Lester Holcombe died on 26 January 1956 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY, at age 49.¹ He was buried at North Caldwell Cemetery, Lake George, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Emily (?) married Jonathan Post, son of Dr. Asa Post and Mary Holcombe.¹

     Jay Holcombe was born on 15 April 1910 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Jay Holcombe died in 1910 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ He was buried at Knowlhurst Cemetery, Stony Creek, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Melissa Post was born on 18 October 1814 at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Asa Post and Mary Holcombe.¹ Melissa Post married Salem Denton on 17 November 1844.¹

     Frederick Charles Holcombe was born on 29 September 1911 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton.¹ Frederick Charles Holcombe died on 1 April 1971 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY, at age 59.¹ He was buried at North Caldwell Cemetery, Lake George, Warren Co., NY.²

     Emma W. Dunlop was born on 3 November 1823 at Crown Point, Essex, NY. She married Amos Charles Holcombe, son of Charles Holcombe and Sarah L. Smith, on 29 October 1842 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ Emma W. Dunlop died on 29 January 1900 at North Creek, NY, at age 76. She was buried at Union Cemetery, North Creek, Warren Co., NY.²

     Richard Holcombe was born on 9 February 1921.¹ He was the son of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Richard Holcombe married Minnie Lovie Cannon on 16 October 1943 at Craven Co., NC. Richard Holcombe died on 19 December 1971 at Menands, Albany Co., NY, at age 50.¹ He was buried at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, Albany Co., NY.¹

From FindAGrave accessed 7 June 2019:

Wife's name is Minnie Lovie Cannon
Minnie had a son already (Father Unknown)
He was Claude Melton Cannon AKA:Rebel
With Richard she had
1) Verna Joy Holcomb-Wade
2) Helen Earle Holcomb
3) Geraldine (Yankee) Holcomb
4) Richard Michael Holcomb
5) Linda Gray Holcomb-Weiler
6) Diane Pearl Holcomb-Dominy
7) Christine Antoinette Holcomb-Shea
8) William Earl Holcomb
9) Mildred Faye Holcomb-LaRose-Rapello
10) Kenneth Andrew Holcomb
11) Robert Allen Holcomb
12) Barbara Anne Holcomb

With Barbara Seifert/Holcomb (never married)
13) Veronica Sue Holcomb
14) Jaclyn Elain Holcomb
15) Reginald Earl Holcomb
16) Audrey Elizabeth (Not theirs)
They together raised Yankee's Daughter Audrey from a baby on up. Yankee was murdered when Audrey was just a baby.

Minnie and Richard also had a son after Verna joy that they named Louis Wayne. No Known info on his death other than he died as a baby.

     Calneh Rich Ames married Asa Post, son of Dr. Asa Post and Mary Holcombe, on 22 September 1840 at Wadhams, NY.¹

     Eunice Post was born on 31 January 1810 at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Dr. Asa Post and Mary Holcombe.¹ Eunice Post married Jason Pangborn on 21 September 1829.¹ Eunice Post died on 23 August 1855 at age 45.¹

     Howard Leroy Holcombe was born on 11 October 1938 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ He was the son of Leroy Lester Holcombe and Bertha Julia LaPlanche. Howard Leroy Holcombe died on 30 April 1999 at Queensbury, Warren Co., NY, at age 60.¹ He was buried at North Caldwell Cemetery, Lake George, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Doris Holcombe was born on 16 February 1917 at Stony Creek, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Doris Holcombe died on 9 March 1994 at Broadalbin, Fulton Co., NY, at age 77.¹ She was buried at Union Mills Cemetery, Broadalbin, Fulton Co., NY.¹

     Maurice Charles Holcombe was born on 15 April 1944 at Lake George, Warren Co., NY.^1,2 He was the son of Leroy Lester Holcombe and Bertha Julia LaPlanche.¹ Maurice Charles Holcombe died on 5 January 2003 at South Glen Falls, Saratoga Co., NY, at age 58.^1,2 He was buried at Saint Marys Cemetery, South Glen Falls, Saratoga Co., NY.²

     Mary Holcombe was born in August 1873 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY. She was the daughter of Charles Frederick Holcombe and Mary Ellen Mattison.¹ Mary Holcombe married Warren Kathan.¹ Mary Holcombe died in 1963 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹

Warren and Mary were enumerated in the 1900 Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was a farmer, age 43, she was 26. The only child in the household was George F. 1.

Warren and Mary were enumerated in the 1910 Putnam, Washington Co., NY, federal census. He was a farmer, age 52, she was 37. Children in the household were George H. 11, Lelah 8, and Lillian 7.

Warren was enumerated in the 1920 Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was a farmer, age 63. The only other member of the household was son George 21. Lillian was enumerated in Johnsburg in the household of Abia Ross; she was 16.

Warren was enumerated in the household of his daughter Grace Chasson in the 1930 Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was 73.

     Cynthia Truman was born on 12 June 1800 at Preston, Chenango Co., NY.¹ She married John Truman on 3 June 1824 at NY.¹ Cynthia Truman died on 8 October 1835 at DeRuyter, Madson Co., NY, at age 35.¹

     Bernice Holcombe was born in 1920.¹ She was the daughter of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Bernice Holcombe died on 12 September 1974.¹ She was buried at Saint Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Indian Lake, Hamilton Co., NY.¹

     Mary Ellen Mattison was born in July 1856 at England. She married Charles Frederick Holcombe, son of Amos Charles Holcombe and Emma W. Dunlop, in 1872.¹ Mary Ellen Mattison died on 28 October 1944 at North Creek, Warren Co., NY, at age 88. She was buried at Union Cemetery, North Creek, Warren Co., NY.²

     Warren Kathan was born in August 1856.^1,2 He married Mary Holcombe, daughter of Charles Frederick Holcombe and Mary Ellen Mattison.¹

     Pearl Knowlton was born on 30 November 1888. She married Asa Jay Holcombe, son of Charles Frederick Holcombe and Mary Ellen Mattison, circa 1903. Pearl Knowlton died on 22 May 1942 at age 53.

     George F. Kathan was born in October 1898 at NY.¹ He was the son of Warren Kathan and Mary Holcombe.¹

     Electa Jane Holcombe was born on 18 April 1851 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Amos Charles Holcombe and Emma W. Dunlop.² Electa Jane Holcombe died on 9 April 1914 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, at age 62.¹ She was buried at Union Cemetery, North Creek, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Gov. Simon Bradstreet was born on 18 March 1603 at Horbling, Lincolnshire, England. He married Anne Dudley, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley and Dorothy York, circa 1628 at Northamptonshire, England. Gov. Simon Bradstreet died on 27 March 1697 at Salem, Essex Co., MA, at age 94.

Simon, a colonial statesman and governor of Massachusetts, was born in Horbling, Lincolnshire, England, and was baptized on 18 March 1604, the son of Simon Bradstreet, vicar of Horbling, and Margaret (maiden name unknown). In 1617 he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge (of which his father had been a fellow), and received the degrees of B.A. in 1620 and M.A. in 1624. Between 1621 and 1624 he served as assistant to Thomas Dudley, steward to the earl of Lincoln, and then became steward to the dowager countess of Warwick. These connections led to his first marriage, probably in 1628, to Dudley's eldest daughter, Anne, soon to win renown as the poet Anne Bradstreet, and to association with the company of Puritan gentry planning to immigrate to New England. On 18 March 1630, at a meeting in Southampton, Bradstreet was elected an assistant in the newly chartered Massachusetts Bay Company and assumed duties as its secretary. Two weeks later he sailed for America with his wife and the Dudley family in the fleet led by Governor John Winthrop (1588-1649).

In Massachusetts, where the company transformed itself into a colony, Bradstreet settled in Cambridge and continued his administrative tasks. He served as colony secretary until 1636 and, except during the period of direct royal government between 1686 and 1689, continued to be annually reelected to the magistracy (first as assistant, then in 1678 as deputy governor, and, from 1679, as governor) until his retirement in 1692, the longest recorded service of any colonial New England official. Throughout, he sat on numerous General Court committees. He was especially active in the negotiations that in 1643 created the New England Confederation, an alliance between the colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. He served as commissioner or alternate from Massachusetts to the confederation for twenty-four of the next thirty-four years.

In political affairs, Bradstreet consistently positioned himself as a moderate anxious to play down authoritarian tendencies in government and conflicts with the outside world. He sided with the Massachusetts deputies against a majority of his fellow magistrates in a prolonged debate over the degree of discretionary authority to be accorded the magistrates in the day-to-day business of government, and he strove to moderate the punishments inflicted on Robert Child when Child tried to appeal beyond Massachusetts to the English Parliament in 1646 for greater civil liberties and a Presbyterian system of church organization within the colony. Bradstreet joined other Essex County magistrates in 1643 in protesting Winthrop's policy of intervening in a dispute over who was the legitimate ruler of French Acadia (Nova Scotia). In 1661, after the restoration of the English monarchy, he was chosen, with Boston minister John Norton (1606-1663), to travel to London in an effort to allay the Crown's reputed hostility to Puritan Massachusetts. Arriving in England the following spring, the two emissaries quickly secured a royal letter confirming the Massachusetts charter and pardoning past offenses. Upon their return in 1663, however, they found that the letter's other provisions, commanding greater religious toleration and a suffrage no longer restricted to church members, only confirmed suspicions among colonists opposed to the mission that Bradstreet had been too passive in presenting their case for virtual autonomy from the Crown.

These fears did not prevent Bradstreet's election as governor in 1679, as England was again pressing Massachusetts for greater conformity to royal authority. But they produced sharp political divisions during his term of office. Some denounced him by 1684 as so accommodating to visiting royal officials as to be an enemy to his own colony. Others, such as his allies Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton, pressed him to bend still further to London's demands. Once more, Bradstreet steered a middle course. He bowed to the Crown's eventual nullification of the Massachusetts charter but refused to accept office in the royally governed Dominion of New England, imposed in place of charter rule in 1686, on the ground that its authoritarian structure abridged the colonists' liberties. When, on 18 April 1689, the dominion and its governor, Sir Edmund Andros, were overthrown by an armed uprising in Boston, the aged Bradstreet was brought out of retirement to serve as president of a council of safety and then, after June, as governor in a restored charter administration, a post he held despite increasing physical weakness until the arrival of a new royal governor, Sir William Phips, in May 1692. From February 1690 until 1692 his governorship also extended over the neighboring province of New Hampshire.

Bradstreet's long political service won him respect and renown as "the Nestor of New England." Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutch visitor to Boston in 1680, found that the "quiet and grave" governor "dwelt in only a common house, and that not the most costly.. . . He was dressed in black silk, but not sumptuously." Joshua Scottow, in "A Narrative of the Planting of the Massachusets Colony" (1694), hailed Bradstreet as "the only surviving Antiquary of us Nov-Angles, the Prime Secretary and Register of our civil and sacred Records, and the Bifronted Janus who saw the Closure of the Old and the Overture of this New-Albion World." Anne Bradstreet's verse provides a more intimate portrait: "If ever two were one, then surely we," she began the lines addressed "To My Dear and Loving Husband" (1678). Together, they raised four sons and four daughters, "eight birds hatcht in one nest," all of whom married into the colony's most prominent families. From Cambridge, the Bradstreets moved to Ipswich in 1635 and, by 1646, to the frontier settlement of Andover (what is now North Andover). After Anne's death in 1672, Bradstreet lived in Boston. In 1676 he married Anne Downing Gardner, thirty years his junior and a niece of former governor John Winthrop. The marriage was childless, and the couple passed their final years at Salem, where Bradstreet died.

Bradstreet never ranked among the wealthier men of the colony, and he took no lasting interest in mercantile affairs. But with the frequent grants of land given him for his public service he became a leading property developer and absentee proprietor, owning lands that fell within the boundaries of the towns of Hadley, Topsfield, Andover, Salisbury, and Lynn, together with large tracts in Maine. After 1660 he was an active member of the Atherton Company, a powerful group of speculators seeking to develop the Narragansett territories between Rhode Island and Connecticut. His 1689 will disposed of over fifteen hundred acres of land in Massachusetts alone.

Bradstreet's life spanned and exemplified many of the themes of the Puritan colonists' transition from old to New England--from primitive settlement to royal province and from the migration of individual families to the creation of a complex social order. Less ardently religious--to judge by his writings--than many of his fellow leaders, Bradstreet was nonetheless a firm opponent of groups such as the Quakers whom he perceived as threatening New England's domestic peace and purity. In the face of external authority, by contrast, he preferred diplomacy to confrontation. Bradstreet inspired unusual respect and affection among his contemporaries, and his life is powerful testimony to the vitality and cohesion of the political community they created. ¹

     Gertrude Holcombe was born in May 1876 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY. She was the daughter of Charles Frederick Holcombe and Mary Ellen Mattison.¹ Gertrude Holcombe married William James Johnson on 30 November 1896 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹

William and Gertrude were enumerated in the 1900 Johnsburg, Waren Co., NY, federal census. He was a day laborer, age 30, she was 24. The only child in the household was Beecher E. 2.

     Gov. Joseph Dudley was born on 23 September 1647 at Roxbury, MA.¹ He was the son of Gov. Thomas Dudley and Katherine Deighton.¹ Gov. Joseph Dudley married Rebecca Tyng in 1667/68.¹

     Harriet W. Holcombe was born on 6 February 1888 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY. She was the daughter of Charles Frederick Holcombe and Mary Ellen Mattison.¹ Harriet W. Holcombe married Louis Hiram Roblee circa 1905.¹

Louis H. and Hattie W. were enumerated in the 1910 Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was 23, she was 22. Children in the household were Myrtle M. 3, and Milton 8 months.

Louis H. and Harriet were enumerated in the 1920 Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was a steam shovel operator in a mine, age 33, she was 31. Children in the household were Myrtle M. 13. Milton L. 10, and Muriel L. 4 years 6 months.

Louis and Harritte W. "Roble" were enumerated in the 1930 Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY, federal census. He was a steamshovel operator, age 43, she was 42. Children in the household were Myrtle M. 23, Milton L. 20, Geneva M. 14, Jean A. 9, and Kenneth H. 3.

     Lester E. Tuller was born on 1 May 1877. He was the son of Erskine Tuller and Susan C. Travers. Lester E. Tuller married Sarah E. Brown in 1904. Lester E. Tuller died after 1919.

     Ruth Holcombe was born on 2 February 1924.¹ She was the daughter of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Ruth Holcombe married John Gillingham. Ruth Holcombe died in October 1995 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY, at age 71.¹

     Arthur Tuller was born circa 1864 at CT.¹ He was the son of Erskine Tuller and Susan C. Travers.¹

     Katherine Deighton married Gov. Thomas Dudley on 14 April 1644.¹ Katherine Deighton died on 20 August 1671 at Roxbury, MA.¹

     Buster Tuller was born circa 1867 at CT.¹ He was the son of Erskine Tuller and Susan C. Travers.¹

     Bertha Julia LaPlanche was born on 12 February 1909 at Lake George, NY.¹ She married Leroy Lester Holcombe, son of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Bertha Julia LaPlanche died on 2 November 1986 at Glens Falls, Warren Co., NY, at age 77.¹ She was buried at North Caldwell Cemetery, Lake George, Warren Co., NY.²

Bertha J. Holcomb, 77, of Corinth Road, Glens Fall, died Sunday (Nov.
2, 1986) at Glens Falls Hospital following a long illness.
Born Feb. 12, 1909, in Lake George, she was the daughter of Lester and
Eva LaPanche.
She lived in the Glens Falls-Lake George area all of her life.
Mrs. Holcomb was the widow of LeRoy L. Holcomb, who died in January
1956.
She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church in Lake George.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Donald (Anna) Martell, of South
Glens Falls, Norma M. Holcomb, of Hudson Falls, and Alice Ireland, of
North Carolina; three sons, Howard Holcomb, of Queensbury, Alan Holcomb,
of Corinth, and Maurice Holcomb, of South Glens Falls; two sisters,
Pauline LaJoy, of Glens Falls, and Mrs. Jeff (Ethel) Olinghouse, of Bakersfield,
Calif; one brother, Ernest LaPlanche, of Queensbury; 19 grandchildren;
17 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Service were held Wednesday, Nov. 5 at the Maynard D. Baker Funeral
Home in Warrensburg. The Rev. John Williams, of St. James Episcopal
Church in Lake George, officiated. Interment followed at North Caldwell
Cemetery in Lake George.

     Minor M. Tuller was born in October 1873 at CT.^1,2 He was the son of Erskine Tuller and Susan C. Travers.¹

Minor M. and Mary E. were enumerated in the 1900 Simsbury, Hartford Co., CT, federal census. He was a farmlaborer, age 26, she was 26. Children in the household were Mabel A. 5, and Milton L. 4.

     Ruth Holcombe was born in 1909 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Ruth Holcombe died on 5 June 1909 at Johnsburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was buried at Knowlhurst Cemetery, Stony Creek, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Wilbur Tuller was born in June 1875 at CT.¹ He was the son of Erskine Tuller and Susan C. Travers.¹

     Eleanor Holcombe was born on 7 August 1914 at Stony Creek, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Asa Jay Holcombe and Pearl Knowlton. Eleanor Holcombe died in August 1994 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was buried at Saint Cecilias Cemetery, Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY.¹

     Lester E. Tuller Jr. was born on 22 August 1905 at CT.¹ He was the son of Lester E. Tuller and Sarah E. Brown. Lester E. Tuller Jr. married Pearl E. Armington on 26 February 1929. Lester E. Tuller Jr. died on 7 August 1990 at Tariffville, Hartford Co., CT, at age 84.¹

     Helen Anne Holcombe was born on 20 November 1934 at Warrensburg, Warren Co., NY.¹ She was the daughter of Leroy Lester Holcombe and Bertha Julia LaPlanche. Helen Anne Holcombe died on 7 March 1994 at Glens Falls, Warren Co., NY, at age 59.¹

     Nelson C. Tuller was born circa 1906 at CT.¹ He was the son of Lester E. Tuller and Sarah E. Brown.¹

     William Sharpless Jackson married Helen Maria Fiske in 1875.

     Ann Dudley was born on 27 August 1684 at Roxbury, MA.¹ She was the daughter of Gov. Joseph Dudley and Rebecca Tyng.¹ Ann Dudley married John Winthrop, son of Waitstill Winthrop and Mary Browne, on 6 December 1706 at Roxbury, MA.^1,2 Ann Dudley died on 29 May 1776 at age 91.¹

     Edward Hutchinson was born on 28 May 1613 at England. He was the son of William Hutchinson and Anne Marbury. Edward Hutchinson married Catherine Hamby on 13 October 1636. Edward Hutchinson died on 19 August 1675 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA, at age 62.

     Ruth Embler was born on 14 July 1856 at Mongaut, Sullivan Co., NY. She married Sterling Benjamin Holcombe, son of Benjamin S. Holcombe and Lois Delight Chappell.

     William Hutchinson was born on 14 August 1586. He married Anne Marbury, daughter of Francis Marbury and Bridget Dryden, on 9 August 1612 at St. Martin Vintry, London, Middlesex, England. William Hutchinson died in 1642 at Boston, Suffolk Co., MA.

     Lelah Kathan was born circa 1901 at NY.² She was the daughter of Warren Kathan and Mary Holcombe.¹

     Knud Peder Knudsen was born on 16 April 1866 at Hojby, Odense, Denmark. He married Katherine Nielsen on 3 October 1900 at Kenosha, Kenosha Co., WI. Knud Peder Knudsen died in 1934 at Kenosha, WI.