Arrived in Dorchester w/ John Warham’s group of puritans. While there he married fellow passenger Elizabeth Ferguson [maybe -- the date is the same as his freemanship and there’s no original source to cite]. He was part of a large group of men who took the new oath of freeman in May 1634 after it was shortened and simplified. Many had refused to take the older version, considering it too demanding (it required allegiance to the actual officers of the government rather than the Commonwealth). [ [1053]] He was first granted land in Dorchester in Dec 1634.[ [501]]

Recorded in the 1640 Town Records at Windsor in the list of “First Settlers of Windsor, five years after their removal from Dorchester.” (NEHGR 5:365) [The list includes people who arrived after 1635, such as those who came with Huit in 1639] Representative from Windsor and Hartford in convention that framed the Constitution of the Connecticut Colony. [ [593]]

"Thomas acquired a home lot in the first tier of allotments in Windsor paralleling the Connecticut River. His lot lay between that of Thomas Gunn and Philip Randall and extended westward to the foot of Meadow Hill. His meadow lot lay eastward to the river. The fact that he had lots assigned in the first tier is a strong indication that he arrived when the allotments were originallymade in 1636. By 1649, however, Thomas had moved to a section of land on the Farmington river several miles northwest of Windsor known as Poquonnock where his neighbors were the Griswold brothers -- Edward, Frances and George -- and John Bartlett. His property lay near Indian Neck and Stony Brook.” (http://www.holcombgenealogy.com)

At his death, his estate was worth £294 10s, with £95 in real estate. Appended to the inventory was a list of his survivors:
The relict Elissabeth his widow
      Sons
      1 Josuay the eldest of age 17 years
      2 Benaiah the second of age 13 years 3 months
      3 Nathanell the third of age 9 years
      Daughters
      4 Abigayle the eldest unmarried of age 18 years 3 quarters
      5 Debora the youngest of age 6 years 7 months


Savage’s: THOMAS, Dorchester 1633, freem. 14 May 1634, rem. with other friends of Rev. John Warham 1635 or 6, to Windsor, prob. with two or three ch. had there Abigail, b. apt. 6 Jan. 1639; Joshua, bapt. 27 Sept. 1640; Sarah, 14 Aug. 1642; Benajah, 23 June 1644; Deborah, b. 15 Oct. 1646, d. soon; Nathaniel, 4 Nov. 1648; Deborah, again, 15 Feb. 1651; Jonathan, 23 Mar. 1653, d. soon; and the f. d. 7 Sept. 1657. Of his ds. we kn. that Abigail m. 11 June 1658, Samuel Bissell; and Deborah m. 5 Nov. 1668, Daniel Birge; and it is presum. that Elizabeth wh. m. 16 Nov. 1654, Josiah Ellsworth; and Mary, wh. m. 3 Oct. 1655, were his ds.[ [500]]

Will found in Probate record pp 105-106. Text at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/o/l/Randal-H-Holcombe/GENE0001-0001.html.

Estate inventoried Oct. 1, 1657 for £294/9/8.

Stiles says he was on the Mary and John, but there is no record of him in Dorchester until at least 1633, which means he fails the test set forth by Robert Charles Anderson in the NEHGR in 1994: originate from the West Country, in Dorchester first, and present there by early 1632. Warham, with whom Thomas traveled to Windsor, did come on the Mary and John.

Not the son of Gilbert Holcomb - he died without issue: http://www.holcombegenealogy.com/tholcomb/d0/i0000111.htm

Some claim she was a fellow passenger with Thomas Holcomb on the ship Mary John. They were later married in Connecticut.

Though undocumented, Elizabeth's surname often appears as FERGUSON, and a baptism in 1634 (no month or day) is recorded in Devon, England for Elizabeth, daughter of "Thomas Holcomb & Elizabeth Ferguson." Perhaps Thomas had the birth of his first child in New England recorded back in England. [1049]