Nathaniel Holcombe I, the first of three Nathaniel's and son of Thomas Holcombe settled in the Town of Simsbury, Connecticut in the late 1670's in the remote wilderness at Salmon Brook. He was one of the first of the next generation of colonial pioneers to venture farther west and away from the settled areas along the Connecticut River. His son, Nathaniel II, would also raise his family in Salmon Brook. By that time, the small settlement had become more established but still lay at the edge of the British Empire in America. The next generation, the third Nathaniel would grow up in this wilderness but as he came of age, he would raise a family in an increasingly more settled 18th Century Colonial America.
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| From "The Brittle Thread of Live," The Town of Simsbury in the 1730's. Salmon Brook (the future Town of Granby) is toward the top. Hop Meadow (the main Simsbury settlement) is toward the bottom. West of the Connecticut River and approaching the foothills of the Berkshires, a number of settlements have been established along the colony's western frontier. |
