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- Source of birth, marriage and death dates - Vital Records of Upton, Worcester Co., MA
Upton's Heritage, the history of a Massachusetts town by Donald Blake Johnson
p 93 - 94 " ... after selling his property to Peter Holbrook of Bellingham. The mills remained in the Holbrook family for more than eighty-two years. Loring Benson bought some of the land in 1844. By 1850 William Knowlton, Capt. William Legg, and Velorous Taft had taken control of the property. The mill then became an important link in an expanding industrial enterprise led by Knowlton.
History of Bellingham, Early Settlers, " Peter Holbrook of Mendon deed to his son John, in 1706, sixty acres near the east side of Beaver Pond River, through which land ran the Country Road (Hartford Avenue) four rods wide. This John died in 1757, leaving a wife Hannah, and five sons and two daughters. He was the first town treasurer, and held the office for seven years. Three years later, he began to be town clerk for the same lenght of time. Two of his brothers were Peter and Eliphalet, and these were three of the four Mendon families to set off to Bellingham. In 1712, Peter Holbrook, Sr., deeded to his son Peter about seventy acres near the Country Road and Beaver Pond River. Eliphalet Holbrook obtained of Silvanus Holbrook in 1716 by exchange sixty-acres on the Country Road and Beaver Pond River. He with Johnathan Thomson and Joseph Wight received in 1744 the deed from Elnathan Wight of the land for the first Baptist Church at Crimpville. In 1767, Eliphalet Holbrook, weaver, deed his homestead on both sides of the road from Mendon to Boston to his son Eliphalet. He was town clerk for six years at three different times, and treasurer for twelve years in all at five different times. He died in 1777 and left eight children.
The fourth Holbrook to sign the petition was Joseph, ancestor of A. H. Holbrook of High Street, who died in 1750. He was a Baptist, and when Brown University ws started he rode horseback to New Jersey, though over sixty years old to find a professor for it.
Aaron Holbrook was town clerk eight years, and treasurer nine years; Amos H., clerk three; Eliab, clerk two, treasurer two; Eliphalet, clerk six and treasurer twelve; John, clerk eight, and treasurer seven; Joseph, clerk two, and treasurer one, and Valentine W., treasurer two years.
Twenty-eight Holbrooks were born here before 1750 and one hundred and ninety before 1850, making this the largest family in town."
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1713 - 1792 (78 years)
