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5, 1665, and died March 31, 1700. He
married, in 1688, Elizabeth Holcomb, who
was born April 4, 1670, in Windsor,
daughter of Joshua and Ruth (Sherwood)
Holcomb. She was twice married after
his death.
Their son, James Case, was born March
12, 1693, lived on the paternal homestead
in Terry's Plain, Simsbury, and died September
26, 1759. He married, in 1715,
Esther Fithin, of Newark, New Jersey,
who died September 19, 1769.
Their son, Amasa Case, born October
18, 1731, died August 18, 1824. He lived
in Terry's Plain, and served as a soldier
of the Revolution from August 24 to September
25, 1776, as a part of Lieutenant
Job Case's company. He had five wives.
He married (first) in 1752, Elizabeth Hoskins,
born about 1732, daughter of Robert
and Elizabeth (Buckland) Hoskins,
died May 27, 1764.
Their son, Amasa (2) Case, was born
October 29, 1753, and lived in YVestover's
Plain in Simsbury, where he died June 23,
1834. He married Mercy Hillyer, born in
1763, died September 3, 1809.
Their fourth son, Julius Case, was born
May 22, 1790, and died November 11,
1834. He married Ann Phelps, daughter
of Noble and Abigail (Merrills-Hum-
phrey) Phelps, born August 4, 1803, died
November 22, 1843. Abigail Phelps was
the widow of Abraham Humphrey and
daughter of Benoni and Lois Merrills.
Their eldest child, Julius Alonzo Case,
was born December 13, 1832, in Sims-
bury, grew up in Poquonock, and settled
in Hartford where he engaged in mercan-
tile business in the employ of Henry C.
Ransom. Later he became a partner in
the firm of Case & Prentice, wholesale
milliners in the old Hills Block. He died
September 21, 1886, in Wethersfield,
where he had made his home during the
last ten years of his life, continuing in
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business up to the day of his death. He
was an ardent Republican in political
principle, and was a member and vestryman
in old Christ Episcopal Church in
Hartford. He was a very genial man,
firm in principle and of strong character.
He married, September 24, 1857, Jennie
Crosby, who was born June 17, 1839.
Their eldest child, Minnie Jane Case,
became the wife of James Reed Anderson,
as previously noted.
Jennie (Crosby) Case was a descendant
of early pioneers of New England. One
of these, Elder William Brewster, born
in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England,
in 1559, was one of the founders of the
Plymouth colony in Massachusetts. He
was educated at the University of Cam-
bridge, was postmaster at Scrooby until
1604, came over on the "Mayflower" with
his wife, Mary, and died about April 18,
1643.
His daughter, Patience Brewster, born
in England, came to Plymouth in the
ship "Anne," in 1623, and married, August
5, 1624, Governor Thomas Prence, this
being the ninth marriage celebrated in the
colony. Thomas Prence came from England
in the ship "Fortune" in 1621, was
Governor in 1634 and in 163S, being annu-
ally elected thereafter until 1673, the year
of his death. Patience (Brewster) Prence
died in 1634.
Their second daughter, Mercy Prence,
born about 1630, in Plymouth, removed
with her father's family to Eastham in
1645, and married there, February 13,
1650, Major John Freeman, who was long
prominent in church and colonial affairs,
and died in that part of Eastham now
Orleans, October 19, 1719, in his ninety-
eighth year. His wife, Mercy, died in
what is now Orleans, September 28, 171 1,
in her eighty-first year.
Their eldest son, John Freeman, married,
December 14, 1672, Sarah, daughter