Edward Holyoke was born in 1585 in Alcester, County Warwick, England. In 1591, at the tender age of five, he was named as chief heir in the will of his great uncle, Edward Holyocke of Tanworth, County Warwick, England. His great uncle bequeathed to him property in Tanworth, Wooton Wawen, Ullenhall, and Henly. All located in co. Warwick.
Edward married Prudence Stockton, the daughter of Rev. John and Susanna (maiden name unknown) Stockton, on June 17, 1612 in Kimcote & Walton, co. Leicester, England. Prudence was born in 1584 in Alcester, co. Warwick, England, and died prior to 1648, possibly while living in Lynn, Massachusetts. Edward later married a second time, to Anne (Taylor) Tuttell (born circa 1594), the widow of Richard Tuttell of Boston, Massachusetts. She was the mother of John Tuttell who was married at the time to Mary Holyoke, the daughter of Edward and Prudence.
Following their marriage, Edward and Prudence lived in the parish of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England, where Edward was a grocer. They later left London and moved to Tanworth, co. Warwick, England. They left for America about 1637, and they settled first in Lynn, Massachusetts, and later Edward moved to Rumney Marsh (now Chelsea), Massachusetts where Edward served as the agent for Sir. Fulk Grenvil (also known as Lord Brooke). He was also appointed Associate Judge of the Salem, Massachusetts court in 1639, and reappointed in 1640, 1641, and 1642. He served as Deputy to the General Court for Lynn from 1639 to 1643, and as Deputy for Springfield in 1660. Edward died May 4, 1660 at Rumney Marsh, Massachusetts.
The children of Edward and Prudence Holyoke were:
1. John Holyoke, born 1613 at St. Lawrence Jewry, London, England. John entered Oxford University on February 8, 1632 at age 19, and died three years later. He was buried March 8, 1635 at Tanworth, co. Warwick, England.
2. Elizabeth Holyoke, born 1614 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London. She married George Keyser in 1645, and died in Salem, Massachusetts on June 24, 1659.
3. Elizur Holyoke, born 1617 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London. He married first to Mary Pynchon in Springfield, Massachusetts on November 20, 1640. She died in Springfield on October 25, 1657. He married second to Editha Stebbins Day Maynard in 1685.
4. Edward Holyoke, born 1618 in St. Lawrence Jewry, London, and died December 1631 at Tanworth, co. Warwick, England.
5. Anne Holyoke, born 1620 at Tanworth, co. Warwick. She married Lt. Thomas Putnam on October 17, 1643 at Salem, Massachusetts. Anne and her husband Thomas were ancestors of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States. Anne died September 1,1656 at Salem, Massachusetts. Her daughter Deliverance Putnam married John Walcott and bore a daughter Anne Walcott who married Joshua Felt in 1712, tying the Felt family (George, a founder of Charlestown in 1633) to the Holyoke name.
6. Sarah Holyoke, born 1623 at Tanworth, co. Warwick. She married Corporal John Andrews and they were ancestors of William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States. Sarah died at Ipswitch, Massachusetts on April 29, 1666.
7. Mary Holyoke, born July 7, 1625 at Tanworth, co. Warwick, England. She married John Tuttell, the son of Richard and Anne (Taylor) Tuttell, on February 10, 1646, at Boston , Massachusetts.
8. Susanna Holyoke, born 1629 at Tanworth, co. Warwick, England. She was married September 12, 1656, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Michael Martyn, a mariner.
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Edward Holyoke (1585 - 4 May 1660), early resident of Rumney Marsh (Chelsea) and Lynn, Massachusetts. He often represented Lynn at the General Court between 1639 and 1648, and was granted 500 acres there in 1638.
Edward Holyoke married Prudence Stockton; their son Elizur was an early settler of Springfield, Massachusetts, and held several offices in that town; his grandson Edward was president of Harvard. Edward and Prudence also had several surviving daughters.
Holyoke's library is drawn from his will, dated 25 December 1658. Of books, he writes: "As for my books and wrightings I give my sonn [Elizur] Holyoke all the books that are at Linn as allsoe the Iron Chest and the bookes I have in my study that are Mr Beanghans works I give him hee onely can make use of them and likewise I give all my manuscripts whatsoever and I give him that large new testament in folio with wast papers between every leafe that I give him. As allsoe Mr Ainsworth on the books of Moses and the psalmes and my dixinary and Tenellius bible in Latton and my latten Concent and Daniell bound together here I give to my sonn Holyoke and A part of the new testament in ffolio with wast paper betwin every leafe and the greate mapps of geneology and that old manuscript called a Synas sight."
The inventory of Holyoke's estate, taken 19 June 1660, appraised his books "at Lynne & Rumney Marsh" at £20.