"8. Sebastian Brigham … was born in Holme on Spalding Moor, perhaps about 1609, the registers being lost for the period of his baptism. He is evidently referred to as not in England in the will of his uncle Robert Brigham in 1640. The baptisms of two of his children appear on the Holme registers, and in the autumn of 1638 he was in the company of adherents of Rev. Ezekial Rogers of Rowley, Co. York, England, who emigrated to New England and the next spring founded the town of Rowley, Mass. Sebastian Brigham went first to Cambridge, Mass. (where his brother Thomas Brigham and cousin Mrs. Anne [Brigham] Crosby had located three years previously), and bought a house at the corner of the present Holyoke and Winthrop Streets; but a few months later he sold this house and removed to Rowley, Mass., where most of his old friends in England located, and where he was captain of the military company and deputy to the Mass. General Court. He probably returned with his family to England about 1656. He married in England about 1634, Mary _____."
