Holbrook line: Edward Counts or Counce 1635-1704

This will be a short post, because I've not found much about our ancestor Edward Counts, but his story should be told, however little we know of him.  Well, we know that he was born about 1635 because in 1663 his wife Sarah Cleveland said in a court case that Edward was then about 28 years old.  Unfortunately, that is all the information that I can glean from that court case, except that it was in Suffolk County, Massachusetts.  There is another court case he is briefly mentioned in in 1673 but I can't make heads nor tails out of that.  I think he was a witness. 

So back to the beginning...We don't know who his parents are.  Speculation is that his father might be Samuel because he named his only known son Samuel, but that is just speculation, as far as I can tell.  I've not been able to find him on any immigration lists, so we don't know when he came to New England or where the ship's passengers might have been primarily from.  The first thing we really know is that he married Sarah Adams, daughter of Richard Adams of Malden, on February 25, 1663.
Their first son, Samuel, was born in July of 1671.  He and two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, were baptized together at the First Church in Charlestown on April 4, 1677. 

I did find one comment that he had lived at Malden for some period of time but I don't know if that was while he was courting Sarah, or in the early days of their marriage, or perhaps it was in the last years of their marriage.  Sarah died on September 27, 1674 in Malden, just a few days before her father, Richard Adams died on October 6, 1674.  We don't know if the same illness struck them both down, or whether there were two unrelated causes of death.  Sarah's mother, Mary Cheame, died in 1684, so she may have helped Edward with the raising of the three youngsters, approaching and in their early teens when Sarah died.  Edward apparently did not remarry. 

Edward died about February 14,1704 at Charlestown, where he had first lived and made his home.  I haven't yet found his will, or appraisal.  I don't know his occupation.  I don't know his religion, except that he did have his children baptized.  I DO know that more research needs to be done for him!

The line of descent is

Edward Counts-Sarah Adams
Elizabeth Counts-Enoch Cleveland
Sarah Cleveland-Israel Joslin
Sarah Joslin-Edward Fay
David Fay-Mary or Mercy Perrin
Luceba Fay-Libbeus Stanard
Hiram Stanard-Susan Eddy
Louis Stanard-Mary Alice Hetrick
Etta Stanard-Loren Holbrook
Gladys Holbrook-Richard Allen
Their descendants