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John Hartshorne, Esq., a servant of the King, in 1400, with his wife, Agnes, and others of the family, are buried in the Church of Saint Botolph, Aldersgate, London, of which they were benefactors.
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At Colchester, other Hartshornes are buried.
At Stambourne, a few miles from Colchester, is a painted window to Christina Hartshorne, with the English arms, previously given, on her dress.
There was a Thomas Hartshorne at Stafford, called the Lion, because of his large white moustache, a friend of Lord Shrewsbury, and an agricultural adviser. This Thomas Hartshorne came from Ashbourne, Derbyshire, and married a widow, who lived to the age of one hundred years and eleven months. She had a pleasant house, at Worcester, and five acres of land.
The late Lord Arthur Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, had the Hartshorne name in his pedigree.
Elizabeth Garret, born Jan. 31, 1765; married Sir Kingswill Grodekey. She was the daughter of John Garret, of Weston, and Elizabeth Tamar and was descended, maternally, from the Hartshornes.
There are Hartshornes in Buckinghamshire.
In Tewkesbury Abbey, England, is a memorial window to Lady Susan Hartshorne with the family arms.
The late learned antiquary, Dr. Hartshorne, of England, mentioned in the preface of Scott's Works, knew little or nothing concerning his ancestry. Members of the American Hartshorne family corresponded with his daughter.
Hugh Hartshorne, citizen and skinner, of London, was one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey. He died Apr. 25, 1684. His eldest son and heir was Hugh Hartshorne, the Second, who died Nov. 28, 1706. Hugh Hartshorne, the Second, left an eldest son and heir by name:
Harrison Hartshorne
And a younger son, Hugh Hartshorne, the Third.
Harrison Hartshorne died, Aug. 5, 1719, and was succeeded by his eldest son:
William Hartshorne, who died, Feb. 18, 1736, without issue, whereupon his estate reverted to his uncle, Hugh Hartshorne, the Third.
Hugh Hartshorne, the Third, died July 9, 1741, leaving a son:
Hugh Hartshorne, the Fourth, who had a daughter, Sarah Hartshorne, who married George Saunders.
Upon the succession of George Saunders and wife to the Hartshorne title, they sold their ancestors' Proprietary rights to John Hunt, who, Sept. 11, 1756, sued the then Proprietors of East Jersey, for an accounting.
The Proprietors defended the suit, claiming that Hugh Hartshorne, the elder, was divested of his one twenty-fourth interest in East Jersey, by a sale of the same to Arent Sonmans, and that Sonmans and others, (including his heirs and purchasers), had given title to the former lands of Hugh Hartshorne, to numerous persons, citing the same in detail, numbering one thousand families. "John Hunt, pltf. vs Lord Sterling, and others, in Chancery"; a pamphlet in the New Jersey Historical Society.
1723, Oct. 16. Huyg Hartshoorn, young man from Yerl', with Sarah Fish, young maid, from Nawesinks, both living at New York, were married in the Dutch Church, New York.
1742, 2mo., 25. Robert Hartshorne, transferred to the Burlington Meeting from Phila- delphia. He died 6mo., 4, 1752.
1742, 6mo., 30. Hannah, wife of Robert Hartshorne, transferred to Burlington Meeting from Salem.
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1743, Aug. 17. Marriage license of James Bowne, of Middletown, and Elizabeth O. Hartshorne.
New York Biographical and Genealogical Record.
FROM THE BURLINGTON, N. J., QUAKER RECORD.
Children of Robert and Hannah Hartshorne.
Eliza Hartshorne, born 7, 16, 1743; died 5, 20, 1744.
Katherine Hartshorne, born 7, 18, 1744. [She married Benjamin Fordham.]
Thomas Hartshorne, born 1, 18, 1745; died 6, 29, 1749.
Sarah Hartshorne, born 11, 23, 1747; died 9, 10, 1749.
Margaret Hartshorne, born 1, 10, 1749-50.
Hannah Hartshorne, born 10, 5, 1751. [She married Joseph Ellison.]
Robert Hartshorne; died, 6, 4, 1752, N. S., aged 35 years, in Cumberland, N. J. [He was an attorney-at-law, at Burlington.]
1745, Mch. 23. James Hartshorne and Catherine McCreagh [?] were married. Christ Church Records, Philadelphia, Pa., p. 117. 1748, Feb. 25. James Hartshorne married Mary Haines. Trinity Church, N. Y.
1750, 8 mo., 1. Hugh Hartshorne and wife were received from the Burlington Meeting, by the Shrewsbury Meeting.
1754, 2 mo., 4. Hugh Hartshorne and wife requested of the Shrewsbury Meeting a cer- tificate to remove.
1756, Apr. 19. Lenah Hartshorne, of Burlington, had a license to marry Samuel Kirby.
1768, Feb. 18. Sarah Hartshorne and Thos. Corgail were married.
Christ Church Records, Philadelphia, Pa., p. 117.
1771, July 25. Account of Sarah Robinson's estate by Robert Hartshorne, administrator. Dr. £219-09-7. Cr. By Cash of David Ogden, one of the executors of Rob. Hunter Morris, Esquire, £224- 2-5. Item: "Cash p" Doctor Faugeres as p' receit £7-13-6."
David Hartshorne was a private in Captain Randolph's Company, in New Jersey State Troops, during the Revolutionary War.
Lewis Hartshorne was a private in Captain Ten Eyck's Company, First Battalion, Somer- set County, N. J., during the Revolutionary War.
Davidson Hartshorne was a Royalist. He went to St. John's, New Brunswick, in 1783, Sabine's Royalists. and was a grantee of that city.
1772. John Hartshorne appeared on the Tax List, of Shrewsbury, N. J.
1778. Sarah Hartshorne appeared as one of the Town's poor.
1780. Sarah Hartshorne's coffin was paid for. Shrewsbury Town Poor Record.
1779, May 8. Samuel W. Hartshorne, of Burlington County, N. J., had a license to marry Ann Mount, of Burlington.
1780, TT, 13. Hannah, widow of Robert Hartshorne, died.
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ISI2, Dec. 15. Will of Phebe Hartshorne, of Freehold; proved Oct. 20, 1818, mentioned her son. Empson Hartshorne.
1841, Feb. 10. Will of Catharine Hartshorne, of Freehold; proved Mch. 9, 1841, men- tioned her daughter, Catharine Vanderhoof.
1844, 8, 25. Hannah, wife of John Hartshorne, of Burlington, died, aged 72 years.
HOLMES
OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
The present name, Holmes, was originally spelled Hulme.
Sir John de Hulme, knighted temp. Henry II, 1154-1189, was probably descended from James, Michael or Walter Hulme, Knights, whose lines date back to William the Conqueror. He was seated at the ancient Manor of Hulme, once on the outskirts of Manchester, England, but now within its corporate limits, and adjoining the township of Reddish.
Lawrence and Jacob de Hulme were among the chief founders of the Collegiate Church of Manchester.
William Hulme, of this family, moved into Cheshire, the county adjoining Lancashire. on the South, and his name was, apparently, the first to be changed in its spelling to Holme.
1664. In the Visitation of Lancashire of this year, is a pedigree of the IIulme family, of Hulme. It commences in the person of Lawrence Hulme, of Manchester, oth of Henry V, [1422], and runs through Goeffrey, Ralph, Stephen, Robert, Ralph, William, William and Banaster, born about 1657, with their various alliances, and whose arms are blazoned: Barry of 8, or. and az., on a canton or. a chaplet gules.
These arms are given in Burke's General Armoury, to Hulme, of Hulme, County Lan- cashire, as well as to Hulme, of Reddish, County Lancashire.
When Obadiah Holmes, the progenitor of the family in America, came to these shores, James, William and John Hulme, were the principal heads of the families in and about Man- chester. The main line today in England has adopted the spelling Holme, and its head, by reason of alliance with the Bankes family, is known as Holme-Bankes, and resides at the Manor of Winstanley, in Lancashire.
In the Frechold, New Jersey, Records the name is commonly spelled Hulmes or Hullmes, but from the scantiness of education in those carly days, it may have been as likely from accident as intent; now it is invariably written Holmes.
Others of the name, beside Obadiah Holmes. came to America and were early settled in New England. (See Savage's New England Genealogical Dictionary.)
Another individual, one, John Holmes, went to Philadelphia, soon after that city was founded, and his descendants are now to be found in and about Salem, in West Jersey, and at Shrewsbury, in Monmouth County.
Into Obadiah Holmes' immediate ancestry there has been some successful research made, of recent years, in Bugland. When about to be punished for conscience sake. he said that he
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was tempted to remember himself. his birth, breeding, friends, wife, children, name and credit. but his conscience forbade him paying the fine.
Backus in his History of the Baptists, published in Boston, 1777, says:
"the best account of Obadiah Holmes that I have seen is in a manuscript which he left to his children. that a gentleman of his posterity has favored me with an extract of, which I will give in his own words. He says:
""first I must remember my honored parents who were faithful in their generation and of good report among men and brought up their children tenderly and honorably. Three sons they brought up in the U'ni- versity of Oxford, but the most of their care was to instruct them in the fear of the Lord and to that end, * * * but I, the most rebellious of them all did neither harken to their counsil nor to any instruction' *
"Upon the death of his mother, he says, 'he fell to prayer and duties and became a pious man.'"
It has been specifically stated that Obadiah Holmes came from Preston, in Lancashire, but in a careful search of the earliest existing registers of Preston, 1611-1640, the name Holmes or Hulme does not appear, and if Obadiah came from there, it was probably simply the port of his embarkation. On the other hand, he probably did come from Reddish, the town adjacent to Hulme.
A search in the "Alumni Oxonensis" yields the following fruitful results concerning Obadiah's brothers:
John Hulme, son of Robert Hulme, of Reddish, Co. Lane., pleb; matriculated May 18, 1625, ae. 17.
Samuel Hulme, son of Robert Hulme, of Reddish, Co. Lanc., pleb; matriculated Feb. 15, 1632-3, ae. 16; B. A. May 17, 1636.
Concerning a third brother claimed by Obadiah Holmes to have been educated at Oxford. there is some confusion, for there are others of the name of Holme or Hulme, who appear upon the list, about this time, with parentage unindicated, and it may be possible that the third child, educated at Oxford, may have been Obadiah Holmes himself.
Obadiah Holmes had a brother, Robert, and sisters living in the Parish of Manchester, Lancashire, to whom he wrote, but there is no proof that Robert was the Oxford student.
The expression "pleb," (plebeian), used in the matriculation of the sons of Robert IIulme, of Reddish, was used to indicate a "commoner," and not an "armiger." The word "pleb" was in no sense derogatory, as is its present interpretation, but simply was used in the sense as "commoner" is now used in England. The immediate ancestors of Obadiah Holmes were yeomen, (farmers), but descended, doubtless, through several generations, from a cadet, or a younger son, of an armorial head of the house, and so did not pretend to armorial dignity.
The lands they held were not obtained from their Hulme ancestors, but were, apparently, lease-holds, for the father of Obadiah Holmes, the immigrant, Robert Hulme, in his will, dated 1640, bequeathed to his son, Robert, "my estate, interest," etc., "in the messuage in which I now dwell and which has been held," etc. "by my predecessors tyme out of mynd," hoping "my right worshippfull master Edward Cooke esq. will dale mercifyllie with him."
In his autobiography, Obadiah Holmes refers to a field called "the Twenty Acres,". evi- dently in the neighborhood of his English home, which is of value in establishing his local origin, when taken with the fact that Robert Hulme, of Reddish, who died 1697, attended Gorton Chapel, and that there was a locality called "Twenty Acres," in Gorton, which too is a suburb of Manchester.
Though Obadiah's branch of the family held their lands, by lease, from the Reddish and Cooke families, (the largest owners in Reddish township), others of the name of Hulme were, in their own right, extensive land holders in this township. One family flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries, and sold their property, in the early part of the 17th century, to Raiph
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Hulme, of Manchester, gent .. who founded another branch of the name, which became extinct. in 1691, by the death of William Huhne, Esq., who created the Hulme Charity, in Manchester.
The assumption that Obadiah Holmes came from Reddish becomes practically an estab- lished certainty, through the following wills, in the Probate Registry, at Chester:
Robert Hulme, will dated .Aug. 11, 1602; proved, at Chester, Jan. 28, 1604-5, bequeathed his lands to his eldest son. Robert, and to his wife, Alice: named his son, John, and made him an executor; named his unmarried daughter, Jane; named a child, George Hoyd, the son of a daughter, who. e name is not given.
This Robert Hulme was buried, at Stockport, Jan. 14, 1604-5, as "Ould Robert Holme of Redich," and it was probably he who was mentioned, as a tenant, in the will of John Reddish. Esq., 1569, and also, almost certainly, it was he who witnessed the will of "Otiwell Hulme of Redytch, husbandman," in 1598. Robert Hulme's widow, Alice, was buried, at the Collegiate Church, now cathedral, Manchester, Sept. 7, 1610, as "Alyce wydow to Robte Hulme of Reddiche."
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Robert Hulme, of Reddish, husbandman, son of Robert and Alice Hulme, made a will, dated Aug. 20, 1640; proved, at Chester, Nov. 24, 1649, by Robert Huline, one of the executors, power being reserved to the other executor, Hugh Johnson, whom the testator styles "brother- in-law." He bequeathed his estate to his son, Robert, in language previously set forth, and also mentioned sons, Obadiah, Samuel and Joseph. This second Robert Hulme, of Reddish, was buried, at Stockport, Nov. 12. 1640: married, at Stockport, Oct. S, 1605, Katherine John- son, who was buried, at Stockport, Sept. 8, 1630. His issue was:
(a) John Hulme; baptized, at Stockport, May 3, 1607; matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, as son of Robert Hulme, etc. As he is not mentioned in his father's will, he probably died prior to 1640.
(b) Obadiah Hulmes [Holmes]. the immigrant : baptized, at Didsbury, Mch. 18, 1609-10, as "Obadiah, son of Robert Hulme." He was living, in Reddish, in 1633, and in his father's will he is given a legacy of £ro, in the event of the death, under age, of a younger brother. This Obadiah Hulme could readily be confused with "Obadia son of Robert Hulme of Rediche," whose burial is recorded. in the Stockport register, under date of Dec. 20, 1626, were'it not known that our Obadiah Hulme was living, in 1640, the date of his father's will. He, Obadiah, married, at the Collegiate Church. Manchester, Nov. 20, 1630, Katherine Hyde, and had: "John, infant of Obadiah Hulmes of Redich," buried, at Stockport, June 27, 1633. His other issue is given, in detail, further on.
(c) Joan Hulme, daughter of Robert Hulme, was baptized, at Didsbury, Feb. 2, 1610-1I. As she was not named in her father's will, it may have been she who, as an infant of Robert Holmes, of Rediche, was buried, at Stockport. Nov. 5, 1612.
(d) Samuel Hulme, "son of Robert Hulme of Rediche," was buried, at Stockport. Nov. 2, 1613.
(e) Samuel Hulme, perhaps baptized, at Didsbury, Feb. 23, 1616-17, but if so, erroneously registered as "Robert, son of Robert Hulme." This Samuel Hulme was matriculated, at Brasenose College, Oxford, as son of Robert Hulme, etc. In his father's will he received "6s. Sd. and no more in regard of the former great charges I have been putt unto in and about his education."
(f) Nathaniel Hulme, "son of Robert Holme of Redich," was baptized, at Didsbury, July 12, 1618; buried, at Stockport, Sept. 10, 1631.
(g) Robert Hulme; baptized, at Stockport. Mch. 25. 1621. as "Robert, son of Robert Hulme of Kediche," inherited his father's holdings. at Reddish, and was probably a tanner. with tan yards and tan pits, at Meadowcroft. in Middleton, and also a place of business, in
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Manchester, for in his will he mentions his "great coffer in Manchester." He was a ruling elder of the church at Gorton, during the Commonwealth, in 1649: a Member of the First Classis, 1651 to 1660; and several times a delegate to the Provincial Assembly at Preston. He was buried, at Gorton, Nov. 17, 1697. His will, in which he is styled yeoman, of Reddish, was proved, at Chester, Oct. 11, 1698. He married, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Nov. 6. 1641, Ann Thorpe, who was buried, at Gorton, Nov. 16, 1672. He had sons. John and Obadiah. (h) Joseph Hulme ; buried, at Stockport, June 13, 1623, as "son of Robert Hulmes of Redich."
(i) Joseph Hulme, youngest son, was a legatee in his father's will, and under twenty-one. and received £40, and all his father's books.
Credit is given Col. J. T. Holmes. of Columbus, Ohio, here, and under Holmes Miscellane- ous Notes, for these interesting researches into the English ancestry of Obadiah Holmes, which, I believe, is satisfactorily established, but it is remarkable that nowhere among the early generations of this family, in America, does the name of Robert appear.
In 1790, Obadiah Holmes, the first, had, it is stated, five thousand descendants. His name is perpetuated in the renamed town of "Baptisttown," now called Holmdel, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where many bearing his name have always resided.
OBADIAH HOLMES. when first he came to this country, located at Salen, Mass., where he is mentioned in the Town Records, 25, 1I mo., 1638, and where he had, Dec. 11, 1639, two acres granted, being one of the "glass men," as the manufacturers of glass were called. They manufactured the common glass for window frames, of which pieces are still occasionally found near the site of their works. To encourage this industry, it was agreed, in Dec. 1641, that the glass-men were to have a loan of £30 from the town, which they were to pay again, "if the works succeed, when they are able."
1644, June 31. He drew lot No. 37, in a division of wood land; again Jan. 10, 1645, his name was in a list of those who had forfeited their lois, at Rehoboth, for not fencing or not re- moving their families. This can be interpreted as evidence of his intention to remove thence for some time.
In 1646, he removed to Rehoboth, (Seakonk), and became a member of the Rev. Samuel Newman's church.
1648, June 7. He was propounded for freeman.
1649. On the Grand Jury.
1649, Oct. 29. He entered a complaint against Samuel Newman for slander, damages £100, for saying Holmes took false oath in court. Newman acknowledged the wrong.
In 1649 or 1650, he, with eight others, changed their religious sentiments; were baptized by Mr. John Clarke, and formed themselves into a church, of which he became pastor. Mr. Holmes, and most of the others, left Rehoboth and removed to Newport, R. I., either the latter part of 1650, or carly 1651.
1650, June 4. Sentence of excommunication was pronounced against them by Mr. New- man, upon which Mr. Holmes and two others were presented (i.e., complained of) to the General Court at Plymouth, by four petitioners, urging the Plymouth rulers to "suppress them 'speedily." They were charged by the court not to break bread or preach or baptize.
1650, June 5. He and Joseph Torrey were bound in the sum of Cio.
1650, Oct. 2. With others, of Rehoboth, he was presented by the Grand Jury for con- tinuing of meeting upon the Lord's Day from house to house, contrary to order of this court.
He settled. in 1650-51, on a tract of land East of Newport. (now Middletown), R. f., which remained in possession of his descendants till the present century. The old burying ground
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wherein lie the remains of Obadiah Holmes. his wife, and members of his family, located on this original site, still belongs to his posterity.
1651, July 21. Obadiah Holmes, with his neighbors, John Crandall and John Clarke, of Newport, were seized, at Lynn, whither they had journeyed, as "representatives of the church in Newport, upon the request of William Witter of Lynn * * * he being a brother in the church who by reason of his advanced age could not undertake so great a journey as to visit the church." While Mr. Clarke was preaching, the Constable came to Mr. Witter's house and apprehended him, as well as Mr. Holmes and Mr. Crandall, and the next morning they were sent to prison, in Boston, the 22, 5 mo.
After various proceedings, they were tried before Gov. William Bradford, Capt. Myles Standish and other magistrates, and condemned:
"The sentence of Mr. Obadiah Holmes of Seakonk the 31st day of 5th Month 1651."
"For as much as you Obadiah Holmes being come into this jurisdiction about the 21st day of the 5th month did meet at one W'in Witter's house at Lynn, did in disrespect to the ordinance of God and His worship keep on your hat, the pastor being in prayer, insomuch that you would not give reverence in vailing your hat till it was forced off your head * * * all of which tends to dishonor God * * * and to perverting the straight ways of the Lord; the Court doth fine you thirty pounds to be paid * * * or else to be well whipped; and that you shall remain in prison till it be paid or security given for it.
By the Court INCREASE NOWELL"
Upon Mr. Clarke a fine of £20 was imposed, and upon Mr. Crandall a fine of £5 was laid. In default of payment each was to be whipped. Their fines were paid, but Mr. Holmes would not permit his friends to pay his and accepted his punishment. He was kept in prison till the court assembled Sept. 5, when he was taken out, bound to a post and sentence executed, "the man striking with all his strength, (yea, spitting on his hands three times as many affirmed) with a three cord whip giving me therewith thirty strokes, when he loosed me from the post. * * * >>
* 'As the man began to lay the strokes upon my back I said to the people, though my flesh should fail, and my spirit should fail, yet my God would not fail." * * * "When he had loosed me from the post, having joyfulness in my heart and cheerfulness in my countenance, as the spectators observed, I told the magistrates, you have struck me as with roses: and said moreover, although the Lord hath, made it easy to me, yet I pray God it may not be laid to your charge." He was advised to make his escape by night, and says: "I departed, and the next day after, while I was on my journey, the constables came to search at the house where I lodged, so I escaped their hands and was, by the good hand of my Heavenly Father, brought home again to my near relatives, my wife and eight children. The brethren of our town and Providence having talen pains to meet me four miles in the woods where we rejoiced together in the Lord."
From 1652, to the time of his death, he was Pastor of the First Baptist Church, suc- ceeding Mr. Clarke in that office.
1655, Mch. 11. He was a Commissioner to the General Court of Tryalls, held at Warwick. In 1656, he was a freeman.
. 1656-8. Commissioner to the General Court, for Newport, and, again, at one held at Portsmouth.
In 1676, Apr. 4, it was voted. "that in these troublesome times and straits in this colony, this Assembly desiring to have the advice and concurrence of the most judicious inhabitants if it may be had for the good of the whole, do desire at their next sitting Mr. Benedict Arnold," Mir. Obadiah Holmes, etc.
Extracts from the letter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes to his wife. "if she remain in the land of the living after my departure." After speaking of having taken comfort in their children. he writes :----.
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"Wherefore make use of that he is pleased to let thee enjoy, I say make use of it to thy present comfort. Thou art but weak and aged. cease from thy labor and great toil and take a little rest and ease in thy old age. Live on what thou hast for what the Lord had given us I freely have given thee for thy life, to make thy life comfortable; wherefore see thou doeth it so long as house, land or cattle remain. Make much of thy self and at thy death then what remains may be disposed according to my will. And now, my dear wife, whom 1 love as my own soul, I commit thee to Lord, who hath been a gracious merciful God to us all our days. Not once doubting He will be gracious to thee in life or death and will carry thee through this valley of tears with His own supporting hand. Sorrow not at my departure, but rejoice in the Lord, and again I say rejoice in the Lord of our Salvation, and in nothing be careful but make thy requests to Him who only is able to supply thy necessities and to help thee in time of need. Unto whom I commit thee for council, wisdom and strength, and to keep thee blaineless to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to whom be all glory honor and praise forever and ever. Fare-thee-well."
Extracts from a letter to all his children.
After urging them to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, he says:
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