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"And now, my son Joseph, remember Joseph of Arimathea was a good man and a disciple of Jesus and was bold and went boldly and asked the body of Jesus and buried it.
My son John, remember what a loving and beloved disciple he was.
My daughter Hope, consider what a grace of God hope is, and court after that hope that will never be ashamed but hath the hope of eternal life and salvation by Jesus Christ.
My son Obadiah, consider that Obadiah was a servant of the Lord and tender in spirit and in a trouble- some time hid the prophets by 60 in a cave.
My son Samuel, remember that Samuel was a chief prophet of the Lord ready to hear his voice saying, 'Speak Lord for Thy servant heareth.'
My daughter Martha, remember Martha, although she was cumbered with many things, vet she loved the Lord and was beloved of Him for he loved Mary and Martha.
My daughter Mary, remember Mary chose the better part that shall not be taken away and did hearken to the Lords instructions.
My son Jonathan, remember how faithful and loving he was to David that servant of the Lord.
My daughter Lidiah, remember how Lidiah's heart was opened, her ear bowed, her spirit made willing to receive and obey the apostle in what the Lord required and was baptized, and entertained and refreshed the servants of the Lord.
Let your conversation in life be squared by the scriptures and they will direct you how to behave toward God and man. And next to the loving and fearing the Lord, have you a most dear and tender respect to your faithful, careful, tender-hearted, loving, aged Mother. Show your duty in all things. Love her with high and cheerful love, and respect and then, make sure you love one another, let it continue and increase so may you be good examples to others. Visit one another as often as you can, and put one another in mind of the uncertainty of life, and what need there is to prepare for death. Take counsel one of another, and if one see cause to advise or reprove the other, hearken to it, and take it well. Be ye content with your present condition and portion God giveth you, and make a good use of what you have by making use of it to your comfort for meat, drink and apparel, it is the gift of God and take care to live honestly, justly, quietly with love and peace with all men" &c. "And forget not to entertain strangers according to your ability" &c.
"Obadiah Hullmes The 17th day 10 Month 1675."
Obadiah Holmes, the founder of the American family, is interred in the family graveyard, at Middletown, R. I .:
"In Memory of the Revd Obadiah Holmes Baptist Minister from Great Brittain who died Oct. 15 1682 in the 70 year of his age."
"In Memory of Catharine wife of Revd Obadiah Holmes."
He made his will April 9, 1682.
Issue 2 Jonathan Holmes, born in Lancashire, England, 1633. 3 Lydia Holmes
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4 Martha Holmes, born 1640; baptized, May 30, 1640, in Salem; died after 1682; married Mr. Odlin, (Newport Record).
5 Samuel Holmes; baptized, in Salem, Mch. 20, 1642.
6 Obadiah Holmes; baptized, at Salem, June 9, 1644.
7 Ilopestill Holmes; married Mr. Taylor; had two children.
8 John Holmes, born 1649; died, Oct. 2, 1712, aged 63 years.
9 Mary Holmes; died after 1690; married John Brown.
10 Joseph Holmes
2 JONATHAN HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, 1, born in Lancashire, England, 1633; died 1713. Stones to Mr. Jonathan Hohnes and his wife, Sarah, stand adjacent to his father's, Obadiah Holmes.
Ile resided in Middletown, N. J., and Newport, R. I.
He married Sarah, daughter of Richard and Joan (Fowler) Borden, born May, 1644; died after 1705.
1667, Dec. 30. He received lot No. 9, in the first division of lands, in Middletown, N. J .; Dec. 31, he drew lot No. 7.
1668, Feb. 4. He was one of the Defensive League, to answer the Governor.
In 1668, he recorded his cattle-mark.
1668, Apr. 21. He was a member of a Committee to agitate about the building of a mill.
1668, Apr. 22. He was Deputy to the Assembly at Portland Point.
1668. Deputy to the General Assembly at Elizabethtown.
1669, May 3. Overseer.
1669, May 25. Deputy to the Assembly at Portland Point: frequently an arbiter.
1670, May 9, and Sept. 9. He was an Overseer of Middletown.
1672. A Justice, and one of the Grantecs of Middletown and Shrewsbury, under the amended patent.
1673, September. Under the Dutch he was appointed Captain of Militia and a Justice. 1675, Jan. 1. Deputy to the General Assembly at Elizabethtown.
1675, June 29. He was appointed to determine town boundaries.
1677. Constable.
In 1677, received from Sir George Carteret 500 acres adjacent to his farm.
1680. He was appointed to the Assembly.
In 1684, he had returned to Rhode Island, where he was elected a freeman, and in the same year sent a power of attorney to Richard Hartshorne to sell certain lands in Monmouth Co., N. J.
In 1690-'91-'96-'98-'99-1700-'01-'02-'06-'07. He was a Deputy in Rhode Island.
1695, July 2. He was on a committee appointed by the Assembly to propose a method of making a rate. He was also appointed with others, to run the easterly line of the colony.
1696-'97-'98-1700-'01-'02-'03. He was Speaker of the House of Deputies in Rhode Island.
His lands in New Jersey lay mostly in Pleasant Valley, near the present village of Holmdel.
One tract. bought from the Indians, in 1677, was at the junction of the two Hop rivers. (the old "Burnt Mill Stream").
Jonathan Holmes demands for his rights 500 acres and in right of himself and wife 240 acres morc.
Will of Jonathan Holmes, Dec. 8, 1705; proved Nov. 2, 1713, mentioned:
Executor, con Joseph; overseers: brother, John Holmes, and Obadiah Weeden. To wife, Sarah, best feather bed, all the plate, and fro yearly for life.
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Te son, Obadiah, the easterly side of the farm in Middletown in Plain Dealing, Fast New Jersey, with all the housing, etc .; half the salt and fresh meadow, and all the stock I left on said farm.
To son, Samuel, a house lot in Newport and house upon it and £5.
To son, Jonathan, the other half of farm in Middletown; half the meadow, a young mare and £5.
To sons. Obadiah and Jonathan, certain other lands in New Jersey, equally.
To daughter, Sarah Slade, £15.
To daughter, Mary Easton, £15.
To two children of daughter, Catharine Waiteman, deceased, £15, equally, at eighteen.
To daughter, Martha Tillinghast. £15.
To daughter, Lydia Holmes, £20.
To son, Joseph Holmes, all my farm and housing where I now dwell, and all my rights of land in said Newport, and rest of moveables.
Asher Taylor says that a daughter of Jonathan Holmes married Mr. Tice, and had a son, Gilbert Tice, who married his own cousin, Rebecca, daughter of Jonathan Holmes.
Issue
II Obadiah Holmes, born, in Gravesend, 1666/7; Mrs. Weatherby says born 1665.
12 Samuel Holmes
13 Sarah Holmes: married Mr. Slade, as per father's will.
14 Mary Holmes; married Mr. Easton, as per father's will.
15 Catharine Holmes: married Mr. Waiteman, as per father's will.
16 Martha Holmes, born 1675: married Mr. Tillinghast, as per father's will.
17 Lydia Holmes; unmarried in 1705.
IS Joseph Holmes, born in 1676, says Mrs. Weatherby.
19 Jonathan Holmes, born 16S1/2. Mrs. Weatherby says born in 1675.
3 LYDIA HOLMES, daughter of Obadiah Holmes, I, married Capt. John Bowne, of
Middletown, N. J.
Issue
20 John Bowne, born, Apr. 1, 1664, in Gravesend, L. I .; married Frances Bowman.
21 Obadiah Bowne, born, July 18, 1666, in Gravesend, L. I .; married, first, Elizabeth Bowne; second, Elizabeth Longfield.
22 Deborah Bowne, born, Jan. 26, 166S, [at Gravesend, L. 1., probably]; married Richard Stillwell; his first wife.
23 Sarah Bowne, born, Nov. 27, 1669, [at Gravesend, L. I., probably]; married Richard Saltar.
24 Catharine Bowne, born, probably at Middletown, N. J .; married William Harts- horne; his second wife.
5 SAMUEL HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, I, born 1642; baptized, at Salem, Mch. 20, 1642; died 1679. He was married, Oct. 26, 1665, by Justice James Hubbard, [elsewhere married Dec. 12, 1665], Alice, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Stillwell.
1665, May 3. He bought John Ruckman's plantation in Gravesend.
1670, Apr. 20. He bought seven acres of land from James Bowne.
In 1670, he had laid out for him on Guiseberts Island one and one-half lots.
In 1672 or 1673, he was commissioned Lieutenant of Gravesend Militia.
In 1674, he was chosen Magistrate.
Will of Samuel Holmes of Gravesend, L. I., written 28, 2 mo., 1679; proved June 25, 1679. Appointed his wife, Ales, his sole executrix, and mentioned his children, as Joseph Holmes
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Samuel Holines Anne Holmes Catharine Holmes Mary Holmes
Appointed his loving brothers and friends, Richard Stillwell, Jonathan Holmes, Obadiah Holmes, John Bowne and Samuel Spicer, guardians to his children.
Witnesses: John Tilton, Sr., town clerk, John Emans and Samuel Spicer. Lib. I, p. 341, New York Wills.
John Emans and John Tilton, Sr., declined to swear, being Quakers, and their declarations were finally taken by the Governor to whom the matter had been referred by the Court.
Upon Samuel Holmes' decease, his widow married, in 1680, William Osborne [marriage license being dated Feb. 7, 1679-So], who had recently come from Newcastle, on the Delaware, to Gravesend, and who had lost by death his first wife, Elizabeth Moore.
16SI, Jan. or Mch. 31. William Osborne bought from Capt. Richard Stillwell plantation No. 4, in Gravesend. William Osborne died in 1682, and Jan. 29, 1683, his executors sold this same lot to Daniel Lake.
The Gravesend Census of 1683, gives to Alice Osborn, the largest ownership of land and cattle in the town-one hundred and fifteen acres of land, three twenty acre farms, two twenty- four acre wood lots, and the seven acres bought by Samuel Holmes of James Bowne, twenty- two cows of different ages and four or five horses.
Danicl Lake, who recently bought her late husband's [Osborne's] estate, paid court to the widow and in time, 1684, she accepted him as her third husband.
In 1680, Daniel Lake was appointed Lieutenant of Gravesend Militia.
1694, July 12. Daniel Lake bought from his father, John Lake, the farm formerly be- longing to Richard Stout.
1694, Nov. 7. Daniel Lake and Alice, his wife, of Gravesend, for CSc, sold to Daniel Whitehead and Samuel Moore, Gents, executors of William Osborne, deceased, late of Grave- end, a house and "garden spott in Gravesend, formerly James Kerr's, bounded on the East by the house of Wm Stillwell and on the west by the land of Abraham Emans;" also a twenty-four acre lot in Gravesend.
Signed DANIEL LAKE [his mark] alse Lake See Lib. II, p. 21, Kings Co. Records.
In 1695, he removed with his family to Staten Island, where, Dec. 21, 1696, he sold meadow lands, in Gravesend, to Reynier Van Sicklen.
In 16SI, he had received eighty acres of land, on the South side of the Fresh Kill, Staten Island, and, in 1696, two hundred acres more were granted to him and his stepson, Joseph Holmes.
1698, Nov. 29, being still of Staten Island, he leased his house lot in Gravesend.
1701, Dec. 30. He signed the anti-Leislerian Petition.
He appears to have been a very influential man in the community, possessed of wealth, but with no ambition for public office. He erected a dwelling shortly after he removed to Staten Island, which in 1887, still stood in good state of preservation, and continued to be known as the Daniel Lake House. (See engraving, P. 549, Bayles' History of Richmond Co., N. Y.)
The dates of death of Daniel Lake and his wife are unknown.
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Issue: of Samuel Holmes and wife Alice* .
25 Samuel Holmes, born Feb. 12, 1668.
26 Ann Holmes, born Dec. 20, 1670.
27 Joseph Holmes, born Mch. 17, 1672.
2S Catharine Holmes, born June 15, 1675.
29 Henry Holmes
30 Mary Holmes, born 1679.
6 OBADIAH HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, I, born, 1644; baptized. at Salem, June 9, 1644. He lived on Staten Island, N. Y., and in Cohansey, N. J. His wife was Eliza- beth, daughter of John and Sarah Cooke, of Gravesend, Long Island.
It is said that Obadiah Holmes married a second wife, and that he died, in 1728, but I can prove neither assertion.
He was a patentee of the Monmouth Tract, N. J., in 1665: Obadiah Holmes, in right of himself and wife, demand two hundred and forty acres.
1667, Dec. 30. In the first division of lands in the new village of Middletown, N. J., he drew lot 20, and the following day, lot 6. It is doubtful whether he ever took up his resi- dence here.
With his brother, Jonathan, he obtained a tract of land amounting to 1600 acres in Pleasant Valley, near Holmdel, formerly Baptisttown, in Monmouth Co., to which they gave the name of Plain Dealing, from the straightforward manner in which the Indian title to the land was acquired.
1678, July 8. He was residing on Staten Island, when administration was granted him on the estate of Ambrose Sutton, of the same place. N. Y. Wills.
In 1679, his brother Samuel, residing at Gravesend, appointed in his will, his loving brothers and friends, Richard Stillwell, Obadiah Holmes, John Bowne and Samuel Spicer, guardians of his children.
In the much worn Town Book of Gravesend, there appears the following allusion to Obadiah Holmes:
"April 7, 1680. Whereas my loving mother, Sarah. Cooke, of Gravesend, as within written hath intended me, Obediah Holmes, of Staten Island" &c. &c., and again-
16So, April 17. Sarah Cooke, of Gravesend, in pursuance of the will of her husband, John Cooke. de- ceased, as his executrix, appoints, orders and impowers " my loving son Obadiah Holmes for me and in my behalf to adt for and to sell" &c. &c. And further:
1680, 15th day of Ioth month, Obediah Holmes, of Staten Island, sells his interest in a plantation, which was some time in the possession of John Cooke in Gravesend, known as No. S, to William Stillwell of Gravesend in consideration of Stillwell making over to him a certain parcel of land on Staten Island.
"The first volume" of Staten Island Records (if such there was) is missing, but from the second, we ascertain that Obediah Holmes was county clerk of Richmond Co. in 1689.
1689, Dec. 12, and in 1692-3, he was a Justice of the Peace.
1688-9, Jan. Obadiah Holmes and his wife, Elizabeth, then living at Salem, N. J., con- veyed property on Staten Island, to John Green; and the same month he sold eighty-eight acres more, in the same place, to John Pew, "shew maker."
1695, Oct. 21. Obadiah Holmes, of Guinidge, [Greenwich], in the county of Salem, in West Jersey, gentleman, and Elizabeth, his wife, and Obadiah Holmes, Junior, conveyed to Mark Dissosway, one hundred and sixty acres of land, house thereon, &c., on the West end of Staten Island, which property was granted to Obadiah Holmes by Gov. Dongan, Dec. 23, 1685.
*Mrs. Weatherby says, giving Baird's History of Rye, p. 488, and N. Y. Genealogia! Record that Samuel Holmes mn .. t- ried Alice Stillwell, Jan. 8, rojo. This statement must be incorrect, for their first child was born tovo.
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Obadiah Holmes and Elizabeth. his wife, both signed in the presence of the two Justices of the Peace for Salem Co., and Obadiah Holmes, Jr., signed in the presence of three witnesses all of whose names are difficult to read.
Obadiah Holmes and Elizabeth, his wife, of Salem. N. J., for the sum of Coo, conveyed property lying at New Dorp, S. I., formerly called the "Governors Lott," to Nathaniel Britton, Sr .; also one hundred and twenty acres of meadow and eighty-eight acres of marsh. Obadiah Holmes appeared before Jaques Poillon, Esq., of Staten Island, and witnessed his signature, Dec. 29, 1695.
A few other allusions are made to him in this record, but they are valueless here.
Johnson, in his History of Salem, when alluding to the Baptist Church at Cohansey, says: "In 1685 Obadiah Holmes came from Long Island and settled there."
"Obadiah Holmes used to preach for the people; both he and Killingsworth were among the most promi- nent of the Baptists and at their houses the meetings were held."
"Holmes lived at Allaways Creek on the farm some years ago belonging to the late Stephen Willis, but now the property of George Hall."
"Judge Holmes, spoken of above, died in 1701, leaving four sons, of whom the youngest settled here; his name was Benjamin; his first wife was a Smart, his second wife was an Elgar, by whom he had his six children; and from them descend several children and from them the name has been perpetuated to the present time."
He likewise says Obadiah Holmes was a Justice in 1699; was one of the Judges who opened the first Court of Sessions, held at Salem, the 17th day of Sept., 1706; and was for twelve years a Judge of the Court in Salem Co.
Johnson has fallen into several errors which a pains-taking genealogist, Thomas Shourd, author of the "History of Fenwick's Colony," has recently corrected.
To cull from his article on the Holmes family, it appears that Obadiah Holmes. who located there "was one of the nine Baptists that assisted in organizing the first. Baptist church in South Jersey, in 1690. It does not appear that he was ever ordained a regular clergyman, but he occasionally preached."
He likewise mentions his appointment as one of the first Judges of the Salem Court; also that he married ..... Cole, by whom he had four children, two sons and two daughters, whose history he alludes to in detail.
Johnson fell into error in confounding two distinct families, one Holme and the other Holmes.
Benjamin, whom he describes as a son of Obadiah, is really the son of John Ilolme, and instead of his first wife being a Smart, she was a Smith, but in this we are not interested.
In a personal communication to me, Mr. Shourd says: "the Holme family denies the authority of Johnson's account of their family;" and states further that Obadiah Holmes, the settler there, was one of the Judges of Salem Court as late as 1713.
Shourd too has probably fallen into some errors in his history of the Holmes Family. Obadiah Holmes, 2nd, came not from Middletown, but from Staten Island to Salem Co .; his wife was Elizabeth, and she was the daughter of John and Sarah Cooke, and not a Cole. He omits mention of his son Obadiah and gives a son Samuel who, he says, came to an accidental death [by drowning] which so corresponds with the statement made by Obadiah, of an acci- dental death to his oldest son, that I think that Shourd should have called the son who so died Obadiah, and not Samuel.
Obadiah Holmes affidavit [in margin]
Be it remembered that at Burlington the eighth day of May in the eleventh yeare of the Reigne of our Sovvereigne Ladye by the grace of God &c. &c. personally appeared before me David Jameson, Esq., Chiet Justice of the province of West jersey Obadiah Helmes his eldest son who came by his death by a fall from a
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house died without any issue haveing never been maried and that the next in age to him and who now possesetb the Estate of the said Obadiah is Jonathan Ilulmes My second Son who is now about the age of fourty four yeares. OBADIAH HOLMES
Trenton, N. J., Records.
Queen Anne was proclaimed Queen March, 1702, which would make the affidavit May, 1713, and Jonathan born 1669.
1705. Apr. 24, Obadiah Holmes, of Greenwich, Gent., sold to Samuel Holmes, of the same place, Yeoman, for foo, igo acres of land which he got from Applegate.
Trenton, N. J., Records.
1708, May 24, Jacob Spicer, of Gloucester Co., sold a piece of land to Obadiah Holmes. of Greenwich, Yeoman, for £14. Trenton, N. J., Records.
Obadiah Holmes had
Issue
31 Obadiah Holmes
32 Samuel Holmes
33 Jonathan Holmes, born 1669.
34 Daughter . .; [eldest], married Mr. Love descendants of the first families settling in Cumberland Co., as per Shourd.
35 Daughter married Mr. Parvin.
8 JOHN HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, I, born, 1649, (Asher Taylor says born 1639); died Oct. 2, 1712; married, first, Dec. 1, 1671, Frances, daughter of Randall and Frances (Dungan) Holden, born Sept. 29, 1649; died 1679; married, second, Oct. 12, 1680, Mary, widow of William Green, and daughter of John and Mary (Williams) Sayles, born July Ji, 1652; died after 1713.
He resided at Newport, R. I.
1669, Aug. 28. He, and two others, were ordered to assemble the inhabitants of Canonicut Island, to consider what may be most suitable for their defence and preservation against any invasion or insurrection of the Indians.
1682-1704-5. He was a Deputy.
1683-4, MIch. 6. John Holmes has his earmark, recorded in the Middletown Town Book. Possibly this refers to John, S. although, if it does, it is the only evidence I have which suggests that he ever resided in Middletown. It seems much more likely that it refers to Jonathan Holmes, 2, his brother, whose earmark was taken by another only two years previously; and that the town clerk made a mistake in the name.
1690, May 7. He, and Caleb Carr, were appointed by the Assembly to agree with car- penters to finish the Town House forthwith, and to provide boards and nails, they to pay for finishing the house out of money and wool now in Treasurer's hands.
In 1690 to 1703, inclusive, and again in 1708 and 1709, he was General Treasurer.
1696. He was Lieutenant.
1702, May 6. He, and Joseph Sheffield, were empowered to lease and settle the ferries in the colony, that are not already settled by law.
1708, April. He, and two others, were chosen to oversee the repairing and finishing of the Colony House, for which fico was appropriated by the Assembly.
1712, Oct. 4. An agreement was signed by his children, he having left his will unfinished. The will mentioned wife, Mary : sons John and William; daughters, Kathrine Gardiner, Frances Carr, Ann Peckham, Deborah Holmes, Pheby Holmes.
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1712, Nov. 9. Administration upon the estate of Lieut. John Holmes, of Newport, was granted to his wife, Mary, and his son, William Holmes.
1713. Receipts were taken by his widow, Mary Holmes, and her son, William, administra- tors of John Holmes' personal estate, from John Manchester and wife, Deborah, Joseph Gardiner and wife. Catharine, and Nicholas Carr and wife, Frances.
1713, Sep. 21. Will of Mary Holmes, widow of John Holmes; proved May 6, 1717, men- tioned executor: son-in-law, Nicholas Carr; and gave to three daughters, Mary Dyer, Frances Carr and Ann Peckham, certain legacies. Austins' R. I. Dictionary.
Issue by first wife 36 John Holmes, born 1672. 37 Catharine Holmes, born 1673.
Issue by second wife, but perhaps one or two may have been by the first wife: 38 William Holmes
39 Mary Holmes; married Mr. Dyer.
40 Frances Holmes; married, May 16, 1706, Nicholas Carr.
41 Ann Hohes; married Peleg Peckham.
42 Susanna Holmes
43 Deborah Holmes; married John Manchester.
44 Phebe Holmes
45 Catharine Holmes; married, Nov. 30, 1693, Joseph Gardiner.
9 MARY HOLMES, daughter of Obadiah Holmes, I, died after 1690. She married John, son of Chad and Elizabeth Brown, born 1640; died after 1682.
Issue 46 Sarah Brown
47 John Brown, born Mch. 18, 1662.
48 James Brown, born 1666.
49 Obadiah Brown
50 Martha Brown
51 Mary Brown
52 Deborah Brown
11 OBADIAH HOLMES, son of Jonathan Holmes, 2, was born about 1666 or 1667: died Apr. 3, 1745. He lived, in Middletown, on the land left him by his father, which he bequeathed in his will to his son, John, 59. This land was next to that held by his brother, Jonathan, 19, along Hop Brook. He married, in 1696, Alice, daughter of James and Deliver- ance (Throckmorton) Ashton, born 1671; died, Apr. 27, 1716, aet. 45 years.
1689, Sept. 11. Obadiah, the younger son of Jonathan Holmes; earmark transaction. 1695-6, Jan. 28, recorded his earmark.
1699. High Sheriff of Monmouth Co., N. J.
County Records.
1733, Apr. 14. Obadiah Holmes, of Middletown, yeoman, for £8, conveyed to Jonathan Holmes, Min', yeoman, two acres of land which he had inherited from his father. Jonathan, by will. "Beginning at the baptist meeting house lott at the South End of Obadiah Holine &sa Jonathan Holmes ME: line of partition which was the old line of partition between Obadiah Holmes and Jonathan Holmes Senior being on the West side of a Small brook and from thence
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running Eastward across the Said brook along the line of partition between the sd Obadiah Holmes and Nicholas Cottrells land."
1744, Dec. 24. Will of Obadiah Holmes, (Trenton, N. J.); proved April 16, 1745. Men- tioned :
Daughter, Deliverance Smith, who receives fro.
Son, Jonathan Holmes, who receives £5.
Son, Obadiah Holmes, who receives rosh.
Son, James Holmes, who receives rosh.
Son, Samuel Holmes, who receives rosh.
Daughter, Mary Mott, who receives Cro.
Son, Joseph Holmes, to whom he confirmed land, acquired by purchase from his father, Jonathan, (prob- ably in 1704), and from David Stout, situated at Crosswicks, or Upper Freehold.
Son, John Holmes
Brother, Jonathan Holmes, mentioned as being on a boundary of land.
Executors: Sons, James, Samuel and John Holmes. He signed his name to the will.
Witnesses: Jonathan Holmes, John Bowne, Juner, et al. -
Issue
53 Jonathan Holmes; died 1768; married Teuntje Hendrickson.
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