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228 Gilbert Holmes, born Aug. 24, 1814; married, June 2, 1836, Anna Hussey.
229 Catharine Holmes, born Nov. 6, 1821; died Jan. 27, 1875; married, Dec. 28, 1843, A. J. Brouse.
158 JONATHAN HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 83, married Hannah Shaddock.
Issue 230 Ferris Holmes 231 David Holmes 232 Lydia Holmes
164 JOSEPHI HOLMES, son of Jonathan Holmes, 96, born Apl. 1. 1772; died, July 16. 1815, aet. 43, 3, 16; married Mary Brucre, of Upper Frechold, born Mcl .. 3, 1774; dicd, June
351
HOLMES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
28. 1833, aet. 59. 3. 25: both are buried at the Yellow Meeting House.
1813. May 5. Will of Joseph Holmes, of Upper Freehold; proved, Aug. 2, 1815, mentioned: Wife, Mari
Son, Joseph, under 21.
Son, james
Daughter, Alice
Daughter, Sarah
Issue
233 Jonathan Holmes, born 1794; died, 1796, June 13, aged 1, 7, 13.
234 James Holmes. born 1796; died, Mch. 6, 1823, aged 26, 7, 29; buried at Yellow Meeting House: married Alice Wykoff.
235 Alice Holmes, born Oct. 14, 1798; died Nov. 8, 1879; married Dr. William Dun- ham Davis.
236 Sarah Holmes, born 1809; died June 20, 1831; married, John H. Bruere, born, July 13, ISO3; died Sept. 15, 1864; both buried at Yellow Meeting House.
237 Joseph Holmes, born Nov. 24, ISJo; married, Oct. 27, 1842, Ann, daughter Thos. S., and Rebecca Meirs, born Oct. 23, 1824. [Elsewhere she is given as Martha Ann Miers.]
170 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 97, born, Aug. 21, 1778; died 1806; married Ann Lowrie.
1866, May 19. Will of Joseph L. Holmes, of Upper Freehold; proved June 16, 1866, mentioned :
Wife, Ann [whose father was John Lawrie]; pregnant.
Daughter, Mary Ann Holmes |
Son, Charles Holmes ¿ quite young.
Brothers-in-law, Thos. Lawrie and William Lawrie.
Issu!c
238 Margaret Holmes, born 1803.
239 Charles Holmes, born 1804; married in France.
240 Elizabeth Holmes
172 JOHN L. HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 97, born July 10, 1782; married, Feb. 22, 1803, Rachel, daughter of Solomon Combs.
Issue 241 Deborah Holmes, born 1804; died 1871; married, Jan. 7, 1821, John H. Holmes.
175 JOHN WATSON HOLMES, son of Asher Holmes, 102.
In an old bible record the date of death of John W. Holmes is given as July 28, 1840 "about 12 o'clock in the evening, aged 63 years, 10 months & 15 days, " which clashes with the state- ment given under 102.
Though he was devout, he was so fat they could not baptize him, and no pew would hold him.
1840, July 6. Will of John W. Holmes, of Freehold; proved Aug. 4, 1840, mentioned: Sisters, Sarah Holmes
Catharine Holmes Huldah Hubbard Nieces, etc.
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
177 HFULDAII IIOLMES, daughter of Asher Holmes, 102, married, Jan. 10, ISO1, Elia. Hubbard.
Issue
242 Ellen Hubbard, born 1803; married Nicholas Van Brunt, of Brooklyn.
243 Sarah Hubbard, born 1805; died 1887; manied Garret P. Conover, of Matawan. Their daughter, Katharine Conover, married Henry W. Johnson, and had among other children, Edith L. Johnson, an accomplished genealogist, living at Matawan, N. J.
244 Elias Hubbard, born 1807; married Ida Barkalow.
245 Asher Hubbard. born 1809; married Amelia Pearsall, of Brooklyn. [Elsewhere Catharine A. Pearsall.]
246 John Hubbard, born 1812; unmarried.
247 Margaret Hubbard, born 1815; died IS9 -; married Peter P. Conover, of Keyport.
248 James Hubbard, born 1817; unmarried.
249 Mary Hubbard, born IS19; married Garret G. Bergen, of Brooklyn.
250 Katharine Hubbard, born IS21; died 1825.
183 JACOB REMISEN HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, 119, married Augusta Lovel. Issue
251 Joseph Holmes; died unmarried.
252 William Holmes
184 OBADIAH HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes. 119, born 1790; died 1867; mar- ried, first, Sarah Van Wyck of Fishkill; second, Joanna Van Wyck; and third, Jane Van Wyck.
Issue by first wife
253 Gertrude Holmes; married Rev. Dr. Mancius S. Hutton.
254 Sarah Holmes !
255 John Holmes died infants.
256 Catharine Holmes; unmarried.
257 Susan Holmes; married Rev. A. H. Bishop.
258 Joanna Holmes; married Rev. H. B. Elliot.
Issuc by second wife
259 Cornelia Holmes; unmarried.
Issue by third wife
260 Helen Augusta Holmes
261 Fanny Remsen Holmes
262 Mary Holmes; died young.
263 Sarah Holmes; married Rev. Geo. M. S. Blauvelt.
264 Hamilton Bishop Holmes, born Aug. 31, 1841; married Sarah, daughter of W. S. Smith, of Long Island. He died, 1897, without issue.
186 WILLIAM HOLMES, son of Obadiah Holmes, 119.
Issue
265 Catharine Holmes; married .
187 JONATHAN I. HOLMES, son of Joseph Hohues, 120, born 1792; died 1866; mar- ried, Dec. 7, 1821, Elenor, daughter of Chryneonce and Peggy (Po'hemus) Schenck.
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Issue
266 Joseph Holmes
267 Margaret Holmes; married Thomas W. Thorne.
268 Mary Holmes
269 Ann Eliza Holmes; married Daniel S. Conover.
270 Rhoda Holmes
271 Chrynconce S. Holmes, born May 22, 1832. See p. 825, Ellis' History of Mon- mouth Co.
272 Ellen Holmes
273 Kate Holmes; married William L. Jones.
274 Huldah Holmes
188 ELISHA HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 120, born July 13, 1796; died June 17, 1866; married, Feb. 17, 1819, Jane, daughter of Peter and Jannctie (Williamson) Van Dorn; died Sep. 27, 1837; married, second, Feb. 23, 1839, Arintha Schenck, widow of William S. Con- over, born Nov. 24, 1798; died Oct. 30, 1854; married, third, Elizabeth Conover, born Sep- tember, 1804; died Jan. 30, 1860.
Issue
275 Schenck Holmes
276 Ellen Holmes; married Mr. Probasco.
277 Obadiah Holmes; married Elizabeth Kibbie.
278 Jonathan Holmes; married Miss Lemon.
279 Kate Holmes; married Daniel I. Schenck.
280 Peter Holmes
281 Joseph Holmes
282 Isaac Van Dorn Holmes Probably all died young; buried at Pleasant Valley, 283 Daniel Holmes N. J.
284 Ann Golden Holmes
285 Mary Jane Holmes
198 DANIEL HOLMES, son of John S. Holmes, 125, born Dec. 27, 1792; died, Oct. 27, 1851, aged 58, 10, 0; married, Nov. 15. 1813, Rhoda, daughter of Chryneonce Van Mater. born Feb. 14, 1792; died, Jan. 20, 1838, aged 45, 11, 6; both are buried on Jos. Holmes' farm, Holni- del, N. J.
He was Sheriff of Monmouth Co., in 1828, and a member of the Legislative Council of New Jersey, in 1832. He was active and powerful in the Democratic party, and a Member of the Constitutional Convention of 1844.
Issue
286 Huldah Holmes, born Feb. 23, 1815; died, Sept. 28, 1889, aet. 74, 7, 5; buried on Jos. Holmes' farm, Holmdel, N. J .; marrried Joseph Holmes Longstreet.
Issue Rhoda H. Longstreet. Lydia Ann Longstreet 287 Catharine Holmes, born June 9, 1817; married John W. Ely. Issue Danicl H. Ely
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Eugene Ely John M. Ely
288 John S. Holmes, born Sept. 2, 1819; died Mch. 2, 1820.
289 Sarah Holmes, born Apr. 16, 1821; died Sept. 15, 1822; buried on Jos. Holmes' farm, Holmdel. Epitaph on stone under ground .*
290 Joseph Holmes, born July 28 [or 23], 1824; married, Sep. 19, 1848, Ann Craw- ford.
291 Maria Louisa Holmes, born May 2, 1826; died, Oct. 16, 1867, aet. 41, 5, 1.4; mar-' ried S. Ely Conover. She was buried on Jos. Holmes' farm, Holmdel.
292 Sarah Holmes, born Jan. 13, 1829; married Ruleff P. Smock.
Issue Daniel H. Smock Peter V. D. Smock Catharine H. Smock
201 JOHN H. HOLMES, son of John S. Holmes, 125, born Aug. 7, 1800; died Jan. 6, 1871; married, Jan. 7. 1821, Deborah, daughter of John and Rachel (Combs) Holmes. John H. Holmes, born .Aug. 7, 1800: died Dec. 9, 1871.
Deborah L., wife of do, born Feb. 4, 1802; died Nov. 2, 1872; both buried on Jos. Holmes' farm, Holmdel, N. J.
Issue
293 John Holmes, born 1821; died 1822.
294 Sarah Holmes, born 1822; died 1886; married Gilbert Van Mater.
295 Emma Holmes. born 1826; died 1887; married Charles Lloyd.
296 Eliza Holmes, born 1831; died 1834.
297 Mary Holmes, born 1831; died 1834.
298 Charlotte Holmes, born 1833; died 1834.
299 Catharine Louise Holmes, born 1837; married John Forman.
300 Rhoda Holmes, born 1844; died 1874.
206 JONATHAN HOLMES, son of Samuel Holmes, 127, married Matilda, daughter of Jonathan and Ellen Schenck.
Issue
301 Asher Holmes
302 Loselle Holmes
303 Mary Holmes; married Mr. Carson.
304 John W. Holmes, born Feb. 24, 1843; died July 24, 1844.
209 JONATHAN HOLMES, son of Abijah Holmes, 143, born 10, 9mo., 1776; married, first, Lydia Watson, born Imo., 1776; died 19, 9, 1799; second, .....; third, Clarissa ., living, in 1876, aet. 89, in Bridgeton, N. J.
Lydia, Watson Holmes is buried in old Baptist Graveyard, near Sheppard's Mill.
Issue by first wife 305 Abijah Holines; was living, aged, 1876, in Camden.
"There are several brown stones in this plot with epitaphs part under the ground; the yard is carefullly kept and reflects credit on the family. " In memory of John S. son of + + +." "In Memory of Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Evdenc, * * "."
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HOLMES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
Issue by third wife 306 . .; living in Bridgeton, in 1879.
210 JOHN HOLMES, son of \bijah Holmes, 143, born 3, Smo., 1778; married, first, .; second, Miss Bowne.
Issue by first wife 307 Alfred Holmes; of Lower Hopewell Township, Cumberland Co., N. J.
Issue by second wife 308
310 John Holmes, of Bowentown, N. J. [or Bordentown, N. J.] 309
211 EPHRAIM HOLMES, son of Abijab Holmes, 143, born 13, 7mo., 1780; died 28, 5. 1848; married 13, 4mo., 1813, Harriet Potter, daughter of David and Jane (Potter) Bowen; she died 2, 4mo., 1868.
Issue
3II Edward B. Holmes, born 29, 7mo., 1815; died, 17, 2mo., 1858, in New York; married Julia Dillingham, who with one son survived him.
312 Ephraim Holmes, born II, 7mo., 1817: a practicing physician of Greenwich, N. J., 1876.
313 Mary P. Holmes, born 20, 9mo., 1819; died 26, 10, 1865; married Dr. Charles M. Lawrence, of Port Jervis, N. Y.
314 David B. Holmes, born 5, 8mo., 1833; married Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Gibbon. They had three children living in 1876, and were all residents of Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
315 Harriet Bowne Holmes, born 6, 7mo., 1825; died 31, 8mo., 1850; single.
222 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 157, born Dec. 1, 1799; died Feb. 10, 1874; married, Feb. 14, 1824, Ann Stout.
Issue
316 Angeline Holmes
317 Laura Holmes; married Capt. Edward Lonan.
318 Benjamin F. Holmes
319 Cornelia Holmes; married Mr. Bodine.
320 John Holmes; married Rhoda Birdsall.
321 Joseph Holmes; married .
322 Louisa Holmes; married Amos Birdsall.
323 Daniel Holmes
324 Emelia IIolmes; married J. H. Birdsall.
223 STEVEN HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 157, born Nov. 8, 1801; died, Nov. 9, 1888; married, May 16, 1824, Mary Worden.
Issue 325 Albert Holmes; married Eunice Cary. 326 Daniel Holmes; married Lydia Chaney.
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327 Elizabeth Holmes; married Charles Brouse.
328 Samuel Holmes; married Lona Chapin.
329 Stephen Holmes; married Mary McLain.
330 Demott Holmes
225 JACOB HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 157, born May 18, 1806; died Mch. 2, 1897: married, Feb. 5, 1829, Sarah Worden.
Issue
331 Nancy Holmes, born Apr. 8, 1830; died Jan. 13, 1892; married, Feb. 15, 1851, Edwin Johnson. 332 Mary Catharine Holmes, born Nov. 17, 1831; married, Mch. 31, 1849, John Chaney.
333 Alice Holmes, born May 6, 1836; married, May 7, 1857, Eli Smith.
334 Charles W. Holmes, born Jan. 6, 1839: died Nov. 27, 1865.
335 Gilbert Holmes, born Feb. 1, 1842; married, Dec. 25, 1866, Lydia Snapp.
336 George W. Holmes, born Mch. 3, 1846; married, Oct. 10, 1866, Catherine Baxter.
337 John Holmes, born Feb. 26, 1849; died July 31, 1870.
338 Lorena Holmes, born MIch. 9, 1851; died Nov. 12, 1888; married, Aug. 22, 1869, James Wright.
339 Joseph Holmes, born Jan. 15, 1844; married, Mch. 6, 1867, Elizabeth Rayburn.
226 WILLIAM HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 157, born Sep. S, 1808; died Nov. 22, 1897; married, Aug. 16, 1829, Catharine Stout.
Issue
340 Daniel Holmes; married Sarah Cox.
341 Matilda Holmes; married Michael Woolley.
342 Hannah Holmes; married John Sutaral.
343 Charles Holmes
. 344 Annie Holmes; married A. H. McVey.
345 Hameline Holmes; married Maggie . . . .
346 William Holmes: married Elizabeth McVey.
347 Webster Holmes; married Ella Marsh.
228 GILBERT HOLMES, son of John Holmes, 157, born Aug. 24, 1814; married, June 2, 1836, Anna Hussey.
Issue
348 Caroline Holmes; married Thomas Hiatt.
349 Mary Holmes; married Charles B. Edwards.
350 Alice Holmes; married Frank Coward.
351 Anette Holmes; married Dr. F. M. Thomas.
352 Catharine Holmes; married Dr. Lafferty.
234 JAMES HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 164, born 1796; died 1823; married Alice Wykoff.
Issue
353 Edward Holmes; married Emily Beattie. They had a son, Dr. James Holmes, who married Mary Robbins.
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HOLMES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
237 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 164, born Nov. 24, ISIo; died August, 1897; married, Oct. 27, 1842, Ann, daughter of Thomas S., and Rebecca Meirs, born Oct. 23, I824.
Issue
354 Mary Holmes, born Feb. 1, 1844; married James L. Rue.
355 Sarah Holmes, born Aug. 9, 1845; died Aug. 16, 1849.
356 Joseph Holmes, born July 11, 1849; married, Aug. 14, IS73, Helen Giberson.
271 CHRINEYONCE S. HOLMES, son of Jonathan I. Holmes, 187, born May 22, 1832; died 1896; married, first, 1870, Lydia Smock; second, 1876, Mary, daughter of John C. and Margaret Schenck, widow of John W. Conover, died, May 20, 1908, aged 74 years.
"Ilis first wife was his second cousin and his second wife was his first cousin."
Issue by first wife 357 Jonathan Holmes 358 Henry L. Holmes; died, Dec. 28, 1904, aged 33 years. Issue by second wife 359 Nellie Holmes 360 Chrineyonce Holmes
290 JOSEPH H. HOLMES, son of Daniel Holmes, 198, born July 28, 1824, [See Ellis' Hist. of Mon. Co., p. S24]; died, Nov. 28, 1892, aged 68, 4, o; buried on Joseph Holmes' farm, Holmdel, N. J .; married, in 1848, Ann, daughter of James G. Crawford; died, Jan. 6, 1894, aged 72, 4, 5; buried on Joseph Holmes' farm, Holmdel, N. J.
Issue 361 John S. Holmes; married, first, Annie, daughter of James Lake; married, second, Rhoda Longstreet. "Ann Lora Lake, wife of John S. Holmes, born Oct. 17, IS56; died Mich. 26, 1888." Buried on Joseph Holmes' farm, Holmdel.
362 Carrie C. Holmes; married Asher S. Ely.
363 Daniel Holmes; of Colorado; unmarried.
364 Lizzie Holmes; deceased.
301 ASHER HOLMES, son of Jonathan Holmes, 206, married, first, Sarah, daughter of Tylee and Eleanor Schenck; second, Margaret Schenck, her sister.
Issue by first wife 365 Tylee Schenck Holmes
Issue by second wife 366 Hulda Holmes, born Nov. 13, 1863; died Oct. 27, 1870.
367 Sarah Holmes; married Mr. Vreeland. 368 Cassie Holmes
318 BENJAMIN F. HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 222, married Issue 369 Eva Holmes 370 Foreman Holmes
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
371 Annie Holmes
372 Edward Holmes
373 Martha Holmes
374 Mamie Holmes
375 Frank Holmes 370 Stephen Hohnes 377 Angie Hohnes
378 Cornelia Holmes
379 Rhoda Holmes
380 Joseph Holmes
381 John Holmes
382 William Holmes
321 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 222, married Issue
383 Joseph Holmes
384 Nathan Holmes
385 Mark Holmes
386 Daniel Holmes
387 Lillie Holmes
325 ALBERT HOLMES, son of Steven Holmes, 223, married Eunice Cary.
Issue
388 William Holmes
389 Sylvanus Holmes
390 Charles Holmes
391 Ellsworth Holmes
392 Carey Holmes
326 DANIEL HOLMES, son of Steven Holmes, 223, married Lydia Chaney.
Issue
393 Jennie Holmes
394 Frank Holmes
395 Mary Holmes
396 Frederick Holmes
397 Arthur Holmes
328 SAMUEL HOLMES, son of Steven Holmes, 223, married Lona Chapin. Issue 398 Minnie Holmes 399 Winnie Holmes
400 De Clifford Holmes
401 George Holmes
329 STEPHEN HOLMES, son of Steven Holmes, 223, married Mary McLain.
Issue 402 Carrie Holmes
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403 Daniel Holmes 404 Laura Holmes
335 GILBERT HOLMES, son of Jacob Holmes, 225, born Feb. 1, 1842; married, Dec. 25, 1866, Lydia Snapp.
Issue 405 Eva Holmes
406 Laura Holmes
407 Jessie Holmes 408 Walter Holmes
409 Fay Holmes
410 Carl Holmes
336 GEORGE W. HOLMES, son of Jacob Holmes, 225, born Mich. 3, 1846; married, Oct. 10, 1866, Catharine Baxter.
Issue 411 Elizabeth Holmes
412 Allen Holmes
413 Viola Holmes
414 Minnie Holmes
415 Lila Holmes
416 Hfelen Holmes
417 Ralph Holmes
339 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of Jacob Holmes, 225, born Jan. 15, 1844; married, Mch. 6, 1867, Elizabeth Rayburn.
Issue 418 Layton Holmes
340 DANIEL HOLMES, son of William Holmes, 226, married Sarah Cox.
Issue 419 Perces Holmes
420 Frank Holmes
421 Blanch Holmes
422 Norma Holmes
423 Ada Holmes
424 Clide Holmes
425 Dott Holmes
345 HAMELINE HOLMES, son of William Holmes, 226, married Maggie
Issue 426 Archie Holmes 427 Demott Holmes 428 William Holmes 429 Addie Holmes
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
430 Thomas Holmes 431 Sallie Holmes
346 WILLIAM HOLMES, son of William Holmes, 226, married Elizabeth McVey. Issue 432 Florence Holmes
347 WEBSTER HOLMES, son of William Holmes, 226, married Ella Marsh.
Issue
433 Jessie Holmes 434 May Holmes
435 Oscar Holmes 436 Pearl Holmes
356 JOSEPH HOLMES, son of Joseph Holmes, 237, born July IT, 1849; married, Aug. 14, 1873, Helen Giberson.
Issue
437 Sarah Holmes 438 Joseph G. Holmes
439 George B. Holmes
440 J. Bruere Holmes 441 Martha Holmes
361 JOHN S. HOLMES, son of Joseph H. Holmes, 290, married, first, Ann Laura Lake, born Oct. 17, 1856; died MIch. 26, 18SS; second, Rhoda Longstreet.
Issue by first wife 442 Kittie Holmes 443 Joseph Holmes
Issue by second wife 444 John Holmes
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
MARRIAGE LICENSES FROM TRENTON, N. J.
1762, Feb. 9. Mary Holmes, of Monmouth, to Samuel Ellison, of Middlesex. 1765, 28 Oct. John Holmes, of Monmouth, to Elizabeth Leonard, of Monmouth; [prob- ably Shrewsbury family].
1758, 4 Nov. Joseph Holmes, Jr., to Phebe Andrews; [probably Shrewsbury family]. 1769, 6 Apr. Deliverance Holmes, of Middletown, to William Owen, of Middletown.
MARRIAGE LICENSES FROM ALBANY, N. Y.
1737, Nov. 18. Sarah Holmes and Edward Smith.
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HOLMES OF MONMOUTHI COUNTY
1738, June 17. Sarah Holmes and William Lane.
1760, Oct. 14. Mary Holmes and James Denton.
1761, Oct. 3. Anne Holmes and John Scott.
1762, Sept. 17. Elizabeth Holmes and Benjamin Lever.
1762, Dec. 16. Deliverance Holmes and Samuel Cotterel.
1764, June 5. Stephen Holmes and Elenor Miller. 1768, Apr. 5. Elizabeth Holmes and James Cully. 1763, Dec. 21. Unice Holmes and Leonard Robinson.
1771, Apr. 24. Sarah Holmes and William Lee.
1773, Dec. 15. Elizabeth Holmes and Thomas Lattin.
1775, Dec. 21. Josiah Holes and Mary Bancker.
1779, Sept. 1. Ninian Holmes and Ann Mann.
1782, June 15. William Holmes and Deborah Chadwick.
1733. Thomas Holmes mortgaged land, in Middletown, on Navesink River, to the Com- missioners. Widow Hoffmire's land was on the boundaries.
In 1748 "Cousin Mott. After my Love to you and Famaly, this Comes to Lett you know that I am Very Sorry Concerning the Story which my brother Obadiah told you at Mr. Morgans, which had no Truth In it for I can Declare I never told him Any Such thing In my Life. Jam very Sorry And Ashamed that he should tell Such Untruths and hope you Will Not think Hard of me Upon the Account. my kind Love to your Wife In Particular which is all att present from your friend and Cousin
I have been Sek this six weeks."
LYDIA HANLON
Cherry Hall Papers.
Major Nathaniel Holmes, died, Jan. 28, 1834, aged 76, 10, 11. He was born, in the town of Strahane, Ireland, Mch. 17, 1757, and landed at Cape May, N. J., in the month of August, 1773. Buried at Cape May Court House, N. J.
Robert Commin, high sheriff of Monmouth Co., did levy on property of Jolin Ilolmes, of Middletown point, deceased, adjacent to Richard Frances, and the adininistrators not having sufficient to meet his claim, he proceeds.
Will of John H. Holmes, of Frechold, dated Sept. 11, 1819; proved Oct. 6, 1819, men- tioned:
Half-brother, Leming Johnson Wife, Caty Holmes Children, Elizabeth Holmes Garret Ketcham Ilolmes Mary Ann Holmes Charles Holmes
Samuel Holmes lived and died on Staten Island.
Issue Six daughters Son, Baker Holmes
Son, Samuel Holmes; married Margaret, daughter of Stephen Cole. Several of his issue living in 1877. Issue Samuel Holmes
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
James Holmes John Holmes Cornelius Holmes Van Rensellaer Holmes George W. Holines Ann Holmes; married David Mersereau.
Will of Grace Holmes, of Middletown, dated Apr. 22, 1833; proved Oct. 3, 1833, men- tioned:
Son, John S. Holmes
Daughter, Mary, widow of Alfred Weed.
Daughter, Elizabeth, wife of James Shotwell; "living at a distance."
My brother, Jesse Jarvis, living in Norwalk, Conn.
Grandson, Jonathan Jarvis Holmes
Daughter-in-law, Louisa, widow of my son, Jonathan P Holmes, and her child Nathaniel.
Grand-daughter, Mrs. Ann Eliza Vredenburgh
[This is a branch of the Shrewsbury family.]
1832. A Daniel Holmes was a Member of the Legislature.
Further information concerning the name of Holmes may be found in Bliss' History, of Rhehoboth; Savage's New England Genealogical Dictionary; Ellis' History of Monmouth County; Salter's History of Ocean County; Benedict's History of the Baptists; Shourd's Fenwick's Colony; Austin's Genealogical History of Rhode Island; Jolinson's History of Salem County; Narragansett Historical Register, Vol. IV, pp. 291-4, and an old manuscript in the possession of the Rhode Island Historical Society, at Providence, from which it is said Bliss and Savage drew their accounts. Of late years, Mr. Edson Salisbury Jones, of Greenwich. Conn., has given much time to the study of the earlier generations of the Holmes' family, but the greatest contribution is the comparatively recent article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register on "The English Ancestry of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes," by Colonel J. T. Holmes, of Columbus, Ohio, which I have incorporated in the opening passages of this article on the Holmes family. Colonel Holmes, I understand, is compiling a genealogy of the Holmes Family.
Mr. Henry Bull, of Newport, one of Obadiah Holmes' descendants, has a sixty page autograph of Obadiah Holmes, reciting his religious belief, and letters to his children, which is probably the manuscript alluded to by Backus.
The late eminent New York surgeon, William T. Bull, a short time before his death, told me that there was a large number of original Holmes' papers in the possession of his immediate family; if I remember rightly, in the custody of an unmarried brother, residing in Rhode Island.
JONATHAN HOLMES' DIARY
4th Jan., 1736-7 13 April, 1738
Jan'y ye 4th. I stayed at home having a Sad swelling in my throat called a bile or something. Imployed in 1736-7 wrighting & reading. 5 I went unto Uncle Obadiah Holmes and made up his and John Smalleys [married Susanna, daughter of john and Elizabeth Brayl accompts and wemn to Jonen Holmes Jung to consult his wife about a swelling in my throat and went unto Doctor Hendricksons and por a poultis made
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with wormwood mint tie and wheat bran half so much wormwood as inint and came back about midnight.
I tarried at home and Red Burnets history and writ some papers relating to State affairs that the Freeholders Inquired into the Justices buifnesfs as to the Court of over and Terminer which the Justices ought to have informed the Chief Justice of an inditement against a person. I stayed at home and read and weighted on a swell. I had and Drubd a person for his misbehavior. I stayed at home and read said history and writ an afsignment of an Indenture it being very snowey weather and had continued a day which makes two days and almost two nights.
I tarried at home a reading
I went unto Doctor Hendrickson's, and from thence to William Hendricksons, and there I found him and he looked at my throat and he ordered me to continue poultting of it.
ye Irth
I tarried at home and Read the wonderful Book of the Revelation thorrough and writ a Bond for J Holmes to the value of roo it being a very snowy day the wind being much northerly.
ye 12
I was at home untill the middle of the day. I went to Uncles and J. H. gave me a bond and from thence home & got a horfe & went to Doctor Hendricksons and got a plaiter to put to my throat thence home. Snow made it fumbling Riding.
ye 13 14th 15
I was at home all day a Reading and Wrighting and what else I know not.
I was at home a doing I know not what except Reading.
I was at home untill ro or 11 clk Went to Doctor Hendricksons for him to look at my throat and he ordered me to continue to salve it and came home and difed with some of the Throckmortons about Accts of Afsembly which they would have gave Liberty to the Justices and Freeholders to difpose of money as they saw fit which I warmly opposd and said no farther than the acts plainly said.
ye 16th ye 17th
I tarried at home a Reading
I stayed at home untill ro Clock I went to O H Sent thence unto S. Holmes and from thence home I tarried awhile and went unto O. Holmes Andrew Bowne with me, and we red a reason given by C Morris against Col. Hamlington concerning Hamlingten keeping the seals of the province from him which said Morris thought Belonged unto him and gave his reasons why. I went unto James Brays [son of Rev. John Bray and Susanna] and tarried untill the afterpart of the day it snowed the wind being at South West and afterwards it came at North West and blew and snowed that a person could not see 15 yards it blew almost a hurricane.
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