John Holmes

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Between 4 Oct 1712 and 12 Nov 1712, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

Notes:

"He was twice married; was a Lieutenant in the militia, many years -- sixteen -- the general treasurer of the colony of Rhode Island, a member of the House of Deputuies, at different times, often employed and trusted, otherwise, in the public service." [J. T. Holmes, citation details below]

John married Mary Sayles on 12 Oct 1680 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island. Mary (daughter of John Sayles and Mary Williams) was born on 11 Jul 1652 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island; died in 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susannah Holmes was born about 1682; died between 7 Apr 1726 and 1728 in Groton, New London, Connecticut.

Notes:

Rev. Obadiah Holmes (1610-1682) = Katherine Hyde (~1608-~1684)
Lydia Holmes (d. >1693) = John Bowne (~1630-1684)
Sarah Bowne (1669->1714) = Richard Salter (d. >1728)
Hannah Salter (d. ~1727) = Mordecai Lincoln (1686-1736)
John Lincoln (1716-1788) = Rebecca Flowers (b. 1720)
Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) = Bathsheba (~1750-~1836)
Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851) = Nancy Hanks (1784-1818)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

From Wikipedia (accessed 9 Jan 2024):

Obadiah Holmes [...] was an early Rhode Island settler, and a Baptist minister who was whipped in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs and activism. He became the pastor of the Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island, a position he held for 30 years.

Born in 1610 near Manchester, England, he grew up in a family where several of his brothers were sent to college at Oxford, but he was somewhat wild in his youth, and saw his rebelliousness as being a cause of his mother's death. He was married at the age of 20, and several years later emigrated from England to settle in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and two others began a glass making business there, but by 1645, perhaps due to religious friction, he moved to Rehoboth in the Plymouth Colony.

Religious differences evolved between himself and Samuel Newman, the pastor of the Rehoboth church, and Holmes eventually became the leader of a small faction within the church sometimes called the "Schismists." In 1650, he and others were taken to court for their religious views and practices, and compelled to leave the colony. He settled in Newport in the Rhode Island colony, and soon befriended John Clarke and John Crandall. In July 1651, these three men, while visiting an elderly friend in Lynn, Massachusetts, were apprehended, tried, and given exorbitant fines for their religious practices. Friends paid the fines for Clarke and Crandall, but when Holmes learned of this, he refused to allow them to pay his fine. Six weeks after trial he was taken to the whipping post in Boston and given 30 strokes, which were laid on so harshly, that for weeks afterward Holmes could only sleep while on his knees and elbows.

The year after this punishment, Holmes became the pastor of the Baptist church in Newport, and continuously held that position for 30 years, until his death in 1682. Holmes and his wife Katharine had nine known children, eight of whom survived to adulthood. He was an ancestor of the sixteenth United States President, Abraham Lincoln.

Rev. married Catherine Hyde on 20 Nov 1630 in Collegiate Church of Manchester, Lancashire, England. Catherine was born about 1608; died about 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was a husbandman.

Robert married Katherine Johnson on 8 Oct 1605 in Stockport, near Manchester, Lancashire, England. Katherine died before 8 Sep 1630; was buried on 8 Sep 1630 in Stockport, near Manchester, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Alice. Alice died before 7 Sep 1610; was buried on 7 Sep 1610 in Collegiate Church of Manchester, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]