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• Hij is geboren op 8 maart 1607 in England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren in het jaar 1607 in England.
• Alternatief: Hij is geboren rond 1607.
• Geloof: Baptist.
• (Noted for) in Suffered persecution from New England Puritans.
• Hij is overleden op 15 oktober 1682 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 15 november 1682 in Newport, Rhode Island, hij was toen 75 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Robert Holmes en Katharine Johnson
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 25 december 2023.

Gezin van REV. OBADIAH JOHNSON (MA 1638) HOLMES

Hij is getrouwd met KATHARINE HYDE.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 20 november 1630, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Jonathan Hyde Holmes  1633-1713 
2. LYDIA HYDE HOLMES  1634-???? 
3. MARY HYDE HOLMES  1635-???? 
4. Samuel Hyde Holmes  1641-???? 
5. John Hyde Holmes  1654-1712 
6. Hopestill Hyde Holmes  

Notities over REV. OBADIAH JOHNSON (MA 1638) HOLMES

ANCESTOR OF CINDY COWLING
ANCESTOR OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
fifth great grandmother of President Abraham Lincoln
ANCESTOR OF PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE

Rev Obadiah Holmes
Birth: 1606 Reddish, Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Death: 15 Oct 1682 (aged 75œ76) Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial: Reverend Obadiah Holmes Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Memorial #: 19730766
Bio: He was christened at Didsbury, Co.Lancashire on Mar 18,1609/10, the son of Robert Hulme Jr and Catherine (Johnson) Hulme. His stone suggests a birth as early as 1606, and, In 1675, he wrote a letter, I Obediah Hullme ... sixty nine years old or thereabouts (NEHGR 67:23).

Upon arriving in America he was admitted to membership in The Church of England in Salem, MA. On Mar 24, 1639, he established a glass foundry, the first in America to make window glass. However, he became a victim of religious persecution, was excommunicated from the church at Salem, and in 1646 moved his famiy from Salem to Rehoboth, MA. On Oct 2, 1650 Obadiah Holmes and others of Rehoboth, were indicted by the Grand Jury at New Plymouth for holding meetings in their homes on Sunday. This indictment prompted his move from MA to Newport, RI. There he became a colleague of Roger Williams, and the 2nd minister of the first Baptist Church in Newport,RI, taking the leadership of the church while Pastor John Clarke, M.D. was England.

He married Catherine Hyde on 20 Nov 1630 at Manchester, Co.Lancashire, England.

Children: John Holmes, Jonathan Holmes, Mary Holmes Brown, Lydia Holmes Bowne, Martha Holmes Odlin, Samuel Holmes, Obadiah Holmes Jr, John Holmes, Joseph Holmes, and Hopestill Holmes Taylor.
Inscription: "In Memory of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes Baptist Minister from Great Britain who died October 15th 1682 in the 76th year of his age"
Family Members
Parents
Robert Hulme 1578-1640
Katherine Johnson Hulme 1584-1630
Spouse
Catherine Hyde Holmes Unknown-1684
Children
Mary Holmes Brown 1631-1690
Jonathan Holmes 1635-1713
Lydia Holmes Bowne 1638-1693
Martha Holmes Odlin 1640-1711
Samuel Holmes 1642-1679
Obadiah Holmes 1644-1722
John Holmes 1654-1712
Elizabeth Holmes Lore 1701-1761
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Originally Created by: Superkentman (46877580)
Added: 4 Jun 2007
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19730766/obadiah-holmes
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19730766/obadiah-holmes : accessed 07 March 2022), memorial page for Rev Obadiah Holmes (1606œ15 Oct 1682), Find a Grave Memorial ID 19730766, citing Reverend Obadiah Holmes Cemetery, Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Kevin Avery (contributor 47024642) .

Obadiah Mead, 1610 - 1682
Obadiah Mead was born on month day 1610, at birth place.
Obadiah married Katherine Mead (born Hyde).
Katherine was born in 1610, in England.
They had one daughter: Martha Holmes (born Mead).
Obadiah passed away on month day 1682, at age 72 at death place, Rhode Island.

Rev. Obadiah Holmes

Dates of Birth and Death 1606/7 - 1682
Obadiah Holmes was born near Manchester, England in 1606/7 and baptized at Didsbury 18 March 1609/10. He married Katharine Hyde at the Collegiate Church of Manchester, England, 20 November 1630. He died 15 October 1682 in Newport, Rhode Island, and is buried in the Holmes Burying Ground in Middletown, Rhode Island.
Obadiah Holmes with his wife Katharine and son Jonathan arrived in Boston in 1638 bringing with them tradition says, the first tall case clock ever brought to America. He soon went to Salem, Massachusetts where he and two others established a glass works, probably the first in this country. He removed to Rehoboth in 1646 and to Newport (now Middletown) Rhode Island in 1650 where he resided for the rest of his life. In 1651 he went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to visit former neighbors and because he held services which were not in accord with the established church there he was sentenced on 31 July 1651 to thirty lashes from a three cord whip. The sentence was carried out and the scars remained for the rest of his life. In Newport he was the second minister of the First Baptist Church in America, and he held this pastorate until his death.
In 1657 Obadiah Holmes became interested in the colonization of New Jersey, due in part to the marriage of his daughter to John Bowne, one of the prime movers in its settlement. He subscribed to the purchase of lands there and with eleven others were Monmouth Patentee named in the original Nicholls patent for settling of lands in Monmouth and Middlesex counties, 8 April 1665. The town book of Old Middletown in its first entry dated 30 December 1667 shows that the house lots laid out in Middletown were 36 in number; Obadiah Holmes was assigned lot #20. In 1667 his name appears with that of his eldest son, Jonathan, among the organizers of the First Baptist Church at Middletown, New Jersey.
Although Rev. Obadiah did not move away from Middletown, Rhode Island, two of his sons, Obadiah, who became the High Sheriff of Monmouth County in 1699 and Jonathan did take up residence, Obadiah permanently, and Jonathan temporarily.
Biography Author Lucy Hazen Barnes #163
References
Early Settlement and Progress of Cumberland County, by Lucius Elmer, 1869
Historical and Genealogical Miscellany of Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, by John E. Stillwell, M.D.1970 reprint
Our Holmes Ancestors, by Eileen Digges Bruce, 1949
History of Monmouth County, New Jersey, by Franklin Ellis, 1885
The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes by Anna Rutherford, et.al. 1915

Obadiah Holmes (1607 - 1682)

Reverend Obadiah Holmes aka Hulme, Hullme
Born 8 Mar 1607 in Reddish, Lancashire, England
ANCESTORS
Son of Robert Holmes and Katherine (Johnson) Holmes
Brother of John Holmes, Joan Holmes, Samuel Holmes, Samuel Hulme, Nathaniel Holmes, Robert Holmes, Joseph Holmes, Joseph Holmes and Mary (Holmes) Stillwell [half]
Husband of Katherine (Hyde) Holmes – married 20 Nov 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England
DESCENDANTS
Father of John Holmes, Jonathan Holmes, Lydia (Holmes) Bowne, Mary (Holmes) Brown, Martha (Holmes) Audley, Samuel Holmes, Obadiah Holmes Jr., Hopestill (Holmes) Taylor and John Holmes
Died 15 Oct 1682 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
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•1 Biography
•2 Last Will and Testament
•2.1 Full Text of Will
•3 Children
•4 Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
•5 External Web Sites
•6 Sources
Biography
Circa 1606/1607 -- Obadiah Holmes was born at Reddish, Lancashire, England. He was a son of Robert Hulme as per baptism entry below. His mother was Katherine Johnson. [1]
March 18, 1609/1610 [i.e., 1610] -- Obadiah Holmes was baptized at Didsbury, Lancashire, England, son of Robert Hulme.[2] [1]
November 20, 1630 -- Obadiah Holmes and Katherine Hyde married at Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England.[3] [1] He was a glassmaker and weaver by trade. [citation needed]
Obadiah Holmes's memoirs stated that his parents had three sons attend the University of Oxford. The memoirs also named Robert Hullme of Redish near Gorton Chapel in Manchester as his brother.
Obadiah's father's will bequeathed Obadiah £10 if his younger brother had died before his father. Probably Obadiah had already received his portion of the estate.[4]
Holmes probably sailed from Preston, down the River Ribble, across the Irish Sea and across the Atlantic to Boston. They had a very stormy voyage and landed in the summer or early fall of 1638.
By January 1639 -- Obadiah & Katherine Hyde Holmes lived at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Obadiah received one acre of land for a house and the promise of ten more acres to be laid out. He made common window glass and may have had the first glass factory in North America.
March 1640 -- Obadiah & Katherine joined the Salem Congregational church but he had problems with the Congregational church.
On March 1, 1639, Obadiah was excommunicated, and his wife, Katherine, was removed from the First Church of Salem (page 8). However, according to the church records, subsequent to that, three of his children were baptized in that church: Martha on May 3, 1640 (page 17), Samuel on August 20, 1642 (page 18), and Obadiah on June 2, 1644 (page 20).[1]
By October 1643 -- Obadiah Holmes had taken an option in the newly formed community of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (now Bristol County, Massachusetts), 40 miles south of Boston.
By 1645 -- Obadiah Holmes had sold his land at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1648 -- Obadiah was made a freeman at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. The Rehoboth church divided into two factions: one faction supported minister Samuel Newman and the other supported Obadiah Holmes. About this time Obadiah left the Congregational church and was baptized into the Baptist church and became the leader of the Schismatists.
October 29, 1649 -- Obadiah sued Reverend Samuel Newman for slander.
He was expelled from the church at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony for practicing the Baptist faith.
1650 -- Holmes and his followers moved from Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony to Newport, Rhode Island.
The Puritans were irritated by the Baptists who refused to baptize babies and added further irritation by insisting on baptism by immersion only. The Baptists population was growing rapidly and the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities were alarmed to the point of considering armed suppression of the Baptists in Rhode Island.[5]
1651 -- Obadiah Holmes was convicted and whipped at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony for "seducing and drawing aside others after their erroneous judgment and practices."[6]
Obadiah Holmes, while visiting a sick friend back at Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, along with John Clarke and John Crandall, was arrested and fined. When Clarke protested their heavy fines, Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Endecott replied that Clarke "deserved death" and "was worthy to be hanged." Why? Because they were Baptists - believing in religious freedom, local church authority, and baptism by immersion only.[7]
Holmes refused to pay his fine since he was not guilty of any crime whereupon the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, hit him and asked God to curse him. Holmes was severely whipped (30 lashes) and carried his scars for the rest of his life. Holmes said later about the whipping: "...having joyfulness in my heart, and cheerfulness in my countenance...I told the magistrates, 'you have struck me as with roses."[8]
He returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Obadiah Holmes succeeded John Clarke as the minister of the first Baptist Church in America at Newport, Rhode Island. [9]
October 15, 1682 -- Reverend Obadiah Holmes died at Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. His wife, Catherine died soon after her husband and they were buried on their farm.
Last Will and Testament
His will was presented along with 17 others to the court in 1682, because the law required three witnesses and his had only two. The following daughters are named: Mary Brown, Martha Odlin, and Lydia Bowne. There was a bequest to the two children of daughter Hopestill Taylor. Sons named were John, Obadiah, the children of son Samuel, son Jonathan as executor. Wife Catherine was named. Overseers were loving friends, James Barker, Joseph Clarke, Philip Smith, all of Newport, Rhode Island. The will was dated April 9, 1681. Witnesses were Edward Thurston & Weston Clarke who appeared before the Council of Newport on December 4, 1682 and declared they saw Obadiah Holmes, deceased, sign his will. [10]
Full Text of Will
These are to signify that I, Obadiah Holmes of Newport on Rhode Island, being at present through the goodness and mercy of my God of sound memory; and, being by daily intimations put in mind of the frailty and uncertainty of this present life, do therefore - for settling my estate in this world which it has pleased the Lord to bestow upon me - make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner following, committing my spirit unto the Lord that gave it to me and my body to the earth from whence it was taken, in hope and expectation that it shall thence be raised at the resurrection of the just.

Imprimis, I will that all my just debts which I owe unto any person be paid by my Executor, hereafter named, in convenient time after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Brown, five pounds in money or equivalent to money.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Martha Odlin, ten pounds in the like pay.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Lydia Bowne, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my two grandchildren, the children of my daughter, Hopestill Taylor, five pounds each; and if either of them decease, the survivor to have ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, John Holmes, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, Obadiah Holmes, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren, the children of my son Samuel Holmes, ten pounds to be paid unto them in equal portions.

All these portions by me bequeathed, my will is, shall be paid by my Executor in money or equivalent to money.

Item. I give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren now living ten pounds; and ten shillings in the like pay to be laid out to each of them - a bible.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchild, Martha Brown, ten pounds in the like pay.

All [of] which aforesaid legacies are to be paid by my Executor, hereafter named in manner here expressed: that is to say, the first payment to [be] paid within one year after the decease of my wife, Catherine {sic} Holmes, and twenty pounds a year until all the legacies be paid, and each to be paid according to the degree of age.

My will is and I do hereby appoint my son Jonathan Holmes my sole Executor, unto whom I have sold my land, housing, and stock for the performance of the same legacies above. And my will is that my Executor shall pay unto his mother, Catherine Holmes, if she survives and lives, the sum of twenty pounds in money or money pay for her to dispose of as she shall see cause.

Lastly, I do desire my loving friends, Mr. James Barker, Sr., Mr. Joseph Clarke, and Mr. Philip Smith, all of Newport, to be my overseers to see this my will truly performed. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this ninth day of April, 1681.

Obadiah Hullme [Holmes][Seal]

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
Edward Thurston
Weston Clarke
(Edward Thurston, Sr., and Weston Clark appeared before the Council [of Newport], December 4, 1682, and did upon their engagements [pledges] declare and own that they saw Obadiah Holmes, deceased, sign seal and deliver the above written will as his act and deed; and, at the time of his sealing hereof, he was in his perfect memory, according to the best of our understandings. Taken before the Council, as attested. Weston Clarke, Town Clerk.)
Children
Obadiah and Katherine Holmes had nine children.
1Hopestill, date of birth uncertain, probably in England; married to Unknown Taylor, probably predeceased her father, two children listed in her father's will.
2Mary, born at Stockport, Lancashire, before 1633; married 1654 to John Brown, Providence, Rhode Island.
3John, born at England, about June 1633; died an infant, buried in the village cemetery, Stockport, Lancashire.
4Lydia, born at Stockport, Lancashire, probably before 1637; married 1665 to John Bowne; 4th great grandmother of Abraham Lincoln.
5Johnathan, born Stockport, Lancashire, about 1637; married 1659 to Sarah; was executor of father's estate.
6Martha, baptised at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 May 1640;[11] married 1660 to John Audley, Newport, Rhode Island; Obadiah's first child born in America.
7Samuel, baptised at Salem, Massachusetts, 20 March 1641/2;[11] married about 1665 to Alice Stillwell.
8Obadiah, baptised at Salem, Massachusetts, 9 June 1644;[11] married 1669 to Elizabeth Cooke; became a County Court Judge in Salem County, New Jersey.
9John, born at Massachusetts, about 1649; married (1) 1671 to Frances Holden, married (2) 1680 to Mary Sayles; was a preacher, like his father, his second wife was a granddaughter of Roger Williams.
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Obadiah Holmes(1607 - 1682)

ReverendObadiahHolmesakaHulme, Hullme
Born8 Mar 1607inReddish, Lancashire, England
ANCESTORS
SonofRobert HolmesandKatherine (Johnson) Holmes
Brother ofJohn Holmes,Joan Holmes,Samuel Holmes,Samuel Hulme,Nathaniel Holmes,Robert Holmes,Joseph Holmes,Joseph HolmesandMary (Holmes) Stillwell[half]
Husband ofKatherine (Hyde) Holmes– married 20 Nov 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England
DESCENDANTS
Father ofJohn Holmes,Jonathan Holmes,Lydia (Holmes) Bowne,Mary (Holmes) Brown,Martha (Holmes) Audley,Samuel Holmes,Obadiah Holmes Jr.,Hopestill (Holmes) TaylorandJohn Holmes
Died15 Oct 1682inNewport, Newport, Rhode Island
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Contents
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•1Biography
•2Last Will and Testament
•2.1Full Text of Will
•3Children
•4Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
•5External Web Sites
•6Sources
Biography
Circa 1606/1607 -- Obadiah Holmes was born at Reddish, Lancashire, England. He was a son of Robert Hulme as per baptism entry below. His mother was Katherine Johnson.[1]
March 18, 1609/1610 [i.e., 1610] -- Obadiah Holmes was baptized at Didsbury, Lancashire, England, son of Robert Hulme.[2][1]
November 20, 1630 -- Obadiah Holmes and Katherine Hyde married at Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England.[3][1]He was a glassmaker and weaver by trade.[citation needed]
Obadiah Holmes's memoirs stated that his parents had three sons attend the University of Oxford. The memoirs also named Robert Hullme of Redish near Gorton Chapel in Manchester as his brother.
Obadiah's father's will bequeathed Obadiah £10 if his younger brother had died before his father. Probably Obadiah had already received his portion of the estate.[4]
Holmes probably sailed from Preston, down the River Ribble, across the Irish Sea and across the Atlantic to Boston. They had a very stormy voyage and landed in the summer or early fall of 1638.
By January 1639 -- Obadiah & Katherine Hyde Holmes lived at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Obadiah received one acre of land for a house and the promise of ten more acres to be laid out. He made common window glass and may have had the first glass factory in North America.
March 1640 -- Obadiah & Katherine joined the Salem Congregational church but he had problems with the Congregational church.
On March 1, 1639, Obadiah was excommunicated, and his wife, Katherine, was removed from the First Church of Salem (page 8). However, according to the church records, subsequent to that, three of his children were baptized in that church: Martha on May 3, 1640 (page 17), Samuel on August 20, 1642 (page 18), and Obadiah on June 2, 1644 (page 20).[1]
By October 1643 -- Obadiah Holmes had taken an option in the newly formed community of Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (now Bristol County, Massachusetts), 40 miles south of Boston.
By 1645 -- Obadiah Holmes had sold his land at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1648 -- Obadiah was made a freeman at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony. The Rehoboth church divided into two factions: one faction supported minister Samuel Newman and the other supported Obadiah Holmes. About this time Obadiah left the Congregational church and was baptized into the Baptist church and became the leader of the Schismatists.
October 29, 1649 -- Obadiah sued Reverend Samuel Newman for slander.
He was expelled from the church at Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony for practicing the Baptist faith.
1650 -- Holmes and his followers moved from Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony to Newport, Rhode Island.
The Puritans were irritated by the Baptists who refused to baptize babies and added further irritation by insisting on baptism by immersion only. The Baptists population was growing rapidly and the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities were alarmed to the point of considering armed suppression of the Baptists in Rhode Island.[5]
1651 -- Obadiah Holmes was convicted and whipped at Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony for "seducing and drawing aside others after their erroneous judgment and practices."[6]
Obadiah Holmes, while visiting a sick friend back at Lynn, Massachusetts Bay Colony, along with John Clarke and John Crandall, was arrested and fined. When Clarke protested their heavy fines, Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor Endecott replied that Clarke "deserved death" and "was worthy to be hanged." Why? Because they were Baptists - believing in religious freedom, local church authority, and baptism by immersion only.[7]
Holmes refused to pay his fine since he was not guilty of any crime whereupon the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, hit him and asked God to curse him. Holmes was severely whipped (30 lashes) and carried his scars for the rest of his life. Holmes said later about the whipping: "...having joyfulness in my heart, and cheerfulness in my countenance...I told the magistrates, 'you have struck me as with roses."[8]
He returned to Newport, Rhode Island. Obadiah Holmes succeeded John Clarke as the minister of the first Baptist Church in America at Newport, Rhode Island.[9]
October 15, 1682 -- Reverend Obadiah Holmes died at Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. His wife, Catherine died soon after her husband and they were buried on their farm.
Last Will and Testament
His will was presented along with 17 others to the court in 1682, because the law required three witnesses and his had only two. The following daughters are named: Mary Brown, Martha Odlin, and Lydia Bowne. There was a bequest to the two children of daughter Hopestill Taylor. Sons named were John, Obadiah, the children of son Samuel, son Jonathan as executor. Wife Catherine was named. Overseers were loving friends, James Barker, Joseph Clarke, Philip Smith, all of Newport, Rhode Island. The will was dated April 9, 1681. Witnesses were Edward Thurston & Weston Clarke who appeared before the Council of Newport on December 4, 1682 and declared they saw Obadiah Holmes, deceased, sign his will.[10]
Full Text of Will
These are to signify that I, Obadiah Holmes of Newport on Rhode Island, being at present through the goodness and mercy of my God of sound memory; and, being by daily intimations put in mind of the frailty and uncertainty of this present life, do therefore - for settling my estate in this world which it has pleased the Lord to bestow upon me - make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner following, committing my spirit unto the Lord that gave it to me and my body to the earth from whence it was taken, in hope and expectation that it shall thence be raised at the resurrection of the just.

Imprimis, I will that all my just debts which I owe unto any person be paid by my Executor, hereafter named, in convenient time after my decease.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Mary Brown, five pounds in money or equivalent to money.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Martha Odlin, ten pounds in the like pay.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my daughter, Lydia Bowne, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my two grandchildren, the children of my daughter, Hopestill Taylor, five pounds each; and if either of them decease, the survivor to have ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, John Holmes, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, Obadiah Holmes, ten pounds.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren, the children of my son Samuel Holmes, ten pounds to be paid unto them in equal portions.

All these portions by me bequeathed, my will is, shall be paid by my Executor in money or equivalent to money.

Item. I give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren now living ten pounds; and ten shillings in the like pay to be laid out to each of them - a bible.

Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchild, Martha Brown, ten pounds in the like pay.

All [of] which aforesaid legacies are to be paid by my Executor, hereafter named in manner here expressed: that is to say, the first payment to [be] paid within one year after the decease of my wife, Catherine {sic} Holmes, and twenty pounds a year until all the legacies be paid, and each to be paid according to the degree of age.

My will is and I do hereby appoint my son Jonathan Holmes my sole Executor, unto whom I have sold my land, housing, and stock for the performance of the same legacies above. And my will is that my Executor shall pay unto his mother, Catherine Holmes, if she survives and lives, the sum of twenty pounds in money or money pay for her to dispose of as she shall see cause.

Lastly, I do desire my loving friends, Mr. James Barker, Sr., Mr. Joseph Clarke, and Mr. Philip Smith, all of Newport, to be my overseers to see this my will truly performed. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this ninth day of April, 1681.

Obadiah Hullme [Holmes][Seal]

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
Edward Thurston
Weston Clarke
(Edward Thurston, Sr., and Weston Clark appeared before the Council [of Newport], December 4, 1682, and did upon their engagements [pledges] declare and own that they saw Obadiah Holmes, deceased, sign seal and deliver the above written will as his act and deed; and, at the time of his sealing hereof, he was in his perfect memory, according to the best of our understandings. Taken before the Council, as attested. Weston Clarke, Town Clerk.)
Children
Obadiah and Katherine Holmes had nine children.
1.Hopestill, date of birth uncertain, probably in England; married to Unknown Taylor, probably predeceased her father, two children listed in her father's will.
2.Mary, born at Stockport, Lancashire, before 1633; married 1654 to John Brown, Providence, Rhode Island.
3.John, born at England, about June 1633; died an infant, buried in the village cemetery, Stockport, Lancashire.
4.Lydia, born at Stockport, Lancashire, probably before 1637; married 1665 to John Bowne; 4th great grandmother of Abraham Lincoln.
5.Johnathan, born Stockport, Lancashire, about 1637; married 1659 to Sarah; was executor of father's estate.
6.Martha, baptised at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 May 1640;[11]married 1660 to John Audley, Newport, Rhode Island; Obadiah's first child born in America.
7.Samuel, baptised at Salem, Massachusetts, 20 March 1641/2;[11]married about 1665 to Alice Stillwell.
8.Obadiah, baptised at Salem, Massachusetts, 9 June 1644;[11]married 1669 to Elizabeth Cooke; became a County Court Judge in Salem County, New Jersey.
9.John, born at Massachusetts, about 1649; married (1) 1671 to Frances Holden, married (2) 1680 to Mary Sayles; was a preacher, like his father, his second wife was a granddaughter of Roger Williams.
At least one person has claimed, without source or evidence, that he had a son,Joseph Holmesbut no such son is documented and he has been detached.
October [10th month] 17, 1675 -- Obadiah Holmes wrote "A Letter to all my children" in which he described each of their names from the Bible - this is what he had to say about Mary, "My daughter Mary remember Mary she chose the better part that shall not be taken away and did hearken to the Lord's instructions." Daughter Lydia was ancestor of Abraham Lincoln, "My daughter Lidiah remember how Lidiah's heart was opened her ear bored her spirit made to be willing to receive and obey the apostle in what the Lord required and was baptized and entertained and refreshed the servants of the Lord."[12]
Obadiah was one of the originalpatentees of MonmouthCounty, New Jersey. While he never lived there (although he may have visited), several of his children, including son Obadiah, son Jonathan, and daughter Lydia Bowne, moved to New Jersey.
For more information about Monmouth, read thisexcerpt of This Old Monmouth of Ours.
Ancestor of Abraham Lincoln
One of Obadiah Holmes descendents, Abraham Lincoln, became the 16th president of the United States. The line of descent is shown below.
•Obadiah Holmes (1607-1682) married Catherine Hyde (1608-1682)
•Lydia Holmes (1637-1693) married Captain John Bowne (1630-1684)
•Sarah Bowne (1669-1714) married Richard Salter, Esq. (1669-1728)
•Hannah Salter (1692-1727) married Mordecai Lincoln (1686-1736)
•John "Virginia John" Lincoln (1711-1788) married Rebecca Flowers (1720-1806)
•Captain Abraham Lincoln (1738-1786) married Bathsheba Herring (1746-1836)
•Thomas Lincoln (1778-1851) married Nancy Hanks (1784-1818)
•President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The discovery of the direct line from Holmes to Abraham Lincoln was made by Wilbur Nelson, who published a small booklet on the subject: Obadiah Holmes, Ancestor and Prototype of Abraham Lincoln (Newport, 1932).[13]
External Web Sites
1.Obadiah's Wikipedia entry
2.Detailed story of Obadiah Holmes
3.Biography with copy of will
4.Timeline
5.Find A Grave Memorial #19730766
6.Grave Marker Photo from Fields-Cudworth-Davis-White Family Tree @ Ancestry.com
7.Baptist view of his history
Sources
1.?1.01.11.2Holmes, Col. J. T.,The English Ancestry of Rev. Obadiah Holmes,The New England Historical & Genealogical Register(NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1910) Vol. 64,Page 237.
2.?"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NP13-XWP: 11 February 2018, Obadiah Hulme, 18 Mar 1610); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 599,508, 844,796
3.?The American family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, by Holmes, James T., Columbus, O. [Stoneman press], c1915, p. 12;https://archive.org/details/americanfamilyof00holm/page/12/mode/2up
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10.?Charles M. Bull, "Extracts from the manuscripts of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, found among the Bull family papers," inRegister,Boston, Massachusetts: NEGHS. Volume 67, Issue 1, January 1913, p.21-23.
11.?11.011.111.2Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts,http://ma-vitalrecords.org
12.?Charles M. Bull, "Extracts from the manuscripts of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, found among the Bull family papers," inNEHGS Register, Volume 67. Issue 1. January 1913. Pages 21 - 23.
13.?Wikipedia citing Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 edition, NEHGS. Pages 49 - 52.
•The Records of the First Church in Salem, Record Book Index[2]
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•Colonel J.T. Holmes. The American Family of Obadiah Holmes. 1915.[3]
•Franklin Ellis. History of Monmouth County. 1885. New Jersey.[4]provides more information about the Monmouth Patent and Obadiah's children.
•John E. Stillwell. The Old Middletown Town Book, 1667 - 1700.[5]
•Charles M. Bull, "Extracts from the manuscripts of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, found among the Bull family papers," in NEHGSRegister,67(Jan 1913):21-23.
•P. William Filby, editor.Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale Research. 2009.
•Roberts, Gary Boyd;Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
•Charles A. Hanna. Ohio Valley Genealogies. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1968. Page 63.
•Chester, Chris. "The Brouwer Genealogy Database."freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata. Accessed 28 Jan 2017.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brouwergenealogydata/index.htmRev. Obidiah Holmes
•Tilton, George Henry.A History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts(The Author, Boston, Mass., 1918)Page 40-1
See also: BIRTH, MARRIAGE, & DEATH RECORDS, Stockport, Cheshire, England: John "infant of Obadiah Hulmes of Redich," bur. at Stockport 27 June 1633.
Inscription on old headstone: "In Memory of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes Baptist Minister from Great Britain who died October 15th 1682 in the 76th year of his age".
HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY: NEHGR 64:237-239 = "The English Ancestry of Rev. Obadiah Holmes" (Col. J. T. Holmes, Columbus, Ohio). The principal facts known on this side [of the Atlantic ocean] of Rev. Obadiah Holme's English career were that he was born in Lancashire, England, about 1607, that of his father's children three sons were "brought up at the University in Oxford," that his mother was dead, and that he married his wife Catherine before his emigration to New England in 1638 or 1639. In an autobiography Holmes refers to a field called "the Twenty Acres," evidently in the neighborhood of his English home. I had ascertained from Foster's "Alumni Oxoniensis" that Obadiah Holmes was not on record as a student of Oxford University, but that two brothers of the name of Hulme, born at Reddish, near Manchester, had matriculated there. In the face of a persistent tradition that Holmes came from the neighborhood of Preston, I could not safely draw any conclusions. Mr. Axon also referred to Foster's "Alumni," followed the clue by obtaining wills from the Probate Registry of Chester, and supplemented information given there by searching the Parish Registers of Manchester, Stockport, Didsbury, and other places. The following is a summary of the results that he obtained, and I think that there can be little doubt as to the identity of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes, the early Baptist Confessor, with Obadiah who is named in the will of Robert Hulme of Reddish (1640). It will be seen that the dates correspond pretty closely, that the mother died before the emigration, and that the two sons were certainly at Oxford. The third son may have been Obadiah himself, it being well known that the admission registers of the University are not complete. Further it may be noted that the Robert Hulme of Reddish (d. 1697) attended Gorton Chapel, and that there was a locality called "Twenty Acres" in Gorton. A point not settled by the evidence is the connection with Preston, no mention of Obadiah having been found in the records there. Possibly he was there for a short time before his emigration, or he may have sailed from there. There really seems to be no room to doubt this latter fact. Besides this family of Hulme of Reddish, who were not land owners, there were in succession two families of Hulme of Reddish who were owners of a considerable part of the township. One of these families flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries and sold the property early in the 17th century to Ralph Hulme of Manchester, gent., founder of the second family of Hulme of Reddish. The latter family became extinct by the death in 1691 of William Hulme, Esq., the munificent founder of the wealthy Hulme Charity in Manchester. The relationship of these two families with each other and with the family to which Obadiah Holmes belonged has not been satisfactorily settled. It may be mentioned that the family with which we are more intimately concerned held their lands not under their namesakes but under the Reddish and Coke families, the largest owners in Reddish township.
Obadiah, the emigrant, bapt. at Didsbury 18 Mar. 1609--10 as "Obadiath s. of Robert Hulme"; was living at Reddish in 1633, and is mentioned in his father's will, his legacy of £10 being dependent on the death, under age, of a younger brother. It is evident from this that he had already received his filial portion. In the Stockport register, under date 20 Dec. 1626, is recorded the burial of "Obadia son of Robert Hulme of Rediche." This cannot relate to our Obadiah as the will proves that Obadiah was living in 1640. Hulme was a very common name in the district. He m. at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, 20 Nov. 1630, Katherine Hyde. Child: John, "infant of Obadiah Hulmes of Redich," bur. at Stockport 27 June 1633.
"The American Family of Rev. Obadiah Holmes" (Col. J. T. Holmes, Columbus, Ohio,1915). Obadiah Holmes, the immigrant to this country, was born near Manchester, England, in 1606-7. His baptism occurred at Didsbury, on the 18th day of March, 1609-10, as "Obadiath s. of Robert Huhne." . For as much as an hundred years after his birth the name continued to be spelled in different ways: Hulme, Hulmes, Hullmes, Holm, Holme, Holmes, and otherwise, when it finally, about the beginning of the eighteenth century, gradually settled down to the present form – Holmes. . The name is said by different authors to be a derivative, like Hill, Dale, Wood and others, from the character of the land or place, of residence of the first person, who took and thereafter bore it, and signifies a meadow surrounded by water, low, flat land, the deposit or made land at the confluence of two rivers or streams. . Flat grounds near water in Scotland are called holms, otherwise, more fully defined "a river, island, meadow, also cultivated rising ground." Beardsley, in his English surnames, says, "An holm was a flat meadow-land lying within the windings of some valley stream." . This Obadiah was the son of Robert and Katherine Johnson Hulme, who were married at Stockport, near Manchester, on the 8th 'day of October, 1605. The father, Robert, was baptized August 18, 1578. . Obadiah's grandfather, Robert Hulme of Reddish in the Parish of Manchester, a very old man, was buried at Stockport, January 14, 1604-5, and his grandmother – registered asAlyce wydow of Robte of Reddiche" – was buried at the Collegiate Church, now Cathedral, Manchester, September 7, 1610; but it is not the purpose, at this time, to trace the line further backward. .They seem to have been parliamentarians, not loyalists, during the long civil war. . On the 20th day of November, 1630, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Obadiah Hulme married Katherine Hyde. On the 27th day of June, 1633, they buried, at Stockport, John, "infant of Obadiah Hulmes of Redich.". With two brothers, John and Samuel, it is said that he was educated – but it is not said that he graduated – at Oxford University. Both the others matriculated.Samuel is known to have graduated. In his mature years, out of a tenderconscience, Obadiah expressed regret that he had been somewhat wild and hadgiven his loving Mother serious concern about himself and his ways when he waspassing from boyhood to manhood. It seems to have been neglect and possibleerrancy as to religious duties and ideas. If this was the trouble, he bravelyatoned for it. In1638, Obadiah Holmes, with his wife Katherine and their son Jonathan, thenperhaps a little more than three years old, sailed from Preston, on the river Ribble, in Lancashire, some twenty-eight miles northeast of Liverpool and about the same distance northwest of Manchester, for the new world. They had a tempestuous voyage and did not enter Boston harbor until six weeks had passed. There were neither Mauretanias nor Lusitanias on the high seas in those days.
NEHGR, vol.?, Jan 1913, pages 21-23: "The Will of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, with a Few Extracts from His Manuscripts" (Miss Edith May Tilley of Newport, R.I.). The original will of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, a copy of which follows, was found recently among the Bull family papers, which are now in the possession of Charles M. Bull, Esq., of New York City and of Newport, R. I. No recorded copy of this will is known to exist. These are to Signifie that I obadiah Holme of Newport on Rhod Island Being at present threw the goodness And mercy of my god of Sound memory And being by dayly intimations putt in mind of the frailty And Incertainty of this present Life doe tharefore for Settling my Estate in this world which it hath pleased the Lord to bestow upon mee make And ordaine this my Last will And testament in mano'r following Committing my Spiritt unto the Lord th't gave it mee, And my body to the Earth from whence it was taken, in hops And Expectation that it Shall from thence be Raised at the Resurrection of the Just. Imp'rs I will that all my Just debts which I owe unto Any person be payd by my Executo'r hereafter named in Convenant time After my deceas. Item I give And bequeath unto my daughter Mary Brown five pounds In mony or Equivlent to mony: Item I give and bequeath unto my daughtr Martha odlin tenn pounds in the Like pay. Item I give unto my daughter Liddia bowne tenn pound. Item I give And bequeath unto my two grandchildren, the children of my daughter, Hopestill Taylor, five pounds each; and if either of them decease, the survivor to have ten pounds. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, John Holmes, ten pounds. Item. I give and bequeath unto my son, Obadiah Holmes, ten pounds. Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchildren, the children of my son Samuel Holmes, ten pounds to be paid unto them in equal portions. All these portions by me bequeathed, my will is, shall be paid by my Executor in money or equivalent to money. Item. I give and bequeath unto all my grandchildren now living ten pounds; and ten shillings in the like pay to be laid out to each of them - a bible. Item. I give and bequeath unto my grandchild, Martha Brown, ten pounds in the like pay. All [of] which aforesaid legacies are to be paid by my Executor, hereafter named in manner here expressed: that is to say, the first payment to [be] paid within one year after the decease of my wife, Catherine Holmes, and twenty pounds a year until all the legacies be paid, and each to be paid according to the degree of age. My will is and I do hereby appoint my son Jonathan Holmes my sole Executor, unto whom I have sold my land, housing, and stock for the performance of the same legacies above. And my will is that my Executor shall pay unto his mother, Catherine Holmes, if she survives and lives, the sum of twenty pounds in money or money pay for her to dispose of as she shall see cause. Lastly, I do desire my loving friends, Mr. James Barker, Sr., Mr. Joseph Clarke, and Mr. Philip Smith, all of Newport, to be my overseers to see this my will truly performed. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this ninth day of April, 1681. Obadiah Hullme [Holmes][Seal]. Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of. Edward Thurston. Weston Clarke. Edward Thurston, Sr., and Weston Clark appeared before the Council [of Newport], December 4, 1682, and did upon their engagements [pledges] declare and own that they saw Obadiah Holmes, deceased, sign seal and deliver the above written will as his act and deed; and, at the time of his sealing hereof, he was in his perfect memory, according to the best of our understandings. Taken before the Council, as attested. Weston Clarke, Town Clerk. The Above Written Will is Entered on Record in the 80 page of the Councills book No 2 belonging to the town of Newport. [signed] Weston Clark Town Clerk.
In the Register, vol. 64, pages 237-239 (July, 1910), evidence is offered to show that Rev. Obadiah Holmes was the son of Robert Hulme of Reddish, in the parish of Manchester, Lancashire, England, and was baptized 18 Mar. 1609/10. Additional evidence as to his English connections is afforded by his memoirs, in which Rev. Obadiah Holmes writes: "The twentieth day of the tenth month in the year 1675 I Obediah Hullme now come to the evening of the day being sixty nine years old or thereabouts.". He also says, in speaking of his parents: "Three sons they brought up aright to the University of Oxford.". A letter of Rev. Obadiah Holmes, which, unfortunately, contains no further genealogical information, ends with these sentences: "This for Mr. John Angher, and my brother Robert Hulllme, and brother in law, and sisters; with Mary Howly, . . . "For Robert Hullme at his house in Redish near Gorton Chapel in the parish of Manchester. In Lancashire.". In these sentences, therefore, Rev. Obadiah Holmes positively identifies Robert Hullme of Reddish near Gorton Chapel as his brother.
Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey(John Edwin Stillwell, New York, 1903-32). page 306: "Holmes of Monmouth County". In "A letter to all my children," dated 17th day, 10 mo., 1675, Rev. Obadiah Holmes writes: And now my son Joseph remember that 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 a beloved disciple he ws. My daughter Hope [called Hopestill in the will] consider what a grace of God hope is and court after that hope that will never be ashamed but hath 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 troublesome time hid the prophets by fifty in a cave. My son Samuel remember 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 yet she loved the Lord and was beloved of him for He loved Mary and Martha. My daughter Mary remember Mary she chose the better part that shall not be taken away and did hearken to the Lord's instructions. My son Jonathan remember how faithful and loving he was to David the servant of the Lord. My daughter Lidiah remember how Lidiah's heart was opened her ear bored 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 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. . . And forget not to entertain strangers according to your ability. . . Obadiah Holmes The 17th day 19 Month 1675.
History of the Church of God from the Creation to A.D. 1885; Including Especially the History of the Kehukee Primitive Baptist Association (Cushing Biggs Hassell & Sylvester Hassell; Gilbert Beebe's Sons, Publishers; Middletown, Orange Co., New York; 1886). Chapter 17 - The Seventeenth Century. page 556: In July, 1651, upon the request of an aged Baptist, of Lynn, named William Witter, who was not able to travel and visit his church at Newport, Rhode Island, three members of that church, John Clarke, Obadiah Holmes and a John Crandall, came to Lynn, Massachusetts., twelve miles from Boston, to hold meeting with him. While Mr. Clarke was preaching from Revelation 3:10, two constables entered the house and arrested Clarke, Holmes and Crandall; and the Court sentenced Clarke to pay a fine of twenty pounds, Holmes thirty pounds, and Crandall five pounds, or be publicly whipped. All conscientiously refused to pay the fines, and were sent back to prison. Some of Mr. Clarke's friends paid his fine without his consent. Mr. Crandall was released on a promise to appear at the next Court. Mr. Holmes was kept in prison at Boston until September, when, his fine not having been paid, he was brought out and publicly and severely whipped, receiving thirty stripes with a three-corded whip, so that he could take no rest for some weeks except as he lay on his knees and elbows, not being able to suffer any other part of his body to touch the bed. While he was undergoing the cruel strokes, the Lord gave him a more glorious manifestation of His presence than ever before, so that he scarcely felt the outward pain, and he told the magistrates that they had struck him as with roses, and he prayed the Lord not to lay this sin to their charge. Warrants were issued against thirteen persons, whose only crime was showing some emotions of sympathy towards this innocent sufferer; but eleven escaped, and, while the other two were preparing to receive ten lashes apiece, some friends paid their fines.
Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690(John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1978). Obadiah Holmes was granted two acres for the manufacture of glass in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1638. In 1646, he moved his family to Rehoboth, Massachusetts. There in 1650, he was arrested for meeting with others on Sunday, to worship, contrary to the order of the Grand Jury. That same year, he moved to Newport, Rhode Island, and was baptized in the church. In July 1651, he was seized at Lynn, Massachusetts, for being an agent of the Newport Church and kept in prison until September, when he was publicly whipped, receiving 30 lashes. He escaped in the night back to Rhode Island.
Staten Island and It's People 1609-1929, Vol 2 page 908: Obadiah Holmes came to Staten Island from Long Island with, or soon after, Nicholas Stillwell. There are records of his being here in 1670, 1674 and 1677, when he received a grant at New Dorp. He was the clerk who made the first entrees about 1679, in our oldest book of records. In that year, he conveyed his land to his son, Obadiah, Junior. In 1685, he or his son of the same name, was justice of the peace, and again in 1689 under Leisler.
Daniel Palmer: Obadiah became a leading Baptist minister, and his witness to his faith and his writings are of much interest. He was admitted as a member of the Puritan Church at Salem 24 March 1639. Ten years later he moved to Seekonk, Massachusetts, and transferred his membership to the church of the Rev. Samuel Newman. A personal conflict between Holmes and Newman resulted when Obadiah entered a complaint against the minister charging slander for saying that he, Holmes, took false oath in court. Rev. Newman admitted he was in error but the rift between the two men could not be bridged. Obadiah and eight other members withdrew from the Puritan Church and were baptized into the Baptist Church by Rev. John Clark. They were then ex-communicated by the Puritans 5 June 1650 and charged with meeting from house to house on the Lord's Day. Four petitions were presented in the General Court at Plymouth urging that they be speedily suppressed. They were charged by the court not to break bread or preach or baptize. Obadiah Holmes and Joseph Tory were bound over to the October court as they did not acquiesce. At the General Court held 2 October 1650, Gov. William Bradford and his gentlemen assistants, two of whom were Capt. Miles Standish and John Alden, pronounced no sentence against Holmes and Tory, even though they had continued meeting house to house and the Lord's Day, contrary to the order of the court. In July 1651, Obadiah, the Rev. John Clark, and several other members of the Baptist Church went to Lynn, Massachusetts, to the home of William Witter, who was too old and infirm to attend church. While the Rev. Clark was preaching, the constable entered, seized the visitors, and imprisoned them. Holmes was tried at a court in Boston 31 July 1651 and the jury's sentence read: "For as much as you, Obadiah Holmes, being come into this jurisdiction about the 21st of the 5th mo., did meet at one William Witter's house at Lynn, and did here privately and at other times, being an excommunicate person, did take upon you to preach and baptize ... and coming afterward at the assembly at Lynn, did, in disrespect to the ordinance of God and his worship, keep on your hat, the pastor being in prayer ... the court doth fine you 30 pounds ... or else be well whipped ...". Obadiah Holmes refused to pay the fine or to allow his friends to pay it. He was retained in prison until 5 September 1651 when he was bound to a post on State Street in Boston and whipped in an unmerciful manner. For many days he could rest only on his knees and elbows as he could not suffer any part of his body to touch the bed. He wrote, "And as the man began to lay the strokes upon my back, I said to the people, though my flesh shall fail, and my spirit fail, yet my God would not fail ... I had such a spiritual manifestation of God's presence ... I could well bear it, yea, and in manner, felt it not, although it was grievous, as the spectators said the man striking me with all his strength (yea, spitting in his hands three times, as many affirmed) with a three corded whip, giving me therewith thirty strokes. 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 with roses ... I pray God it may not be laid to your charge.". Obadiah moved his family to Middletown, Rhode Island in 1651. He succeeded the Rev. John Clark in 1652, and devoted thirty years of his life to the Baptist ministry. He was listed as a freeman in 1656, and was a commissioner to the General Court of Trails held at Warwick, Rhode Island, 11 Mar 1655. In the succeeding three years he served as a commissioner to the court held at Newport, Rhode Island, and one held at Portsmouth, Rhode Island. He served as a representative of Newport in 1658, and was cited by the Assembly in 1676 as one of "the most judicious inhabitants of the colony.". Obadiah Holmes died testate. No recorded copy of his will is known to exist. The original will is among the Bull papers at the Newport Historical Society. He named as his children Mary Brown, Martha Odlin, Lydia Bowne, Hopestill Taylor, John Holmes, Obadiah Holmes, Samuel Holmes, and Jonathan Holmes, and as his wife, Katherine Holmes. In a letter written 17 December 1675 and addressed to his children, he also named his son Joseph, and related the Biblical attribute of the name of each of his children.
Will:9 APR 1682. Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island, USA.

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