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• Hij is geboren op 9 juni 1644 in Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.Bron 1
• Hij is gedoopt op 9 juni 1644 in Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1728 in Cohansey, Creek County, Province of New Jersey, hij was toen 83 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Een kind van Obadiah Holmes en Katherine Hyde

Gezin van Obadiah (Judge Holme) Holmes

Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Cooke.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. Samuel Holmes  1664-1750
2. Sarah Holmes  1664-1751
3. Jonathan Holmes  1669-1715
4. Lydia Holmes  1679-1756
5. Obadiah Holmes  1680-????
6. Rebecca Holmes  
7. Catherine Holmes  ????-1715
8. Sarah Holmes  

Notities over Obadiah (Judge Holme) Holmes

Obadiah Holmes

Obadiah Holmes

 

(1610 - 15 October 1682) 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

United States President

Abraham Lincoln

.

1 Ancestry and life in England

Baptized in

Didsbury, Lancashire

, England on 18 March

1609/10, Obadiah Holmes was the son of Robert Hulme

(baptized 18 August 1578), a

husbandman

living in

Reddish

 

, Lancashire, and the grandson of an earlier

Robert Hulme who was buried at

Stockport

on 14 Jan-

Collegiate church of Manchester

 

where Holmes married

Katharine Hyde in 1630

uary 1604/5.

[1][2]

His mother’s name was Katherine Johnson

and she married his father at Stockport on 8 October

1605.

[2]

While Holmes’ birth date is widely given as about

1607, based on his own recollection (on 20 December

1675 he called himself aged 69, “there or thereabouts”)

[3]

baptisms during that timeframe, almost without exception,

took place within a week of a birth, and the

baptismal date is considered far more reliable than the

memory of an old man.

[4]

Holmes was married at the

Collegiate church of Manchester

 

on 20 November 1630

to Katherine Hyde.

[1][2]

His two brothers, Samuel and

John, attended

Brasenose College in Oxford

, and Samuel

received his Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1636.

[1]

In

his writings, Holmes mentions another brother, Robert,

but it is not clear whether it was Obadiah or Robert who

attended college in Oxford as the third of three sons of his

parents who went there. Most early writers on the subject

assume that Holmes had spent some time at Oxford.

[3][5]

In a 1675 writing about his early life, Holmes is very revealing

about his character as a youth, writing, “Three

sons they [his parents] brought up aright to the university

1

2

3 RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

at Oxford but the most of their care was to inform and to

instruct them in the fear of the Lord and to that end gave

them much good counsell [sic], bringing them often before

the Lord by earnest prayer, but I the most rebellious

of all did neither harken to counsel nor any instruction,

for from a child I minded nothing but folly, and vanity... I

was not only rebellious against my parents but against the

Lord...continuing in such a course for four or five years...

my rebellion to my honored parents then looked me in

open face, and my dear mother being sick it struck me

my disobedience caused her death, which forced me to

confess the same to her, my evil ways and danger.”

[3]

2 Massachusetts and Plymouth

Colonies

In 1638 Holmes, with his wife and possibly son Jonathan,

sailed from

Preston on the River Ribble in Lancashire

to

Boston

 

in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.[6]

Soon after

landing at Boston in the summer or early fall of 1638,

he and his family made their way up the coast and settled

at

Salem.[6]

On 21 January 1639 Holmes received an

acre of land for a house and a promise of ten more acres

“to be laid out by the town.” Two months later, on 24

March 1639, he and his wife were admitted to the Salem

church.

[6]

On 11 December 1639 he had another two acres granted,

being called one of the “glassmen” of the town, and this

is where he and two others manufactured glass.

[7]

The

young Salem settlement encouraged Holmes and his coworkers

in the development of what may have been the

first glass factory in North America, by giving them a loan

of 30 pounds.

[8]

As late as the 1880s, pieces of glass from

this original source were said to be in existence.

[8]

By 31 June 1644 Holmes was associated with the town

of

Rehoboth in the Plymouth Colony

when he received

a wood lot in a division of land.

[8]

He sold his holdings

in Salem by 1645, removing himself and his family to

Rehoboth the same year, and becoming a member of

Reverend

Samuel Newman's church.[8]

In Rehoboth he

was elevated to the status of

freeman

in 1648, but his

rel

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