Misc. Notes
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Mary Holmes, the eldest daughter, married John Browne, son of Chad Brown, the Baptist minister in Providence, Rhode Island. From this union emerged the remarkable "Browns of Providence Plantations," that family so central to the economic, cultural, and educational life of the colon-state from that day to this.[***] The second daughter, Martha, married a man named Odlin, a fact known only through the reference to her in her father's will. The same minimal information is available for the youngest daughter, Hopestill, who married a Taylor and died sometime before her father made out last final will in 1681. Samuel Holmes, who also died before his father did (in 1679), was, along with his wife, among those migrating to Gravesend. John Holmes apparently remained in the Rhode Island region, for he witnessed a land sale by John and Mary Browne in1669; [2] he was twice married and the father of nine children. Jonathan Holmes, also the father of nine children, purchased the family farm (see Section G, below), returned to Newport and joined his father's church. He was not the eldest son, but was probably chosen because he could make the desired financial settlement. Jonathan in turn left the farm to his son, Joseph, who expanded the holdings considerably, leaving an estate valued at nearly L8000 (compared with the estarte of his grandfather, valued at about L130).[3] In Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey and ultimately in the nation that Obadiah Holmes never knew, his children "and their children's children" came to constitute an imposing monument.
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