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HOLMES FAMILY HISTORY, found at < http://www.cpinternet.com/~rootie/holmes.htm!
VERY PROBABLY OBADIAH HOLMES' POSTERITY WAS HIS GREATEST LEGACY. His nine children presented him with some forty-one grandchildren. If that rate of productivity continued to the end of the colonial period, Obadiah and Catherine Holmes would have been responsible by that time for a progeny of more than twenty thousand persons! It is, of course, impossible to follow more than a couple of lines. Of the immediate children, four migrated south, either to Gravesend on Long Island or across Lower New York Bay into New Jersey, forming there a settlement named Middletown in honor of the Rhode Island home. Among the twelve original patentees of Monmouth County, New Jersey were Obadiah Holmes, Jr. and John Bowne, the husband of Lydia Holmes. Obadiah, Jr. later settled in Cohansey (West Jersey), which became a major Baptist center; he served as a lay preacher as well as "at the time of his death in 1723 a Judge of common pleas for Salem County." [*] Jonathan Holmes also settled in Middletown, where he was elected deputy to the New Jersey assembly in 1668. A decade later he and John Bowne served on the Middletown-Shrewsbury court. Bowne, in fact later became "a great figure in East Jersey" [1] And it is through Lydia and John Bowne that the senior Obadiah Holmes stands as an ancestor of Abraham Lincoln.

Individual Record: Obadiah Holmes.
We had carried wife's name as Catherine Hyde but this indicates as Katherine Hyde.
Submitter: Martha Louise Scott, R.R.#1, Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.
Parents: Father, Robert Holmes (Hulme). Mother, Katherine Johnson
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