1607 - 1682

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• Suffix	Rev.
  Birth	8 Mar 1606/1607	Preston, Lancaster Co., Eng
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1682	Newport, Newport Co. Ri
  Person ID	I4806	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Robert HOLMES, b. 18 Aug 1578, Stockport,C,,England
  Mother	Catherine JOHNSON, b. 1584, Stockport,C,,England
  Family ID	F1965	Group Sheet
  Family	Catherine HYDE, b. 27 Oct 1608, Manchester, L, Eng
  Married	26 Nov 1630	C,,,Eng
  Children	> 1. Mary HOLMES, b. Abt 1630, Providence, Providence Co. Ri   2. Jonathan HOLMES, b. Abt 1637   3. John HOLMES, b. 1649, Newport, Newport Co. Ri   4. Martha HOLMES, b. 1640   5. Samuel HOLMES, b. 1642   6. Obadiah HOLMES, b. 1644   7. Hopestill HOLMES, b. Abt 1646   8. Lydia HOLMES, b. Abt 1648
  Family ID	F1963	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Left England from Preston, Lancashire, Eng. to Salem, Mass. on Nov. 21,1638. In 1642-43 moved to Rohoboth, RI. Obadiah was a Baptist so theywere not allowed to live in the Puritan colony. He was publicly whippedby the Puritans at Boston, Sept. of 1651 for his religious opinions and"for holding meetings on the Lord's Day from house to house." He servedas a minister of the Baptist Church at Newport, RI from 1652 to 1682. Rev. Obadiah Holmes, the emigrant, had about 5,000 descendants living inAmerica as early as 1790. (Hanna, 1998) Notes for OBADIAH- HOLMES: Obadiah Holmes was granted two acres for the manufacture of glass inSalem, Massachusetts in 1638. In 1646, he moved his family to Rehoboth, Massachusetts. There,in 1650, he was arrested for meeting with others on Sundays to worship, contrary to the order of theGrand Jury. That same year, he moved to Newport Rhode Island and was baptized in the church. In July of165 1, he was seized at Lynn, Massachusetts for being an agent of the Newport church and kept inprison until September, when he was publicly whipped, receiving 30 lashes. He escaped in thenight back to Rhode Island-