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3IO HISTORICAL Mlh-CKLLAXV
Issue: (if Samuel Holmes and wife Alice*
25 Samuel Holmes, born Feb. 12, 166S.
26 Ami Holmes, born Dec. 20, 1670.
27 Joseph Holmes, born Mch. 17, 1672.
28 Catharine Holmes, born Jvme 15, 1675.
29 Henry Holmes
30 i\lary Holmes, born 1670.
6 OBADIAH H0L:MES, son of Obadiah Holmes, i, born, 1644; baptized, at Salem,
June 9, 1644. He lived on Staten Island, N. Y., and in Cohansey, X. J. His wife was Elizabeth,
daughter of John and Sarah Cooke, of Gravesend, Long Island.
It is said that Obadiah Holmes married a second wife, and that he died, in 1728, but I
can prove neither assertion.
He was a patentee of the Monmouth Tract, N. J., in 1665: Obadiah Holmes, in right of
himself and wife, demand two hundred and forty acres.
1667, Dec. 30. In the lirst division of lands in the new village of ]\Iiddletown, X. J.,
he drew lot 20, and the following day, lot 6. It is doubtful whether he ever took up his residence
here.
With his brother, Jonathan, he obtained a tract of land amounting to 1600 acres in Pleasant
VaUey, near Holmdel, formerly Baptisttown, in ^Nloiimouth Co., to which they gave the name
of Plain Dealing, from the straightforvrard manner in which the Indian title to the land was
acquired.
1678, July S. He was residing on Staten Island, when administration was granted fiijr,
on the estate of Ambrose Sutton, of the same place. X'. Y. Wills.
In 1679, his brother Samuel, residing at Gravesend, appointed in his will, his loving
brothers and friends, Richard Stillwell, Obadiah LTolmes, John Bowne and Sam.uel Spicer,
guardians of liis children.
In the much worn Town Book of Gravesend, there appears the following allusion to Obadiah
Holmes
:
" AprU 7, 16S0. Whereas my Io\'ing mother, Sarah. Cooke, of Gravesend, as within wrhten hath inieniJfd
me, Obediah Hohiies, of Staten Island" &c. &c., and again
16S0, .April 17. Sarah Cooke, of Gravesend, in pursuance of the will of her hufband, John Cooke, dieceased,
as his e.xecutrix, appoints, orders and impowers " my lo\'ing son Obadiah Holmes for me and in my behrdl
to a(?t for and to sell'' &c. &c. And further:
16S0, ly^ day of 10''' month, Obediah Holmes, of Staten Island, sells his interest in a plantation, v/hich
was some time in the possessivjn of John Cooke m Gravesend, known as Xo. S, to V.'illiam Stillwell of Grawsend
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in consideration of Stillwell making over to him a certain parcel of land on Si a ten Island.
"The first volume" of Staten Island Records (if such there was) is missing, but from the
second, we ascertain that Obediah Holmes was county clerk of Richmond Co. in 16S9.
16S9, Dec. 12, and in 1692-3, he was a Justice of the Peace.
1688-9, J^ri- Obadiah Llolmes and his wife, Elizabeth, then lI^•ing at Salem, X". J., conveyed
property on Staten Lsland, to John Green; and the same month he sold eighty-eight
acres more, in the same place, to John Pew, "shew maker,"
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