Individual Details

Samuel HOLMES

( - 1679)



Samuel married Alice Stillwell about 1665.

Google Books:
Abstracts of Will on File in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York, Vol. 25, John Keller, 1893, p.51-2
Samuel Holmes, Gravesend, makes his wife Alice sole executrix. "In case she marry againe she is to give unto my children every one of them a cow three years old." Leaves to sons Samuel and Joseph "all my wearing clothes and carpenter tools" Legacies to daughters Anne, Katharine and Mary. "If either of my sons doe marry before the decease of my wife, then the lot of Plantation I bought of Thomas Delavall, they shall have for their use between them.". Makes his loving brothers and friends Richard Stillwell, Jonathan Holmes, Obadiah Holmes, John Browne and Samuel Spicer, Overseers and guardians of his children.
Dated 28th, 2d month, 1679. Witnesses, John Tilton (Tillon?) Towne Clerke, John Emmons. Proved in the Secretary's office before the Governor, by John Tillon and Samuel Spicer, 25 Jul 1679.

Note: Some had suggested the above will proved that Richard Stillwell had married Samuel's sister Mary (such a union is suggested in a book, Life & Times of Nicholas Stilwell by Benj. Marshall Stilwell, New York, 1878.) but Mary Holmes married John Browne - who is also listed above as one of "brothers and friends". Richard Stillwell was a brother to Alice, wife of Samuel Holmes. The Stillwell book also attributes the marriage as being in New York - both the families of Obadiah Holmes and of the Brownes were in Rhode Island by the time Mary was of an age to marry and the children of Stillwell & Browne overlap in age. It was not possible for Mary Holmes to be the mother of the Stillwell children.

Events

Christen20 Mar 1643
Death1679

Families

FatherOBADIAH HOLMES (1607 - 1682)
MotherCATHERINE Hyde (1608 - 1682)
SiblingJohn HOLMES (1631 - 1633)
SiblingMARY HOLMES (1632 - 1690)
SiblingLydia HOLMES (1637 - 1701)
SiblingJonathan HOLMES (1637 - 1713)
SiblingMartha HOLMES ( - 1711)
SiblingObadiah HOLMES ( - )
SiblingHopestill HOLMES (1645 - 1682)
SiblingJohn HOLMES (1647 - 1712)