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• Birth	1643	Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UPD	18 AUG 2009 17:40:52 GMT-5
  Died	17 May 1676  [1]
  Person ID	I1785	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Father	Holmes George,   b. 1594, Nazeing, [parish], Essex, England, U.K. ,   d. 18 Dec 1645, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Mother	Deborah,   d. Abt 06 Nov 1662, Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Married	England, U.K.
  Family ID	F817	Group Sheet
  Family	Sarah
  Married	Y  [2]
  Children	1. Holmes John,   b. 1663, Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. Aft 1730, Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA
  Family ID	F816	Group Sheet

• Notes

  John Holmes (George), born in Roxbury, in 1643 (?), moved to Dorchester early in life, perhaps at the time of his marriage, but no record can be found of when, where or who he married. The administration of his estate was granted "unto Sara his Relict & Nathaniel Homes his Brother." The Suffolk Co. probate records tell that he "departed this life the 17th of May, 1676." The inventory amounted to £140, and among the items on the list we select a few : £ s d "ffor cart, plough & Cart rope 3-16-6 with horses ffurniture ffor Cattle of all sorts 14-5-0 ffor housing & Land with corn on the ground 8-0-0 " Sarah Holmes made oath in Court . . . . " that this is a just and true Inventory .... & that when she knows more she will discover the same." In the Dorchester Town Records we find " At a meeting of the Selectmen the 8 : 4 : 74. It is ordered that the burying place* shall be fenced in with a stone wall .... sometime the latter end of this Sumer." We read at a later date : " 14 : 7 : 74, The Selectmen doe appoint John Homes and Obadiah Hawes to see that it be done by calling upon such men as have teams and hands to keepe an accompt of what is done and to be paid out of the town rate and that the outside be done first and then the sid next to the feild and that it be made fower foot and half high and faced both sids." That it was well done is evinced by a good part of the same wall being in existence to-day. He is probably interred in the old burying ground he enclosed for others, although no stone has been found to mark his grave. Sarah, his wife, was admitted member of the Church of Dorchester " ye 3 (9) 67." (Dorchester Church Records, p. 23.) "John & Sarah ye Children of John Homes baptized ye 5 of ye 9th Mo 67 on a thanksgiving day ther mother being admitted ye Saboth before." (Ibid, p. 176.) Children, all born in Dorchester : 12. I. JOHN, b. 1663 ? ; bapt. 5 dy, 9 mo., 1667 ; d. 1730 ? II. SARAH, b. 16 dy, 9 mo., 1665 ; bapt. 5 dy, 9 mo., 1667. III. MARY, b. 24 dy, 1 mo., 1 668. IV. GEORGE, b. 26 dy, 11 mo., 1669 ; bapt. July 10, 1670. In 1690, in a company of soldiers raised in Dorchester for the expedition to Canada, against the French, George Holmes appears as a corporal.Forty-six of the company never returned, many of them having been lost at sea, and George Holmes was no doubt one of the missing, as not a shred of information can be obtained of him. 13. V. SAMUEL, b. 21 dy, 4 mo., 1675; d. Apr. 16, 1725.

• Sources

  [S139] The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, George Arthur Gray, 10 (Reliability: 3). [S139] The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury, George Arthur Gray, 11 (Reliability: 3).