Family of Joshua Holmes

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1.  JOSHUA3 HOLMES  (ROBERT2, RALPH1 HOLME) was born Bef. November 01, 1635 in Bolton, Lancashire, England, and died April 14, 1694 in Westerly, Washington Co., RI.  He married ABIGAIL INGRAHAM June 15, 1675, daughter of RICHARD INGRAHAM and ELIZABETH WIGNALL.  She was born January 12, 1632/33 in Bristol, Bristol Co., Rhode Island, and died 1715.

 

Notes for JOSHUA HOLMES:

1. Joshua removed from Stonington, New London County, Connecticut to Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island following his marriage to Abigail Ingraham Chesebrough.

 

2. Joshua served in King Phillip's War.

 

 

 

Notes for ABIGAIL INGRAHAM:

m. 2nd 1675 Joshua HOLMES

m. 3rd      Capt. James AVERY

 

Swamp Yankee, by James Allyn, page 32.

     Samuel married Abigail Ingraham of Bristol, RI.

 

   Widow of Samuel Cheesebrough or Chesbrough. After Joshua Holmes I died, she married Capt. James Avery, another ancestor. Above from History of Stonington

and Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Conn.

   Ancestral File family group record provides most of her stats.

   Directory of the Ancestral Heads of N.E. Families says a William Ingraham, cooper, was in Boston in 1653 and later moved to Stonington, CT. Ancestor of Abigail???? She would have been 15 that year.

   Abigail reportedly had 13 children: 7 Cheesebroughs, 10 Averys and 2 Holmes.

   Austin says she died 1694+.

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1. In ca 1902 Abigail's maiden name was not known by Anna Chesebrough Wildey as stated in her book:

 

" A lineal descendant of this marriage, Capt. Alex S. Palmer who died in 1894, had not been able to find her maiden name."

 

From Vol. 1, page 342 of THE GREAT MIGRATION BEGINS:

 

"Many secondary sources give the bride's surname as Ingraham, but the evidence for this is not seen. The only Ingraham family to which she could belong is that of Richard Ingraham of Rehoboth. He is of the right age and in the right place to be father of Samuel's wife, but this Ingraham family is very poorly defined, and only sons are known for certain (TAG 19:78, 21:190-91, 22:60-61)."

 

2. On June 5, 1675, Joshua Holmes was invited by the widow Abigail (Ingraham) Chesebrough to teach a school in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut whom he later married - her second of three marriages.

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More About JOSHUA HOLMES and ABIGAIL INGRAHAM:

Marriage: June 15, 1675

     

Child of JOSHUA HOLMES and ABIGAIL INGRAHAM is:

              i.   JOSHUA HOLMES, JR., b. August 20, 1678, Westerly, Rhode Island; d. November 23, 1729, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut; m. FEAR STURGIS, November 21, 1698, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts; b. 1681, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA; d. 1753, Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut.