Person:Martha Holmes (4)

All conjecture: she was the daughter of Samuel, and was born about 1750 in Montville. On the other hand, when Montville was incorporated in 1786, there was a Jabez Holmes in residence.

From Rich Holmes

This last-named piece of land was conveyed by Samuel Holmes, 6 April, 1754, to Luke Perkins.

This Samuel Holmes was a resident of the North Parish and died about 1774, aged fifty-two years. His will, dated August 4, 1774, names his wife as executor, but does not give her name. He says there are eleven children, and only names one, his daughter Prudence, "who is incapacitated to help herself." He was the owner of twelve acres of land with a dwelling thereon, which was located on the North side of Saw-mill Brook (Oxoboxo), a few rods below the Vincent Woolen Mill. The land was afterward included in the Alpheus Chapman farm, and later owned by John McAlpine. After his death his wife is supposed to have removed to Salem and lived with her son, Samuel, until her death, Sept. 20, 1820.

1. ↑ Henry A. Baker. History of Montville, Connecticut. (Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, Hartford Conn 1896).