Person:Andrew Holmes (1)

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From "Memoranda For Colonel J. F. H. Claiborne, Relative To The Late Governor David Holmes Of Mississippi, His Lineage:

Andrew Hunter Holmes (called after Rev. Andrew Hunter, his mother's brother, Chaplain at the Navy Yard, and before that, resident at Princeton, New Jersey), the youngest child, a man of rare talents. A member of the bar in New Orleans when the War of 1812 broke out. Went into the army; distinguished himself in various engagements; especially in one on the Thames, Canada West, where he defeated part of a Highland regiment in a regular fight (see histories of the war) and fell leading on his wing of Colonel Croghan's force, against Machinaw at the unsuccessful attack on that place in 1814 (I think). See the Governor's will disposing of the sword voted by the Virginia legislature to his nearest heir male. It was left by Governor Holmes to his nephew Rev. Andrew Hunter Holmes Boyd, a son of Mrs. Nancy Boyd and an eminent divine of the New School Presbyterian Church—now living in Winchester. Major Hunter Holmes died unmarried and thus the name—so far as the Governor's family is concerned—became extinct on the 20th of August, 1832, when he died. Descendants of Colonel Holmes to the fourth generation are numerous, but they all are descendants of his daughters and bear other patronymics, the names of families into which they married.

[Source: Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society: Centenary series, Volume 4, by Mississippi Historical Society. pub. 1910].

1. ↑ Compilation of Hammond Hunter. Hammond Hunter. (1910).
2.   Andrew Holmes (army officer), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.