Person:Lois Kempton (1)

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Lois Kempton
b.12 Feb 1710 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
d.19 Jun 1760 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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  • H.  John Holmes1707 - 1751
  • W.  Lois Kempton1710 - 1760
m. 28 Apr 1733
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Name[1][2][3][4] Lois Kempton
Gender Female
Birth? 12 Feb 1710 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Marriage Banns 28 Apr 1733 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massto John Holmes
Marriage 28 Apr 1733 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusettsto John Holmes
Alt Death? 19 Mar 1751 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass
Death? 19 Jun 1760 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Her father was Samuel Kempton, born March 4, 1680/81 in Salem, Mass. He died April 17, 1766. His parents were Ephraim Kempton and Mary Reeves. Samuel married Marsey (Mercy) Dunham and fathered 11 children besides Lois.

From the Bartlett Society

On 16 July 1751 Lois Holmes was appointed administratrix of the estate of John Holmes of Plymouth, Mariner. On 22 Oct 1753 Lois Holmes had her dower set off [and she received part of the house on a lot adjoining Benjamin Churchill's land]. On 22 March 1754 John Holmes and Mercy Holmes, minors, chose Lois Holmes, widow of Plymouth, to be their guardian. On the same date Lois Holmes was appointed guardian for Lois Holmes, Ruth Holmes, Margaret Holmes and Nehemiah Holmes, minors. There is no Plymouth Co. PR for Lois Holmes.

From Genealogies of Mayflower Families, G-Pa, Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass., Page 480

"In 1768 Nathaniel and Lois Knowles of Liverpool, N.S., released her interest in lands in Plymouth devised by her grandfather, Elisha Holmes of Plymouth, to the children of his son John." She was "orphaned daughter of John and Lois (Kempton) Holmes, formerly of Plymouth, Mass."

References
  1. ↑ Jesus Christ Church of Latter Day Saints. LDS Ancestral File.
  2. ↑ National Genealogical Society Quarterly
    Vol. 74, June 1968, #2, p. 212.

    Descendants of Mr. John Holmes, Messenger of the Plymouth Court by Eugene A. Stratton, C.G., F.A.S.G.

  3. ↑ BARTLETT: The Bartlett Society.

    MD 12:11 (b. Lois); 16:87 (d. John); 17:134 (m.). NGSQ 74:212. Plymouth Co. PR 12:239; 13:160, 220-2 (John Holmes). (PLYMOUTH) BURIAL HILL p. 21 (d. dau. Lois). PLYMOUTH CH RECS 1:390 (d. Lois). PLYMOUTH VR pp. 47 (b. Lois), 114 (b. ch.; d. dau. Lois), 161 (int.).

  4. ↑ William T. Davis. Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families. (1895; 1975)
    p. 140.
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