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Charles Dewey was born on 18 July 1703 in Westfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts. He died on 5 July 1782 at age 78 in Hebron, Tolland, Colony of Connecticut.

Katherine Gator was born in 1581 in Chelmsford, Essex, England. She died on 4 June 1676 at age ~95 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

Jeremiah Manchester was born on 11 September 1815 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Mary Whitcomb was born about 1660 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. She died on 11 March 1707 at age ~47 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Robert Whitcomb was born on 20 December 1629 in Taunton, Somerset, England. He and Mary Cudworth were married on 7 March 1660 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He died on 25 December 1704 at age 75 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Mary Cudworth was born on 23 July 1637 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Robert Whitcomb and she were married on 7 March 1660 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. She died in 1699 at age ~62 in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Anne Harper was born in 1566 in London, Middlesex, England. She died in 1630 at age ~64 in Taunton, Somerset, England.

Obadiah Holmes was born on 18 March 1611 in Didsbury or Preston, Lancashire, England. He and Katherine Hyde were married on 20 November 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England. He died on 15 October 1682 at age 71 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Obadiah was admitted to the church in Salem, MA, March 24, 1639, from which he was excommunicated, and, in 1646, removed with his family to Rehoboth, MA. There he became a member of Samuel Newman's church. Disliking his discipline and some of his tenants, Obadiah and 8 others severed their connection to the church and established a new church in 1649. They soon declared for the principles of the Baptists, chose Mr. Holmes as their minister, and were rebaptized by Rev. Mr. John Clarke of Newport. The Plymouth magistrates made life miserable for them with Court orders, fines, lashings, and the like. Likewise, in Massachusetts Bay Colony: Obadiah was seized in Lynn, MA, for preaching the Baptist faith, sentenced to 30 lashes, which were delivered without mercy in front of the First Church, Boston (Gov. Joseph Jencks of RI said " in many days if not some weeks, he could take no rest but...he lay upon his knees and elbows, not being able to suffer any part of his body to touch the bed whereon he lay"). Obadiah moved to Newport by 1652 where he succeeded Mr. Clarke there as minister of the First Baptist Church when Clark was sent to England by the Colony to seek a new charter. On 4 April 1676 he was chosen one of RI's "most judicious inhabitants" to advise the General Assembly on King Philip's War.

The action against Holmes, as well as Clarke and Crandall, so aroused Rhode Island that Massachusetts Bay Colony revoked a commision to Coddington, who was planning to dismember the little colony, and thus Rhode Island was saved. (Boyer, p. 309).

For more on Obadiah Holmes, see "The English Ancestry of Obadiah Holmes, NEHGR 64:237 and 67:21. Also, a family history by J. T. Holmes, The American Family of Obadiah Holmes (1915). Obadiah Holmes had person sources.¹ He and Katherine Hyde were married on 30 November 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, England.

Katherine Hyde was born on 27 October 1608 in Manchester, Lancashire, England.¹ Obadiah Holmes and she were married on 20 November 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, Lancashire, England. She died on 15 October 1682 at age 73 in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

Obadiah Holmes and Katherine Hyde were married on 30 November 1630 in Collegiate Church, Manchester, England.

Gilbert Hyde was born in 1575 in Repton, Derbyshire, England. He died in 1608 at age ~33 in Repton, Derbyshire, England.

Gilbert Hyde was born in 1582 in Repton, Derbyshire, England. He died on 25 August 1631 at age ~56 in England.

Robert Holmes was born before 18 August 1578. He and Katherine Johnson were married on 8 October 1605 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.¹ He was buried on 12 November 1640 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.¹

He was a farmer and leased land from Edward Cooke in Reddish, Lancashire, about three kilometers north of Stockport.

Robert Holmes and Katherine Johnson were married on 8 October 1605 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.¹ She was buried on 6 September 1630 in Stockport, Cheshire, England.¹

William Stokes was born in 1618 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died in 1688 at age ~70 in Saint Dunston and All Saints, London, England.

Ann Nottingham was born on 4 October 1618 in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. She died in 1640 at age ~22 in Buckinghamshire, England.

Samuel Wilbore was born in 1597 in Braintree, Essex, England. He died on 24 July 1656 at age ~59 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

Ann Bradford was born in 1590 in Arksey, Yorkshire, England. She died in 1639 at age ~49 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

George Potter was born in 1584 in Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, England. He died in 1640 at age ~56 in Middlesex, England.