Actually Samuel HOLMES did not live in Montville — that town was not created until after Samuel’s death; during his lifetime it was the North Parish of New London.
See [Stover] for a recent summation of what is known (and what isn’t!) about Samuel and Lucretia. This page provides some additional clues, and a correction.
Samuel and Lucretia’s son, Nathan HOLMES
See Probably Nathan: A Plausible Genealogy of Nathan Holmes of Hamilton, New York.
Correction: Nathan’s wife
[Stover] writes “A Nathan Holmes m. Grace Chapman, born in the 1770s”, with no source shown. From email correspondence with Stover, her source was [Baker] and the above name is incorrect: it should be Grace CHAPEL.
Samuel and Lucretia’s daughter, Lucretia HOLMES
Jocelyn A. Hubbard writes:
Primary sources for this information are not yet known.
References
- [Baker]
- Henry A. Baker, History of Montville, Connecticut, Formerly the North Parish of New London, from 1640 to 1896, Case, Lockwood & Brainard (Hartford, Connecticut, 1896), “Chapel Families” (pp. 474-485).
- [Stover]
- Margaret Harris Stover, “Samuel Holmes of Montville, Connecticut”, Mayflower Quarterly V. 66, pp. 243-9 (September 2000).
