Joseph Holmes

Joseph's father was Obediah Holmes and his mother was Alice Throckmorton Ashton. His paternal grandparents were Obediah Holmes and Elizabeth Cole. He had four brothers named James, John, Obediah and Jonathan. He died in 1777.

General Notes
- JOSEPH HOLMES (d. 1777). The son of Obadiah Holmes (1666 - 1745) and Alice Throckmorton Ashton (1671 - 1716), he married Elizabeth Ashton (n.d.). They had eight children: John (b. 1724), Allix (1726 - 1788), Obadiah (b. 1728), James (b. 1732), Mary (b. 1733), Joseph (1736 - 1809), Jonathan (1738 - 1777), and John (1744 - 1783). Joseph Holmes was a yeoman who resided first at Middletown, and later at Upper Freehold (now Cream Ridge, NJ). He was a member of the Middletown Baptist Church in 1733. He was one of the founders of the Upper Freehold Baptist Church in 1766.