On Monday June 29, a message was sent in with information on Samuel Holmes's as extracted from the Ancestral Files of the Mormon Family History Center. I just wanted to comment on two of the entries. #7 I have it in my records that this Samuel Holmes (son of Obadiah and Katherine Hyde Holmes and husband of Alice Stillwell) was baptised on March 20, 1642 in Salem, MA (i.e., was not necessarily born on that date). "Samuel Holmes, the son of Obadiah and Katherine Hyde Holmes, was born in America and was baptized at Salem on March 20, 1642. He married Alice Stillwell, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Stillwell, on October 26, 1665; they settled in Gravesend, Long Island. He died in 1678 or 1679. As of the 1930s, some of his descendants still lived in Gravesend on Staten Island, New York." #13 The father of this Samuel Holmes (born 1676, son of Sarah Borden Holmes) was Johnathan Holmes (1633/34-1712/13, son of the Rev. Obadiah and Katherine Hyde Holmes), who married Sarah Borden (1644-1705/08, daughter of ). My information has it that this Samuel Holmes died after 1769. Regarding the parents of Sarah Borden, I have the following: "Richard Borden was born in Kent, England in 1595/96 or in 1601. On September 28, 1625, he married Joana/Jean/Joan Fowler (Fowle). Joana Fowler was born on February 15, 1604. Richard and Joana Borden came to America in 1635 and settled in Massachusetts. At some time, thereafter, they moved to Portsmouth, Rhode Island, some 10 miles north of Newport. They were among Rhode Island's earliest settlers and were some of the most prominent citizens of that colony. Joana Fowler Borden died in July 1688. The date of the death of Richard Borden is not known." Steve Leeper