The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1835-01-14

This Assembly established a naval office agreea-
bly, to the laws the mother country, and required
all masters of vessels on their arrival to make entry
OF their respective ships and ladine, and give bond
as required by act of Parliament paying tonnage &c.
and the Governor was engaged to enforce the said
acts of Parliament.
Disputes and contentious having arisen between
the people of Warwick, and those of Kingston, as
TO the title of Potowonet neck, in the Narraganse
country, this assembly ordered that for the present
neither party should occupy the same except that
those of Warwick might NOW and carry off the
grass formerly: And that such as had intruded
should Immediately remove themselves off the said
lands until further order from the king or from the
General Assembly.
The October Session of the Assembly was held
at Warwick the 25th day of the month, at which
nothing interesting, as history, done
Biography of Obadiah Holiness
The Rev. Obadiah Holmes, who suffered "A Sc
we're and cruel persecution at Boston-an account of
which has been given in these memoirs under date
l65l-was born in England of parents who to use
his own words " faithful in their generation,
and of good report among men, and brought up
their children tendery and honorabIy" lie with
two other of his brothers educated at the Uni
yersiy of Oxford after he left college he fell into
haolss " S., ,-,---,
time but on the death of his mother, those practices
were laid aside and he became devoted to a moral
and religious life, in which he persevered to the end.
lie was born in Lancashire in the year 1906 and
was married to Catherine his wife, somewhere about
the year 1886. The time of his coming to America
we do not precisely know, but he joined the church
in Salem in 1915. He became a Baptist in l649
and removed about that time to Seakonk, and from
thence to Newport in 1861 or 1862, at which time
he had eight children, viz, Jonathan, John, Obadi
ah, Samuel, Hope, Martha, Mary, and Lydia, lie
in company with three others purchased a tract of
land of the Hutchinson family in the eastern part
of the township of Newport, and he settled on his
division of said purchase, which is still in possession
of his descendants i'll the female line. The name
of Holmes, on the Island is now extinct, but his de-
New jersey and elsewhere His wife survived him
short time her character, (as handed down in the
family by tradton) was one ofthe most amiabe and
unblcwished. lie succeeded the Rev. John Clarke
as Pastor or Elder of the 1st Baptist Church in
Newport which place he held until his death. His
writings, in Manuscript are still preserved by his
descendants, among which is the 30 articles of his
his belief and various addresses to his wife, his chill
dren, the church, and the world.
He was frequently appointed a member of the
General Assembly, and having been man oflearn-
ing, was very useful in public affairs.
lie died at his house in Newport the 10Th of Oc-
tober 1852 aged 76 years, and was buried, near by
in his own family burial ground.
1853.
At the General Assembly held at Newport the ID
day of May, 1858
Deputies.
Newport.
James Barker, Sen. John Coggeshall
Thomas Ward Edward Thurston Sen
Philip Smith Nathaniel Coddington
PrOridencc.
Thomas Field Thomas Arnold
Thomas Fenner Alexander Bolcum
Portsmouth.
VIM. Woodell John Albro
Latham Clarke Thomas Cornell
Vdrcick.
Thomas Greene, Jun. Israael Arnold
John Potter John Warner
Nep ShOreham. Kingston.
John Rathbone None
East GreeRwick
John Sanford Clement Weaver
JdmosfOaSH.
Ebenezer slocnm Ephraim Moss
The Assembly adjourned to the Sd, whcn By
election, was chosen.
WM CoDDGNGToN, Governor.
WITER CLARKE, Deputy Governor.
Assistants
John Eas,op, Caleb Carr