Dr. Silas HOLMES

1755 -

• Name	Silas HOLMES  [1, 2, 3]
  	Dr. Silas Holmes lived in what is now Stonington Broough, and had extensive practice as a physician in all the region round about, Sept. 12, 1790. he was summoned to visit a sick man on block Island, who sent for him in his boat, which took and bore him safely over to the island, and after he had visited his patient and diagnosed his physical condition, he started with the boatman and craft to return to his home in Stonington, but unfortunately a terrible thunder storm arose with a rushing cyclone of wind, which lashed the ocean into fearful waving foam, which capsized their boat and filled it with water, which, in spite of all the efforts of the doctor and the boatman, sunk, and they were both drowned. Dr. Holmes widow m. for her second husband, Elijah Palmer, Esq., of Stonington, Conn., and they became the parents of one child. [1]
  Prefix	Dr.
  Birth	05 Jun 1755	Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Christening	3 Aug 1755  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I29509	Main Tree
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2018

  
  

  Father	Lieut. John HOLMES,   b. 10 Jun 1702, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA d. 05 Jun 1783, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Hannah HULSE,   b. Abt 1724   d. 12 May 1805, Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	31 Oct 1744	Stonington, New London, Connecticut, USA   [2, 4]
  Pastor	Ebenezer White   [4]
  Family ID	F03441	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Louisa FOX
  Marriage	1779  [1]
  Family ID	F36658	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S9214] Richard Anson Wheeler, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut. [S03492] Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island 1591-1679, With His Amer. Desc. to the Eighth & Ninth Gen. [S02772] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1988, Vol 142. [S03430] The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records: Stonington.