Rev. Dr.
Abiel
Holmes
Born in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Son of David Holmes Jr.
and Temperance (Bishop) Holmes
Brother of
Bathshua (Holmes) Bugbee, David Holmes III, Lathrop Holmes M.D., Leonard Holmes and Temperance (Holmes) Williams
Husband of
Mary (Stiles) Holmes
— married
29 Aug 1790 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Husband of
Sarah Oliver (Wendell) Holmes
— married
14 Feb 1801 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Descendants 
Died
at age 73
in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Biography
Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian.
Holmes was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. He was the son of David Holmes and Temperance Bishop. He graduated from Yale College in 1783. In 1784, while ministering in South Carolina, he was recruited to be the minister at the Congregational Church in Midway, Georgia. He returned to New England to be ordained in 1785 and once for health reasons between 1786 and 1787, but returned to Midway and remained there until 1791. Holmes married Mary Stiles, the daughter of Ezra Stiles, the president of Yale. Mr. Stiles was the subject of a laudatory biography penned by Holmes.
In 1792, Rev. Holmes became the minister at First Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1805, he published a history entitled American Annals. Amid a theological controversy between Calvinism and Arminianism, Holmes resigned from the ministry in 1831 and the church chose a Unitarian minister to replace him. Holmes died June 4, 1837.
Holmes married Mary Stiles, daughter of Ezra Stiles, in 1790 and second to Sarah Wendell. By the second marriage, Abiel was the father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and grandfather of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #85579079
- Wikipedia: Abiel_Holmes
- Wilcox, Albert. Genealogy of Rev. John Hubbard of Meriden, Conn. (Horton Print. Co., Meriden, Conn., 1930) Page 28.
- Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1907) Vol. 4, Page 277.
- Gray, George Arthur. The Descendants of George Holmes of Roxbury (David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1908)
- The Life of Ezra Stiles (1798)
- The History of Cambridge (1801)
- American Annals (1805)
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