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Birth date/location and links to parents researched and found by this memorial page creator in Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection):
Name Uriel Holmes
Gender Male
Birth Date 11 Jun 1741
Birth Place East Haddam
Parent Christopher
Parent Sarah
"DIED—At Hartland, the 6th inst. Col. Uriel Holmes, aged 68, after a most distressing illness of seventeen days, which he endured with exemplary patience. In his death the state sustains the loss of one more of her true patriots ; his neighbours, of a beloved and respected friend ; his family a bereavement irreparable. Col. Holmes was a reputable officer under Gen. Washington, in the trying scenes 1776-7. He was faithful in the several offices he sustained, in the church and state, and was always found where duty called. By his example as well as his principles, he was a firm and generous supporter of the religion he professed, and of the civil government under which he lived. He was a tender and affectionate husband—a kind, indulgent and generous parent—to the poor a friend, a neighbor to the distressed. His life adorned the christian name, and charity bids us hope he is gone to receive the reward of a faithful follower of our Lord."
—The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, November 22, 1809, p. 3, col. 2.
Newspaper obit and death location provided by Contributor #46960440.
Birth date/location and links to parents researched and found by this memorial page creator in Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection):
Name Uriel Holmes
Gender Male
Birth Date 11 Jun 1741
Birth Place East Haddam
Parent Christopher
Parent Sarah
"DIED—At Hartland, the 6th inst. Col. Uriel Holmes, aged 68, after a most distressing illness of seventeen days, which he endured with exemplary patience. In his death the state sustains the loss of one more of her true patriots ; his neighbours, of a beloved and respected friend ; his family a bereavement irreparable. Col. Holmes was a reputable officer under Gen. Washington, in the trying scenes 1776-7. He was faithful in the several offices he sustained, in the church and state, and was always found where duty called. By his example as well as his principles, he was a firm and generous supporter of the religion he professed, and of the civil government under which he lived. He was a tender and affectionate husband—a kind, indulgent and generous parent—to the poor a friend, a neighbor to the distressed. His life adorned the christian name, and charity bids us hope he is gone to receive the reward of a faithful follower of our Lord."
—The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, November 22, 1809, p. 3, col. 2.
Newspaper obit and death location provided by Contributor #46960440.
Birth date/location provided by Contributor #48238834.
Birth date/location and links to parents researched and found by this memorial page creator in Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection):
Name Uriel Holmes
Gender Male
Birth Date 11 Jun 1741
Birth Place East Haddam
Parent Christopher
Parent Sarah
"DIED—At Hartland, the 6th inst. Col. Uriel Holmes, aged 68, after a most distressing illness of seventeen days, which he endured with exemplary patience. In his death the state sustains the loss of one more of her true patriots ; his neighbours, of a beloved and respected friend ; his family a bereavement irreparable. Col. Holmes was a reputable officer under Gen. Washington, in the trying scenes 1776-7. He was faithful in the several offices he sustained, in the church and state, and was always found where duty called. By his example as well as his principles, he was a firm and generous supporter of the religion he professed, and of the civil government under which he lived. He was a tender and affectionate husband—a kind, indulgent and generous parent—to the poor a friend, a neighbor to the distressed. His life adorned the christian name, and charity bids us hope he is gone to receive the reward of a faithful follower of our Lord."
—The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, November 22, 1809, p. 3, col. 2.
Newspaper obit and death location provided by Contributor #46960440.
Birth date/location and links to parents researched and found by this memorial page creator in Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection):
Name Uriel Holmes
Gender Male
Birth Date 11 Jun 1741
Birth Place East Haddam
Parent Christopher
Parent Sarah
"DIED—At Hartland, the 6th inst. Col. Uriel Holmes, aged 68, after a most distressing illness of seventeen days, which he endured with exemplary patience. In his death the state sustains the loss of one more of her true patriots ; his neighbours, of a beloved and respected friend ; his family a bereavement irreparable. Col. Holmes was a reputable officer under Gen. Washington, in the trying scenes 1776-7. He was faithful in the several offices he sustained, in the church and state, and was always found where duty called. By his example as well as his principles, he was a firm and generous supporter of the religion he professed, and of the civil government under which he lived. He was a tender and affectionate husband—a kind, indulgent and generous parent—to the poor a friend, a neighbor to the distressed. His life adorned the christian name, and charity bids us hope he is gone to receive the reward of a faithful follower of our Lord."
—The Connecticut Courant (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, November 22, 1809, p. 3, col. 2.
Newspaper obit and death location provided by Contributor #46960440.
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