Captain Jonathan Holmes (23 June 1633 – 10 October 1713) was a colonial farmer and politician in Rhode Island.
[2] As a baby, he sailed with his parents from Preston on the River Ribble in Lancashire to Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[3] His father was one of the twelve patentees named in the original April 8, 1665 patent from the Duke of York for the Monmouth Tract embracing Monmouth County and parts of Middlesex and Ocean Counties in Eastern New Jersey.
[1] In 1685, Holmes returned to the family home in Newport, Rhode Island.
Together, they were the parents of:[2] After his death in Newport, Rhode Island on 10 October 1713, he was buried in the family cemetery in Middletown.