Capt. Robert Homes

Robert married Mary Franklin, daughter of Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger, on 3 Apr 1716 in Boston MA. (Mary Franklin was born on 26 Sep 1694 in Boston MA and died c 1730 in Marthas Vineyard MA.)

• 8. Mary Franklin (C. 10; 1694–1731), married Robert Homes, mariner and captain of a ship plying between Boston and Philadelphia.

Children of Robert HOMES and Mary FRANKLIN are:

• i. Abiah HOMES was christened 14 DEC 1718, died 3 AUG 1729.
• ii. Robert HOMES died BEF 1744.
• iii. William HOMES was born 10 JAN 1716/17, and died 21 JUL 1785. He married Rebecca DAWES 24 APR 1740, daughter of Thomas DAWES and Sarah STOREY. She was born 9 MAR 1716/17

Notes

From link to Page 85 of “Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America”

In 1717 two men with names later significant in the Worcester and Falmouth settlements, called to see the minister at Chilmark; they were t John McClellan and James Jameson. Three weeks later (November 24th) Mr. Homes writes in his diary: This day I received several letters, one from Doctor Cotton Mather, one from severall gentlemen proprietors of lands at or near to Casco Bay, and one from son Robert."
The above quotation points strongly to a conference held at Boston in November between Captain Robert Homes, recently from Ireland and interested in transporting Scotch Irish families, the Rev. Cotton Mather, eager to see the frontiers defended by a God-fearing, hardy people, and the third party to the conference, the men who were attempting to plant settlements along the Kennebec. They must have talked over the project for a great migration (they all had written to the minister at Chilmark), and undoubtedly Captain Robert Homes sent over % letters and plans to friends at Strabane, Donaghmore, Donegal and Londonderry. Perhaps no one in Boston had so many relatives among the clergy in Ulster, and as a sea-captain he had a still further interest in the migration. Robert himself sailed for Ireland April 13, 1718, and returned "full of passengers" about the middle of October. ...
... Craighead [Robert%E2%80%99s uncle] came of a distinguished family, and is the ancestor of many ministers in the southern states. Having relatives in Londonderry and Dublin he was able by correspondence to stir the spirit of migration. He stands as a link between New England and the colonies south of the Hudson. Many of the Scotch Irish went from the Kennebec settlements to happier surroundings in Pennsylvania. They left brothers and cousins throughout Massachusetts and New York. Their ties of sympathy, faith and blood, helped to bind the colonies together in 1775. Tidings of the fight at Lexington stirred North and South Carolina profoundly for there were kinships along the entire coast.

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• https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricknro&id=I221
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees by SmartCopy: Apr 13 2015, 21:15:51 UTC
• http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-01-02-0050
• Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America By Charles Knowles Bolton Page 82 link
• http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g796.htm
• Lineage of the Bowens of Woodstock, Connecticut By Edward Augustus Bowen link