• BIRTH: 1578, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England
• DEATH: 1625, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England

• MARRIAGE: 1598, Stowmarket, Suffolk, England

1. +Thomas BLODGETT

• BIRTH: ABT. 1456, Little, Waldingfield, Suffolk, England
• DEATH: BEF. 5 MAR 1505/06, Little, Waldingfield, Suffolk, England

1. +Anne COLEMAN

• BIRTH: 13 MAR 1692/93, Mendon, Worcester Co., MA
• DEATH: , Uxbridge, MA

• MARRIAGE: 6 MAR 1711/12

1. +Selvanus HOLBROOK

• DEATH:

1. + MALDRED

• DEATH:

• OCCUPATION: shoemaker
• BIRTH: 6 JUN 1600, St. Albans, Herfordshire, England
• DEATH: 1681, Providence, RI
• EMIGRATION: 2 APR 1635, from ?London on Planter
• WILL: 21 MAR 1678/79
• EVENT: Misc: 1637
• EVENT: Freeman: 1637, Salem, MA
• EVENT: Removed to: 1638, Providence, RI

• MARRIAGE: 16 SEP 1629, Abbey, St. Albans, Herford, England

1. +Epenetus OLNEY

Person Notes:
[NI2032]
[Holbrook.ged] Olney. THOMAS OLNEY, one of the Baptists notified to depart from Massachusetts or appear at the next court, was born at St. Albans, Hertford County, England, in 1600, and came to this country in the ship, "Planter," from London, in 1635. Several years before his departure he married Mary Small, of St. Albans, who, besides two sons, came to America with him. He was a shoemaker by trade, and settled at Salem, Mass. In 1638, he and several others were licensed to depart from Mass. Not going immediately they were ordered "to appear at the next court (if they be not gone before) to answer such things as shall be objected." They went. In October of the same year he had settled at Providence, where he was one of the twelve original members of the First Baptist Church, organized in 1639. His former pastor at Salem, in explaining in a letter to a brother pastor the cause of Thomas Olney's expulsion from Salem, wrote: "He wholly refused to hear the church, denying it and all the churches in the Bay to be true churches. The great censure of this, our church, was passed upon him." At Providence he was twice chosen treasurer of the town, was six times appointed commissioner, was nine times chosen assistant, four times deputy, and was for eight years a member of the town council. His homestead was south of the present state house, Arsenal Lane now running through it. In 1643 he bought land and settled at Warwick. In 1656 he was chosen judge to try cases where the amount involved did not exceed forty shillings. Thomas Olney was a first-class surveyor, and it is said that as he entered upon the surrounding lands with his field book, chain and compass, and mystic words, with the peculiar dignity of official characters of that day, he may well have inspired the Indians with profound awe and led them to feel that no Indian could henceforth dwell upon that part of their tribal property again. He died at Providence in 1682. During the early settlement of New England it was claimed in Connecticut that if a man was too bad to live with in Massachusetts, they sent him to Rhode Island, and when they found one a little too good, they sent him to Connecticut, while the remainder of tolerable and average orthodoxy and respectability were allowed to remain undisturbed. sailed on the ship Planter, having brought certificates from the Minister of St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England. info per Tepper's "Passengers to America", pg. 17

• BIRTH: 8 JAN 1639/40, Dedham, Norfolk, MA
• DEATH: 13 SEP 1716, Mendon, Worcester Co., MA

• MARRIAGE: 21 MAY 1668, Medfield, MA

1. +Abial WHEELOCK