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An American Family History

Patience Bonham Willis Holmes

Plymouth (Plimouth or Plimoth) is in Plymouth County, Massachusetts and was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Mayflower passengers.

Patience Bonham Willis Holmes was born about 1647 in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Her parents were George Bonham and Sarah Morton. 

She married her first husband, Richard Willis, on December 28, 1670 in Plymouth. Richard was born in Plymouth in 1642 and was the son of Richard Willis and Amy Glass.

Ruhamah Willis Rogers was born in 1673 in Plymouth. She married Eleazer Rodgers.

Patience was a widow by 1678 when Edward Gray was ordered to pay "twenty shillings silver money" at a town meeting for her husband's lease of Clarke's Island.

John Holmes, Jr. was her second husband. He was born about 1636 at Plymouth and was the son of John Holmes and his wife Sarah.

He died in July, 1697.

American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (or li) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.
 

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