Ezekiel HOLLIMAN
- BIRTH: 1587; Tring, Hertfordshire, England
- DEATH: 17 Sep 1659
Father: William HOLYMAN
Mother: Unknown
Family 1: Susan OXSTON
- MARRIAGE: Unknown
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Notes
Updated July 2, 2022. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):(1) Ezekiel Holliman via Wikipedia
"Ezekial HOLLIMAN was a founder of the First Baptist Church in America. HOLLIMAN ran into trouble while living in Boston when he ran afoul of the prevailing religious sensibilities of the time. He was accused of heresy, but left town before legal actions were initiated. He presumably thought that moving into the frontier would allow him a greater sense of religious liberty and so became one of the earliest settlers of Dedham, Massachusetts. The original settlers of Dedham met for the first time on August 18, 1636 in Watertown. By September 5, 1636, their number grew from 18 at the first meeting to 25 proprietors willing to set out for the new community. By November 25th, however, so few people had actually moved to Dedham that the proprietors voted to require every man to move to Dedham permanently by the first day of the following November or they would lose the land they had been granted. A few young men without families set off to spend the winter there, including HOLLIMAN. He is one of two who were known to have been there as he and Nicholas PHILLIPS were caught illegally cutting down trees in the new community. They incurred heavy fines for their infractions. In the early days, decisions were made by consensus in town meeting. HOLLIMAN felt he had been wronged by the Town when they fined him for illegally cutting down trees and covering his house in clapboard. He began boycotting public meetings in protest. On July 18, 1637, the Town voted to admit a group of dogmatic Puritans that would radically change the course of the town's history. HOLLIMAN recognized that as a religious liberal that he was not going to be welcome among them. In July 1637, he sold his land in Dedham and moved on. By 1866, his land in Dedham would house the First Church and Parish in Dedham, the Allin Congregational Church, St. Paul's Church, and the first free public school in America. After leaving Dedham, HOLLIMAN settled in Rhode Island where he was welcomed by Roger WILLIAMS. The two men baptized each other and founded the First Baptist Church in America."
(2) Millennium File via Ancestry.com
- Name: Ezekial HOLLIMAN
- Spouse: Susanna OXTSON
- Birth Date: 1 Jan 1587
- Birth City: Tring
- Birth County: Herts
- Birth Country: England
- Death Date: 17 Sep 1659
- Parents: William HOLYMAN/HOLLIMAN, Alice
- Children: Priscilla HOLLIMAN
- Source Information: Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
(3) Passenger and Immigration Lists Index via Ancestry.com
- Name: Ezekiel HOLLIMAN
- Year: 1635
- Place: Salem, Massachusetts
(4) U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 via Ancestry.com
- "HOLLIMAN/HOLYMAN Ezekiel (~1659) + 1/wf Susanna [OXSTON] alias FOXE; in Eng. b. 1638; Dedham/Salem/Providence"
- "HOLLIMAN/HOLYMAN Ezekiel (~1659) + 2/wf Mary [SWEET], w John; 1638?; Providence"
(5) STREETER, Perry, Ezekiel Holliman of Warwick, Rhode Island, 1999.
- Son of William HOLYMAN of of Tring, Hertford, England (abt. 1550 - aft. 1623); grandson of Leonard HOLYMAN of Cholesbury, Buckingham, England (abt. 1520 - June 12, 1572).
- "Ezekiel HOLLIMAN was born at Tring, Hertford, England in 1586 and died at Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island 17 September 1659. He married first Susanna OXTON daughter of John OXTON, alias Fox of Stanmore, Middlesex, England. He married second probably at Salem, Massachusetts around 1638 Mary (_____) SWEET, widow of John SWEET."
- Came to New England about 1634, first in Dedham, Massachusetts then 1637 in Salem, Massachusetts.
- "on 8 October [1638] he was one of the twelve persons that bought land of Roger WILLIAMS at Providence, Rhode Island. In 1639, Ezekiel baptized Roger WILLIAMS and was baptized by him, both being among the twelve original members of that church at Providence."