From WikiTree. Also his mother Rebecca (Hunter) Holmes.
Joseph Holmes (1746-1806) was the father of both David Hunter, Mississippi Territory Governor and Andrew Hunter Holmes who I have written about earlier.
He was born near Londonderry in Ireland. He was a successful merchant in Winchester, Virginia before the American Revolution. During the war he was Colonel Commissary of Prisoners.
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DAVID HOLMES
U.S. Congressman from Virginia. Governor of Mississippi Territory in 1809. Governor of the State of Mississippi 1817 (first governor).
U.S. Senator from Mississippi. Mississippi Governor again in 1825.
--Brock-Perry
