Obadiah Holmes was born in England and came to Massachusetts Bay. After adopting credobaptism (baptism by belief) as opposed to the Puritan pedobaptism (infants), he was evicted from Rehoboth, MA and joined John Clarke at his Baptist Church in Newport, Rhode Island. On Sunday, July 20, 1651, Clarke, Holmes, and a John Crandall held a small Baptist service in the
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