Benjamin Graves
ID# 668, (1676/77-1752)
- 7th great-grandfather of Faye Louise Doyle
Benjamin Graves was born on 2 March 1676/77 in Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Benjamin Graves and Mary Hoar.1 He married first Ruth Sterling, daughter of William Sterling and Mary Blaisdell, in 1697.2 He held several colonial offices. He lived in Colchester, New London County, Connecticut, in 1708. He married second Mary Hanes about 1711. He died on 30 December 1752 in Colchester, Connecticut, at age 75. He was buried in Colchester Burying Ground, Colchester, New London County, ConnecticutG.
Last Edited=26 Jun 2019
Children of Benjamin Graves and Ruth Sterling
- Benjamin Graves+3 (1699-)
- Ruth Graves (c 1701-)
- Mary Graves (1704-)
- Jedediah Graves (1707-1800)
- Jonathan Graves (c 1709-)
Children of Benjamin Graves and Mary Hanes
- James Graves (c 1711-)
- Haynes Graves (c 1713-)
- Peter Graves (c 1715-)
- Elizabeth Graves (c 1717-)
- Margaret Graves (c 1719-)
- Deborah Graves (c 1722-)
- Abigail Graves (c 1723-)
- Mary Graves (1727/28-1793)
Citations
- [S1998] E. M. Leach Rixford, Three hundred colonial ancestors and war service, their part in making American history from 495 to 1934, page 122 (Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1934); digital image. Hathi Trust (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed June 2019).
- [S8] Fredrick A Vickers, The Compendium of American Genealogy (First Families of America) (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1968).
- [S25] Lineage application of Bertha May Graves Sealock, #443473, DAR.