Rev. 13 Aug. 2008, Gen. 166

JOHN GRAVES

1635 Settler of Concord, MA

and His Descendants

GENERATION 1

John Graves (1) was born in England about 1605. It is claimed that he was christened in the Parish of Beeley in Derbyshire, and that he died in 1704 in CT; however, the evidence for both these claims is unknown or nonexistent and therefore the claims (especially for the place of christening) are suspect.

John Graves came to America with his wife in 1635 and settled in Concord, MA. He belonged to the church where Rev. Peter Bulkeley (sometimes spelled Bulkley) was a teacher. He was one of the signers of the petition to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1643 in favor of Ambrose Martin, and in 1644 his name was attached to a document pledging its signers, which included nearly every head of a family in Concord, to the support of the government.

It has also been said that he was master of the "Tryall”, the first ship built in America, in 1648; however, that is not correct. It was Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA, later Rear Admiral, who was master of the Tryall.

It has been stated by one source (R‑20) that John Graves’ wife was named Joan. R‑62 gives her name as Joan/Ann Bird, and that her father was George Bird. It is also said that he moved to Connecticut where he died in 1704.

It was stated by genealogist John Card Graves, a descendant of John Graves of Concord, that John Graves was a brother of Deacon George Graves of Hartford, CT, and that their sister Sarah married Richard Lord of New London, CT. They were related to widow Ann Graves of Great Minores St., St. Botolph Parish, Aldgate (or Olgate), London, England, who by will proven 20 March 1676 gave annuities to the children of Deacon George in case of failure of issue to her grandson Joseph Hardey.

It seems likely that John Graves and George Graves were brothers, since DNA analyses of their descendants show that they share a common ancestor, although that doesn’t prove that they were brothers rather than cousins.

Another part of the “proof” for John Graves being a brother of Deacon George Graves is a letter dated 27 Feb. 1675 from an aunt, Anna Graves of London, to John Graves of Guilford, CT. She wrote that she was 92 at that time and her only daughter had died Nov. 1674. Based on the present evidence, it seems likely that Anna Graves was a sister-in-law of Deacon George Graves. There is also the possibility that Anna and Ann Graves were the same person. Research needs to be done in London records to further establish the facts.

The reason this letter was cited as proof is that the date was misread as 1645. The letter is actually written to John Graves, son of Deacon George Graves, and not to John Graves of Concord. To establish this, the author examined a photocopy of the actual letter and saw the envelope which is addressed to John Graves of Guilford, CT, and not John of Concord. The brother George mentioned in the letter is not the immigrant Deacon George Graves, but the son of George. This letter and several others were stored in a bank vault in Madison, CT in 1990, and copies were in the possession of members of "The Deacon John Graves Foundation, Inc." located in Madison. The text of the letter is as follows:

"London, Febr'y the 27, 1675 Couzen John Graves in New England

My kind love to your wife and children. Hoping yt these few lines will find you well as I pray ye Lord left me, in considering my age. Couzen having an oportunity of sending caused me to write this being the sixth letter to you since I received yours yt some of those may come safe to yr hand and to inform you yt hath pleased God to take away from me unto himself my deare and only daughter which is a great greafe and heavy burden to me in my great age [93] but considering whither she has gone I am satisfied. She departed this life ye 21st day of ye last November 1674. She had a great desire to hear from you before she died and if she had she would a remembered you at her death. And now couzen I am of great age and cannot expect to live long but have made my will and have left £50 among you as a token of my remembrance after I am dead. I have left £10 to yrself, £10 to yr brother George and yr sister £10 which is £30. The £20 remainder for yr children. If it shd please ye Lord to take me out of this world before ye letter comes I have left to good bondsmen over here in trust my will.

Ye one is Mr. William Griffing, a Merchant in Austin St. and ye other is Mr. James Arbell at ye White Anchor in ye little Minery. So I close commiting you to the protection of ye almighty God who never forsakes any yt wholey put their trust in him.

Your loving Aunt till death.

Anna Graves"

It is possible that John Graves was from Kent, England, since many of the early settlers of Concord were. However, according to Concord, Climate for Freedom, by Ruth B. Wheeler, the places in England from which they came were widely scattered. Hartwell, Bulkeley, and Wheeler were from Bedfordshire; Willard, Stow and Hosmer from Kent; Flint and Wood from Derbyshire; Hunt and Heaward from Yorkshire; and Heald from Northumberland. William Butrick came from Surrey; Edward Wright from Stafford; and Thomas Brown from Lavenham, Sussex.

Concord was the first town carved out of the wilderness. Every other town in America had been close to the ocean or a tidal river, where goods could be transported by boat and natural features would mark the bounds with a minimum of exploration.

There was a constant shift in the population of Concord as newly-arrived immigrants came, stayed a while, then went to Connecticut or returned to the coastal towns, where those with a trade but no knowledge of farming could hope to make a living. Almost every deed to land in Concord listed the buyer as yeoman, except for the few gentlemen, whereas in coastal towns like Charlestown the identifying word would be that of a trade: glover, tanner, brickmaker, mason, etc.

In 1644 there was a split in the church at Concord. John Jones (the other minister in addition to Peter Bulkeley) took his family and 15 Concord men to Fairfield, CT, on Long Island Sound.

The early records of Concord (including land transactions) were largely lost. The town voted in 1664 to order a new leather-bound book and that “... what is useful in the old book be transcribed in the new.” Unfortunately, only a few items were considered worthy.

In addition to the children listed below, one source (R‑20) stated that there was a son Abraham who married Ann Hayward. (R‑62, R‑82, R‑200, R‑203)

Children - Graves

+2. Benjamin Graves, b. 3 March 1645, m. Mary Hoar, 21 Oct. 1668, d. before 23 March 1724.

+3. John Graves, b. 1647, m. Mary Chamberlain, 1 Dec. 1671.

4. Sarah Graves, b.c. 1650 (Concord, MA), m. Joseph Brabrook, 23 April 1672 (Concord, MA), d. 6 Sept. 1694.

GENERATION 2

CHILDREN OF JOHN GRAVES (1)

Benjamin Graves (2) was born 3 March 1645 in Concord, MA, and died before 23 March 1724 (d. 18 March 1715, in Concord, according to R‑39). He married Mary Hoar, daughter of John Hoar and Alice ‑‑‑‑‑‑ (possibly Lisle) of Concord, on 21 Oct. 1668 (Concord Register, Book Y; see Appendix for her Hoar ancestry). He was in the Colonial Wars as a member of Captain Thomas Wheeler's Company and fought against the Indians in July and August 1675. It is also noted that he was a soldier in King Philip’s War in Captain Wheeler’s Company and was in fights at Wicnaboag Pond and Brookfield, on 16 Aug. 1675. He served in Groton in Feb. 1675-1676, and his name appears again on the payroll 24 Aug. 1676.

He and his brother John Graves of Sudbury, MA, with others, purchased on 20 May 1681 from Christopher Hall "all the mines and minerals of one kind or another found or to be found or that may be found on his land in Groton, MA at a place called Cold Spring near William Longby's house, with liberty to dig, delve or use the land and to erect buildings etc." Benjamin Graves did not move to Groton but continued to live at Concord until after 1681, and all his children except the last one were born at Concord (according to Concord Register, Book 1).

Benjamin was apparently still living in Concord in 1684, since on a list of the second order of proprietors (in 1745) is included “David Comee, then living where Benjamin Graves lived in the year 1684.”

He moved to Saybrook, CT and lived at Pattaconke (northern part of Saybrook), where he bought land 25 Jan. 1703. He deeded half of his farm to his son Joseph on 18 March 1715, and certain lands to his son John of Killingworth, CT on 14 Sept. 1716.

The following records were found regarding Benjamin:

November 4, 1716, Benjamin Graves, yeoman, for love and good will to loving son John, now resident of Killingworth, amessuage or tenement at Pottaconk, with all the buildings, etc., bounded westerly by land of Joseph Graves, it being understood that Benjamin is to retain the life use of the same. (John sold the property in 1724.)

March 18, 1715, Benjamin Graves for love and affection to son Joseph deeded one-half the farm where I now dwell the westerly half (R-9).

Old Saybrook was divided into three parts. The northern part was called Pattaconke (also spelled Pataconke and Pattaquonck). "The committee for highway improvements were to lay out a good and sufficient highway to the 'Great River' at the northward side of ye land formerly owned by Benjamin Graves in Pattaconke", action taken at Saybrook, 5 Jan. 1724/5.

Old Saybrook is on the south shore of Connecticut, on Long Island Sound, at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Pattaconke was about 7 miles north of the mouth of the Connecticut River when a part of Saybrook. It is now the town of Chester, CT.

Killingworth is about 5 miles west of Chester, and was originally a part of Clinton, CT until 1836. Clinton is on the south shore of Connecticut about 5 miles south of Killingworth, CT. The land in this area is hilly and rolling, with forests. The births of all the children except John were recorded in Concord Register, Book 1. (R‑1, R‑20, R‑39, R‑62, R‑82, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+5. Mary Graves, b. 18 Jan. 1669/70, m. Benjamin Rice, 1 April 1691, d. 22 Oct. 1736.

+6. Elizabeth (or Mehitable) Graves, b. 25 April 1671, m. Joseph Beebe, 26 Dec. 1706, d. 4 April 1730.

+7. Ruth Graves, b. 25 Nov. 1674, m(1) John Webb, 25 (or 15) Jan. 1699/1700, m(2) William Merriam, 7 Nov. 1711, d. 12 Nov. 1755.

+8. Benjamin Graves, b. 2 March 1676/7, m(1) Ruth Stirling (or Mary Sterling)^[1], m(2) Mary Haynes, d. 30 Dec. 1752.

+9. Joseph Graves, b. 1 Sept. 1679, m. Sarah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. after 2 April 1756.

10. Joanna Graves, b. 2 Feb. 1681.

+11. John Graves, b. 1683, m(1) Hannah Farnum, 30 May 1710, m(2) Sarah Chapman, 18 June 1754, d. 29 Dec. 1766.

12. Rebecca Graves, b.c. 1685, m. Jonathan Daniels, 12 Dec. 1706 (New London, CT VR).

John Graves (3) was born 1647 in Concord, MA. He married Mary Chamberlain, daughter of Thomas or Richard Chamberlain and Sarah Bugbee, on 1 Dec. 1671. She was born 30 Jan. 1649. After the birth of their first child, the family moved from Concord to Sudbury, MA. (R‑64^[2], R‑200)

Children - Graves

13. John Graves, b. 8 July 1672 (Concord, MA).

14. Rebecca Graves, b. 7 Nov. 1676 (Sudbury, MA Vital Records, p. 58), m. Edmund Goodenow^[3] (?), d. 6 Feb. 1719/20 (Sudbury, MA VR p. 306). He was son of John Goodenow and Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑. See Appendix for descendants of Rebecca Graves and Edmund Goodenow.

15. Ebenezer Graves, b. 9 Aug. 1681, d. 28 Dec. 1681 (or 17 Oct. 1730, Sudbury VR, p. 307).

GENERATION 3

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GRAVES (2) AND MARY HOAR

Mary Graves (5) was born 18 Jan. 1669/70 in Concord, MA (according to Concord Register, Book 1), and died 22 Oct. 1736 (according to R‑39). She married Benjamin Rice, son of Edward Rice and Anna ‑‑‑‑‑‑ of Marlboro, MA, on 1 April 1691 in Sudbury, MA. He was born 22 Dec. 1666 and died 23 Feb. 1748/9. He deeded to his wife's uncle, John Graves, of Sudbury, a house and 21 acres of land on 20 Jan. 1691. They lived in Marlboro, MA. (R‑200)

Children - Rice

16. Rachel Rice

17. Lydia Elizabeth Rice (This may be 2 daughters.)

18. Priscilla Rice

19. Damaris Rice

20. Azariah Rice

21. Simon Rice

22. Zerubbaber Rice

23. Abraham Rice

24. Matthias Rice

Elizabeth (or Mehitable) Graves (6) was born 25 April 1671 in Concord, MA, and died 4 April 1730 in Lyme, CT. She married Joseph Beebe on 26 Dec. 1706 in New London, CT. He was born about 1681, and died 4 Dec. 1756 in Lyme, CT. “age 70 odd” according to the Hempstead Diary, although he was probably older. Their children were born in New London, CT. (R‑61, R‑149, R‑208, R‑209)

Children - Beebe

+25. Joseph Beebe, b. 4 Dec. 1707, m. Sarah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 20 Jan. 1739.

+26. Jonathan Beebe, b. 2 March 1709, m. Hannah Lewis, c. 1731-35, d. 20 Jan. 1759.

+27. Ephraim Beebe, b. 5 May 1712, m. Thankful Scone, 4 Dec. 1733/34.

28. Stephen Beebe, b. 13 July 1714, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728, m. Elizabeth Fergo/Fargo, 7 Dec. 1737/8, d. 8 Nov. 1760 (Ft. Edward, Washington Co., NY).

29. David Beebe, b. 1716, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728, m. Sarah Lord, d. 27 Nov. 1810^[4] (Lyme, CT)

30. Elisha Beebe, b.c. 1718, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728, d. 16 Aug. 1760. Served in the French and Indian War.

+31. Simeon Beebe, b. 1720, m. Anna Terrill, 1 Aug. 1750, d.c. 1777.

32. Abigail Beebe, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728 (First Church. New London, CT), m. Josiah Smith, Sept. 175‑. He was the son of John Smith.

33. Mehitable Beebe, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728 (First Church, New London, CT), m. Gamaliel Reynolds, 15 Dec., 1745 (Norwich, CT), d. 1746 (Norwich, CT) He was b. 4 Nov. 1725, son of Joseph Reynolds and Hannah Bingham, and d. 7 May 1805 (Norwich, CT).

34. Japhet Beebe, bapt. 20 Oct. 1728.

Ruth Graves (7) was born 25 Nov. 1674 in Concord, MA, and died 12 Nov. 1755. She married John Webb, son of John Webb and Hannah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, on 25 (or 15) Jan. 1699/1700 in Saybrook, CT. He died 28 Jan. 1711. The births of their children were recorded in Saybrook Vital Records, 1647-1834, p. 28. She married second William Merriam, son of William Merriam and Elizabeth Breed, on 7 Nov. 1711. He was born 8 March 1668 in Lynn, MA, and died 26 Feb. 1752 in Bristol, CT. Ruth was William’s fourth wife. (R‑39, R‑84, R‑133, R‑200)

Children - Webb

35. John Webb, b. 4 Nov. 1700, d. 19 Dec. 1702.

36. Hannah Webb, b. 1 March 1702.

37. Mary Webb, b. 19 March 1703/4.

38. Ruth Webb, b. 1 Dec. 1705.

39. Sarah Webb, b. 7 Aug. 1707.

40. Gideon Webb, b. 1 July 1709.

+41. John Webb, b. June 1711, m. Lydia ----, d. 1785 or later.

Children - Merriam

+42. Ruth Merriam, b. 2 Nov. 1713, m. Caleb Matthews, 9 May 1733, d. 3 Nov. 1785.

43. Samuel Merriam, b.c. 1716 (Lynn, MA).

44. Ebenezer Merriam, b. 1718 (CT).

45. Joseph Merriam, b. 1724 (CT).

Benjamin Graves (8) was born 2 March 1676/7 in Concord, MA, and died 30 Dec. 1752 in Colchester, New London, CT, leaving a will. He went with his father who settled in Saybrook, CT about 1681-1683 (or about 1700?). He was described as a resident of New London, CT in a deed to him of lands he purchased in Colchester, CT in 1709. He was admitted inhabitant of Colchester at a town meeting on 8 Jan. 1716. He was chosen lister at town meeting on 11 Dec. 1727.

He married Ruth Stirling (or Mary Sterling), daughter of William Stirling and Mary Blaisdell, in 1698. Ruth was born 17 Dec. 1679, and died in 1710 (see Stirling Genealogy). He married second Mary Haynes. She was born about 1690 in Colchester, CT, and died 24 Nov. 1780. They lived two and a half miles from Colchester on the road to Lyme, CT. They owned the Covenant at Lyme, CT.

The children by Benjamin's second marriage who were baptized 1741-1749 were apparently baptized as adults, since marriage dates were soon after baptismal dates.

The following will of Benjamin Graves was probated 5 May 1753:

“In the name of God Amen. This 11th day of December A.D. 1752 and ye 21st year of ye reign of our Sovereign Lord George of Great Britain &c the King. I Benjamin Graves of Colchester in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut in New England yeoman being sick and weak in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory (and praise be God for ye same) and being desitous to settle my affairs, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in the manner following.

First and principally I resign my soul in ye hands of God Almighty my Creator, hoping and believing in and through ye alone merits of Jesus Christ my only Lord and Savior to obtain everlasting happiness in his eternal Kingdom. My body I commit to ye earth from which it was taken in ye faith of a joyful resurrection, willing ye same to be decently buried at ye discretion of my executive hereafter named.

And as to such temporal goods and estate as it hath pleased God to bestow upon me after my funeral charges and just debts are discharged which my will is that it be done with all convenient speed after my decease by my executrix and executors hereafter named I give and bequeath to my dear wife Mary Graves ye whole use of all my real estate with all ye privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging during her natural life or so long as she remains my widow for her to use and dispose of in that way that she may think most to her advantage, and be my widow and then to be equally divided to my two daughters viz. Deborah and Abigale, that is to say all my personal estate excepting one gun and that I give to my son Peter and also two cows and them I give to my two daughters Deborah and Abigail and also my will is and I do give unto my children hereafter named five shillings old tenor apiece that is to say, Benjamin, Jedediah, Jonathan, Ruth, and Mary Daniels, James, Hains, Elizabeth, Margret and Mary Hungerford, to be paid to them out of my personal estate by executors hereafter named and I do hereby constitute and appoint and ordain my wife Mary Graves and my son Benjamin Graves of East Haddam executive and executors of this last will and testament and I do hereby utterly disavow revoke and disannul all and every other former testament, will, legacy and executive and executors by me in any way before made, confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.

In witness whereof I have set my hand and ye day and year as above written.

his

Benjamin X Graves (L.S.)

mark

In presence of Alice Ransom Amy Ransom Jabez Jones” (R‑9, R‑71, R‑74, R‑79, R‑82, R‑84, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Ruth Stirling (or Mary Sterling)

+46. Benjamin Graves, b.c. 1699 (or 1695), m. Mary Jones, d. 25 March 1770.

47. Ruth Graves, bapt. 25 Oct. 1702 (New London, CT), d. after 1752.

48. Mary Graves, bapt. 29 Oct. 1704 (New London, CT), m. Ebenezer Daniels, 21 Oct. 1724 (New London), died after 1752.

+49. Jedediah Graves, b.c. 1708, m(1) Jerusha Ackley, 1728, m(2) Elizabeth Allen, June 1737, m(3) Ruth Bennett, 27 Dec. 1758, d. 10 Nov. 1800.

+50. Jonathan Graves, b.c. 1711, m. Mary Tisdale, d. after 1752.

Children - Graves, by Mary Haynes

+51. James Graves, b.c. 1712, m. Mary Haskins, 1 July 1743, d. after 1787.

+52. Peter Graves, bapt. 27 Dec. 1741, m. Sarah Wedge, 1 July 1742, d. after 1781.

+53. Haynes Graves, m. Irene Chapman, 27 July 1749, d. after 14 Feb. 1816.

+54. Elizabeth Graves, m. Ebenezer Hyde, 2 June 1741, d. after 1782.

55. Deborah Graves, d. after 1752.

56. Margaret Graves, b. 1724, bapt. 27 Dec. 1741, m. Jonathan Loomis, 28 Oct. 1744 (Lebanon, CT), d. after 1752.

+57. Mary Graves, b. 20 Jan. 1727/8, m. Samuel Hungerford, 23 June 1746, d. 13 March 1793.

+58. Abigail Graves, b. 1726, m. Nathan Dodge, 10 Oct. 1755.

Joseph Graves (9) was born 1 Sept. 1679 in Concord, MA, and died after 2 April 1756. He married Sarah ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She died 16 March 1751. Joseph went with his father to Saybrook, CT about 1700 and bought and sold land there as late as 1735. He next appeared as a resident of New Cambridge, a part of Farmington, CT, in 1743. He owned land there and in a part of Waterbury, CT that later became Plymouth. He was described as "dish-turner" (presumably he was a potter). Abraham Waterous bought land of Joseph Graves at Pattaconke.

According to History of Middlesex Co., Conn., 1635-1885: "The highway from the head of the cove, running north past the town house was probably the first road laid out in Pattaconke.

The Wig Hill Road running from the town house over the hill past Cedar Swamp Pond and northerly by the pond was laid out in 1735, 1736, and 1737 by Samuel Jones, Abraham Waterhouse, Samuel Willard, John Graves, John Whittlesey, and Samuel Lord." In 1953 it was Liberty St. and Wig Hill Road. In 1976 it was Main St., High St., and Ridge Rd. (R‑1, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+59. Benjamin Graves, b.c. 1720, m. Katherine Marsh (?).

+60. Joshua Graves, b. 1723, m. Rhoda Bronson, 5 April 1750, d. 23 Aug. 1803.

+61. Cornelius Graves, b. 1724, m(1) Hannah (Brooks) Clark, 1 May 1751, m(2) Phebe Prindle, 13 Aug. 1761, d. 2 Aug. 1812.

John Graves (11) was born in 1683 in Concord, MA (or Saybrook, CT), and died 29 Dec. 1766 in Walpole, NH. He was known as "Sergeant John Graves." He married Hannah Farnum, daughter of Sergeant Peter Farnum and Hannah Wilcoxen of Killingworth, CT, on 30 May 1710 in Killingworth (see Killingworth Vital Records, vol. 2, p. 192). She was born 23 Aug. 1691 in Killingworth, CT. They first lived in Killingworth, but then moved back to Saybrook, CT about 1724. He was described as a cordwainer and was a deacon in his church. Lands were laid out to John Graves in Saybrook on 3 Jan. 1720, May 1737, 26 Jan. 1728/9, and 14 April 1742.

According to R‑20, John may have married second Sarah Chapman on 18 June 1754. (R‑1, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+62. John Graves, b. 27 April 1711, m. Lydia Clark, d. after 1774.

63. Hannah Graves, b. 20 Aug. 1713, d. in infancy.

+64. Daniel Graves, b. 1 Feb. 1714/15, m(1) Hannah Parmelee, 5 Jan. 1744, m(2) Lydia (or Lois) Stevens, 23 May 1754, m(3) Lois Loveland, Nov. 1765, d. after 1770.

+65. Abner Graves, b. 20 June 1717, m. Mary (Judd) Judd, 21 April 1743, d. after 10 Dec. 1780.

66. Hannah Graves, b. 7 Dec. 1719.

+67. Aaron Graves, b. 9 March 1722, m(1) Phoebe (or Phebe) Meigs, 27 Sept. 1750, m(2) Rhoda ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 8 Aug. 1814.

+68. Lydia Graves, b. 4 Sept. 1724, m(1) Peter Farnham, 28 Feb. 1744/45, m(2) Joseph Griswold, 23 May 1754, d. after 1754.

69. Mary Graves, b. 4 April 1727, m. Seth Tubbs, 2 May 1743 (Hampton, CT) He was b. 1725, son of Joseph Tubbs and Mary Reed. Mary was “of Windham” [CT], and Seth was “of Norwich” [CT] at the time of their marriage. Joseph Tubbs d. in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH.^[5]

70. Phebe Graves, b. 17 July 1729, m. Zebulon Parmelee, 28 May 1750 (Killingworth, CT).

+71. Sylvanus Graves, b. 17 July 1729, m. Lydia (Hull) Griswold, 12 March 1759, d. 4 Feb. 1801.

+72. Nathan Graves, b. 12 April 1732, m(1) Mary Jones, 1750, m(2) Mabel Wilcox, 7 April 1768, d. 13 Jan. 1821.

GENERATION 4

CHILDREN OF ELIZABETH GRAVES (6) AND JOSEPH BEEBE

Joseph Beebe (25) was born 4 Dec. 1707 in New London, New London Co., CT, and died 20 Jan. 1739. He married Sarah ‑‑‑‑‑‑. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

73. Joseph Beebe

Jonathan Beebe (26) was born 2 March 1709 in New London, New London Co., CT, and died 20 Jan. 1759 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, where his will was filed. He married Hannah Lewis, daughter of William Lewis and Elizabeth Borden. Three dates are given for his marriage: the Lyme, New London Co., CT town records list 12 March 1731/2 and 4 Dec. 1734, while the church records list 18 March 1734/5. She was born 26 Nov. 1716 in Lyme and died after 1790, possibly in Waterbury. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

+74. Ira Beebe, b. 20 July 1735, m. Jemima Hickox, Aug. 1758, d. 29 Dec. 1792.

75. Zeruiah Beebe, b. 4 Feb. 1737 (Lyme, CT), m. Israel Terrell, 9 Feb. 1758 (Waterbury, CT), d. 15 June 1781 (Waterbury, CT). He was bapt. March 1737 (Milford, CT), son of Josiah Terrell and Mary Goodwin. She was bur. in Hillside Cem., Naugatuck, CT.

+76. Zera Beebe, b. 2 July 1740, m(1) Desire ‑‑‑‑‑‑, m(2) Keziah Warner, 19 March 1761, d. between 30 Dec. 1803 and 14 Jan. 1805.

77. Borden Beebe, b. 3 Aug. 1742 (Lyme, CT), never married, d. June 1762 (Waterbury, CT) age 20.

+78. Jonathan Beebe, b. 24 Sept. 1745, m. Azubah Warner, 25 Aug. 1767.

+79. David Beebe, b. 12 April 1747, m. Lydia Terrill, 1 Feb. 1768, d. 11 Nov. 1840.

80. Simeon Beebe, b. 1749.

+81. Seba Beebe, b. 6 April 1749, m. Sarah Davis, 24 Feb. 1773, d. 26 Feb. 1837.

82. Silas Constant Beebe, b. 15 Jan. 1750 (Waterbury, CT). Said to have been adopted by the family and to have been a nephew of Hannah (Lewis) Beebe.

+83. Reuben Beebe, b. 28 Aug. 1755, m(1) Xenia Matthews, 30 March 1774, m(2) Hannah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 15 Dec. 1834.

Ephraim Beebe (27) was born 5 May 1712 in New London, New London Co., CT. He married Thankful Scone, daughter of Joseph Scone and Thankful Buckwell, on 4 Dec. 1733/34 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT. She was born 5 Aug. 1714 in Saybrook. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

84. Mehitable Beebe, b. 6 Nov. 1735 (Saybrook, CT), m. Nathaniel Chittenden.

85. Eunice Beebe, b. 4 May 1738 (Saybrook, CT), m. Samuel Lewis, 7 Nov. 1763 (Waterbury, CT), d. 25 May 1809, age 71. He was b. 7 Nov. 1763 (Waterbury, CT), son of Joseph Lewis, d. 11 April 1788, and was bur. in Columbus, Chenango Co., NY.

86. Elizabeth Beebe, b. between 17 Jan. 1740 and March 19, 1743 (Saybrook, CT).

+87. Ephraim Beebe, b. 19 March 1743, m. Abigail Martin, d. 1813 (?).

88. Thankful Beebe, b. Dec. 1743, bapt. 13 Jan. 1744/5, m. Elisha Bigelow, 5 Aug. 1773 (Colchester, CT), d. 15 Nov. 1839 (Sinclairville, Chautauqua Co., NY). He was b. 14 April 1731 (Colchester, CT), son of Isaac Bigelow and Mary Bond, and d.c. 1793 (Otsego Co., NY).

89. Sarah Beebe, b.c. 1746 (Saybrook, CT), m. Ebenezer Porter, 31 Aug. 1774 (Waterbury, CT). He was b. 24 Jan. 1749/50, son of Samuel Porter, and d. 22 Aug. 1810.

+90. Joseph Beebe, b.c. 1748, m. Tameson Terrill, 15 April 1773, d. 17 March 1833.

+91. Reuben Beebe, b.c. 1750-53, m. Hannah Scott, 24 June 1776, d. 20 July 1812.

Simeon Beebe (31) was born in 1720 in New London, New London Co., CT, baptized 20 Oct. 1728 in New London, and died about 1777 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. He married Anna Terrill on 1 Aug. 1750 in Lyme, New London Co., CT. His will was probated 2 Sept. 1777 and was filed at Woodbury, Litchfield Co., CT. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

+92. Elisha Beebe, b. 3 Feb. 1750/1, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

93. Clarissa Beebe (twin), b. 20 Aug. 1753 (Waterbury, CT).

94. Glovina Beebe (twin), b. 20 Aug. 1753 (Waterbury, CT)

+95. Simeon Beebe, b. 25 Jan. 1755, m. Lois (Lucy) Gunn, d. 28 Jan. 1813.

96. Martin Beebe, b. 20 Aug. 1756 (Waterbury, CT), m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 15 Sept. 1819 (Oxford, CT).

+97. Ephraim Beebe, b. 10 March 1757, m. Delight Kent, 13 Dec. 1781, d. after 23 Feb. 1830.

98. Mehitable Beebe, b. 13 Dec. 1759 (Waterbury, CT).

+99. Asahel Beebe, b. 5 March 1763, m. Amarilla Parmalee, 26 Oct. 1789, d. 26 April 1848.

100. Phylena Beebe, b. 11 July 1763(?) (Waterbury, CT), m. Eli Hull, 11 Sept. 1783.

+101. Artemas Beebe, b. 26 July 1766, m. Bethiah Pheland, 9 June 1790, d. 19 Dec. 1852.

102. Polly Beebe, b. 1767, m. Richard Pardee (before 1796 in Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT).

+103. Stephen Beebe, b. 11 Oct. 1769, m. Lydia Bayley, d. 20 Dec. 1839.

104. Anne Beebe, b. 1773, m. Ebenezer Tyler, 16 Jan. 1791.

105. Tryphena Beebe, b. 1775.

CHILDREN OF RUTH GRAVES (7)

John Webb (41) was born in 1711 and died in 1785 or later. He married Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑. His will was dated 1785, and mentions his wife and the children listed below. (R‑200)

Children - Webb

106. Constant Webb

107. Benjamin Webb

108. Calvin Webb

109. daughter, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Graves.

+110. Lydia Webb, b.c. 1749, m. Phineas Bushnell, d. 20 May 1830.

111. Lucy Webb

+112. Sarah Webb, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Hupman.

Ruth Merriam (42) was born 2 Nov. 1713 in Lynn, MA, and died 3 Nov. 1785 in Bristol, CT. She married Caleb Mathews on 9 May 1733 in Wallingford, CT. (R‑133)

Children - Mathews

113. Mamre Mathews, b. 18 Aug. 1734, d. Sept. 1734.

114. Ruth Mathews, b. 12 Oct. 1735/6, m. Joseph Gaylord.

115. Hannah Mathews, b. 31 Jan. 1737, m. Dan Hills, 20 Dec. 1757 (Bristol, CT).

116. Jerusha Mathews, b. 8 May 1739.

117. Jerusha Mathews, b. 30 May 1740.

118. Caleb Mathews, b. 16 Dec. 1743, d. 1814.

119. Mamre (“Minnie”) Mathews, b. 19 Feb. 1745/6, m. Isaac Cleveland.

120. Etheldred Mathews, b. 17 May 1748/9.

+121. John Mathews, b. 24 April 1750, m. Olive Royce (or Roys), 30 Nov. 1769, d. 1840.

122. Etheldred Mathews, b. 11 June 1754, d. 10 Dec. 1811.

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GRAVES (8)

Benjamin Graves (46) was born about 1699 (or 1695), and died 25 March 1770 in his 71st year, according to his tombstone in Tater Hill Cem., East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vols. 80, 81). He bought twenty-eight and a half acres in East Haddam from John Ackley on 22 May 1722, and his father gave him eighty acres in Millington Parish in the same town.

He married Mary Jones, daughter of Thomas Jones of Colchester, CT, who was admitted to East Haddam Congregational Church 18 August 1734. She was born 22 April 1709 in Enfield, CT, and died before 18 Feb. 1777, when her son Benjamin was appointed administrator of her estate. In Thomas Jones' will (Early Conn. Probate Records, vol. 3, pp. 74-5), he speaks of his daughter Mary as the wife of Benjamin Graves.

At least their first four children were baptized in Millington Parish. (R‑73, R‑118, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+123. Mary Graves, b. 1724 (or 1727), m. Nathaniel Cone, 5 Dec. 1745, d. 10 (or 16) June 1772.

+124. Lydia Graves, b.c. 1732, m. Simeon Crosby, 10 Aug. 1749, d. 8 April 1798.

+125. Benjamin Graves, b. 2 March 1734, m. Mary Ransom, c. 1759, d.c. 6 Sept. 1781.

126. Dorothy Graves, bapt. 9 Feb. 1735 (or 25 Aug. 1734 per R‑200).

127. Sterling Graves [Rev.], b. 1738, never married, d. 23 Sept. 1772. He was one of the detachment from the South Millington Company of East Haddam, CT sent out by Captain Cone for the relief of Forts Edward and William Henry in Aug. 1757. He graduated from Yale College in the class of 1765, was licensed as a clergyman at Hartford in 1767, and settled over the Church at Hartford, CT in 1768. He was ordained 4 May 1768 in the open air on a knoll about a mile south of the present Congregational Church in East Hartford, of which he was first pastor He was bur. in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT.

+128. Roswell Graves, b.c. 1740, m. Elizabeth Driggs, 15 Nov. 1763, d. 1776.

+129. Ruth Graves, b. 27 Dec. 1741, m. Daniel Driggs, 19 Nov. 1763, d. after 1781.

Jedediah Graves (49) was born about 1708 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died 10 Nov. 1800, aged 92 years, in Sherman, Fairfield Co., CT, leaving a will. He was christened 15 May 1709 in the First Church of Christ, New London, CT. He married Jerusha Ackley, daughter of Samuel Ackley of East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, in 1728. She was born 29 March 1707 and died in Aug. 1736. He married second Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen and Lydia Hastings, in June 1737. She was born about 1712 (or 1716) and died 13 March 1752. After her death, he married third Ruth Bennett, daughter of Lieutenant Henry Bennett, on 27 Dec. 1758. She was born 20 Jan. 1738 or 1739 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, and died 26 Oct. 1823 at age eighty six.

Jedediah lived in East Haddam as early as 1723 when he bought ten acres of land from Thomas Crippen and bought and sold land there at least up until 1752, when he moved to New Fairfield (now Sherman), CT, where he lived until his death.

The History of Warren County^[6] describes Queensbury, NY, and how the land was given by King George III by land patents. Jedediah was among twenty three petitioners receiving land patents on 29 May 1762. It states that the men who applied for the patents were “men of influence,” and “lent their names to secure the grant for the benefit of the actual settlers.” The area was named Queensbury to honor the King’s new wife. Jedediah was one of the first land holders in that town. He did not settle on the land himself, but was the owner of the land, about 1,000 acres. Allen Graves’ (#133) name is on the Warren Co. records as selling the land some years later.

He was a stalwart and prosperous man, much respected by all who knew him. His will, which follows, specified the distribution of his property, and was admitted to probate in Dec. 1800.

“In the Name of God Amen.

I Jedediah Graves of New Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and Colony of Connecticut being of a sound mind and memory, blessed by Almighty God therefor, and calling to mind the mortality of my body, knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, and not knowing how soon my departure out of time may be, do in the name of God make and ordain this my last will and testament.

And first, I give and recommend my precious and immortal soule to God who gave it hoping for eternal life through Jesus Christ my Redeemer and my body transmit to the earth at death to be decently buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, not doubting but at the resurrection by the power of God I shall again receive the same and as touching such worldly estate it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give and dispose of the same in the following manner viz.

First. My will is that all my just debts together with my funeral expenses be paid out of my estate in convenient time after decease.

Imprimis. I give and bequeath to Ruth my dear and well beloved wife the whole of my part of the house that I now live in and possess, also one good feather bed with all the furniture belonging thereto, pillows, bolster, sheets, coverlid and blankets, also the improvement of that tract of land during her natural life which I have purchased of Ephrin Leach and Doratha his wife containing twenty eight acres, also one third of my personal estate, also the improvement of one quarter part the farm or land that I now live on and possess, during the term she shall continue to be my widow and relict.

Item. I give to Jonah Graves, Allen Graves, Stephen Graves, Russell Graves, Amos Graves, Ezra Graves, my sons all my real estate to be equally divided to them.

Item. I give to Allen Graves and Stephen Graves my sons, twenty £ to each of them out of my personal estate.

Item. I give to Rachel, Lucy, Mary my daughters and to Ester and Rhoda's heirs the remainder of my personal estate to be equally divided among them.

And lastly I constitute and appoint my well beloved sons Stephen Graves and Ezra Graves to be executors of this my last will and testament holding and establishing this and this only to be my last will and testament.

In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of February, A.D. 1795.

his

Jedediah X Graves

Mark

Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Jedediah Graves to be his last will and testament in presence of us the witnesses whose names are unwritten. Signed in the presence of the testator.

Stephen Barns

Levi Babock

Andrew Barns”

(R‑9^[7], R‑30, R‑45, R‑68, R‑80, R‑84, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Jerusha Ackley

+130. Jonah Graves, b. 28 June 1728 (or 20 June 1729), m(1) Ruth Crosby, before Aug. 1750, m(2) Sallie Graves (#487), 15 Sept. 1795, d. 1825.

131. Esther Graves, b. 9 Jan. 1731, m. Stephen Chapman, 13 Feb. 1755, d. 19 Jan. 1802.

132. Rachel Graves, b. 2 Jan. 1734, m. Increase Crosby (of Hadlyme, CT), 13 Feb. 1755, d. 19 Jan. 1802 (Hadlyme, New London Co., CT).

Children - Graves, by Elizabeth Allen

+133. Allen Graves, b. 1 May (or Aug.) 1738, m. Mary ‑‑‑‑ 1766, d. 6 March 1826.

134. Elizabeth Graves, b. 21 Feb. 1740, probably never married, d. before 1795.

+135. Stephen Graves, b. 7 Feb. 1742, m. Patience Hatch, d. 21 April 1820.

+136. Rhoda Graves, b. 16 Feb. 1744, m. James Stewart, Jr., 24 March 1763, d. before 21 Feb. 1795.

137. Lucy Graves, b. 26 April 1746, m. Nathaniel Seeley, d. after 21 Feb. 1795.

138. Mary Graves, b. 28 May 1748, m. Enoch Peck, 30 Oct. 1765, d. after 21 Feb. 1795. He was b. 19 July 1743, son of Ephraim Peck and Sarah Porter, d. 7 Aug. 1814.

+139. Russell Graves, b. 17 April 1751, m. Anna ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. after 1801.

+140. Amos Graves, b. 10 Dec. 1753, m. Hannah Kennedy, 13 Jan. 1787, d. 29 April 1836.

Children - Graves, by Ruth Bennett

+141. Ezra Graves, b. 13 June 1760, m. Joanna Northrup, 7 Nov. 1779, d. 6 July 1834.

Jonathan Graves (50) was born about 1711 in New London, New London Co., CT, and died after 1752 when he was mentioned in his father’s will, probably in Shelburne Falls, Franklin Co., MA. He married Mary Tisdale, daughter of James Tisdale and Abigail Coleman. She was born in 1710 and died about 1774. He lived in Colchester, CT until at least 1716, East Haddam, and Lebanon, CT in 1752. (R‑7, R‑36, R‑200)

Children - Graves

142. Chloe Graves, b. 1740.

+143. Jonathan Graves, b.c. 1743, m. Bettie Lisk, c. 1771, d.c. 1826 (or late 1829).

144. Ephraim Graves, b. 1745, d. young.

145. Isaac Graves, b. 1747, d. young.

+146. Elijah Graves, b. 25 Dec. 1749, m. Patience Case, 1772, d. 17 (or 16) May 1836.

James Graves (51) was born about 1712 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, was baptized 6 Feb. 1743, and died after 1787. He married Mary Haskins, whose mother, Mill Tisdale, was a sister of Mary Tisdale, wife of his brother Jonathan, on 1 July 1743. She was born about 1723 in CT, and died after 1767. He resided in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Later he sold his land there and moved to Shelburne, MA, where he was taxed as late as 1787. James enlisted in June 1745 for the expedition to Cape Breton. He was a member of the 5^th Company Militia under Captain William Throop. He served in the Rev. War as private in Captain Joshua L. Woodbridge's Co., Colonel Nathan Tyler's Mass. Regt. He enlisted 25 June 1779 and discharged 25 Dec. 1779. He also served one month and seven days in Rhode Island in the same company and regiment. His sons James and Ansel served as substitutes for him in 1782.

At a town meeting in Shelburne, MA, where James, Haynes, and Eliphalet Graves lived, held on 26 June 1776 (ten days before "Our Declaration of Independence"), the following resolution was adopted: "Resolved. That this town will stand by the Honorable Continental Congress with their lives and fortunes if their Honors think it expedient to declare as independent from the Kingdom of Great Britain, for the safety of our rights and privileges." (R‑82, R‑200)

Children - Graves

147. Almira Graves, b. about 1744 (Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA).

+148. Eliphalet Graves, b. 1752, m. Anna (or Anne) Jones, 1770, d. Dec. 1836.

149. Elihu Graves, b. about 1754 (Colchester, New London, CT), d. 1773.

+150. James Graves, b. 1 May 1764, m(1) Wealthy Jones, m(2) Jemima (‑‑‑‑‑‑)Ackhorn, c. 1828 or 1829, d. 8 July 1845.

+151. Ansel Graves, b. 18 Feb. 1767, m. Caroline Otis, 1788, d. 3 Jan. 1810.

Peter Graves (52) was born at Colchester, New London Co., CT, was baptized 27 Dec. 1741, and died after 1781. He married Sarah Wedge on 1 July 1742 at Colchester. He was a soldier in the Rev. War from 1777 to 1781 in Captain Edward Eel's Co., Col. Samuel Wylly's Regt. Connecticut Line. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

152. Eleazer Graves, b. 24 March 1743, bapt. 14 Sept. 1743, d. 25 Nov. 1760. He was in Capt. Spencer's (East Haddam) Co. in the French and Indian War. He enlisted 24 March 1760 and served until his death.

+153. Peter Graves, b. 3 Nov. 1744, m. Mary Chapman, 17 May 1764, d. after 1818.

+154. Asa Graves, b. 8 May 1747, m. Mercy Kellogg, 2 March 1786, d. 5 May 1800.

155. Abigail Graves, b. 2 May 1749, bapt. 6 Aug. 1749.

156. Elizabeth Graves, b. 29 Oct. 1751.

157. Deborah Graves, b. 14 May 1754, d. 5 Dec. 1754.

158. John Graves, b. 12 April 1756, bapt. 16 May 1756.

159. Diadema Graves, b. 3 Jan. 1759, bapt. 13 May 1759.

160. Lois Graves, b. 20 Aug. 1763.

Haynes Graves (53) was born in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died after 14 Feb. 1816. He married Irene Chapman on 27 July 1749 at Colchester. She died 11 May 1787 at Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT, and was buried in Town Hill Cem. there. He resided at East Haddam, CT up to 1768 when he moved to Shelburne, MA and lived there until about 1783. He then moved to Salisbury, CT. He was one of the town officers in Shelburne in 1771. He bought 93 acres of land in Salisbury from Lemuel Wheeler for £464 on 12 Dec. 1783. He held and conveyed various pieces of land in Salisbury, the last conveyance being dated 14 Feb. 1816. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

161. Elijah Graves; served 3 years in the Rev. War as private and drummer in Captain Eliphalet Holmes' Co., First Conn. Regt., enlisted 10 Jan. 1777 and discharged 10 Jan. 1780.

+162. Ichabod Graves, b.c. 1763, m. Sarah Chapman, c. 1785, d. 28 Jan. 1849.

+163. Alice Graves, m. Prosper Deming, 15 April 1782.

164. Lemuel Graves

165. Dolly Graves

Elizabeth Graves (54) married Ebenezer Hyde, son of Samuel Hyde and Elizabeth Calkins, on 2 June 1741 in Lebanon, New London Co., CT. She died after 1782, since she was living there as his widow in that year. She was his second wife. He was born at Lebanon, CT, and died there 21 Aug. 1743 (or 1742).

He was a grandson of Samuel Hyde and Jane Lee of Norwich, CT. He married Dorothy Throop on 25 Feb. 1729. They settled at Lebanon, CT, where she died in 1740. All the children by Dorothy were born in Lebanon. They were: William Hyde, b. 8 April 1730, m. Abigail Worth; Ignatius Hyde, b. 30 April 1731, d. 10 June 1731; Ebenezer Hyde, b. 10 Sept. 1732, m. Phebe ‑‑‑‑‑‑; Ignatius Hyde, b. 28 April 1738; Deborah Hyde, b. 16 Oct. 1734, m. Amos Robinson; Elizabeth Hyde, b. 13 Oct. 1736, died in infancy; Elizabeth Hyde, b. 14 March 1740. (R‑204)

Children - Hyde

166. Submit Hyde, b. 24 Nov. 1742 (Lebanon, CT).

Mary Graves (57) was born 20 Jan. 1727/8 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died 13 March 1793 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT. She married Samuel Hungerford, son of Thomas⁴ Hungerford (Thomas³, Thomas², Thomas¹) and Margaret Stewart (or Elizabeth Smith) of East Haddam, CT, on 23 June 1746 in Colchester, CT. Samuel was born 10 May 1725 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 3 Sept. 1789 in Sherman or New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT. An account was given in the Connecticut Courant of 30 Oct. 1770 “of a remarkable day of spinning on an ordinary wheel of 126 knots of good fine worsted yarn by this Mary Hungerford on the 21^st day of Sept. 1770.” (R‑71, R‑110, R‑162, R‑200)

Children - Hungerford

167. Emiline Hungerford, b. New Fairfield, CT, m. Samuel Allen, d. 18 Feb. 1832 (Fairfield, Franklin Co., VT).

168. Eleanor Hungerford, b. 17 May 1747 (East Haddam, CT), bapt. 2 Oct. 1752 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Alexander Stewart.

169. daughter (twin), b. 2 June 1748 (East Haddam, CT).

170. son (twin), b. 2 June 1748 (East Haddam, CT).

171. Mary Hungerford, b. 21 June 1749 (New Fairfield, CT), bapt. 2 Oct. 1752, m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Hubbell, m(2) Alexander Stewart, 1770 (New Fairfield, CT), d. 19 Aug. 1839 (Fairfield, VT).

+172. Eunice Hungerford, b. 26 April 1751, m. Joseph Soule, 1767, d. 19 Aug. 1839.

173. Miriam Hungerford, b. 13 Feb. 1753 (New Fairfield, CT), bapt. 25 March 1753 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Samuel Stewart.

174. James Hungerford, b. 1754 (New Fairfield, CT).

+175. Uriel Hungerford, b. 12 Feb. 1755, m. Hannah Wilcox, 1775, d. 18 April 1834.

+176. Isaiah Hungerford, b. 26 Dec. 1756, m. Esther Mead, 1776, d. 16 June 1833.

177. Allen Hungerford, b. 12 Dec. 1758 (New Fairfield, CT), bapt. 13 Jan. 1759 (New Fairfield, CT), d. 19 June 1776 (New Fairfield, CT).

178. Levi Hungerford, b. 1759.

+179. Ezra Hungerford, b. 8 Feb. 1761, m. Caroline Wilcox, 1778, d. 1 Sept. 1832.

+180. Zerviah Hungerford, b. 13 June 1763, m. Amos Northrup, 14 April 1785, d. 18 Feb. 1832.

+181. Deborah Hungerford, b. 18 Nov. 1764, m. Nathan Waldo, 21 Sept. 1785, d. 4 Jan. 1844.

182. Simeon Hungerford, b. 14 May 1766 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Elizabeth ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 1828 (Swanton, Franklin Co., VT).

183. Margaret Hungerford, b. 14 May 1767 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Job Hurlbut, 1 July 1787 (New Fairfield, CT), d. 14 May 1851 (New Fairfield, CT).

+184. Elizabeth Hungerford, b. 20 May 1769, m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Putnam, m(2) Samuel Tuttle, 1800, m(3) Solomon Jones, 1807, d. 20 April 1853.

+185. Samuel Hungerford, b. 7 Dec. 1771, m. Abigail Kilbourne, d. 1855.

Abigail Graves (58) was born in 1726 in Colchester, New London Co., CT and was baptized 6 Aug. 1749. She married Nathan Dodge, son of David Britain Dodge and Rebecca Yeomans, on 10 Oct. 1755 probably in Colchester. He was born 14 July 1736 in Colchester, and died 12 Sept. 1793 probably in CT. Their children were born in Colchester. (R‑74^[8], R‑79, R‑92, R‑200)

Children - Dodge

+186. Elihu Dodge, b. 21 (or 22) Aug. 1756, m(1) Hulda Tiffany, 15 May 1774, m(2) Lucretia Rogers, 9 May 1792, d.c. 26 Nov. 1830.

187. Olive (or Oliver) Dodge, b. 14 Oct. 1758.

188. Amasa Dodge (male), b. 20 Jan. 1760, d. 1765.

189. Abigail Dodge, b. 12 June 1763.

190. Nathan Dodge, b. 21 Oct. 1765

+191. Deborah Dodge, b. 1767, m. Nathan Loveland, 2 Dec. 1784, d. 1884.

192. Amasa Dodge, b. 1768, m. Mary Wickham. It has not been proven that this Amasa Dodge was a son of Nathan Dodge and Abigail Graves. If this is the correct connection, this is the ancestry of Mrs. Lou Anne Carr Hager, R‑92. See Appendix for descendants of Amasa Dodge and Mary Wickham.

CHILDREN OF JOSEPH GRAVES (9) AND SARAH ‑‑‑‑‑‑

Benjamin Graves (59) was born about 1720 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT. He went with his father to New Cambridge (a part of Farmington), CT about 1743. His father and brother Joshua deeded to him certain lands in New Cambridge on 19 May 1749, which he held and paid taxes on in 1750 and 1751, and sold to Joseph Hodgkins and Joseph Gaylord in the fall of 1751.

He was living in Salisbury, CT in 1788, where his daughter Rebecca died. She was buried in the same lot as child George Marsh. Certain properties were deeded to him on 27 May 1789, which he conveyed the same day for same consideration to George Marsh individually. For these reasons, it is supposed that he married into the Marsh family, probably marrying Katherine Marsh, but that has not been definitely ascertained. (R‑104, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+193. Joseph Graves, b.c. 1746, m.‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+194. David Graves, b. 25 Oct. 1752 (or 20 Oct. 1751), m. Sarah Farrington, d. 24 Feb. 1837.

195. Rebecca Graves, b. about 1759, d. 1788.

+196. Benjamin Graves, b. 22 Nov. 1760, m(1) Lucretia Marsh, m(2) Hulda Thompson, c. 1804, m(3) Sally Marshall, 27 Sept. 1835, d. 22 March 1843.

Joshua Graves (60) was born in 1723 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 23 Aug. 1803 at Salisbury, Addison Co., VT in his 80th year. He married Rhoda Bronson, daughter of Lieutenant John Bronson and Comfort Baldwin, on 5 April 1750. She was born 30 March 1729 and died 16 Sept. 1807. He moved with his father from Saybrook to New Cambridge (a part of Farmington, CT) about 1743. He bought and sold property in New Cambridge and vicinity and was taxed in that town from 1748 to 1761. In 1764 he describes himself as of Sharon, CT.

He moved to Vermont and first settled in Arlington, but went with his son Jesse to Salisbury and "pitched" a hundred acre farm where his descendant Columbus Smith (#1673) subsequently lived in the spring of 1774. They built a log house and cleared and planted a few acres of land, the first clearing for agricultural purposes in Salisbury. He brought his family to Salisbury in 1775, but his house was burned by the Indians in the spring of 1776. He built another that same year and his family returned to it in the spring of 1777.

He and one of his sons were captured by Indians in June 1777 and taken to Montreal but were released to the British as they were engaged in peaceful pursuits when captured. The family then retired to Rutland, VT, remained there until the close of the Rev. War, and returned to their home in Salisbury in 1783. That year he built the first framed barn in Salisbury. He was exempted from military and jury duty because of his deafness. Four of his sons, Jesse, Simeon, Chauncey, and Asa, are all listed on the rolls of those serving in the militia in defense of the frontier area north of Rutland, and the first three received pensions in their old age.

History of Salisbury, Vermont, by John M. Weeks, pub. in 1860, gives the following account of their capture:

“After the commencement of the revolutionary war, Joshua Graves moved back as far as Rutland, but remained there but a short time before he and his boys returned to their farm in Salisbury again, (this was in the summer of 1776), and built another house in the place of the one destroyed by the Indians, harvested their wheat which had been sown the year before, prepared their land and sowed another crop, and in September, returned again to their family in Rutland.

Mr. Graves, not regarding this hazardous experiment of settling a new country in time of war, moved his family again to his farm, early in the spring of 1777, with the intention of making a permanent settlement. He planted corn on the interval land near Otter creek, and while hoeing it one day, sometime in the month of June of that year (we have the story from the mouth of Jesse Graves), he and his boys suddenly discovered a large party of Indians coming upon them from the north. It would have been an easy matter to conceal themselves, if they had had a minute's notice of the approach of the enemy, but being occupied with their work, and their sight being intercepted by the woods on the north, before they were aware of it, the Indians were close upon them, some approaching by land, but the greater number by bark canoes in the creek. There was a boy at work with them, about fourteen years old, who started to run, but Mr. Graves ordered him to stop, as the savages would be more apt to shoot him while endeavoring to make his escape.

The Indians soon came up and ordered them all, Joshua Graves, Jesse Graves and the boy, to give up their work and go along with them. So they all went on together up the creek, and stopped over night on the farm now called the Kelsey place. Here the Indians found a pair of oxen, and butchered one of them to provide their evening and morning meal. From this place they passed up the creek and made a halt at the house of Jeremiah Parker, who then lived on the farm now (in 1860) owned by Ebenezer Jenny. On looking over Mr. Parker’s house, the Indians found a quantity of maple sugar, about two hundred pounds, which they took out of doors, and, having assembled around it, held what they called a “pow-wow.”

The party being large, numbering about two hundred and fifty, the sugar was nearly exhausted in eating and wasting, before the journey was resumed. Nothing was taken from Mr. Parker except the sugar, and his house was left without having suffered any damage…

Having regaled themselves at Mr. Parker’s expense, the Indians made a captive of him, and all set out for the south, no one of the captives knowing for what they were taken, or where they were going. They soon arrived at Neshobe, (Brandon), where they were placed under the care of an Indian guard, and conducted to Lake Champlain, near Ticonderoga, where they, together with a part of the guard, were placed on board a British vessel and taken to Montreal.

Here the Indians demanded of the chief officer of the British forces at that place, the bounty for “rebel heads;” but the officers, after examining the case, found that these men had been taken by the Indians while in the quiet and peaceable prosecution of their labors as farmers, and decided that the prisoners ought to be allowed to return to their homes. This decision caused a good deal of murmuring on the part of the Indians, who thought they ought at least be permitted to take the scalps of their captives as reward for their trouble.

The prisoners, being released, were allowed to find their way back to their families the best way they could, which they did after a long and tedious journey, having been absent about three weeks.

These Indians treated their prisoners well while they had charge of them, imposing no burdensom tasks upon them, and allowing them the same rations as themselves, which consisted of one tablespoonful, daily, of pounded parched corn.

This was all the food the prisoners or the Indians had, with the exception of what they so unceremoniously took just as they started, until they were placed on board the vessel, when the officers in the British command gave them a more generous diet.

So far as these men traveled with this party of Indians, they could discover no indication that this excursion was made for the sake of booty or mischief; the Indians burnt no houses, nor did they maliciously destroy any property nor steal or pillage anything, except what they wanted to eat.

After learning the character and disposition of the red men of Vermont, the Messrs. Graves concluded that settling a new country in time of war was too hazardous an undertaking for them, and determined, as soon as practicable, to leave the country until the war was over.

They returned to Rutland early in September of that year, having first made a “cache” in the ground, in which they deposited their pewter ware, which consisted of platters, plates, basins, spoons, and a variety of other domestic utensils, of which they had a good supply, and also a few farming tools.

But on their return in 1783, after the war, the place of their improvements had become so changed, it being overgrown with brush and briers, that they were unable to find any of their things thus deposited, nor could any of the family determine exactly where the “cache” was made. It is not improbable that it was discovered and robbed, and the place afterwards gradually filled up and overgrown with brushwood.” (R‑48, R‑55, R‑59, R‑200)

Children - Graves

197. Millicent Graves

198. Barney Graves

199. Minerva (or Mamra/Mammoie) Graves, b. 26 Nov. 1750 or 1751 (Waterbury, CT).

+200. Simeon Graves, b. 20 Sept. 1752, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. after 1818.

+201. Jesse Graves, b. 30 Jan. 1755, m. Ruth Remington, 16 Feb. 1780, d. 12 (or 20) Oct. 1820.

+202. Asa Graves, b. 19 Feb. 1757, m. Desire ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 5 July 1820 (or 6 Oct. 1823).

203. Sarah Graves, b. 5 March 1759 (Waterbury, CT).

+204. Chauncey (or Chancy) Graves, b. 9 Sept. 1761, m(1) Olive Sprague, m(2) Rachel Adams, 8 June 1794 (or 1795), d. after 20 July 1850.

205. Philla Graves, m. Brook McDoniel, 12 Sept. 1793.

Cornelius Graves (61) was born in 1724 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 2 Aug. 1812. He married Hannah (Brooks) Clark, widow of John Clark, and daughter of Stephen Brooks and Hannah Barnes, on 1 May 1751. She was born 5 April 1726 and died 14 Nov. 1759. He married second Phebe Prindle, daughter of Nathan Prindle and Mary Richerson, on 13 Aug. 1761. She was born 24 Oct. 1733, and died 15 Dec. 1821 at New Hartford, Oneida Co., NY.

Cornelius moved with his father to New Cambridge (now Bristol), a part of Farmington, CT about 1743. He bought lot 94 in Free Masons Patent on the South side of Mohawk River in Whitestown from Jedediah Iauger of Whitestown for £50 on 10 March 1792, and he and his son Jacob conveyed it for the same consideration to his brother Benjamin of Litchfield Co., CT on 3 Oct. 1792. He was buried with his wife in the cemetery at the N.W. corner of South and Comelia Streets, New Hartford, NY. (R‑94, R‑200)^[9]

Children - Graves, by Hannah Clark

+206. Stephen Graves, b. 2 (or 15) Feb. 1752, m. Ruth Jerome, 8 Dec. 1778, d. 6 June 1828 (or 1 June 1821).

+207. Benjamin Graves, b. 12 March 1754, m. Eunice (or Jerusha) Hale, 15 Aug. 1776, d. 29 Nov. 1836.

208. Cornelius Graves, b. 9 (or 16) March 1756, bapt. 16 May 1756, d. 7 Oct. 1781(or 1777) (in the service of his country in the Rev. War).

209. Jacob Graves, b. 1 Sept. 1758, d. 26 Nov. 1758.

Children - Graves, by Phebe Prindle

+210. Jacob Graves, b. 12 July 1762, m. Elizabeth Turner, 13 June 1787.

CHILDREN OF JOHN GRAVES (11) AND HANNAH FARNUM

John Graves (62) was born 27 April 1711 at Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died after 1774. He married Lydia Clark, daughter of Joseph Clark and ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Carwell, of New Haven. She was born 3 Nov. 1711 (or 1713) in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT. He bought land near his father's farm in Potopogree, CT on 28 Feb. 1733, and was an extensive land owner in Connecticut before he moved to Walpole, NH before 22 Feb. 1762. He purchased large tracts in Walpole, which the family still held about 1900. He deeded lands in Chester, NH to his son Eliphas on 19 Feb. 1767, and to others in 1771 and 1774. He and his wife signed the covenant at the Old Church on 7 Jan. 1767 where Rev. Thomas Fessenden was pastor. Their children were born in New Haven. (R‑86, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+211. John Graves, b.c. 1737, m. Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. before 1810.

+212. Eliad Graves, b. 1739, m. Abigail Clark, April 1756 (or in 1761), d. 13 (or 18) April 1828.

+213. Eliphas (or Eliphaz) Graves, b. 1741, m(1) Rebecca Vubb (?) (or Webb) or Margaret L. Webb), 9 Feb. 1764, m(2) Hannah Kelsey, 3 Nov. 1793, d. 20 March 1822.

Daniel Graves (64) was born 1 Feb. 1714/15 at Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and died after 1770. He married Hannah Parmelee, daughter of Nathaniel Parmelee and Esther Ward, on 5 Jan. 1744. She was born 21 Sept. 1712 and died 26 Aug. 1753. He married second Lydia (or Lois) Stevens on 23 May 1754. He married third Lois Loveland in Nov. 1765. (R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Hannah Parmelee

+214. Daniel Graves, b. 25 Oct. 1744, m. Lois ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

215. Hannah Graves, b. 7 Jan. 1746, m. William Nettleton, 22 Oct. 1767. He was b. 17 March 1740, son of Jeremiah Nettleton and Deborah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, and d. 17 Jan. 1778.

216. Joel Graves, b. 23 June 1749, m. Mercy Hull, 26 Oct. 1769. She was b. 2 April 1749, dau. of Joseph Hull (b. 10 Sept. 1707) and Elizabeth Redfield.

Children - Graves, by Lydia Stevens

+217. Josiah Graves, b. 19 July 1755, m(1) Jerusha Wilcox, 10 March 1785, m(2) Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

218. Solomon Graves, 19 Feb. 1757 (Killingworth, CT).

219. Lydia Graves, b. 12 May 1759, m. Thomas Willard, 22 March 1781. He was b. 23 July 1759, son of Jared Willard and Katherine Bates of Guilford, CT.

Children - Graves, by Lois Loveland

220. Lois Graves, b. 29 Oct. 1766.

221. Sybil Graves, b. 27 Sept. 1768.

222. Hannah Graves, b. 10 Feb. 1771.

Abner Graves (65) was born 20 June 1717 at Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and died after 19 Dec. 1780. He married widow Mary (Judd) Judd on 21 April 1743 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT (Farmington Vital Records, vol. LR6, p. 305). She was born 20 Oct. 1717, a twin daughter of Jonathan Judd and Hannah Diggins. He was of Farmington in 1750 when he conveyed land in Shuttle Meadow Mountain to Nathaniel Winchel of the Parish of Kensington, was of Southington in 1752, and probably of Walpole, NH later. Abner was a soldier in the French War, with Phineas and Josiah Graves, in Captain Bezaleel Bristel’s company. Abner removed to the Ashuelots, from which were established the towns of Walpole and Keene, NH. There he and Joshua Graves obtained the liberty to turn the stream of the East Branch, on 29 May 1759, for building a saw mill and corn mill. Abner’s war record shows him to be an old man in the Revolutionary War, and serving in short leaves only. In 1780, he served under Commander Herman Switt, Colonel. He enlisted 10 July 1780 and was discharged 19 Dec. 1780. Abner’s grandson, whose residence was Stratford, VT, was a widely known farmer and veterinary surgeon. (R‑1, R‑20, R‑58, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+223. Asahel Graves, b. 23 Aug. 1746, m. Sarah (or Sara) ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+224. Ezekiel (or Ezehiel) Graves, b. 13 Sept. 1748 (or 1753), m(1) Nancy Hannah, m(2) Mary Dwinnel, 18 Dec. 1810, d. June 1813.

+225. Bela Graves, b. 4 Sept. 1750 (or 23 Sept. 1751), m(1) Sarah Holcomb, m(2) Sarah Griswold, before Aug. 1782, d. 15 Jan. 1852.

226. Silvanus (or Sylvanus) Graves, b. 25 Aug. 1756 (Farmington, CT VRs, vol. LR11, p. 582).

Aaron Graves (67) was born 9 March 1722 at Saybrook (or Killingworth^[10]), Middlesex Co., CT, and died 8 Aug. 1814 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, aged 92 years. He married Phoebe (or Phebe) Meigs, daughter of Recompense Meigs of East Guilford, CT and Phoebe Goodale of Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, on 27 Sept. 1750. She was born 1 Feb. 1730 in Saybrook or Madison, CT, and died 20 March 1813 in Walpole, NH, aged 83 years. (According to Descendants of Vincent Meigs, her parents were residents of East Guilford, which would have been Madison, CT.) Phoebe Goodale was born and raised in Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY.

Aaron moved to Walpole, NH before 1750, being one of the first settlers in that town. He and his wife were admitted to First Congregational Church at Walpole on 3 June 1777. They both were buried in Walpole, NH. Aaron served as a private in the Rev. War.

Aaron supposedly married second Rhoda ‑‑‑‑‑‑, who died in April 1819 at age 73, and was buried in Walpole, NH.

All his children were born at Walpole, NH, with the possible exception of Tryphena, and Hannah who was born at Guilford, New Haven Co., CT. (R‑13, R‑200)

Children - Graves

227. Tryphena Graves, b. 1754, m. Aaron Royce, 13 Dec. 1775.

+228. Recompense Graves, b. 20 Jan. 1756, m. Susanna (or Hannah) Little, 20 May 1781, d. 3 (or 2) April 1821.

229. Daniel Graves; this child is listed by Frizzell, R‑202, but not by J. C. Graves, R‑200.

230. Jesse Graves, b. 11 April 1758, never married, d. 1775.

+231. Aaron Graves, b. 11 Feb. 1760, m(1) Rhoda Wheeler, 17 May 1782, m(2) Fanny Aldrich, 7 Dec. 1815, d. 3 Oct. 1816.

+232. Hannah Graves, b. 8 Nov. 1761, m. Simon Buell (or Buel), 15 Nov. 1786, d. 31 Dec. 1852.

+233. Samuel Graves, b. 20 Feb. 1763, m. Elizabeth ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 4 June 1846.

+234. Abner Graves, b. 5 Feb. 1766, m. Mary Graves, 23 (or 22) May 1788, d. 4 April 1855.

235. Roxana Graves, b. 4 Dec. 1772.

236. Lydia Graves, b. 1755 (?), m. Ebenezer Farnham (or Farnam or Farnum), 2 Nov. (or 29 Sept.) 1795 (Walpole, NH). He was b. 26 March 1752 (Killingworth, CT), d. 17 Dec. 1838, and was a Rev. soldier.

Lydia Graves (68) was born 4 Sept. 1724 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT or Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, and died sometime after 1754. She married Peter Farnham, son of Peter Farnham and Mercy Wright, 28 Feb. 1744 or 1745^[11] in Killingworth, CT. He was her first cousin on her mother’s side of the family. Peter was born 12 Jan. 1720 or 1721 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT, and died about 1752. Their children were born in Killingworth, CT. He was the founder of the New Haven branch of the Farnham family. Peter was the great uncle of Dr. Bela Farnham who stated that Peter died early in life and left three sons. After Peter’s death, Lydia married Joseph Griswold on 23 May 1754. (R‑13, R‑102)

Children - Farnham

237. Deacon) Roger Farnham, b. 6 April 1746, m(1) Molly Hall, 1778, m(2) Priscilla Hall, 23 April 1788, d. Oct. 1830 (Walpole, NH).

+238. Eber Farnham, b. 29 April 1748, m. Eunice ‑‑‑‑‑‑, about 1774, d. 8 Feb. 1837.

239. Rhuana Farnham, b. 29 July 1750, bapt. 5 Aug. 1750, m. Jason Harrington (Conway, Franklin Co., MA).

240. Ebenezer Farnham, b. 26 March 1752, bapt. 28 March 1752, m. Lydia Graves, 2 Nov. 1775 (Walpole, NH), d. 17 Dec. 1838 (or 1830^[12] Waterford, Caledonia Co., VT).

Colonel Sylvanus (or Silvanus) Graves (71) was born 17 July 1729 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, died 4 Feb. 1801 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and was buried in either Killingworth or Saybrook.^[13] He married Lydia (Hull) Griswold, daughter of Captain Josiah Hull and Elizabeth Redfield of Killingworth, and widow of Daniel Griswold, on 12 March 1759 in Killingworth. She was born 29 Oct. 1732 in Killingworth, CT and died there 23 June 1797. She had first married Daniel Griswold on 26 April 1751 in Killingworth. They had two children, Josiah Griswold, born 17 June 1752, and Sybil Griswold, born 27 April 1753, in Killingworth. Daniel died in 1753, and these two children took the name Graves after Lydia remarried.

He was captain of the 12th Co., 7th Regiment, Connecticut Militia from Killingworth in 1771 and, as major, assisted in forming a new regiment, in 1775, from companies of the 2nd, 7th, 10th, and 23rd Regiments under Colonel M. Talcott and Lieutenant Colonel Jabez Thompson. Those regiments then marched to New York to assist in holding it against the British, who had evacuated Boston in March 1776, until the arrival of General Washington with the Continental Army from Boston. Sylvanus was commissioned lieutenant colonel of the 7th Regiment of Connecticut Militia in May 1777 and resigned in Oct. 1779. (R‑13, R‑27, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+241. Abner Graves, b. 1760, m. Mary Howd, 4 Jan. 1789, d. 11 Sept. 1826.

242. Phebe Graves, b. 15 Aug. 1762, m. Stephen Butler, 27 Jan. 1785.

243. Sarah Graves, b. 1 April 1764, m. Russell Bishop (of Guilford, CT), 10 June 1807, d. 21 Nov. 1827. He d. 26 Oct. 1825, son of Caleb Bishop and Abigail Parmelee.

+244. Seth Graves, b. 1765, m. Paulina Bronson, 12 May 1793, d. 1 July 1829.

245. Sylvanus Graves, bapt. 16 Nov. 1766. Died young.

246. Lydia Graves, b. 1767, m. Samuel W. Pratt, 25 Jan. 1793, d. 16 May 1810. He was b. 3 May 1768, son of Samuel Pratt and Priscilla ‑‑‑‑‑‑ of Saybrook, CT. They lived at Essex, CT. She was bapt. 13 Dec. 1767 (Killingworth).

+247. Rachel Graves, b. 24 Feb. 1769, m. Orrin Redfield, 10 March 1796, d. 21 April 1850.

248. Sylvanus Graves, b. 1771, bapt. 5 July 1772 (Killingworth, CT), d. 28 Oct. 1796 (Suffield, Hartford Co., CT).

249. John Graves, bapt. 6 Nov. 1774, m. Philetta Parmalee^[14], 4 March 1801 (Killingworth). She was the daughter of Hiel Parmelee and Patience Farnham of Killingworth and Claremont, NH.

Nathan Graves (72) was born 12 April 1732 at Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 13 Jan. 1821. He married Mary Jones in 1750. She died in 1767. He was in Captain Andrew Ward's Co. of Colonel Elisha Chauncey's Regiment in the Indian War from 8 Sept. to 14 Dec. 1755. He married second Mabel Wilcox on 7 April 1768. She died 25 July 1809. He lived in Westmoreland, NH in 1790. (R‑181, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Mary Jones

+250. Mary Jones Graves, b. 19 Jan. (or 26 March per R‑181) 1758, m. Garner (or Gardner or Gardiner) Isbell, 23 Nov. 1778, d. 25 Oct. (or Nov. per R‑200) 1845.

251. Phebe Graves, b. 31 Dec. 1759, d. 1767.

+252. Phineas Graves, b. 30 Jan. 1762, m(1) Elizabeth Mitchell, 12 Oct. 1786, m(2) Anna (Petty) Nourse, 9 Jan. 1818, d. 1 Jan. 1859.

+253. Nathan Graves, Jr., b. 10 March 1764, m. Molly Jones, c. 1794.

+254. Selah Graves, b. 1 Feb. 1767, m. Sabra Roundy, 6 April 1794, d. 29 Oct. 1838.

Children - Graves, by Mabel Wilcox

255. Azel Graves, b. 13 July 1769, d. 1775.

256. Gilbert Graves, b. 1 Nov. 1772, d. 7 Nov. 1772.

257. Darius Graves, b. 23 Jan. 1775, d. 30 March 1785.

258. Mabel Graves, b. 22 Feb. 1777, m. Joseph Barnes (of New York state).

+259. Joel Graves, b. 25 Aug. 1780, m. Sarah Giddings, 16 Jan. 1820, d. 8 May 1852.

260. Azel Graves, b. 21 Oct. (or Aug.) 1785, bapt. 7 Jan. 1787 (Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH).

GENERATION 5

CHILDREN OF JONATHAN BEEBE (26) AND HANNAH LEWIS

Ira Beebe (74) was born 20 July 1735 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, and died 29 Dec. 1792 in Naugatuck, New Haven Co., CT, age 57. He married Jemima Hickox, daughter of Gideon Hickox and Sarah Upson, in Aug. 1758 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. She was born 24 Nov. 1736 in Waterbury, and died 1 April 1813 at age 77 in Naugatuck, CT. They were both buried in Pine Hill Cem., Naugatuck, CT. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

+261. Eli Beebe, b. 30 Jan. 1758, m. Elizabeth Baldwin, 6 April 1778, d. 15 Sept. 1836.

262. Ursula Beebe

263. Achsa Beebe

264. Armenia Beebe

+265. Borden Beebe, b. 5 Sept. 1767, m. Sybil Williams, d. 23 Jan. 1831.

Zera Beebe (76) was born 2 July 1740 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, and died between 30 Dec. 1803 and 14 Jan. 1805 in Solon, Cortland Co., NY, at age 66. He was a soldier before and during the Rev. War and was granted 320 acres of land in Solon for his wartime services. He married Desire ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He married second Keziah Warner, daughter of Abraham Warner and Keziah Welton, on 19 March 1761 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. She was born 8 Oct. 1742 in Waterbury, CT, and died 1 Sept. 1813 in Solon, NY. She was buried on the Garrett Pritchard farm just east of Solon. (R‑208, R‑209)

Children - Beebe, by Keziah Warner

266. Parthene Keziah Beebe, b. 12 Aug. 1762.

267. Joseph Beebe, b. 9 Jan. 1765, m. Esther ‑‑‑‑‑‑ (of Naugatuck, CT and Colebrook, CT).

268. Silas Beebe

269. Orellana Beebe

270. Lucy Beebe

271. Roderick Beebe

272. Abraham W. Beebe

273. Benjamin Beebe

274. Levi Beebe

275. Latus Beebe

Jonathan Beebe (78) was born 24 Sept. 1745 in Lyme, New London Co., CT. He married Azubah Warner, daughter of Abraham Warner and Keziah Welton and sister to Keziah Warner who married Zera Beebe (#76), on 25 Aug. 1767 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. She was born 12 July 1740. He was a soldier in the Rev. War, according to a 1781 payroll record in Windsor, VT. He purchased land in Pomfret, VT in Sept. 1781. Jonathan left Pomfret before 1791 and may have been the Jonathan in Saratoga, NY in the 1790 census, listed next to his brother Reuben. (R‑149, R‑208).

Children - Beebe

276. Dorcas Beebe, 15 April 1768 (Waterbury, CT), m. Ebenezer Sears, 25 April 1798, d. 1814 (Canandaigua, NY).

+277. William Beebe, b. 23 June 1770, m. Mary Cleveland, Oct. 1801, d. 1839.

278. Jonathan Beebe

279. Clarissa C. Beebe, b. 19 July 1772 (Waterbury, CT), d. 4 Nov. 1774 (Waterbury, CT).

280. Theodonis (Theodorus, Theodus) Beebe, b. 19 Oct. 1775 (Waterbury, CT), m. Elizabeth Warriner, d. 1 March 1856 (Medina Co., OH). Both bur. in Reid Hill Cem. She d. 25 June 1859. She was a sister of Mary Warriner who m. Theodonis’ brother, Arsinoe.

+281. Arsinoe Beebe, b. Nov. 1778, m. Mary Warriner, 8 Dec. 1799, d. 12 Oct. 1859.

282. Rufus Beebe, b.c. 1782 (Waterbury, CT), d. young.

283. Jonathan Beebe, b.c. 1783 (Waterbury, CT), m. Lucina Freeman, d. 1846 (Indiana). May have been the Jonathan shown in the History of Ontario, NY as opening the first store for Oliver Rose in 1812 (Cheshire, NY) and the Jonathan who was an early teacher there.

David Beebe (79) was born 12 April 1747 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, and died 11 Nov. 1840 in Elyria, Lorain Co., OH, at age 93. He married Lydia Terrill, daughter of Moses Terrill and Susanna Barnes, on 1 Feb. 1768 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. She died in 1833. He was a soldier in the Rev. War and applied for a pension on 13 April 1833. He lived in Waterbury, CT and moved to Ridgeville, Lorain Co., OH, were he was buried. (R‑149, R‑208, R‑209)

Children - Beebe

284. Alice Beebe, b. 8 Dec. 1768.

285. Arah (or Asah) Beebe, b. 13 Nov. 1770, d. 14 Nov. 1773.

286. Electa Beebe, b. 8 June 1773.

287. Lydia Beebe, b. 20 July 1775.

288. Esther Beebe, b. 27 June 1777.

289. Eunice Beebe, b. 17 Sept. 1779.

290. David Beebe, b. 2 Sept. 1781 (Waterbury, CT). Moved to North Ridgeville, OH in 1810.

291. Molly Beebe, b. 15 Oct. 1783.

292. Chester Beebe, b. 5 Nov. 1785 (Waterbury, CT). Moved to North Ridgeville, OH in 1810.

+293. Augustus Beebe, b. 18 April 1788, m. Eunice Smith.

294. Loman (or Lorin) Constant Beebe, b. 11 Jan. 1791 (Waterbury, CT), d. 4 Feb. 1827 (North Ridgeville, OH).

Seba Beebe (81) was born 6 April 1749 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, and died 26 Feb. 1837 in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada. He married Sarah Davis, daughter of Thomas Davis and his second wife Mary (Ranney) Bush, on 24 Feb. 1773 in Westminster, Windham Co., VT. Sarah was born 25 July 1751 at Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT. Seba lived in Lyme, CT, Windsor, VT, and Piermont, NH (c. 1778). In 1797 he moved to Beebe Plain on the Vermont/Quebec border, arriving there via an ox-team. He was a soldier in the Rev. War, and his name appears on the pension rolls in Canada in 1831 for services rendered in the Vermont militia. It was said that he was a counterfeiter in Vermont, and was tried and convicted of two of the four charges against him. As his punishment, he was branded on the forehead with the letter “C”, had his right ear cut off, and was assessed monetary penalties. The town of Beebe, Stanstead Co., Quebec was named for this family. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

+295. David Beebe, b.c. 1773. m. Clarissa Cross, d. 4 March 1853 (or 1855).

+296. Hannah Beebe, m. Francis House.

+297. Thomas Beebe, c. 1776, m. Esther House, d. 22 Aug. 1857.

+298. Calvin Beebe, b. 22 Feb. 1777, m(1) Deborah Cole, m(2) Elouisa (Turner) Coggswell, m(3) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Perrin, d. 22 Nov. 1876.

299. Luther Beebe, b. 22 Feb. 1777, never married.

300. Rhoda Beebe, m. Sylvanus McLaughlin, 3 Aug. 1809 (Derby, Orleans Co., VT).

+301. Zera Beebe, b. 10 April 1784, m. Laura (or Louisa) Hartshorn, 31 March 1805, d. 1845.

+302. Anson Beebe, b. 1785, m. Abigail Young, d. 1847.

303. Daniel Beebe (or possibly Seba Beebe, Jr.?).

Reuben Beebe (83) was born 28 Aug. 1755 in Lyme, New London Co., CT, died 15 Dec. 1834 in Little Meadows, Susquehanna Co., PA, and was buried in the So. Apalachin Cem., So. Apalachin, Tioga Co., NY. He married Xenia Matthews, daughter of Jaoram Matthews of Hartland, VT and New Hartford, NY, on 30 March 1774 in Hartland, Windsor Co., VT. She was born in 1759, and died 3 Aug. 1809 in Little Meadows. He married second Hannah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, who was still alive when he died in 1834. He served as a soldier during the Rev. War, enlisting at Waterbury, CT as a volunteer. He moved to Woodstock, Windsor, VT, c. 1780-85. He subsequently moved to Saratoga, Albany Co., NY. Other places of residency include Oquaqua, Broome Co., NY, Choconut Twp., Susquehanna Co., PA, and Little Meadows, PA, which is on the New York-Pennsylvania border. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe, by Xenia Matthews

304. Fanny Beebe, b. 29 Aug. 1775 (Waterbury, CT).

+305. Joel Beebe, b.c. 1780, m. Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

306. Zeruiah Beebe, b. 4 March 1781 (Woodstock, VT), m. David Barney, Jr., d. 20 Feb. 1843. Both bur. Little Meadows, PA. He was b. 1775, d. 1852.

307. Lois Beebe, b. 21 May 1783 (Woodstock, VT), m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Smith, d. 28 Sept. 1847.

308. Charlotte Beebe, b. 13 Jan. 1784 (Woodstock, VT), m. Belding Reed, 7 Oct. 803, d. 6 Nov. 1865.

+309. Joseph Beebe, b. 13 Feb. 1785, m. Eunice Beardsley, 19 Oct. 1809, d. 16 Nov. 1861.

310. Abigail Beebe, b. 5 May 1791.

311. James Beebe, b. 28 Jan. 1794, d. 17 April 1820.

312. Xenia Beebe, b. 6 Feb. 1796, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Salyer, d. 9 June 1812.

313. Reuben Beebe, b. 29 Aug. 1797, d. 11 Sept. 1803.

314. Isaiah S. Beebe, b. 10 Oct. 1799 (Oquaqua, NY), d. June 1842. Had family, but no further information.

CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM BEEBE (27) AND THANKFUL SCONE

Ephraim Beebe (87) was born 19 March 1743 at Saybrook, Middlesex, CT. In an old Wells, Rutland Co., VT history the following is noted: a “Mr. Beebe died in 1813”; this may have been Ephraim. He married Abigail Martin, daughter of Robert Martin and Abigail Parker. She was born 9 Dec. 1745 at Wallingford, New Haven Co., CT. They moved from Cheshire, CT to Pawlet, VT in 1786, according to Ephraim Beebe, Jr.’s testimony on 13 Jan. 1847 in Genesee Co., NY for his cousin Eunice (Lewis) Crossman’s petition for a widow’s pension. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

+315. Ephraim Beebe, Jr., b. 1 March 1770, m. Triphena Hale, 13 Sept. 1792, d. after 13 Jan. 1847.

+316. Abigail Beebe, b. 25 Feb. 1772, m(1) Joseph Bodfish, c. 1791, m(2) Josiah Churchill, 21 Oct. 1804, d. 25 Sept. 1846.

+317. Ozias Beebe, b. by 1775, m. Roxana Andrews, c. 1797, d. before 1812.

318. Martin Beebe, b. 1775-1782 (probably Cheshire, New Haven Co., CT), m. Lucinda Huff or Lurinda Hough, 29 July 1818, d. 1841. The Wells History states two children were born to this family, they moved “West”, and Martin returned to VT after his wife’s death.

+319. Aaron Beebe, b. 1 March 1779, m(1) Clarissa White, 2 April 1801, m(2) Lovina Comstock (?), d. 17 Oct. 1841.

+320. Silas Beebe, b. before 1785, m. Lovina Clark, 20 Nov. 1807, d. 22 Aug. 1826.

321. Robert Beebe, b. 1791 (Pawlet, Rutland Co., VT), d. after 1817 (Ellisburg, Jefferson Co., NY). He was a soldier in the War of 1812.

322. Sarah (“Sally”) Beebe

323. female

Joseph Beebe (90) was born about 1748 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 17 March 1833. He married Tameson Terrill, daughter of Moses Terrill and Susanna Barnes, on 15 April 1773 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. She was born 9 April 1752 and died in 1815. He lived in Saybrook and Waterbury, CT, as well as Columbus, Chenango Co., NY, where he applied for a war pension. He was a soldier in the Rev. War enlisting nine times between 1775 and 1781. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

324. Temperance Beebe

325. Ezra Beebe

Reuben Beebe (91) was born about 1750-1753 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 20 July 1812 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. He married Hannah Scott, daughter of Enoch Scott and Sarah Porter, on 24 June 1776 in Waterbury, CT. She was born 19 May 1751 and died 25 Feb. 1807, age 57. (R‑149, R‑208)

Children - Beebe

326. Amzi Beebe

327. Cloe Beebe

328. Isaac Beebe

329. Reuben Beebe

330. Hannah Beebe

331. Thankful Beebe

332. Ansel Beebe

333. Selden Beebe

CHILDREN OF SIMEON BEEBE (31) AND ANNA TERRILL

Elisha Beebe (92) was born 3 Feb. 1750/1 in Lyme, New London Co., CT. He married ‑‑‑‑‑‑. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

334. Elisha Beebe

Simeon Beebe (95) was born 25 Jan. 1755 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 28 Jan. 1813 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., CT. He married Lois (Lucy) Gunn, daughter of Nathaniel Gunn and Sarah (Smith) Camdee. She was born 7 March 1758 in Kent, Litchfield Co., CT, and died 25 Sept. 1824 in Sharon, CT. He was the organizer of the Sharon Episcopal Church. Both he and his wife were buried in Roland District Cem. in Sharon. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

335. Zenas Beebe

336. Henry Beebe

337. William Beebe

Ephraim Beebe (97) was born 10 March 1757 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died after 23 Feb. 1830 in Sandgate, Bennington Co., VT. He married Delight Kent, daughter of Seth Kent and Susanna King, on 13 Dec. 1781 in Suffield, Hartford Co., CT. Delight was born 4 Aug. 1763 in Suffield, CT, and died after 23 Feb. 1830. His children and descendants adopted the spelling of “Beebee” for their surname. (R‑149, R‑208, R‑209)

Children - Beebee

+338. Ephraim Beebee, b. 1782, m. Elizabeth Taylor.

+339. Thomas King Beebee, b. 12 Feb. 1784, m. Ruth Nelson, 22 Feb. 1810, d. 2 Jan. 1860.

+340. Henry Beebee, b. 18 Feb. 1786, m. Olive Nelson, d. 17 Aug. 1863.

341. Lucinda Beebee, m. George G. Nelson.

+342. George Beebee, b.c. 1797, m. Fanny Nelson, d. 26 Aug. 1867.

+343. Simeon Beebee, b.c. 1803, m. Lydia Permelia Wright, d. 11 Jan. 1863.

+344. Seth Beebee, b.c. 1807, m. Wealthy Gaylord, before 7 Dec. 1828, d. after 1850.

345. Horace Beebee, m. Fanny Marsh, c. 1846, d. 20 April 1857. Bur. Rathburn Cem. (Chautauqua Co., NY).

346. Salome (“Sally”) Beebee, m. Horace Fessenden, 17 Jan. 1833. May actually be daughter of Henry (#340).

347. Lucinda (or Lucy) Beebee

348. Samantha Beebee, m. Emmons Gaylord (of Illinois).

Asahel Beebe (99) was born 5 March 1763, and died 26 April 1848 in Malone, Franklin Co., NY. He married Amarilla Parmalee on 26 October 1789 in Southbury, New Haven Co., CT. She was born 28 Jan. 1765 and died in 1851. He was a soldier in the Rev. War and was granted a pension in 1819 while living in Middlebury, VT. His wife received a pension in 1842. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

349. Mehitable Beebe

350. Barzilla Beebe

351. William Beebe

Artemas Beebe (101) was born 26 July 1766 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 19 Dec. 1852 in West Springfield, Hampden Co., MA. He married Bethiah Pheland on 9 June 1790 in West Springfield, MA. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

352. Sally Beebe

353. Artemas Beebe

354. George Beebe

355. Bethiah Beebe

356. Frances Beebe

357. Charles Beebe

358. Mary Ann Beebe

359. Henry Champion Beebe

Stephen Beebe (103) was born 11 Oct. 1769 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 20 Dec. 1839 in Carey, Wyandot Co., OH. He married Lydia Bayley. They lived in Waterbury, CT, Angelica, Allegany Co., NY and Carey, OH. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

360. Stephen Beebe

361. Simeon Beebe

362. Sheldon Beebe

CHILDREN OF JOHN WEBB (41) AND LYDIA ‑‑‑‑‑‑

Lydia Webb (110) was born about 1749 and died 20 May 1830 at age 81. She married Phineas Bushnell, son of Phineas Bushnell and his first wife Priscilla Clark. He was born 23 Aug. 1741 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, was baptized 11 Oct. 1741, and died 28 Oct. 1836 in Saybrook. He was a soldier in the Rev. War, serving as a sergeant in Capt. Starkey’s Co., Lt. Col. Worthington’s Regt. in 1777. Cyrus Bradley, his son-in-law, was appointed executor of his estate on 22 Nov. 1836. (Most of this information is from family records.) (R‑206)

Children - Bushnell

363. Sarah Bushnell, b. 2 Aug. 1767, m(1) Amos Benton (of Guilford, New Haven Co., CT), 1 July 1792 (Branford, New Haven Co., CT), m(2) Noah Johnson, d. 12 April 1754 (Westminster, Worcester Co., MA).

364. Lydia Bushnell, m. Bela Norton (of Guilford, CT), 18 March 1794 (Chester, Middlesex Co., CT).

365. Polly Bushnell, m. Cyrus Bradley (of Madison, New Haven Co., CT).

+366. Thankful Bushnell, b. 10 Jan. 1779, m. Abraham Bartlett, d. 22 Jan. 1868.

367. Phineas Bushnell, m. Hannah H. (‑‑‑‑‑‑) Parmelee, 16 Oct. 1816 (North Madison, CT), d. Feb. 1870 (Branford, CT). On 1 July 1821, the town records show an indenture from Joseph D. Fields to P. (Phineas) Bushnell, and the church records show that on 22 April 1821 they were members there and were dismissed to New York 2 Oct. 1853. It is said that her death occurred a few days after that of her husband. No record of children.

+368. Priscilla Bushnell, bapt. 16 Sept. 1782, m. Silas Bartlett, d. after 5 May 1829.

+369. Rachel Bushnell, b. 26 (or 27) Oct. 1783, m. Amos Griswold, d. 22 June 1876.

370. Jesse Bushnell, b.c. 1786, d. 18 Sept. 1834 (age 76^[15]).

371. Roxanna Bushnell, b.c. 1794, m. Humphrey Williams (of Colebrook, Litchfield Co., CT), d. 16 Feb. 1870 (Essex, Middlesex Co., CT). He predeceased her.

Sarah Webb (112) married ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Hupman. (R‑200)

Children - Hupman

372. John Hupman

CHILDREN OF RUTH MERRIAM (42) AND CALEB MATHEWS

John Mathews (121) was born 24 April 1750 in Bristol, Hartford Co., CT, and died in 1840 in Norwich, Windsor Co., VT. He married Olive Royce (or Roys) on 30 Nov. 1769. (R‑133)

Children - Mathews

373. Herman Mathews, b. 21 Dec. 1770.

374. Rhoda Mathews, b. 21 May 1773.

375. Olive Mathews, b. 3 Jan. 1776.

376. Phebe Mathews, b. 29 May 1778, d. 7 June 1819 (Claremont, NH).

+377. John P. Mathews, b. 31 May 1781, m. Cynthia Bradley, c. 1814, d. 1 Dec. 1873.

378. Louis (or Louise) Mathews

379. Ellen Mathews

380. Betsey Mathews, b. 1788.

381. Bela Mathews, b.c. 1790. Not in census.

382. Mehitable Mathews

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GRAVES (46) AND MARY JONES

Mary Graves (123) was born in 1727 and died 10 June 1772, both in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. She married Nathaniel Cone, son of Nathaniel Cone and Sarah Hungerford, on 5 Dec. 1745. He was born 19 Jan. 1712 and died of cancer 15 April 1790, both in East Haddam, CT. They were members of the Congregational Church for over 50 years, and for many years he was a deacon of the church.

“In 1755, he was appointed Ensign of the first company of the military “train band” of East Haddam. A few years before his death he sent a petition to the Connecticut Legislature relating to the services of his sons in the Revolutionary War. The original document from which this is copied was [in 1903] in the possession of Mr. R. R. Cone of Millington, town of East Haddam, CT. The petition, without the preamble, is as follows:

To the Legislature of the State of Connecticut:

GENTLEMEN: In the commencement of the late War with Britain I had a number of sons just arrived to fit age to serve their country, and they were not backward to engage in its cause; two of them went in the first alarm made by the Lexington battle, and served the following summer’s campaign, and so on, as soldiers were called, for they always engaged. So that some of them was in the service continually, and indeed one of them was in the whole war from the alarm at Lexington till he was dismissed after the preliminaries for peace were signed. Another went twice three years; others twelve months, eight months, four months, &c. So that my sons have done little more than seventeen years under enlistments; adding to this the Militia tours they will make up about twenty years’ service, for I had six sons that have done service in the country’s cause.

In the next place, in relation to wages: The soldiers had wages promised them as an encouragement for them to enlist; right, too, for who goeth a warfare at any time at his own charges? saith the Scriptures. Forty shillings a month, which was said to be good wages, and I dou say that there were not many will say that it was too much, unless it should be some who never served as soldiers, and were they to try a campaign or two I believe they would be convinced. But what was promised would have been good wages had it been received as expected. In respect to what they did receive for wages in the intrinsic value would hardly average thro the whole war at ten shillings a month, and I do appeal to any one that are acquainted with the matter for the truth of this.

Twenty years’ service at forty shillings per month is…..£480

One quarter of this, which they did obtain, only £120

Difference which was promised and not paid £360

So that in this article of wages my family has been cut short £360 lawful money. A pretty interest is here curtailed at once. While my sons were in service and sick so as to render them unfit for duty they have several times returned out of camp to seek an asylum at home; so I have been at considerable charge in this respect; not that I was not willing to see them when sick and do for them, but of right they ought to have been on the publick expense, and I only mention this to show what I have done for the publick in order to take a fair view of matters presented. Now it may be remembered that after a few years of the war it grew very difficult to procure soldiers, but soldiers must be had by some means or other and the method for this was to class the people and for each class to furnish a soldier at all events, be the sum what it may; and the people began to have an eversion to the service, or rather an eversion to the pay they expected to receive, so that it must be a great sum to make one willing to enlist. In this way I have been obliged to pay no inconsiderable sum of money. It is true that war was long and must of necessity be attended with no small expense, but has not Independence cost us dear, and we entertained with the bare empty shell of liberty? The old maxim says, “It is cruel to ride a free horse to death.” Where is wisdom? Where is equity and justice which ought to reside among a people, but at this day seems hardly to be found, and if equity is not strictly attended to amongst a people there will be many complaints, and upon just grounds, too.

Now after all this service done my interest has been wrenched away from me by warrants and sold at the publick post considerably short of the true value for the publick taxes, and I am now left without any hoof of an ox to help myself with or even to draw my wood, for this long and cold winter, I have drawn wood on a hand sled altho in the seventy-fifth year of my age. Now where is equity? Must some be burdened till they expire under the load, while others are making (I believe) ample fortunes out of the publick? Who of any spirit can bear this and not complain, and have I not just grounds; or, do you think, gentlemen, that the common people are made to be like so many asses only to bear burdens!

I believe that much of the expense of this war could have been saved, but the great inequality is what I complain of; only let there be a proportion through the state and merit suitably considered and then I would be willing to take my lot with my neighbors and struggle along as well as I could.

I submit the whole to your consideration, Gentlemen, and if I am wrong and have no cause to complain, I hope I may be led to see my error.

Nathaniel Cone

East Haddam, March, 1787

He died of cancer in East Haddam April 15, 1790 and it is believed that the Legislature took no action on this petition, as no mention of such action has been found.” (R‑205)

Children - Cone

383. Sarah Cone, b. 16 Jan. 1747.

+384. Nathaniel Cone, b. 28 June 1748, m. Margery (Adams) Saxton, 19 Oct. 1779, d. 27 June 1825.

+385. Israel Cone, b. 21 Dec. 1749, m(1) Lucy Ackley, 13 April 1784, m(2) Sarah B. (Brainard) Holmes, 17 Nov. 1814, d. 4 Nov. 1825.

386. Thankful Cone, b. 7 May 1752, m. John Jones, 26 Dec. 1787 (Millington, Middlesex Co., CT).

387. Samuel Cone, b. 13 March 1754, d. 25 Dec. 1756.

+388. Oliver Cone, b. 2 Dec. 1755, m. Anna Sterling, 1786, d. 4 Dec. 1844.

389. Delight Cone, b. 3 Sept. 1757, m. Joseph Arnold, Jr. He was a Rev. War soldier.

+390. Daniel Cone, b. 7 July 1759, m. Olive Ackley, 7 April 1785, d. 28 June 1843 (or 1842).

+391. Cyrus Cone, b. 28 July 1761, m. Rhoda Beebe, 4 June 1778, d. 14 Oct. 1825.

392. Darius Cone, b. 2 Sept. 1763.

+393. Benjamin Cone, b. 22 March 1766, m. Rachel Sterling, 1785, d. 1 Feb. 1806.

394. Uriel Cone, b. 18 May 1768, d. 15 June 1772.

+395. Samuel Cone, b. 9 Oct. 1769, m. Hannah Annable, 7 May 1794, d. 10 May 1854.

396. Festus Cone, b. 24 July 1772, d. 6 Sept. 1778.

Lydia Graves (124) was born about 1732, was baptized 25 Aug. 1734 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 8 April 1798 in Hartland, Hartford Co., CT. She married Simeon Crosby of Hadlyme, New London Co., CT, son of Samuel Crosby and Ruth Cole, on 10 Aug. 1749. He was born 9 Feb. 1721 or 1722 in Harwich, Barnstable Co., MA, and died 7 May 1804 in Hartland, CT. He was descended from Simon Crosby “the emigrant”. The family seems to have lived in East Haddam, CT until about 1757. They are later shown to be living in Hartland, CT in 1764. Simeon was first on the list of charter members of the church in East Hartland, CT and his brother-in-law Sterling Graves became their first minister. Simeon held several civic posts including selectman and school committee member. Simeon and Lydia were buried in the churchyard in West Hartland, CT. (R‑118)

Children - Crosby

+397. Samuel Crosby (twin), b. 19 Aug. 1750, m. Lydia Allen, 23 March 1775, d.c. 1837.

398. James Crosby (twin), b. 19 Aug. 1750 (East Haddam, CT).

399. Mary Crosby, b. 16 Nov. 1751 (East Haddam, CT), m. Abraham Bishop, 16 Jan. 1799 (West Hartland, CT).

+400. Obed Crosby, b. 22 July 1753, m. Jerusha Phelps.

401. Benjamin Crosby, b. 11 Jan. 1755 (East Haddam, CT).

402. Dorothy Crosby, b. 26 Aug. 1757 (East Haddam, CT).

+403. Timothy Cole Crosby, b.c. 1760, m. Eunice Sutcliff, 26 Feb. 1787, d. bef. March 1811.

+404. Jeduthon Crosby, b.c. 1762, m. Thegia Bushnell, d. bef. 1811.

405. Ebenezer Crosby, bapt. 3 Sept. 1768 (Hartland, CT), d. 10 Sept. 1784 (West Hartland, CT).

406. Lydia Crosby, bapt. 6 Oct. 1771 (Hartland, CT), d. 11 Oct. 1780.

+407. Starling Crosby, m(1) Mabell Seward, 30 Dec. 1787, m(2) Candace Ensign, 1797, d. 24 June 1802 (Hartland, CT).

Benjamin Graves (125) was born 2 March 1734, was baptized 25 Aug. 1734 in Millington Parish, East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died about 6 Sept. 1781. He married Mary Ransom, daughter of Joseph Ransom and Jane ‑‑‑‑‑‑ of Lyme, CT. She was born about 1733 in Colchester, CT. (See notes written on p. 28 of Ransom Genealogy. Her parentage is proven by the administration of Joseph's estate by his widow Jane.)

He took part early in the Rev. War and served under Col. William Ledyard at Fort Griswold. He was wounded when the garrison there was slaughtered on 6 Sept. 1781. He managed to reach the house of a friend but died shortly after. (R‑73, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+408. Elijah Graves, b. 23 April 1760, m. Elizabeth Warner, 27 (or 29) March 1782 (or 1783), d. 22 Oct. 1823.

+409. Molly Graves, b. 21 April 1763, m. Abial Stark, d. 26 Feb. 1834.

410. Dolly Graves, b. 1768.

+411. Sterling Graves, b. 6 June 1770, m. Anna Cone, 7 Oct. 1794, d. 19 Aug. 1859.

Roswell Graves (128) was born about 1740 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died in 1776^[16]. He married Elizabeth Driggs, daughter of Daniel Driggs and Elizabeth Strickland of East Haddam, on 15 Nov. 1763 in East Haddam, CT. She was born 14 March 1747in Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 23 Jan. 1807.

After Roswell's death, Elizabeth married second Sylvanus Cone on 6 Oct. 1790 as his second wife. Sylvanus was born 21 Jan. 1734 at East Haddam, CT. He first married Hannah Ackley on 13 Nov. 1755. She died 24 June 1790. After the death of his second wife, Elizabeth, Sylvanus married third Eunice Spencer on 17 Nov. 1809. His daughter, Anna, married Sterling Graves.

Roswell early entered the Rev. War and went out as a corporal from East Haddam on the Lexington Alarm in April 1775, and served 13 days at that time. He was with the Army at Roxbury, MA on 25 March 1776. He wrote to his wife:

“Roxbury, March ye 21 A. D. 1776.

Loving wife:

After my kind regards to you and our children, I take this opportunity to let you know that through the goodness of Divine Providence I am well and as I hope these few lines will find you and all our friends.

Remember my kind regards to mother Graves and all our friends. I would have you remember although we are at a great distance apart God is able to preserve us and our children and return me again in safety. I would have you remember that we must commit ourselves into the hands of God to do as He sees fit.

It is a time of health in camp. Our enemy left Boston the 11^th of March and our men took possession immediately. The ninth day of March there was killed at Dorchester Point four men; there was continued a smart firing. I was there at the same time. There is talk of our moving, where I know not. No more at present but I remain, your loving husband,

Roswell Graves”

He then moved to New York with the Army, where he was a sergeant in Captain Jewett's Company, Colonel Huntington's 17th Regt., Connecticut Continentals, and took part in the battle of Long Island 27 Aug. 1776. He was officially reported as missing after that battle. He was taken prisoner and was confined in the "Old Sugar House Prison" where the City Hall building now stands in New York City, and died there of starvation. Tradition has it he was found with a piece of brick in his mouth. (R‑76, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+412. Hobart Graves, b. 4 July 1765, m. Mercy Baker, 14 Oct. 1784, d. 11 Jan. 1853.

+413. Roswell Graves, b. 26 Sept. 1767, m. Elizabeth Bennett, 1 July 1789, d. 28 Oct. 1837.

+414. Benjamin Graves, b. 25 July 1769, m(1) Lucy Arnold, 24 Nov. 1790, m(2) Esther (Miller) Hendley, 25 Aug. 1810, d. 25 Aug. 1830.

415. Elizabeth Graves, b. 11 July 1771.

416. Daniel Graves, b. 4 Nov. 1773.

Ruth Graves (129) was born 27 Dec. 1741 and died after 1781. She married Daniel Driggs, son of Daniel Driggs and Elizabeth Strickland, on 19 Nov. 1763 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. Daniel was born 27 Dec. 1741 at Middletown, Middlesex Co., CT, and died in 1800 at Marcellus, Onondaga Co., NY. He served in the Colonial War, enlisted from East Haddam, CT on 6 June 1776, and served in the Revolutionary War. He was a glassblower by trade. Daniel and Ruth were said to have had eight children. There seem to be discrepancies about the children. R‑77 had Lucy as the eldest child and listed a different Ruth as the youngest child, while another source stated that Ruth was the eldest child. (R‑77^[17], R‑115, R‑200)

Children - Driggs

+417. Lucy (or Ruth) Driggs, b. 1764, m(1) Isaac Cowles, 1789, m(2) Eliakim Clark, 1802-1807, d. 17 May 1840.

418. Martin Driggs, b. 1766 (New Hartford, CT), m. Johanna Bradley, d. 12 June 1821. She was b. 1764 (Litchfield, CT) and d. 18 Dec. 1841. Martin was a tanner and a shoemaker. They had seven children.

+419. Roswell Driggs, b.c. 1768, m. Lucinda ‑‑‑‑‑‑, c. 1785, d.c. 1824.

+420. Prudence Driggs, b.c. 1769, m. Christopher Stone, 17 (or 27) Oct. 1785, d. 9 March 1826.

+421. Rhoda Driggs, b.c. 1770, m. Leman Gaylord, 12 Dec. 1791.

422. Jehiel Driggs, b.c. 1775, never married.

423. Daniel Dow Driggs, b. 1779 (Middletown, CT), m. Minerva Steele (Litchfield, CT), d. 1836 (Canton, IL). Daniel was a Presbyterian preacher and was a major in the War of 1812. Daniel was wounded at the Battle of Sackets Harbor and was given three medals for bravery. He and Minerva had four children.

+424. Uriel Driggs, b. 29 April 1780, m. Hannah Ford, 26 Oct. 1800, d. 14 Sept. 1846.

+425. Elisha Driggs, b. 30 April 1780, m. Esther Palmer, d. 7 June 1858.

426. Ruth Driggs, b.c. 1781, never married, d.c. 1848.

CHILDREN OF JEDEDIAH GRAVES (49)

Captain Jonah Graves (130) was born 28 June 1728 (or 20 June 1729) in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died in 1825 in Green River, Columbia Co., NY. He married Ruth Crosby, daughter of Samuel Crosby and Ruth Cole, before Aug. 1750. She was born 4 Feb. 1724 in Harwich, Barnstable Co., MA, and died between 22 Aug. 1765 and 1795. He married second Sallie (or Sally) Graves (#487), his cousin, on 15 Sept. 1795. After his death, she married second Jeremiah Gifford, and died in Vienna, Oneida Co., NY in Feb. 1854, aged 84 years.

He resided in East Haddam until about 1764 when he moved to Green River in the town of Hillsdale, Columbia Co., NY, with his wife and children. All the children by his first marriage were born in East Haddam except the last one.

He was in Captain Johannis Hogeboom's Company of Militia with his brother Allen in 1767, was captain of the 3rd Co. of the 9th Regiment of Militia (Minute Men) of New York in the Rev. War, and served until 1781, when he resigned and Captain Aaron Hale was commissioned in his place.

He spent his last years in Herkimer Co., NY with his children by his first marriage, becoming blind and helpless before his death. (R‑68, R‑72, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Ruth Crosby

+427. Ascenath (or Asenath) Graves, bapt. 12 Aug. 1750, m. Asa Spencer, c. 1764.

+428. Increase Graves, b. 27 July 1752, m(1) Mercy Crippen, m(2) Susannah (Stedson or Stetson) Bascomb, d. 24 Dec. 1831.

+429. Jedediah Graves, bapt. 11 Aug. 1754, m. Polly Crippin, 5 March 1778, d. 20 (or 10) Aug. 1839.

+430. Jason Graves, bapt. 31 Oct. 1756, m. Betsey Ackley.

+431. Josiah Graves, bapt. 1 April 1759, m. Mary Dewey, 1784, d. 1825.

432. Stephen Selden Graves, bapt. 10 May 1761 (East Haddam, CT). He was a Rev. War soldier in Capt. Tanner's 3rd Co., 9th Regt., Albany Co., NY Militia.

433. Ruth Crosby Graves, bapt. 21 Aug. 1763 (East Haddam, CT).

+434. Benjamin F. Graves, b. 22 Aug. 1765, m. Abigail Graves, 25 Feb. 1785, d. 7 Sept. 1836.

Children - Graves, by Sallie Graves

+435. Horace Sterling Graves, b. 19 Feb. 1797, m. Hannah Eaton, c. 1820, d. 27 July 1880.

+436. Jonah Bradford Graves, b. 5 March 1800, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+437. Ezra Bennett Graves, b. 7 July 1802, m. Saphronia ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 2 Oct. 1863.

+438. Albert W. Graves, b. 23 Oct. 1806 (or 1805), m. Julia A. Wagar, 27 June 1833, d. 28 Sept. 1867.

+439. Harvey Graves, m. Charlotte Wade.

Allen Graves (133) was born 1 May (or Aug.) 1738 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 6 March 1826 in Rupert, Bennington Co., VT, aged 88 years. He married Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑ in 1766. She was born in 1748, and died 22 Oct. 1825 in Rupert, VT, aged 78 years. Both were buried in a family cemetery outside of Rupert. Allen and his brother Stephen were members of the Fourth Company, under Captain Thomas Hobby of the Third Regiment of Greenwich, CT, in the French and Indian War. Allen served from 3 April to 5 December; Stephen served from 5 April to 5 Dec. 1759. They were also in the expedition against Crown Point and Ticonderoga.^[18] Allen was in Captain Johannis Hogeboom's Co. of Militia with his brother Jonah in 1767. He served in the Rev. War from 1777 to 1780, enlisted in Egremont, MA in May 1777 under Captain Isaac Warren, and was discharged at West Point, NY on 19 May 1780. He was in the battle of the taking of Burgoyne, and was a U.S. pensioner on rolls at Bennington, VT. In Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors, the following description of Allen’s service is found:

Graves, Allen, Egremont. List of men mustered between Jan. 20, 1777 and June 1, 1778 by Trueman Wheler, Muster Master for Berkshire Co.; term 3 yrs; also, Private 6^th Co. Col. John Bailey’s regt.; continental army pay accounts for service from May 20, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779.; also, (late) Capt. Issac Warren’s 6^th Co., Col. Bailey’s regt.; company return dated Valley Forge, Jan. 24, 1778; also Major’s Co. Col. Baily’s regt.; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1780 to May 10, 1780; residence Egremont; credited to town of Egremont.

On December 29, 1819, Allen made a sworn statement of his service before Nathan Burton in Bennington Co. VT. He swore that he took part in the capture of Burgoyne’s army. The purpose of the statement was to establish pension eligibility through military service and personal need. His pension was eight dollars a month.

He lived for many years in the "Claverack District" from which Hillsdale, Columbia Co., NY was taken off in 1782, and owned and conveyed land there. In the New York census of 1790, Allen lived in Hillsdale Twp., Columbia Co. with the following family: 2 white males 16 years and older; 2 white males under 16 years; and 4 white free females. The Vermont census for 1800 has Allen living in Rupert with the following: 2 white males 16-26 years; 1 male 45 years and older; and 1 white female 45 years and older. Allen spent his last years living with his son Azariah in Rupert, VT. (R‑200, R‑9^[19], R‑45, R‑124)

Children - Graves

+440. Cyrus Graves, b. 6 May 1767, m(1) Roxana Rose, 6 Nov. 1787, m(2) Mary Bascom, m(3) Mehitable (Tolman) Alden, 14 March 1827, d. 10 March 1844.

441. Joseph Graves, m. Anna Tyler, 20 Sept. 1804. She was the daughter of Joseph Tyler and Lydia Cone, who moved from Haddam, CT to Leyden, Lewis Co., NY in 1803. He was in the Honor Roll of Rutland, VT as a Rev. soldier.

+442. Azariah Graves, b. 1782, m. Hannah Fisher, d. 10 Dec. 1834.

+443. Amos Graves, b. 3 Sept. 1784, m(1) Betsey Rose, 18 Oct. 1808, m(2) Thankful Graves, 21 Feb. 1838, d. 8 June 1845.

+444. Rhoda Graves, b. 1769, m. Martin Martin, d. Feb. 1850.

Stephen Graves (135) was born 7 Feb. 1742 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 21 April 1820 in Hillsdale, Columbia Co., NY. He married Patience Hatch of Rhode Island. She was born 23 Sept. 1738 and died 22 Feb. 1825.

He served with his brother Allen in the French and Indian War from 3 April to 5 Dec. 1759 in Captain Thomas Hobby's Company from Greenwich, CT, and was ensign in the Militia Company from the Claverack District of New York in 1770 and 1771.

He lived in Green River in the town of Hillsdale, was prominent in civil affairs, and frequently represented Claverack District in the affairs of the state and county. He was second lieutenant in his brother Jonah's Co. (the 3rd in the 9th Regiment of Militia (Minutemen) of New York) in the Rev. War. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

445. Elizabeth Graves, b. 30 Dec. 1764, m. Asa Virgil, d. 28 May 1824.

+446. David Graves, b. 25 Jan. 1767, m. Priscilla King, d. 4 Oct. 1846.

+447. Abner Graves, b. 8 Jan. 1769, m(1) Elizabeth Burch, m(2) Catherine Couse, 1800, d. 21 Nov. 1851.

448. Lois Graves, b. 25 Dec. 1770, d. Jan. 1842.

449. Thankful Graves, b. 14 Oct. 1772, m. Daniel Wooding, d. 3 Nov. 1851. Lived in Saginaw City, MI.

+450. Nathan Graves, b. 12 Aug. 1774, m. Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 28 July 1857.

451. Israel Graves, b. 7 Aug. 1776, never married. Licensed to practice medicine 17 Sept. 1802.

+452. Ira Graves, b. 6 July 1778, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+453. Amos Graves, b. 7 Nov. 1781, m. Elizabeth Fitch, autumn 1805, d. 15 Aug. 1849.

+454. Selden Graves, b. 9 Sept. 1785, m(1) Lois Sabin, 13 Sept. 1814, m(2) Clarissa C. Brown, 31 Jan. 1837, d. 7 Jan. 1869.

Rhoda Graves (136) was born 16 Feb. 1744 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died before 21 Feb. 1795 when her father’s will was written. She married James Stewart Jr., son of James Stewart and Keziah Scovel, on 24 March 1763 in East Haddam, CT. He was born in 1739 in East Haddam. (For the line of descendants of Rhoda Graves and James Stewart, see folders on the Stewart family sent by Mrs. Ethel S. Russell, Rt. 2, Box 5, Mesa, AZ, in loose-leaf files in Buffalo and Erie Co. Public Library.) (R‑1, R‑6, R‑9, R‑45, R‑200)

Children - Stewart

455. Ambrose Stewart, b. 1763, d.c. 1777.

+456. Uriel Stewart, b. 23 Nov. 1765, m. Anna Holgate, 20 Feb. 1789, d. 24 Oct. 1833.

457. Caroline Stewart, b. 1767, m. Ariel Graves (#521). For list of descendants, see #521.

+458. Barzillai (Bargillias) Stewart, b. 7 Nov. 1769, m(1) Mary Frost, m(2) Mary Williamson, m(3) Mary Hyde, 26 Nov. 1815.

459. Amasa Stewart, b. 1771, died young.

+460. Amasa Stewart, b. 16 Aug. 1773, m. Lois Rudd.

+461. Rhoda Stewart, b. 1774, m. James Ager.

+462. William Henry Stewart, b. 14 Dec. 1776, m. Patience Denton.

463. James Stewart, b. 1779, d. 1799. Drowned in Lake George

+464. Elliott Stewart, b. 19 Aug. 1782, m. Susanna Griffin.

+465. Hulda Stewart, b. 1783, m. Silas Harrison.

+466. Philetus Stewart, b. 7 March 1785, m. Susanna Ballard, 26 Oct. 1805, d. 16 Aug. 1872.

Russell Graves (139) was born 17 April 1751 at East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. He was living as late as 1801 when his father's estate was divided.

He was a Rev. soldier and served as a private in Captains Brown and Haddock's Companies, Colonel Yate's 14th Regiment, Albany County Militia (Minutemen), Hoosick and Schaghticoke District, and as sergeant in Captain Matthias Button's Co., Colonel John Abbott's Regiment of foot of the state of Vermont in Aug. 1781, and in the same company under command of Lieut. Peter Becker from 23 Oct. to 6 Nov. 1781 in an alarm to Skeensboro (now Whitehall, NY). In vol. 16 of the D.A.R. Lineage Books, p. 334, some of Russell Graves' service in the Rev. War is given.

Russell Graves married Anna ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She was born in 1756 and died 10 April 1823, aged 67 years 5 months. After his death she married second ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Millington and had several children. She had one son, David Millington, of Sackets Harbor, NY, and three daughters: Sally, who married Stephen Andrews; Anna Millington; and Zuba Millington. (R‑84, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+467. John Graves, b. 22 (or 27) Dec. 1778, m(1) Abigail Munn, 30 Sept. 1800, m(2) Esther Smith, 15 Jan. 1818, d. 17 Feb. 1855.

+468. Ezra Graves, b.c. 1780, m(1) Sophronia Curtis, m(2) Esther Adams, m(3) Mary Esther Adams, d.c. 1830.

+469. William Graves, b.c. 1783, m. Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. before 1825.

+470. Levi Graves, b. 12 Aug. 1785, m. Anna Varney, 1814, d. 12 Nov. 1825.

471. Lydia Graves, m.‑‑‑‑‑‑ Peck.

472. Anna Graves, never married.

Amos Graves (140) was born 10 Dec. 1753 at East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 29 April 1836 at Harbor Creek, Erie Co., PA. He married Hannah Kennedy, daughter of Andrew Kennedy, Jr. and Amy Wentworth of Milton, MA, on 13 Jan. 1787. She was born 11 March 1766 at New Canaan, Columbia Co., NY, and died 17 July 1855 at Harbor Creek at the residence of her son, Chauncey.

Amos was a soldier in the Rev. War and served in Captain Samuel Low's Company of the Berkshire Co. Regiment of Minutemen. He lived in Lebanon and Sherburne, NY for several years and, with his wife, conveyed land in Fairfield, Herkimer Co., NY next to land of Jedediah and Benjamin Graves on 18 March 1797. He moved to Brighton, Monroe Co., NY, where he was one of the founders and deacon of the Baptist Church. He lived in Hornell, NY in 1819 and in Concord, PA in 1825. (R‑43, R‑200)

Children - Graves

473. Lurancy Graves, b. 30 Jan. 1788 (Lebanon, NY), m. (Dr.) James Pratt (of Eaton, Madison Co., NY), 30 Jan. 1810.

+474. Cynthia Graves, b. 1789^[20] (or 3 Oct. 1811), m. Jonathan McCulloch, 1815, d. 28 Jan. 1873.

475. Betsey Graves, b. 7 Feb. 1790, d. 23 March 1790.

476. Esther Graves, b. 13 April 1791, m. (Deacon) Abner Calkins (of Hamilton, NY), 23 Oct. 1811 (Sherburne, Chenango Co., NY).

477. Linus G. Graves, b. 25 May 1793, d. young.

+478. Amos Graves, b. 25 May 1794, m(1) Clarissa Saxon, 21 June 1827, m(2) Harriet Wentworth Bloss, 7 July 1836.

+479. Chauncey Graves, b. 11 Oct. 1796, m. Betsey Palmer, 7 Nov. 1837, d. 6 May 1871.

480. Asahel Graves, b. 24 April 1799, d. 24 Aug. 1801.

+481. Milton Graves, b. 8 (or 31) May 1801, m. Mary Ann Hervey (or Harvey), 25 July 1850, d. 9 April 1866.

482. Hannah Kennedy Graves, b. 7 Sept. 1803 (Lebanon, Madison Co., NY), m. Otis Thatcher, 9 March 1825 (Concord, Erie Co., PA), d. 4 Aug. 1890 (Hornell, NY). He was b. 6 Aug. 1800 (Glocester, Providence Co., RI), d. 14 March 1868. He moved with his father's family to Steuben Co., NY in 1808 and was appointed county judge of Steuben Co. in 1840.

+483. Amy Wentworth Graves, b. 26 Feb. 1806, m. Patrick Wells Gray, 29 Sept. 1830, d. 17 July 1855.

484. Cordelia Maria Graves, b. 13 Aug. 1810, m. Dr. Joel C. Haynes (of Leesburg, Mercer Co., PA), 4 April 1834, d. 30 April 1847.

485. Mary Ann Graves, b. 27 July 1812 (Sherburne, NY), m. Andrew Aiken, 30 Oct. 1831 (Erie, PA). He was one of the police justices of Chicago, IL in 1858-1860.

Ezra Graves (141) was born 13 June 1760 in Sherman, Fairfield Co., CT, and died 6 July 1834. He married Joanna Northrup on 7 Nov. 1779. She died 2 Dec. 1832, aged 68 years. He was in the Rev. War and present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He represented New Fairfield Co. in the Conn. General Assembly for several sessions. The Sentinel Houses, Sherman, CT, gives the following account of Ezra’s house:

“Ezra Graves built this house in 1806 and the land may well have been in the Graves family for more than 100 years. In a deed in which Ezra conveyed the property to his son Jedediah in 1810, he notes that his father, also Jedediah, gave him the property in 1783. Thus, the property was in the hands of a member of the Graves family from 1783 until Jedediah’s death in 1872, when George Graves, executor for Jedediah’s estate, sold the property to Frank Hungerford.

This publication also gives the following description, possibly of the same house, called the Jedediah Graves House:

The Frederick Waller home, standing at the fork of Anderson Road and Route 39 North, has at least three claims to distinction: It was the builder and owner of this house, Jedediah Graves, who suggested naming the town Sherman in honor of its distinguished citizen, Roger Sherman. That happened when this community was split off from New Fairfield in the early 1800's. The place is also marked by having had 18 owners in its approximate 137 years of existence. If this is not a record for transfer of property in Sherman, it is close to it. Finally, the house is architecturally distinguished by a fine Palladian window above the front door.

The house was built some time between 1810 and 1837 by Jedediah Graves. Prior to that time the Graves family lived in another house hard by and long since disappeared. Thus, ownership of the property by a Graves goes back to 1783 and possibly further.

The property remained in Graves’ hands until 1862, passing from father to son. Listen to this: from Jedediah Graves to his son Ezra Graves; from Ezra Graves to his son Jedediah Graves; from Jedediah Graves to his son Jedediah J. Graves; from Jedediah J. Graves to David Graves. If this is not evidence of a strong family affection for the land, it certainly speaks for a love of the name Jedediah.” (R‑7, R‑80, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+486. Jedediah Graves, b. 7 Nov. 1780, m. Sally Northrup, 6 Feb. 1803, d. 17 Jan. 1861.

CHILDREN OF JONATHAN GRAVES (50) AND MARY TISDALE

Jonathan Graves (143) was born about 1743 in (Lebanon?) CT, and died about 1826 or late 1829 in Vienna, Oneida Co., NY. He married Bettie Lisk, daughter of Andrew Lisk and Elizabeth Bradford and the great-great-granddaughter of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower, about 1771 in Lebanon, New London Co., CT. She was born 26 (or 22) Nov. 1746 in Lebanon, and died about 1826 (or about 1829) in Vienna, NY. Jonathan lived in Shelburne, MA and was a Rev. Soldier in the Berkshire Co. [MA] Regiment in 1779. He was a U.S. pensioner on the roll for Camden, Oneida Co., NY. He moved from Camden to Vienna, NY. about 1792 (or probably after 1800).

Jonathan was mustered out of Capt. Joseph Baldwin’s Co., Col. Ely’s Regiment of the Connecticut Line, at Preston, CT in March 1778, as a private. His pension papers no longer exist. He was elected overseer of the road to White’s Town at the first town meeting in the Town of Trenton, NY, held in the village of Olden Barnweld (now Trenton) on 4 April 1797, at the home of Thomas Hicks. The 1800 census puts him in Camden. He probably moved to Vienna in 1800 with his son (or brother), Elijah. He built the first frame house in Vienna on a farm owned by Mr. Gibbons, one half mile below McConnellsville. (R‑7, R‑36, R‑40, R‑107, R‑200)

Children - Graves

487. Sallie (or Sally) Graves, b. 1768 (Lebanon, CT), m(1) Capt. Jonah (or Isaac) Graves (#130), 15 Sept. 1795, m(2) Jeremiah Gifford, d. Feb. 1854. See #130 for descendants.

488. Anna Graves, b. 1770 (Lebanon, CT), m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Gage, d. in Oneida Co., NY.

+489. Sterling Graves, b. 9 Sept. 1772, m. Rosetta Matthews, 1 Jan. 1801, d. 25 April 1841.

490. Betsey Graves, b. 30 Sept. 1774 (Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA), m(1) Alvin Blakesley, m(2) John Paddock, 20 Sept. 1813, d. 19 Sept. 1841.

+491. Jonathan Graves, b. 7 May 1777, m. Nancy (Cotes) Grannis, 4 March 1804, d. 13 April 1849.

+492. Roswell Graves, b.c. 1780, m. Lavina (or Lavinia) Gage, d. 2 May 1870.

+493. Elijah Graves, b. 17 Aug. 1782, m. Sarah Hazen, 1808, d. 29 May 1870.

494. daughter, d. young.

495. son, d. young.

+496. Isaac Graves, b. 20 Aug. 1791, m(1) Mary Johnson, 4 July 1815, m(2) Hannah Darrow, 1 Jan. 1822, d. 28 (or 26) Sept. 1847.

Elijah Graves (146) was born 25 Dec. 1749 at Lebanon, Windham Co., CT, and died 17 (or 16) May 1836 at Russia, Herkimer Co., NY. He married Patience Case in 1772. She was born 17 Nov. 1752 and died 26 Nov. 1823. He moved from Hebron, CT to Russia, NY and was living there in 1822 when he and his wife conveyed land located there on 22 March 1822. He served as orderly sergeant in Captain Samuel Gilbert's Co., Colonel Jock Jones' Regiment, CT Troops, for 3 months in 1779, 3 months each in 1780 and 1781 in the same company under Captain Stephen Palmer in the same regiment. His enlistment in each case was at Hebron and his application for pension, dated 29 Sept. 1832, which was allowed, was made while he was a resident of Russia. They were both buried in Gravesville, town of Russia, NY. (R‑158, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+497. Martha Jordan Graves, b. 7 April 1773, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Hubbard, d. 22 Feb. 1847.

+498. William Graves, b. 18 Dec. 1774, m. Anna Cone, d. 22 May 1852.

+499. Mary Graves, b. 22 Feb. 1777, m. Elijah Seaver.

+500. Experience Graves, b. 6 Oct. 1780, m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Harp, m(2) Laban G. Wheeler, 1806.

501. Joseph Graves, b. 25 Nov. 1782, d. 11 May 1787.

+502. Elijah Graves, b. 29 Sept. 1784, m(1) Sarah Moffitt, 9 Feb. 1814, m(2) Rachel Platt, 19 Aug. 1818, m(3) Sarah DeGraw, 22 July 1828, d. 1 Sept. 1869.

+503. George T. Graves, b. 30 Jan. 1788, m. Esther Beardsley, 6 June 1807, d. 17 July 1868.

CHILDREN OF JAMES GRAVES (51) AND MARY HASKINS

Eliphalet Graves (148) was born in 1752 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died in Dec. 1836 in Savona, Steuben Co., NY. He married Anna (or Anne) Jones, daughter of Joshua Jones and Elizabeth Bliss, in 1770. She was born in 1743 (or 22 Feb. 1744) in Colchester, CT, and died 18 Dec. 1835 in Jerusalem, Yates Co., NY. He went to Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA with other members of the family, lived there during the Rev. War, and was taxed there up to 1786. He purchased land in Colrain, Franklin Co., MA in 1789, was living there when the first U.S. census was taken in 1790, and was reported as having two males under 16 years of age (Elihu and James N.) and five females (his wife and 4 daughters, Nancy, Polly, Wealthy, and Clarissa). He had a long and varied service in the Rev. War: one year as Minuteman in 1775 in Captain Jacob Pool's Co. in Mass. Regt., 3 months in 1776 as private in Capt. Lawrence Kemp's Co., Colonel David Well's Regiment, 5 months in 1777 as first sergeant in the same company. He was in the battle with the British under Burgoyne on 1 Oct. 1777 and present at his surrender. He was on the pension roll from Yates Co., NY in 1833. Eliphalet and Anna were buried in Yates Co., NY. (R‑82, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+504. Waters Graves, b. 3 Sept. 1771, m(1) Sarah Gill, m(2) Hannah (Chappell) Billard, d. 19 July 1847.

505. Nancy Graves, b. 3 March 1773 (Shelburne Falls, MA), d. 13 Aug. 181-.

+506. Elihu Graves, b. 15 (or 16) May 1777, m. Nancy McKinney, c. 1797, d. 27 July 1848.

+507. James N. Graves, b. 1 Aug. 1779, m. Eliza Nicholson, 25 Oct. 1801, d. 10 Sept. 1865.

508. Polly Graves, b. 1780/1790 (Shelburne Falls, MA), m. Tunis Rockefeller, d. after 1830.

+509. Wealthy Graves, b. 20 Nov. 1780, m. Solomon Peck, d. 4 Sept. 1861.

510. Clarissa Graves, b.c. 1784 (Shelburne Falls, MA), m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Larned. Lived in Moresville, Delaware Co., NY.

James Graves (150) was born 1 May 1764 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 8 July 1845 in Greene, Chenango Co., NY. He married Wealthy Jones. She was born 13 May 1754, and died 14 Nov. 1825 in Blenheim, Schoharie Co., NY. He married second widow Jemima (‑‑‑‑‑) Ackhorn in 1828 or 1829.

He was in the Rev. War from May 1779 to Jan. 1780 as a private in Captain Trowbridge's Co., Colonel Tyler's Regt. from April 1780 to Jan. or Feb. 1781, in Captains Nash and Smith's Companies, in Colonel Michael Jackson's Regt. from Aug. 1781, 3 months in Captains Shattuck's Co., of Colonel Sears' Regt., and from March 1782, 5 months in Captain John Carpenter's Co. of guards stationed at Springfield, MA. Most of the first term of his service from 1779 to 1780 was spent in Rhode Island and he was discharged at the expiration of his term at Providence, RI.

His military services record describes him as 5 feet 7 inches tall and of light complexion when he first entered service at age 15. After moving to New York state he joined the Militia and was lieutenant of a company in Schoharie Co. in 1800 and captain in 1805. He was then described as a very powerful man 6 feet tall, broad shouldered, and weighing not less than 200 pounds. He would have been 41 years old in 1805.

He lived and was taxed in Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA in 1785 to 1787. In 1790 he lived in Colrain, Franklin Co., MA and continued to live there until 1798 when he moved to Blenheim, Schoharie Co., NY and then to Greene, Chenango Co., NY about 1830. He was on the U.S. pension roll. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

+511. Erastus A. B. Graves, b. 1 Dec. 1787, m. Ann Stephens, 31 Jan. 1809, d. 5 Dec. 1857.

Ansel Graves (151) was born 18 Feb. 1767 in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 3 Jan. 1810 in Chester, Warren Co., NY. He married Caroline Otis, daughter of Stephen Otis and Lucy Chandler, in 1788 in Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA. She was born 18 Dec. 1764, and died 12 May 1834 at the home of her daughter, Elcy Leland, at Hartland, Niagara Co., NY. He served in Captain Samuel Low's Co., Col. Benjamin Symond's Berkshire Co. Regt. for a short time in the Rev. War in 1780. He also served in place of his brother James in Captain Carpenter's Co. most of the time in Boston, MA from the summer of 1783 to the close of the War. He was a private in Captain Thomas Cushing's Co. and served 3 months at Castle Island from 1 April to 30 June 1783. He lived in Shelburne, MA when the first U.S. census was taken in 1790 and appears in it with his wife and one son (Elisha). He later lived in Chester, NY. (R‑96, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+512. Elisha Graves, b. 25 (or 27) Nov. 1789, m(1) Abigail Graves, 3 Nov. 1811, m(2) Eleanor Dailey, 13 Oct. 1825, d. 21 Nov. 1869.

513. Caroline Graves, b. 5 June 1791, m. (Deacon) Daniel Jones, 4 March 1810, d. 30 March 1869. He was b. 1789, d. 13 Jan. 1857, aged 68 years. They were both bur. in Whitneyville, VT Cem. (From Halifax, VT records, contributed by Houch (?), 2008 Alton Rd., Miami Beach, FL, 8 Dec. 1936.)

+514. James Otis Graves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d.c. 1860.

515. Elcy Graves, b. 2 May 1794, m. Otis Leland, 30 Aug. 1812 (Ichroon, NY), d. 26 June 1849. He was b. 30 July 1791, d. 11 Feb. 1842. Moved to Hartland, Niagara Co., NY.

516. Harriet Graves, m. Ansel Leland. He was b. 1796, brother of Otis who married Harriet’s sister, Elcy. Lived in McKean, near Erie, PA.

+517. Lucy Graves, b. 12 May 1796, m. Asa Allen, 1817, d. Feb. 1870.

+518. Ansel Graves, b. 22 Feb. 1802, m. Sophia Leland, 10 Jan. 1826.

+519. Cyrus Graves, b. 30 March 1804, m(1) Mary Tucker, 4 July 1826, m(2) Margaret Scott, 1864, m(3) Eliza Ford, d. 12 March 1889.

CHILDREN OF PETER GRAVES (52) AND SARAH WEDGE

Peter Graves (153) was born 3 Nov. 1744, was baptized 6 Aug. 1749, and died after 1818. He married Mary Chapman on 17 May 1764. He served 3 years in the Rev. War in Captain Eell's Co., 3rd Regt. Conn. Line, was in a list of the polls of the First Church Society of Colchester, CT in 1787, on the pension roll of the U.S. as a resident of Otsego Co., NY in 1818, and as having enlisted 9 May 1777 and discharged 9 May 1780. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

520. Anna Graves, b. 6 Sept. 1764.

+521. Ariel Graves, b. 21 Jan. 1767, m. Caroline Stewart (#457), d. 23 April 1829.

Asa Graves (154) was born 8 May 1747 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, was baptized 30 Aug. 1747, and died 5 May 1800. He married Mercy Kellogg, daughter of John Kellogg and Mary Newton of Colchester, CT, on 2 March 1786. She was born 11 June 1741 and died 8 Oct. 1808. He went out on the Lexington Alarm for 20 days and afterwards served from 8 May to 18 Dec. 1775 in the 6th Co., 3rd Regt. Conn. Line, commanded by Colonel Israel Putnam. He was on a list of the polls of the First Church Society, Colchester, with his brother Peter in 1787. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

522. Lucy Graves, b. 26 April 1787, d. March 1814.

+523. Charles Graves, b. 30 June 1788, m. Sally White, 6 Oct. 1811, d. 31 May 1857.

CHILDREN OF HAYNES GRAVES (53) AND IRENE CHAPMAN

Ichabod Graves (162) was born about 1763, and died 28 Jan. 1849 in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT. He married Sarah Chapman, daughter of Reuben Chapman and Sarah ‑‑‑‑‑‑, about 1785 at Salisbury. She was born in Jan. 1762 in Westbrook (a parish of Saybrook), Middlesex Co., CT, baptized there 20 Jan. 1762, and died before 1813. He entered the military service at the age of 17, when he was described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and of light complexion, and served from 2 July to 2 Dec. 1780. They lived in Salisbury and released their interest in certain lands of the estate of Reuben Chapman 18 March 1799. Their children quit claimed their interest in his wife's estate as follows: James, 16 March 1816, Elisha, 5 Dec. 1813, Maria, 15 Dec. 1819, Robert, 13 June 1817. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

524. James Graves

525. Elisha Graves, m. Ruth Emeline (Chandler) Webster, d. 16 July 1861. She was b. in Colebrook, NH. He lived with his father at Salisbury, CT and Shelburne, MA. He was released as one of the heirs-at-law of his mother, inherited by her as daughter of Reuben Chapman, deceased 5 Dec. 1813. While he was a resident of Hancock, WI in 1859, he filed a declaration for a land warrant in Adjutant General's Office at Albany, on which warrant no. 22975 for 120 acres was granted for services in War of 1812. He served for three months, from 1 Sept. 1812, in Captain McEntyre's Co., Colonel Nellis NY Regt.

526. Maria Graves

527. Robert Graves was on the tax rolls of Salisbury, CT as early as 1819. He lived on the road to Sheffield, CT in 1850. In 1857 he was of Lime Rock, a portion of Salisbury.

Alice Graves (163) married Prosper Deming, son of John Deming of Wethersfield, CT and Sandisfield, MA, on 15 April 1782 in Shelburne, Franklin Co., MA. He was born 7 Aug. 1760 in Norwich, New London Co., CT. Most of the following information is from his pension claim S.9844.

While a resident of Sandisfield, MA, he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows: from Nov. 1775, one year in Capt. Moses Soule's Co. in Col. Whitcomb's regiment; from June 1777, nine months in Capt. Elijah Deming's Co. in Col. Ashley's regiment where he was in the battle that took place when Burgoyne was captured; from June 1778, nine months in Capt. Ebenezer Smith's Co.; in 1780 he served nine months in Capt. Noah Allen's Co., Col. Sprout's regiment, and was present at the execution of Major Andre.

Five or six years after the Revolution he moved from Sandisfield, MA to Salisbury, CT, and about ten years later he moved to the "Province of Upper Canada," and from there he moved to Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence Co., NY, where he was living in 1835. He was allowed pension on his application executed 21 May 1833, at which time he was living in Elizabethtown, Province of Upper Canada. (R‑200)

CHILDREN OF MARY GRAVES (57) AND SAMUEL HUNGERFORD

Eunice Hungerford (172) was born 26 April 1751 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, was baptized 2 Oct. 1752 in New Fairfield, CT, and died 19 Aug. 1839 in Fairfield, Franklin Co., VT. She married Joseph Soule. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Soule

+528. Hiram Soule, m. Lucretia Olmstead.

Uriel Hungerford (175) was born 12 Feb. 1755 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, and died 18 April 1834 in New Fairfield or Sherman, CT. He married Hannah Wilcox in 1775 in New Fairfield, CT. She was born in East Haddam, Middlesex Co., CT. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Hungerford

529. Polly Hungerford, b. 1777, m. Thomas Hungerford, d. 1848. He was b. 19 April 1772 (New Fairfield, CT), and d. 1 April 1808 (New Fairfield, CT).

+530. Diana Hungerford, b. 1786, m. Levi Hungerford, d. 27 March 1852.

531. Gerardus Hungerford

532. Laura Hungerford

533. Susan Hungerford, m. John K. Appleby. He was b. 1804 (Sherman, CT).

534. Uriel Hungerford, b. 1801 (New Fairfield, CT).

Isaiah Hungerford (176) was born 26 Dec. 1756 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, and died 16 June 1833 in Stanbridge, Quebec, Canada. He married Esther Mead. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Hungerford

535. Allen Hungerford, b. New Fairfield, CT, d. 6 June 1845 (Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

536. Stephen Hungerford

537. Phoebe Hungerford, m. Rufus Merry.

538. Mead Hungerford, m. Harriet Elliott.

539. Miriam Hungerford, m. Aaron Fuller.

540. Elizabeth Hungerford, m. D. N. Phelps, d.c. 1889.

541. Tabor Hungerford, b. 9 July 1788 (New Fairfield, CT), m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Snyder, m(2) Ann McKenny, d. 18 June 1870.

542. Ephriam Hungerford, b. 1792, m. Elizabeth Snyder, d. 1833 (Stanbridge, Canada).

+543. Samuel Hungerford, b. 12 Aug. 1798, m(1) Maribal Phelps, m(2) Mary Wilson, d.c. 1884.

544. Eli Bush Hungerford, b. 18 Aug. 1803 (Lenox, Berkshire Co., MA), d. 22 April 1891 (Carroll, NE).

545. Esther Hungerford, b. 1804, d. 11 June 1826 (Stanbridge, Quebec, Canada).

Ezra Hungerford (179) was born 8 Feb. 1761 and died 1 Sept. 1832, both in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT. He married Caroline Wilcox in 1778. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Hungerford

546. Sally Hungerford, m. Jared Potter.

547. Nancy Hungerford, m. Alexander Stewart.

548. Charlotte Hungerford, m. Clark Kirby.

549. Mahalia Hungerford, b. New Fairfield, CT, m. Harmon Terrill.

550. Horace Hungerford, b. 26 Jan. 1780 (New Fairfield, CT), m(1) Mary Sterling, m(2) Martha Ryan, d. 8 July 1857 (Sherman, CT).

551. Beach Hungerford, b. 1782 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Rebecca Baldwin, d. 17 March 1827.

+552. Harry Hungerford, b.c. 1785, m(1) Mary Ann Fairchild, 26 March 1807, m(2) Margaret Cable, 15 May 1821, d. 23 Dec. 1846.

553. William Tarruce Hungerford, b. 10 Oct. 1798, m. Catherine Starr.

554. Cyrus E. Hungerford, b. 1800 (New Fairfield, CT), m. Sally ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 26 Jan. 1825.

Zerviah Hungerford (180) was born 13 June 1763 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, was baptized in July 1763 in New Fairfield, CT, and died 18 Feb. 1832 in Fairfield, Franklin Co., VT. She married Amos Northrup on 14 April 1785 in New Fairfield, CT. He was born about 1765 in New Fairfield, CT, and died about 1848 in Fairfield, VT. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Northrup

555. William Northrup, b. 1782 (Fairfield, VT), m. Amanda Soule (#1551). She was b. 1793 (Fairfield, VT), daughter of Hiram Soule and Lucretia Olmstead.

Deborah Hungerford (181) was born 18 Nov. 1764 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, was baptized 10 Feb. 1765 in New Fairfield, and died 4 Jan. 1844 in Elba, Genesee Co., NY. She married Nathan Waldo, son of Jesse Waldo and Bridget Thompson, on 21 Sept. 1785 in Mansfield, Tolland Co., CT. He was born 28 Oct. 1762 in Mansfield, CT, and died 26 Dec. 1840 in Elba, Genesee Co., NY. (Nathan was descended from immigrant Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA, and is listed as no. 440 in the 1994 book by Kenneth V. Graves.) They were both buried in Daws Corners, Genesee Co., NY.

Nathan served as a corporal in Captain John Bottoms Co. during the Revolutionary War. He received a pension at the rate of $31 per year. He was a grocer and a farmer. Nathan and Deborah were both Presbyterians. Nathan lived in Mansfield, CT, and Whitesboro, Bridgewater and Elba, NY. Their first 3 children were born in Whitesboro or Bridgewater, Oneida Co., NY, the next 5 in Bridgewater, and the last in Unadilla, Oneida Co., NY. (R‑71, R‑110)

Children - Waldo

556. Laura Waldo, b. 21 Dec. 1786, m. Gurdon Turner, 25 Dec. 1806 (Bridgewater, NY), d. 1 Aug. 1810 (Bridgewater, NY). Bur. Bridgewater Cem.

557. Nathan Waldo, b. 11 Feb. 1789, m(1) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Buck, 1808, d. 14 Oct. 1830 (Bridgewater, NY).

558. Shubael Waldo, b. 4 March 1791, m. Mary Scott, 19 Jan. 1812 (Bridgewater, NY), d. 4 Jan. 1861 (Williamston, Ingham Co., MI).

+559. Eber Waldo, b. 21 May 1793, m. Anna Daw, 27 Oct. 1817, d. 23 May 1867.

560. Hiram Waldo, b. 14 Dec. 1795, d. 24 Sept. 1797 (Bridgewater, NY).

561. Hiram Waldo, b. 22 March 1798, m. Dulcena Foster, 31 May 1818 (Elba, NY), d. 13 July 1862 (Albion, Calhoun Co., MI).

562. Samuel Newell Waldo, b. 2 Sept. 1800, d. 13 Aug. 1801 (Bridgewater, NY).

563. Samuel Dwight Waldo, b. 25 June 1802, d. 4 Oct. 1844 (Elba, NY).

564. Florette Waldo, b. 4 March 1806, m. Robinson Smiley, 23 Jan. 1831 (Elba, NY), d. 10 May 1863 (Elba, NY).

Elizabeth Hungerford (184) was born 20 May 1769 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, died 20 April 1853 in Knowlesville, Orleans Co., NY, and was buried in Ridgeway, Orleans Co., NY. She married ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Putnam. She married second Samuel Tuttle in 1800 in New Fairfield, CT. She married third Solomon Jones in 1807. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Tuttle

565. Fanny Tuttle. Died at age 18.

566. Cornelia Tuttle, m. John Howe.

Children - Jones

567. Sally Jones

568. Laura Jones

Samuel Hungerford (185) was born 7 Dec. 1771 in New Fairfield, Fairfield Co., CT, was baptized in Feb. 1772 in New Fairfield, CT, and died in 1855 in Westminster, Ontario, Canada. He married Abigail Kilbourne. (R‑110, R‑162)

Children - Hungerford

569. Maria Hungerford, m. Moses Hatch, d. 21 Nov. 1803 (Katellville, Broome Co., NY).

570. Caroline Hungerford

571. Zerruh Hungerford

572. Sophia Hungerford

573. Laura Hungerford

574. Sarah Hungerford

575. Matilda Hungerford

576. Lucy Hungerford

+577. Samuel Hungerford, b. 1819, m. Mary E. Frank.

CHILDREN OF ABIGAIL GRAVES (58) AND NATHAN DODGE

Elihu Dodge (186) was born 21 (or 22) Aug. 1756 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died 26 Nov. 1830 in Salem, New London Co., CT. He married Hulda Tiffany on 15 May 1774 in Colchester, CT. She was born 3 July 1753 in Hebron, Tolland Co., CT. He married second Lucretia Rogers on 9 May 1792 in Colchester. Elihu was in the American Revolution, serving under Col. Latimer from 24 Aug. 1777. He was a resident of Salem, CT in the 1820 and 1830 censuses. R‑74 also gives a son, Nathan Dodge, by Elihu’s first wife. (R‑74, R‑79)

Children - Dodge, by Hulda Tiffany

+578. Sarann Dodge, b. 15 May 1778, m. George Dodge II, c. 1792, d. after 1813.

579. Mary Dodge, b. 8 Oct. 1784 (CT)

580. Harriet Dodge, b. 26 Oct. 1787 (CT).

581. Elihu Dodge, b. 1 July 1789 (CT).

Children - Dodge, by Lucretia Rogers

582. John Dodge, b. 1790-1794 (CT), d. 1790-1794 (CT).

583. Terissa Dodge, b. 21 April 1792 (CT), m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Olmstead.

+584. Ambrose Dodge, b. 2 Feb. 1796, m(1) Olive Tracey, m(2) Margaret ‑‑‑‑‑‑, before 1870.

585. child, b. 15 June 1798 (CT).

586. Champion R. Dodge, b. 1 Sept. 1800 (CT)

587. Benjamin F. Dodge, b.c. Oct. 1802 (CT). He was crippled.

Deborah Dodge (191) was born in 1767 in Colchester, New London Co., CT, and died in 1884. She married Nathan Loveland^[21], son of Elizur Loveland and Ruth Sparks, on 2 Dec. 1784 in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., CT. He was born 25 Feb. 1761 in Glastonbury. He was a blacksmith and a farmer. Their first three children were born in Glastonbury and the rest were born in Livonia, Livingston Co., NY. (R‑92)

Children - Loveland

588. Philather Loveland, b. 3 Oct. 1785.

+589. Nathan Loveland, b. 7 Feb. 1788, m. Philena Whitney, d. 14 April 1819.

590. John Loveland, b. 30 July 179-.

+591. Jared Loveland, m. Philena Harmond.

+592. Enoch Loveland, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

593. Harvey Loveland

594. Leander Loveland

595. Abigail Loveland

CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN GRAVES (59)

Joseph Graves (193) was born about 1746 in Canaan, Litchfield Co., CT. He married ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He was a soldier in the Rev. War and was captured by the Indians and held prisoner for 7 years. He escaped at Montreal and found his way back home. He settled in Salisbury, Addison Co., VT and was there when the first U.S. census was taken in 1790. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

+596. William Graves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. June 1893.

597. Stephen Graves

598. Ezra Graves

+599. David Graves, b. 25 June 1773, m(1) Annis Church, m(2) Judith Chase, d. Sept. 1844.

David Graves (194) was born 25 Oct. 1752 (or 20 Oct. 1751^[22]) in Canaan, Litchfield Co., CT and died 24 Feb. 1837 in Vergennes (or Brandon^[23]), VT. He married Sarah Farrington, daughter of Jacob Farrington and Abigail Sexton, in Somers, CT. She was born 22 Feb. 1756 (or 1755) in Somers, Tolland Co., CT, and died 19 Jan. 1840 (or 1842^[24]) in Brandon, Rutland Co., VT. He was a carpenter and wagon maker. He was in the Rev. War and was living in Bethlehem, NY when he enlisted. He moved to Salisbury, VT where his brother Joseph had gone several years before, and was a resident there when the first U.S. census was taken in 1790. He later settled in Vergennes, VT. He was on the U.S. pension roll at Rutland, VT. David and Sarah were buried in the Congregational Churchyard in Brandon, VT. (R‑24, R‑46, R‑63, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+600. Samuel B. Graves, b. 22 Nov. 1776, m(1) Betsey Welch, 7 (or 17) Feb. 1805, m(2) Rebecca (‑‑‑‑‑‑) Smith, 17 April 1828, d. 23 April 1861.

601. Jacob Graves, b. 27 Dec. 1778, never married.

+602. Lewis Graves, b. 28 Dec. 1781, m. Caroline Elizabeth Newton, 13 Oct. 1812, d. 20 May 1870.

603. Prudence Graves, b. 3 (or 23) Sept. 1783, m. Jonathan Worcester, d. 1872.

+604. Morris F. Graves, b. 7 June (or Jan.) 1786, m(1) Sophia Tucker, 9 Oct. 1820, m(2) Polly (Hickox?) Worster, 25 Feb. 1838, d. 29 June 1878.

605. Lucy Graves, b. 2 Jan. 1789, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Dart, d. in Rochester, NY.

606. Abigail Graves, b. 17 Aug. 1790, m. Joseph Harlow, d. in Malone, NY.

Benjamin Graves (196) was born 22 Nov. 1760 in Salisbury, Litchfield Co., CT, and died 22 March 1843 in Chazy, Clinton Co., NY. He married Lucretia Marsh. She was probably of Salisbury, CT, and a relative of George Marsh whose child was buried in the same lot as Benjamin's sister Rebecca. He married second Hulda Thompson, daughter of J. Sebe Thompson and Anna ‑‑‑‑‑‑, about 1804 in Plattsburgh, Clinton Co., NY. After Hulda died between 1810 and 1820, Benjamin married third Sally (Marshall) Burroughs, widow of John Burroughs (who died 22 July 1832), on 27 Sept. 1835. Benjamin’s last five children were previously believed to be born to his first wife, Lucretia, but now are more likely to have been born of his second wife, Hulda.

Benjamin served in the Rev. War as private for thirteen and a half months in Captain McKinster's Co., Colonel John Patterson's Mass. Regt., and from May 1777 to June 1783 as private in Captain Martin Kirtland's Co., Colonel R. J. Meig's Conn. Regt. War Dept. records state: "Claimed to be a body servant of General Washington for three years or more." His residence when he enlisted was at Salisbury, CT. He was in the following battles: "Siege of Boston", Trenton, Princeton, Elizabethtown, Connecticut Farms, and Yorktown.

He was a resident of Champlain, Clinton Co., NY when he made the his application for a pension. He was sheriff of Clinton Co. in 1801, 1810, and 1815. He was a very prominent, influential, and much respected man in Clinton Co. His wife applied for transfer of his pension on 12 Jan. 1854 and obtained it. (R‑104, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Lucretia Marsh

607. Samuel Graves, d. 11 Sept. 1814 (in Naval battle at Plattsburgh, NY).

+608. George Graves, b. 1785, m. Louisa Ransom.

+609. Henry Graves (twin), b. 19 Feb. 1790, m(1) Charlotte Gregory, 26 Jan. 1815, m(2) Hannah Skinner, 17 Feb. 1836, d. 8 April 1858.

610. Harmon Graves (twin), b. 19 Feb. 1790, m. Betsey Pearl (dau. of Timothy Pearl). He took part in the Battle of Plattsburgh in 1814, was cornet in the Essex Co. Militia in 1817, second lieutenant in 1819, and first lieutenant in 1821.

+611. Jeremiah Graves, b. 2 April 1792, m. Laura Marvin.

612. Elizabeth Graves, b. 19 April 1794, m. Nathan Saxe, d. 28 Aug. 1854 (Saxe Landing, Clinton Co., NY).

+613. Benjamin Graves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 1878.

Children - Graves, by Hulda Thompson

+614. Myron Graves, b. 11 May 1805, m. Fanny White, d. 24 Jan. 1865.

+615. J. Sebe Thompson Graves, b. 1 Dec. 1806, m. Mary Ann Case, 4 July 1827, d. 19 Sept. 1866.

616. Mary Ann Graves, b. 1809, m. (Dr.) Julius Churchill (of Champlain, NY).

617. Phebe Graves, b. 1813, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Case (of Peru, NY).

+618. Anthony Graves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

CHILDREN OF JOSHUA GRAVES (60) AND RHODA BRONSON

Simeon Graves (200) was born 20 Sept. 1752 in New Cambridge (now Bristol, Hartford Co., CT) or Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died after 1818. He married ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He was a soldier in the Rev. War. He enlisted at Waterbury, CT on 4 March 1777 in Capt. David Smith's Co., Colonel John Chandler's Regiment. He was of Litchfield, CT 29 Dec. 1788, and of Rupert, Bennington Co., VT in 1790 when the first U.S. census was taken. At that time he had 5 sons under 16 years of age and probably 2 daughters. In 1818 he was living in Constable, Franklin Co., NY and was on the U.S. pension roll. (R‑48, R‑200)

Jesse Graves (201) was born 30 Jan. 1755 in New Cambridge (now Bristol, Hartford Co., CT) or Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, died 12 (or 20) Oct. 1820 in Salisbury, Addison Co., VT, and was buried in Manchester, Bennington Co., VT. He married Ruth Remington of Cummington, Hampshire Co., MA on 16 Feb. 1780. She died 29 April 1839 in her 82nd year. He was in the Rev. War (see vol. 19, p. 112, D.A.R. Lineage Book). Jesse built the first cider mill in Salisbury in 1803.

The following is from a copy of a handwritten deposition to court by Chauncey Graves (#204), filed in National Archives Pension File S.21231 for Jesse Graves of VT:

Deposition to obtain a pension for Ruth, widow of Jesse Graves.

“I, Chauncey Graves, of Underhill in the county of Chittenden & State of Vermont, being duly sworn depose and say that my father, Joshua Graves, in the first year of the Revolutionary War, 1775, then living in New Lebanon, in the state of New York, came to the town of Salisbury in the county of Addison, Vermont and began to clear a farm, which he had purchased and in the spring following, his family moved in to the town of Salisbury aforesaid. I was then with the family and was sixteen years old. In the month of June of that year, 1776, we were ordered by the government to remove from that place on account of the exposure of the settlers to the invasions of the Indians. Our family removed, at that time to Shaftsbury in Bennington County. In the fall of the same year, my brother, Jesse Graves, being then I think, twenty two year old, returned to Salisbury to take care of the crops & other property left in Salisbury; here he was taken sick & continued sick until the following spring, 1777 - and about the time of his recovery was taken by the Indians & carried away and detained several weeks in captivity, with my father, who was taken with him. The year following & the next year after the capture of Burgoyne my brother, the said Jesse Graves, enlisted into the service at Arlington in the County of Bennington, and went to Castleton as I understood, and the troops were there employed in erecting a fort at that place. He entered the service and served as a Sergeant. Having a horse of his own he was [next two words illegible]…much of the time as an [illegible], and on scouts under his command. He continued there in the service from early in the spring until late in the fall, but I do not know for what time he enlisted nor exactly how long he served. Not being myself in the service I have no knowledge of the above facts except from information at the time - and from the fact that my brother was absent during the above period. In the spring following 1779, he enlisted again and went to Rutland where a fort was built that season; - in April of that year, I also went into the service, & was in the service at Rutland during the summer until the month of December. I there saw my said brother Jesse Graves in the service and was frequently on scouts with him, and once in the last part of October went with him and others under the command of So [?] Blanchard [?] to New Haven & Weybridge to bring off the women & children who had been left there by the Indians after they had burnt out all the houses & taken the men prisoners. In this above mentioned service, the said Jesse Graves served as Sergeant, and except as above mentioned, commanded the scouting parties. He being chiefly employed in scout, & I in the fort, I am not able to recollect how long he served but suppose he served through the summer. - The said Jesse Graves went into the service also in the spring following 1780, and served at Pittsford, in the frontier, in the neighborhood of Rutland & Castleton. In the course of the summer of that year, I was ordered out with the militia on an alarm and went to the fort at Pittsford and served there three months. There I saw the said Jesse Graves in the service, and I am confident he served there during the whole season from early in the spring until late in the fall. The whole of the above mentioned service he performed as a Sergeant. After he was driven from his farm in Salisbury he was not able to find any other employment; and was, according to my present recollection, in the service, on the frontier in Vermont, almost the whole of the three years above mentioned…” (Note: rest of transcript had to do merely with service dates, etc.) (R‑48, R‑55, R‑59, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+619. Polly Graves, b. 4 (or 5) Oct. 1791, m. Joseph Smith, 12 May 1811, d. 2 April 1874.

620. Lovicy Graves, b. 5 Oct. 1791, m. Simeon Gibson, 10 Sept. 1815, d. 9 Feb. 1828 (Fitchburg, Worcester Co., MA).

621. Salvanus Graves, b. 1793, d. 21 April 1795 (Salisbury, Addison Co., VT).

622. Venus Graves, b. 31 March 1794 (Salisbury, VT), d. 21 April 1795 (Salisbury, VT).

Asa Graves (202) was born 19 Feb. 1757 at New Cambridge (now Bristol, Hartford Co., CT) or Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 5 July 1820 (or 6 Oct. 1823), in Rutland, Rutland Co., VT. He married Desire ‑‑‑‑‑‑^[25]. He was in the Rev. War and on the U.S. pension roll in Chittenden Co., VT on 20 Aug. 1833. He served in Capt. Robinson’s company of Militia under Lt. Col. Ebenezer Walbridge in the summer of 1778. He was on the Vermont census of 1790 with wife and 5 daughters, living in Salisbury, Addison Co. R‑55 lists another marriage to Roxenna ‑‑‑‑‑‑, who was born about 1761, on 16 July 1781 in Sunderland, Franklin Co., MA. R‑55 also lists another child, Roxenna Graves. The names and birth dates of the following children are from the VT vital records. (R‑25, R‑26, R‑48, R‑55, R‑59, R‑200)

Children - Graves

623. Rhoda Graves, b. 8 June 1780 (Arlington, Bennington Co., VT)^[26].

+624. Ruth Graves, b. 11 March 1782 (or 1780), m. Levi Lane, before 1805, d. 4 (or 11) April 1866.

+625. Phebe Graves, b. 17 Aug. 1784 (or 18 Aug. 1785) (Wallingford, VT)^[27], m(1) William Allen, m(2) ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Swift.

626. Hannah (or Harriana) Graves, b. 27 March 1787 (Salisbury, VT).

627. Sylvia (or Selva) Graves, b. 23 June 1789 (Salisbury, VT), d. prior to 12 Feb. 1868 (Trumbull Co., OH).

628. Liman (or Lyman) Oatman Graves, b. 25 Sept. 1791.

Chauncey (or Chancy) Graves (204) was born 9 Sept. 1761 in New Cambridge (now Bristol, Hartford Co., CT) or Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died after 20 July 1850^[28] in Underhill, Chittenden Co., VT. He married Olive Sprague (?) of Huntington, Chittenden Co., VT. She died 15 June 1793 in Salisbury, Addison Co., VT. He married second Rachel Adams^[29] on 8 June 1794 (or 1795) in Poultney, Rutland Co., VT. He moved from Salisbury to Waterbury and afterwards to Underhill. He was a soldier in the Rev. War and on the U.S. pension roll at Underhill. The VT vital records list all the following children by the first marriage except Lucy. John Card Graves (R‑200) listed Lucy, but did not list Susan, Simeon, Asinetta, or Olive. (It is likely that the R‑200 information was from family sources, so it is possible that at least some of those he did not list died young).

Chauncey served in the Revolutionary War under Captain Allen’s Company Vermont Militia. Private Graves is on the payroll of Captain Samuel Allen’s Company of volunteers. Raised by the order of Brigadier General Allen, the company commenced 13 Oct. 1780, and ended 4 Nov. 1780, with twenty three days of service. Chauncey received a pension for his service in the war under S.15869. (R‑25, R‑48, R‑55, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Olive Sprague

629. Susan Graves, b. 31 March 1782 (Danbury (Danby?), VT).

630. Lucy Graves, b. 1784 (or 31 March 1782) (Danbury (Danby?), VT)^[30].

+631. Joshua Graves, b. 9 July 1784 (or 1785), m. Phebe (or Phoebe) (Beach) Whitney, 14 Sept. 1808.

632. Simeon Graves, b. 18 Dec. 1786 (Salisbury, VT), d. 5 June 1788 (Salisbury, VT).

633. Asinetta (or Affinetta) Graves, b. 14 Dec. 1788 (Salisbury, VT).

634. Electa (or Elietha/Elietta) Graves, b. 20 March 1791, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Fuller. They moved West.

635. Olive Graves, b. 19 May 1793 (Salisbury, VT).

Children - Graves, by Rachel Adams

+636. Ira Graves, b.c. 1795, m(1) Lucinda Robinson, m(2) Samantha (Lane) Thompson, 29 (or 27) Sept. 1869, d. 8 (or 18) May 1877.

637. Speedy Graves, b. Salisbury, VT, m. Darius Varney (of Westford, VT), d. (Westford, VT).

638. Mary Graves, b.c. 1800.

CHILDREN OF CORNELIUS GRAVES (61)

Stephen Graves (206) was born 2 (or 15) Feb. 1752 in East Plymouth, CT, baptized 12 May 1752, and died 6 June 1828 (or 1 June 1821) in Harwinton, Litchfield Co., CT. He married Ruth Jerome, daughter of Zerabbabel Jerome and Phoebe Cook, on 8 Dec. 1778. She was born 14 June 1760, and died 28 Aug. 1824 in Harwinton. He was drafted into the service during the Rev. War and furnished a substitute. He was drummer in Colonel Crane's Artillery Regt. from Sunderland in service 1781. He was a selectman of Harwinton in 1796, one of the signers for the new church at what is now Plymouth in 1790, a vestryman in 1791, and a delegate to conventions in 1797, 1810, 1811, and 1812. (R‑94, R‑200)

Children - Graves

639. Nancy Graves, b. 7 Nov. 1779, d. 20 Aug. 1783.

640. Ruth Graves, b. 1 March 1781, d. 20 Aug. 1783.

+641. Cornelius Graves, b. 15 Feb. 1783, m. Anna Treat, 6 July 1804 (or 1806), d. 7 Sept. 1828.

+642. Major Graves, b. 29 Dec. 1784, m. Abigail Lankton, 3 (or 2) April 1806, d. 4 Aug. 1861.

+643. Stephen Wells Graves, b. 5 Aug. 1791, m. Rhoda Clark, 15 Nov. 1811, d. 3 Aug. 1854.

+644. Nancy Graves, b. 23 June 1793, m. Miles Welton, 15 Feb. 1815, d. 11 Dec. 1883.

645. Ruth Graves, b. 20 July 1795, bapt. 25 Aug. 1795, m. Marvin Blakeslee, 26 March 1817, d. 15 April 1886 (Thomaston, Litchfield Co., CT). They lived in Thomaston. He was from Plymouth Hollow (now Thomaston), CT, b. 1791, d. 1878.

Benjamin Graves (207) was born 12 March 1754, baptized 24 (or 29) April 1754, and died 29 Nov. 1836 in Perrysville, NY. He married Eunice (or Jerusha) Hale of Cambridge (now Bristol, Hartford Co.), CT, daughter of Elisha Hale and Sybil ‑‑‑‑‑‑, on 15 Aug. 1776. She was born about 1756-7 in Durham, Middlesex Co., CT, died 6 June 1814 in Paris Hill, NY, and was buried in the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church cem. there. He was in the Rev. War and served in the Waterbury Militia Minute Men. He moved with his father to Paris Hill about 1788. (R‑153, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+646. Chauncey Graves, b. 10 July 1777, m. Lucinda Barnes.

647. Freelove Graves, bapt. 30 Jan. 1780, m. Noah Humiston, d. 1858 (Unionville, OH). Noah d. Harbor Creek, Erie Co., PA.

648. Clarissa Graves, b. 22 Feb. 1787, m. Salmon Seymour, 22 Dec. 1805 (Paris Hill, NY), d. 23 Jan. 1842 (Westmoreland, Oneida Co., NY). He was b. 2 Nov. 1779 (Northbury, CT), son of Gideon Seymour and Ruth Prindle, and d. 23 March 1843 (Westmoreland, NY). They were both bur. in Hampton, Oneida Co., NY.

Jacob Graves (210) was born 12 July 1762 and was baptized 22 Aug. 1762. He married Elizabeth Turner on 13 June 1787. He moved to New Hartford, Oneida Co., NY with his father. She died 2 Dec. 1822 at age 56 and was buried in the cemetery on Old South Street (now Oxford Rd.), New Hartford, NY. (R‑153, R‑200)

Children - Graves

649. Sheldon Graves, m. Sally ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He was lieutenant and captain in Onondaga Co. Militia in 1820 and 1822.

650. Ansel Graves

+651. Cornelius Graves, m. Rhoda ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

652. Cyrus Graves, m. Eliza ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

653. Sally Graves

654. Rhoda Graves

655. Phebe Graves, bapt. 23 April 1801 (Paris Hill, NY).

656. Eliza Graves, bapt. 21 Aug. 1803 (Paris Hill, NY).

CHILDREN OF JOHN GRAVES (62) AND LYDIA CLARK

John Graves (211) was born about 1737 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT, and died before 1810. He married Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She died 12 May 1810, aged 73 years. He represented Walpole, NH in the state assembly of 1781 held at Windsor, VT, was in Colonel Benjamin Bellow's Regiment for the reinforcement of Fort Ticonderoga in June 1777, and was lieutenant of the Walpole Militia in 1781. He and his wife were admitted to the church at Walpole in 1771. (R‑53, R‑86, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+657. Darius Graves, b.c. 1758, m. Zerriah (or Zerviah) Hovey, 10 Feb. 1780, d. 31 Jan. 1814.

+658. John Graves, b.c. 1763, m. Prudence ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 28 Oct. 1792.

+659. Lydia Graves, b. before 1765, m. David Hall, 3 Dec. 1778, d. 12 Sept. 1847.

+660. Samuel Graves, b. 1768, m. Sarah Clark, 21 Jan. 1790, d. 3 Dec. 1798.

661. Nancy Graves, m. John Gould, 28 Sept. 1783.

662. Rebecca Graves, bapt. 17 (or 14) Nov. 1773, m. Asa Titus, 15 Sept. 1791.

663. Margaret Graves, d. young.

664. Parnell Graves, bapt. 23 Feb. 1777, m. Ziba Dennison, 1 Jan. 1811. He was b. 25 Oct. 1786, and was a son of John Dennison who moved to Walpole, NH in 1762.

+665. Amos Graves (twin), bapt. 5 Sept. 1779, m. Hannah Russell, 20 Oct. 1800.

666. Allen Graves (twin), bapt. 5 Sept. 1779, d. 19 Jan. 1844.

667. Margaret ("Peggy") Graves, bapt. 10 March 1782, died young.

Eliad Graves (212) was born in 1739 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT, and died 13 (or 18) April 1828 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH. He married Abigail Clark in April 1756 (or in 1761). She died 5 Nov. 1823 in Walpole, NH, aged 84 years. He was in the French and Indian War from 9 Sept. to 11 Dec. 1755. He served in the Rev. War in Colonel Benjamin Bellow's Regiment, which marched from Cheshire Co., NH to reinforce Ticonderoga in Oct. 1776 (service 25 days, travel 147 miles). He lived on land owned by William Graves in 1880 in Walpole, NH.

John Card Graves listed all the following children except Susannah, and Martha McDaniels Frizzell (R‑202) listed all except Clark. (R‑86, R‑200, R‑202)

Children - Graves

668. Sarah Graves, b.c. 1763, m. (Capt.) Joseph Fay, 14 Nov. 1782, d. 25 April 1847 (aged 84 years).

669. Roxana Graves, b.c. 1770, m. Isaac Graves, 2 Aug. 1792, d. 18 June 1868. See #676 for descendants.

+670. Barnabas Graves, b.c. 1772, m(1) Lois Weeks, m(2) Mary Ann ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+671. Eliad Graves, Jr., m. Mary Taggart.

672. Clark Graves; moved to Michigan between 1820 and 1830.

673. Susannah Graves, bapt. 10 Sept. 1780 (Walpole, NH).

Eliphas (or Eliphaz) Graves (213) was born in 1741 in New Haven, New Haven Co., CT, and died 20 March 1822 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH. He married Rebecca Vubb (?) (or Webb) or Margaret L. Webb on 9 Feb. 1764 at Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT. He married second Hannah Kelsey of Newport, Sullivan Co., NH on 3 Nov. 1793. He lived at Saybrook for many years and afterward at Walpole and settled on a farm later owned by George W. Graves. His first purchase of land in Chester, NH was in Feb. 1767. (R‑86, R‑200, R‑202)

Children - Graves, by first wife

674. Mary Graves, b. 16 March 1765, m. Abner Graves, 23 May 1788, d. 29 July 1848. See #234 for descendants.

+675. Isaac Graves, b. 1767, m. Roxana (or Rosannah) Graves, 2 Aug. 1792, d. 20 Feb. 1813.

+676. Rebecca Graves, b. 26 May 1768, m. John Carlisle, 19 March 1794, d. 23 (or 21) Aug. 1848.

+677. Eliphas Graves, Jr., b. 1770, m. Lucy Gates, 3 Oct. 1793, d. 2 May 1825.

+678. John Graves, b. 1775 (or 1783), m. Lucy Russell, d. 31 Jan. 1860.

679. Lydia Graves, m. John Maynard, 28 April 1811.

+680. Sterling Graves, b. 1779, m. Jemima Griswold, 18 April 1805, d. 5 Nov. 1847.

681. Abigail Graves, b. 1782, m. George Farrar, 26 May 1819, d. 13 May 1861.

CHILDREN OF DANIEL GRAVES (64)

Daniel Graves (214) was born 25 Oct. 1744. He married Lois ‑‑‑‑‑‑. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

682. John Lyman Graves, bapt. 9 Jan. 1774 (First Congregational Church, Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH).

683. Lena Graves, bapt. 28 May 1775 (First Congregational Church, Walpole).

Josiah Graves (217) was born 19 July 1755. He married Jerusha Wilcox on 10 March 1785 at Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT. He married second Lydia ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He was a soldier in the Rev. War in the 8th Co., 6th Regt., Conn. Line from 10 May to 19 Dec. 1775 on first call for troops. He was in Capt. Bristol's Co., Colonel Whiting's Regt. at Peekskill, NY from 6 Oct. to 6 Dec. 1777, and in Capt. Daniel A. Gordon's Co., Colonel Bartlett's Regiment. (R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Lydia ---

684. Julius Graves, b. 15 July 1792 (Litchfield, Litchfield Co., CT).

685. Josiah Graves, b. 21 April 1794 (Derby, New Haven Co., CT).

686. Laura Alma Graves, b. 4 Jan. 1798 (Cheshire, NH).

687. Lydia Graves, b. 8 June 1801, m. Stephen Harris, 27 May 182-.

CHILDREN OF ABNER GRAVES (65)

Asahel Graves (223) was born 23 Aug. 1746 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT (Farmington Vital Records, vol. LR7, p. 71), and probably died between 1830 and 1840. He married Sarah (or Sara) ‑‑‑‑‑‑. He was in the 1810 census for Harpersfield, Delaware Co., NY, living next to his son, Remington Graves, and his household included a male age 10-15, a female 10-15, a female 16-25, and a female 45 or older (his wife). The 1820 and 1830 censuses for Choconut, Susquehanna Co., PA, showed a male in the household of Asahel Graves who could have been this Asahel; however, the household could have been headed by Asahel, born about 1798, and the older male might have been Remington Graves.

Because Asahel (born 1746) apparently lived with Asahel (born about 1798), and the older Asahel had a male of the right age in his household in 1810, Asahel (born about 1978) is being shown as a son of the older Asahel. It could be argued that a spread of about 28 years is a long time between the oldest and the youngest child, but it is certainly not impossible, and it is also possible that Asahel married a second time. Documentation such as wills, deeds, land sales, etc., could help to shed more light on the details of this family. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

+688. Si Remington Graves, b. 12 July (or 7 Dec.) 1770, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

689. Sarah (or Sara) Graves, b. 14 Aug. 1776 (or 17 Sept. 1777)^[31] (Southwick, Hampden Co., MA), d. 17 Sept. 1777 (Litchfield, CT).

690. daughter, b. 1785-1794.

691. daughter, b. 1795-1800.

+692. Asahel Graves, b.c. 1798, m. Hannah Wells, d. after 1880.

Ezekiel (or Ezehiel) Graves (224) was born 13 Sept. 1748 (or 13 Sept. 1753 according to Farmington Vital Records Vol. LR11, p. 582) in Farmington, Hartford Co. (or Killingworth, Middlesex Co), CT, and died in June 1813 (killed in an accident at Acworth, Sullivan Co., NH or Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH), aged 65 years. He married Nancy Hannah^[32]. He married second Mary Dwinnel of Keene, NH on 18 Dec. 1810. She was born about 1753 in Keene, Cheshire Co., NH. He enlisted in Captain Matthew Smith's Co., General Waterbury's Brigade from Litchfield Co., CT on 3 May 1781, and in Captain Waugh's Co. of the 17th Conn. Militia in 1779. He was living in Walpole, NH when the first U.S. census was taken in 1790, and at that time he had three sons and one daughter. All his children were baptized at the same time on 9 Jan. 1794 in Walpole. (R‑1, R‑58, R‑69, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Nancy Hannah

693. Sylvanus Graves, d. 12 Aug. 1841 (Burlington, Chittenden Co., VT). No children.

+694. Abner Graves, b.c. 1780, m. Catherine Kibling, 19 Aug. 1804, d. 22 June 1860.

+695. Orange Graves, b. 14 Feb. 1783, m. Aurelia Sykes (or Sikes), d. 17 Feb. 1849.

696. Hannah Graves, b.c. 1780, m. Thomas Cunningham (of Walpole, NH), 21 May 1815. He was b. 1780. Several children, many dying young.

+697. Pamelia Graves, b. 11 Aug. 1791, m. Anson Dayton, 24 April 1826, d. 13 (or 11) Jan. 1866.

Bela Graves (225) was born 4 Sept. 1750 in Farmington, Hartford Co., CT (or 23 Sept. 1751 according to Farmington Vital Records vol. LR11, p. 582), was baptized 14 March 1752 in Southington, Hartford Co., CT, and died 15 Jan. 1852, aged 101 years, 8 months, and 16 days, at Shongo, Allegany Co., NY. He was buried in Lot 31 of the Graves Cem. on Woodcock Rd., in Shongo, NY. He married Sarah Holcomb. He married second Sarah Griswold, daughter of Jeremiah Griswold and Hanna Gibbs of New Milford, CT, before Aug. 1782. She was born 23 Sept. 1751. (According to R-20 and R‑32, she was born 30 Aug. 1753.)

He was a Rev. soldier having enlisted from Litchfield Co., CT in April or May 1775 as a private in Captain Beebe's Co., which was stationed at Ticonderoga, under Major Welch. He was also in Captain Alexander Waugh's Co., 17th Conn. Militia in 1779. He was said to have been with Washington at the crossing of the Delaware River. He was a blacksmith. He lived in Delaware and Chemung counties, NY and in Bradford and Potter counties, PA. He spent the last years of his life with his son John at Shongo. He was a U.S. pensioner, having made application while living at Scio, NY on 27 March 1846, when he was about 95 years old.

The town of Willing is located in southeastern Allegany County, bordering on the Pennsylvania state line. It is an average rural town with a normal history of common, hardworking people. Its beginnings were mainly in agriculture and lumber as were most towns in western New York.

According to Allegany and its People – 1895, which states: “As near as can be ascertained the wilderness was first broken by one John Ford from Connecticut, who came to Willing in 1819. He was a Revolutionary hero and was said to be in every way qualified to battle with the forest and its denizens.”^[33]

About ten years later, Bela Graves, with his son John, located on lot 33 in the little hamlet of Shongo (then, town of Scio). The following year they took up lot 15, where they remained the rest of their lives. Sons Seth and Jeremiah settled on lot 32 in 1830. The Graves family has always maintained its place in the town, and there are hundreds of descendants of Bela and Sarah Griswold Graves, many of them carrying the Graves name.

Willing was formed from the towns of Scio and Independence, on 19 Nov. 1851. The first town meeting was held 4 March 1852. An historical marker commemorating that meeting is located next to the highway on Route 19 at Yorks Corners. (R‑20, R-32, R‑163, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Sarah Holcomb

698. Chloe Graves, b. 25 Sept. 1776.

699. Bela Graves, b. 18 Jan. 1779, d. 25 June 1779.

700. Rachel (or Asahel according to R-20 and R‑32) Graves, b. 1 Aug. 1781, d. 25 June 1787 (or 20 May 1852 according to R‑20).

Children - Graves, by Sarah Griswold

+701. John Graves, b. 17 (or 14) Oct. 1784, m. Jerusha Campbell, 13 Jan. 1808, d. 16 Sept. (or Oct.) 1862.

+702. Jeremiah Graves, b. 20 Aug. 1787, m(1) Susanna Tice, 25 April 1809, m(2) Susan Squires, Sept. 1854, d. 30 Nov. 1880.

+703. Seth Graves, b. 14 (or 11) March 1790, m. Jane George, d. 2 Dec. 1851 (or 1850).

+704. Abner Graves, b. 12 March 1793, m. Charity Campbell, 15 April 1819, d. 9 (or 11)^[34] Nov. 1856.

+705. Rhoda Graves, b. 16 Feb. 1796, m. William Camp (or Campbell), d. 16 Sept. 1877.

CHILDREN OF AARON GRAVES (67) AND PHOEBE MEIGS

Recompense Graves (228) was born 20 Jan. 1756 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, near Bellows Falls, Windham Co., VT, and died 3 (or 2 or 5^[35]) April 1821 in Cooperstown, Otsego Co., NY. He married Susanna (or Hannah) Little, daughter of Thomas Little and Susanna (or Susana or Hannah) Wallace, on 20 May 1781 in Peterborough, Hillsborough Co., NH or Walpole, NH. She was born 21 April 1759 in Shirley, Hillsborough Co., NH (or Shirley, Middlesex Co., MA per the Vital Records of Shirley, MA to Year 1850, p. 61), and died 25^[36] March 1813, in Cooperstown, NY, age 49 years. Church records indicate that Susanna died in an epidemic. Her mother was 88 years of age in 1804 when she and her son Samuel made a trip to see her.

They moved to Cooperstown in 1793. Recompense was a brass founder and gunsmith. He was a gunsmith in the Rev. Army and fought at the Battle of Bennington. He carried on his business in Cooperstown until his death. He and Susanna were both Presbyterian, and both were buried in the Presbyterian Church Cem., Cooperstown, NY. Their children, Salina, Jesse, Charity, and Hannah, were all baptized in Walpole, NH. And “all the children except one were baptized by the Rev. Mr. Lewis of Cooperstown^[37]. Samuel Graves was the ninth of ten children, two of whom died in infancy^[38]; this would indicate that the following list of children is not correct. (R‑13, R‑78, R‑200)

Children - Graves

706. Salina Graves, b. 1782, bapt. 2 March 1783 (or 1782), m. Ebenezer Hall (of Walpole, NH). She stayed at the old home in Walpole with grandmother Phoebe when the family moved to Cooperstown in 1793.

707. Jesse Graves, bapt. 27 June 1784. He was a senior partner in Graves and Nichols, watchmakers and jewelry manufacturers in Auburn, NY. A Mrs. Nancy Graves, wife of Mr. Jesse, d. 23 July 1838, age 44 yrs., and was bur. in the Presbyterian Church Cem., Cooperstown, NY.

708. Charity Graves, bapt. 12 Feb. 1786, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Rogers.

709. Lena Graves, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Holden.

710. Hannah Graves, b. 12 Feb. 1788, bapt. 16 March 1788, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Burwel (or Burwell), d. 28 Dec. 18‑‑ (Utica, NY). They had a son, George.

+711. Daniel Graves, b. 1790, m.‑‑‑‑‑‑.

+712. Seth Graves, b. 14 Feb. 1790, m. Eliza Flynn, May 1833, d. 27 June 1877.

713. Walter Graves, bapt. 14 Dec. 1800 (Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, NY).

+714. Samuel Graves, b. 4 June 1794, m. Polly Bostwick, 23 May 1819, d. 30 July 1880.

715. Phebe Graves, bapt. 2 Nov. 1800 (Presbyterian Church, Cooperstown, NY).

716. Abner Graves

Aaron Graves (231) was born 11 Feb. 1760 at Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, and died 3 Oct. 1816. He married Rhoda Wheeler on 17 May 1782. She died 6 April 1815. He married second Fanny Aldrich, daughter of Levi Aldrich of Westmoreland, NH, on 7 Dec. 1815. Fanny married second ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Thompson. Aaron lived in Walpole Valley, NH.

He, with his brothers John and Darius, was in Colonel Benjamin Bellow's Regiment of the NH Militia Minutemen, which went to reinforce the garrison at Ticonderoga in June 1777 (service 12 days, travel 94 miles, pay £3 15s. 2d). He was also a private in Captain Peter Page's Co., Colonel Moses Nichol's Regiment to join the Continental Army for defense of West Point in 1780 (service 3 months, 15 days, travel 190 miles). (R‑200, R‑202)

Children - Graves, by Rhoda Wheeler

+717. Anson Graves, b. 19 Feb. 1784, m. Elsenath (or Asenath) Slade, 1 Jan. 1806 (or 18 Nov. 1805).

Children - Graves, by Fanny Aldrich

+718. George Aldrich Graves, b. 13 April 1816, m. Diana Woods, 13 May 1837, d. 7 May 1876.

+719. Emily Corinne Graves, b. 22 April 1817, m. Reuben Prentiss Hitchcock, 23 Feb. 1837.

Hannah Graves (232) was born 8 Nov. 1761^[39] in Guilford, New Haven Co., CT, and died 31 Dec. 1852. She married Simon Buell (or Buel) of Walpole, NH on 15 Nov. 1786 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH. He was born 29 Nov. 1761 at Newport, Sullivan Co., NH and moved to Walpole, NH. He was the fourth child of Aaron Buell of Killingworth, CT and Newport, NH. Their children were born in Walpole, NH. (R‑13, R‑207)

Children - Buell

720. Meigs Buell, b. 10 Feb. 1788, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑. Had children.

+721. Levi Buell, b. 14 July 1789, m. Lucinda Butterfield, c. 1818.

722. Phoebe Buell (twin), b. 17 June 1791.

723. Amy Buell (twin), b. 17 June 1791.

724. John Buell, b. 30 June 1793.

725. Hannah Buell, b.c. 1795.

Samuel Graves (233) was born 20 Feb. 1763 at Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, and died 4 June 1846. He married Elizabeth ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She died 13 June 1858, aged 83 years, and was buried in Walpole. They lived on the Caleb Foster place in Walpole. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

726. Rebecca Graves, b. 5 Feb. 1796 (Walpole, NH), never married, d. 4 July 1821.

727. Alvah Graves, b.c. 1796 (Walpole, NH), d. 10 Aug. 1800.

728. Laura Graves, b. 29 Nov. 1797, never married, d. 2 March 1869. She was bur. in Walpole, NH.

729. Lucinda Graves, b. 31 Aug. 1801, d. 19 April 1814.

+730. Jessemiah (or Jesseniah) Graves, b. 23 July 1803, m. Almina (or Almira) Wellington, 30 March 1829, d. 28 Feb. 1864.

+731. Ambrose Graves, b. 16 December 1807, m. Persis Wheeler, 30 March 1829, d. April 1855.

+732. Aaron M. Graves, b. 24 March 1813, m(1) Abigail Sanderson, 2 July 1837, m(2) Marancy Hunt, 13 Oct. 1842, m(3) Jane L. Hall, m(4) Louisa A. Willard, March 1879, d. 6 Oct. 1887.

Abner Graves (234) was born 5 Feb. 1766 at Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, and died 4 April 1855 at Cooperstown, Otsego Co., NY, aged 89 years. He married Mary ("Polly") Graves (#674), daughter of Eliphas Graves, on 23 (or 22) May 1788 at Walpole, NH (or Cooperstown, NY). She was born 16 March 1765 in Saybrook, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 29 July 1848 in Cooperstown, NY. They moved to Cooperstown about 1800 (or in 1794) when it was wilderness. They first lived in the village, then on a farm 1 mile south. He was at one time a "post rider" before the establishment of the post office. Their first three children were born at Walpole, NH, the next two in Middlefield, Otsego Co., NY, and the last in Cooperstown, NY. Abner lived with son Nelson after his wife died. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

+733. Ashbell Graves, b. 4 April 1790, m(1) Roxana Hamblin, m(2) Lydia Short, c. 1820-1821, m(3) Mary A. Short, d. 7 Jan. 1864.

+734. Constant Graves, b. 18 Nov. 1791, m. Eunice Thurber, d. 4 Nov. 1865.

+735. Calvin Graves, b. 11 Sept. 1794, m. Fanny (or Fannie) Carlisle, 1820, d. 3 (or 2) June 1882.

736. Mary Graves, b. 2 July 1798, m. Russell Mather, d. 5 Nov. 1888 (Englewood, IL). Bur. Boonville, Oneida Co., NY.

+737. Abner Graves, b. 10 April 1801, m(1) Eppah Platner, 12 Sept. 1822, m(2) Mary (Platner) Brewster, 5 Nov. 1862, d. 6 Sept. 1881.

+738. Horatio Nelson Graves, b. 19 Jan. 1806, m. Sarah Green, 26 Jan. 1830, d. 12 Aug. 1881.

CHILDREN OF LYDIA GRAVES (68) AND PETER FARNHAM

Eber Farnham (238) was born 29 April 1748 in Killingworth, Middlesex, CT, was baptized 5 June 1748, died 8 Feb. 1837 in Darien, Genesee Co., NY, and was buried in the Darien Cem. on Rt. 20 in Darien, NY. He married Eunice ‑‑‑‑‑‑ about 1774 in Vermont (?). She was born about 1759, died 14 June 1824 in Darien, NY, and was also buried in the Darien Cem. Eber served in the military during the Revolutionary War for Vermont from 1780 through 1782. He owned land in Clarendon, Rutland Co., VT which he purchased from Elihu Smith and then sold to Demetrius Crampton in 1781. Clarendon was in an area of NH Grants which was disputed by NY and VT. After the Battle of Hubbardstown in the Revolutionary War, Clarendon was mostly deserted by its inhabitants. By 1790 Eber had moved to Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH. The History of Walpole, N.H. says that Eber had two wives, Eunice and Harriet, but it is believed that there was an error in the records and that Harriet was actually the wife of his son, Luther. The 1800 and 1810 census has Eber listed as a resident of Pompey, Onondaga Co., NY and in 1820 he is listed as a resident of Genesee Co. In 1805 Eber was listed as a member of a church in Oran, Onondaga Co., NY which is now known as the Pompey Presbyterian Church. (R‑102)

Children - Farnham

739. Levi Farnham, b. 1774 (NH?), m. Eunice Judd (?), c. 1800, d. 1 May 1853 (Warners, Onondaga Co., NY). Bur. Warners Cem. (Warners, NY).

740. Luther Farnham, b. 1777, m. Harriet ‑‑‑‑‑‑. Bur. Darien, NY. Harriet was bur. in the Darien Cem. next to her father-in-law, Eber.

+741. Jonathan Farnham, b. 11 Oct. 1779, m(1) Martha Peck, 2 Oct. 1799, m(2) Sylvia (Pease) Worth, d. 11 July 1851.

+742. Philo Farnham, b. 1781, m. Clarina Atwell, before 1800, d. after 1849.

+743. Ruany Farnham, b.c. 1783, m. Elihu Peck, before 1798, d. 6 July 1836.

+744. William Farnham, b.c. 1785, m. Betsy ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. after 1850.

+745. Eunice Farnham, b. 10 Oct. 1787, m. William Thayer, 5 May 1805, d. 27 April 1850.

+746. Elisha Farnham, b. 20 Jan. 1790, m. Sally Mandeville, d. 1883.

+747. Preston Farnham, b.c. 1792, m. Deborah Ann Mandeville, d. after 1850.

+748. Eber E. Farnham, b.c. 1800 or 1801, m. Maria Taft, d. 28 March 1870.

CHILDREN OF SYLVANUS GRAVES (71) AND LYDIA HULL

Abner Graves (241) was born in 1760, was baptized 17 Aug. 1760 in Killingworth, CT, and died 11 Sept. 1826 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT. He married Mary ("Polly") Howd on 4 Jan. 1789 at Killingworth, CT (Killingworth Vital Records, vol. 2, p. 39). She was born in 1762 and died 28 May 1848. He was a soldier in the Rev. War in Captain Bristol's Co. in the 7th Conn. Militia in 1779 and in Captain Steven's Co. 10 July to 13 Dec. 1780. He lived in Killingworth in 1790. Their first two children were born in Killingworth, CT (VR, vol. 2, p. 79). (R‑27, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+749. William Graves, b. 30 April 1790, m. Roxana Redfield, Sept. 1812.

750. Polly Graves, b. 11 June 1792.

751. Edward Graves, b. 11 July 1793, m. Charity Griswold, 5 Oct. 1820.

752. Jerusha (or Terusha) Graves, b. 29 Aug. 1795.

Seth Graves (244) was born in 1765, was baptized 13 Oct. 1765 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 1 July 1829. He married Paulina Bronson, daughter of David Bronson and Jerusha Cooley, on 12 May 1793. She was born 24 Feb. 1771 and died 20 Nov. 1802. He lived at Killingworth, CT until he married, and afterwards at Suffield, CT. (R‑27, R‑200)

Children - Graves

753. Seth Graves, b. 18 Aug. 1795, d. 26 Oct. 1795.

754. George Graves, b. 4 June 1797, d. 13 Nov. 1865.

+755. Henry Graves, b. 14 April 1799, m. Sally Tower, 12 Oct. 1824, d. 18 March 1847.

Rachel Graves (247) was born 24 Feb. 1769, was baptized on 27 May 1770, and died 21 April 1850, all in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT. She married Orrin Redfield, son of Josiah Redfield and Sarah Parmelee, on 10 March 1796 in Killingworth, CT. He was born 25 June 1769 and died 31 Dec. 1841, both in Killingworth, CT. They were both buried in Old SW Cem. in Killingworth. Their children were born in Killingworth, CT. (R‑27, R‑200)

Children - Redfield

756. Lydia Redfield, b. 30 Sept. 1797, d. 2 Oct. 1797 (Killingworth, CT).

757. Sylvanus Graves Redfield, b. 18 Sept. 1798, m. Esther Clark, 21 March 1827. Moved to Twinsburg, Summit Co., OH.

758. William Austin Redfield, b. 16 May 1800, d. 3 Sept. 1806 (Killingworth, CT).

+759. Dency Redfield, b. 1 Aug. 1801, m. David Evarts, 18 Nov. 1822, d. 9 April 1835.

760. Josiah Redfield, b. 5 Sept. 1803, m. Eliza Ann Lane, 18 Jan. 1838 (Killingworth, CT). Moved to Twinsburg, OH.

761. George Redfield, b. 30 May 1805, m. Sarah Evarts, 29 Oct. 1827 (Killingworth, CT), d. 18 Dec. 1833 (Killingworth, CT).

762. William Redfield, b. 31 May 1807, m. Dency Chittenden, 26 Nov. 1835 (Killingworth, CT). Moved to Centrebrook, village of Essex, Middlesex Co., CT.

763. Lorenzo Redfield, b. 25 April 1809, m. Elizabeth Chalker Denison, 20 Nov. 1836 (Killingworth, CT). Moved to Old Saybrook, Oyster River, CT.

764. Richard Harvey Redfield, b. 7 Aug. 1810, m. Emily Nettleson, 4 Nov. 1835 (Killingworth, CT). Resided in Madison, CT.

765. Barbara Redfield, b. 21 June 1812, m. William Dudley, 17 June 1838 (Killingworth, CT). Resided in North Madison, CT.

CHILDREN OF NATHAN GRAVES (72)

Mary Jones Graves (250) was born 26 March 1758 in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, and died 25 Oct. 1845 in Eagle, Cattaraugus Co., NY. R‑200 listed birth as 19 Jan 1758 and death as Nov. 1845. She married Garner (or Gardner or Gardiner) Isbell on 23 Nov. 1778 in Killingworth, CT. He was born 2 Sept. 1762 in Killingworth, and died 27 Oct. 1835 in Great Valley, Cattaraugus Co., NY. He served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Bristol’s Co “sent on the Alarm to E. Haven, July 7, 1779.” His places of residence included Killingworth, CT, Westmoreland, CT in 1790, Adams, MA in 1800, and Derby, CT 1803-06. “Mary owned the Covenant at Killingworth, August 19, 1781.” She received a pension for Garner’s service in the Revolutionary War. (R‑181, R‑200)

Children - Isbell

766. Phoebe Isbell, b. 12 April 1779 (Killingworth, CT).

767. Lois Isbell, b. 2 Sept. 1781 (Killingworth, CT).

768. Molly Isbell, b. 3 March 1784.

769. Garner Isbell, b. 27 Aug. 1786.

770. Keziah Isbell, b. 6 July 1788.

+771. Levi Haskell Isbell, 6 May 1791, m. Mahala Travis, 19 May 1817, d. 15 Feb. 1863.

772. Zibe Lovemoon Isbell, 28 Nov. 1793, d. 5 Dec. 1805.

773. Clara Harriet Isbell, b. 25 Jan. 1796.

774. Delinia Isbell, b. 3 June 1798.

775. Diantha Isbell, b. 15 Nov. 1800.

776. Dixon Derby Isbell, b. 21 May 1803 (Derby, New Haven Co., CT).

+777. Zuri Jonas Isbell, b. 16 Sept. 1805, m. Flora Pickering.

Phineas Graves (252) was born 30 Jan. 1762, and died 1 Jan. 1859 in Erie Co., NY. He married Elizabeth Mitchell on 12 Oct. 1786. She was born 22 Sept. 1755 and died 21 Sept. 1816. He married second Anna (Petty) Nourse, widow of Francis Nourse, on 9 Jan. 1818. Phineas was a Rev. soldier in Captain Bristol's Co. in the 7th Conn. Militia in July 1779. He was blind for the last 30 years of his life, 20 of which he spent with his nephew Bela Graves at Concord, Erie Co., NY. Bela married Mary Nourse, probably a daughter of Phineas’ second wife by her first husband. (R‑91, R‑200)

Children - Graves, by Elizabeth Mitchell

778. Hannah Graves, b. 25 Aug. 1787, never married.

+779. Betsey Graves, b. 22 Feb. 1789, m. Joel Woodward.

780. Lydia Graves, b. 27 Nov. 1791, m. Joel Woodward.

+781. Solomon (or Salmon) Graves, b. 22 June 1794, m. J. Minerva Graves, 22 Dec. 1817, d. age 74.

Nathan Graves, Jr. (253) was born 10 March 1764. He married Molly Jones about 1794. They lived in East Chazy, Clinton Co., NY. (R‑200)

Children - Graves

782. DeCalvus Graves, m. Corinne (Wescott) Cornell, widow of Garrett Edmund Cornell.

783. Cassius Graves

+784. Horace Graves, b. 10 March 1809, m. Anna Brown, d. 6 Aug. 1876.

785. Nathan Graves

786. Chester Graves

787. J. Minerva Graves, m. Solomon Graves. See #781 for descendants.

Selah Graves (254) was born 1 Feb. 1767, and died 29 Oct. 1838 in Pike, Wyoming Co., NY. He married Sabra Roundy, daughter of Capt. John Roundy, Jr. and Ruth Chickley, on 6 April 1794 in Rockingham, Windham Co., VT. She was born 14 Dec. 1777 (or 18 Dec. 1777)^[40], and died 16 Sept. 1832 in Pike, NY. They moved to Pike about 1822, bought a farm about a mile from the village, and built a wagon and blacksmith shop. (R‑14, R‑148, R‑200)

Children - Graves

+788. Bela Graves, b. 31 Aug. 1794, m. Harriet Nourse, 30 May 1822, d. 10 Sept. 1870.

+789. Ralph Graves, b. 17 Feb. 1796, m. Emily Tolles, 31 Oct. 1827, d. 14 May 1875.

+790. John Roundy Graves, b. 28 Jan. 1799, m. Mahala Jane Morgan, 1824, d. 4 July 1888.

791. Lewis Graves, b. 26 June 1801, m. Louisa Holt, d. July 1893 (Cuba, Allegany Co., NY). They lived in Pike until 1850 when they moved to Cuba, NY. No children.

+792. William Graves, b. 28 April 1807, m(1) Diana Brooks, 5 May 1835, m(2) Julia (‑‑‑‑‑‑) Hibbard, 1845, d. 24 Jan. 1894.

793. Sabra Graves, b. 29 June 1809, m. Albert Beeman, c. 1842. Moved to Michigan, where they both died.

+794. Mary Jones (or Mary Jane) Graves, b. 16 Sept. 1811, m. Irwin (Erwin) Harris Granger, 22 Jan. 1827, d. 15 Aug. 1900.

+795. Hiram A. Graves, b. 19 Jan. 1814, m. Lucinda D. Davis, 30 Sept. 1838, d. 10 Aug. 1907.

+796. Allen (or Ablim) Sigmour Graves, b. 9 Oct. 1816, m. Mary A. Harper.

797. Harriet Graves, b. 30 Dec. 1820, m. Phineas Bigelow Woodward (#2039, son of Joel Woodward and her first cousin Betsey Graves), 1845, d. 18 Aug. 1859.

Joel Graves (259) was born 25 Aug. 1780, was baptized 24 June 1781 in Walpole, Cheshire Co., NH, and died 8 May 1852. He married Sarah Giddings on 16 Jan. 1820. She died 13 April 1842. He lived in Westmoreland, NH on the border of Walpole, was a clockmaker, and settled on a plot of land known as the "Graves pasture" which was later owned by Henry Burt. He was known as "Jinglefoot." (R‑200, R‑202)

Children - Graves

798. child, b. 1821, d. young.

799. Nancy Graves, b. 23 Aug. 1822.

800. Sarah Graves, b. 27 Aug. 1824, d. 15 May 1844.

801. Gilbert Graves, b. 23 April 1827.

802. Alice Graves, b. 6 Aug. 1830.

+803. Joel Graves, Jr., b. 28 Oct. 1833, m. Emily L. (‑‑‑‑‑‑) Smith, 13 Feb. 1866.

+804. Charles C. Graves, b. 1 Nov. 1836, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑.

805. Mary Graves, b. 29 Sept. 1841, m. Elihu Dunham (of Westminster, VT).

GENERATION 6

CHILDREN OF IRA BEEBE (74) AND JEMIMA HICKOX

Eli Beebe (261) was born 30 Jan. 1758 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 15 Sept. 1836. He married Elizabeth Baldwin on 6 April 1778. She died 10 Sept. 1818. (R‑208)

Children - Beebe

806. Polly Beebe

807. Ira Beebe

808. Josiah Baldwin Beebe

809. Eli Beebe

810. Elizabeth Beebe

Borden Beebe (265) was born 5 Sept. 1767 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died 23 Jan. 1831 in Ridgefield, OH. He married Sybil Williams. At one time this family lived in Canandaigua, NY. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

811. Roxanna Beebe

812. Jemima Beebe

813. Samuel W. Beebe

814. Lura Beebe

815. Clarissa Beebe

816. Marcia Beebe

817. Armenia Beebe

818. Ira Beebe

819. Jeremiah Beebe

820. Richard Beebe

821. Almena Beebe

822. Rhoda Beebe

CHILDREN OF JONATHAN BEEBE (78) AND AZUBAH WARNER

William Beebe (277) was born 23 June 1770 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, and died in 1839 in Grafton, Lorain Co., OH. He married Mary (“Polly”) Cleveland, daughter of Johnson Cleveland, in Oct. 1801 in Rutland, Rutland Co., VT. It is reported that he had two sons. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

823. Ruth Beebe, b.c. 1802, m(1) Asa Tillotson, 6 Feb. 1823; m(2) Azariah Smith, 30 May 1830 (Huntington, Lorain Co., OH), d. 6 Jan. 1882 (Wooster, Wayne Co., OH). Asa d.c. 1825 (West Henrietta, Monroe Co., NY).

Arsinoe Beebe (281) was born in Nov. 1778 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT, died 12 Oct. 1859, and was buried in the Root Cem. in Canandaigua, Ontario Co., NY. He married Mary (“Polly”) Warriner on 8 Dec. 1799 in Ira, Rutland Co., VT. She was the sister of Elizabeth who married his brother, Theodonis. According to their daughter, Leva, seven children were born to the couple but information is only available on three. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

824. Alonzo Beebe, b.c. 1801 (VT), m. Hannah P. Wood, 15 Feb. 1825, d. after 1862. He was a surveyor in Granger Co., OH, from 1856 to 1862.

825. Laura Beebe, b. 9 March 1802 (VT), m. John H. Chamberlain, c. 1828-29 (NY), d. 31 Aug. 1893 (Canandaigua, NY). He was b. 1 April 1802 (PA) and d. 1 Sept. 1875 (Canandaigua, NY). She was bur. in the Pine Bank Cem. (Canandaigua, NY).

+826. Leva Beebe, b. Oct. 1806, m. Thomas Clark, 3 Oct. 1822, d. 1 May 1896.

CHILDREN OF DAVID BEEBE (79) AND LYDIA TERRILL

Augustus Beebe (293) was born 18 April 1788 in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. He married Eunice Smith. (R‑149, R‑208, R‑209)

Children - Beebe

827. Augustus Adolpus (or Mary Ann?) Beebe, b. Sept. 1812, d. 11 Nov. 1847 (New Haven, CT).

CHILDREN OF SEBA BEEBE (81) AND SARAH DAVIS

David Beebe (295) was born about 1773, and died 4 March 1853 (or 1855 per his gravestone in the Beebe Cem., Stanstead, Quebec, Canada). He married Clarissa Cross, who died 10 Nov. 1875 at age 92. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

828. David Beebe

829. Wesley Beebe

830. Ransom Beebe

831. Elmira Beebe

832. Aurilla Beebe

833. Hannah Beebe

834. Clarissa Beebe

Hannah Beebe (296) married Francis House, son of Francis House of Fairlee, Orange Co., VT. Hannah’s brother Thomas married Francis’ sister Esther. Hannah and Francis moved to Beebe, Quebec, Canada about 1800 and “settled at what is still called House Hill in Beebe, and had a large family which was prominent in the affairs of Stanstead, Quebec, for a century and more.”^[41] (R‑149)

Children - House

+835. Hiram House, b. 26 Aug. 1801, m(1) Hannah Norris, 20 Dec. 1825, m(2) Nancy C. House, 10 Oct. 1860, d. 3 May 1886.

+836. Alvin House, b. 9 Oct. 1803, m(1) Sally Miller, 14 May 1837, m(2) Dimmis Smith, 1865, d. May 1887.

+837. Francis House, b. 30 Dec. 1805, m. Lucinda G. Bragg, d. 31 [sic] June 1870.

+838. George House, b. 27 Aug. 1807, m(1) Lucy Lee, 1833, m(2) Persis Kittredge, d. 11 March 1872.

+839. Harry House, b. 1809, m. Pamelia Porter, d. 6 Nov. 1888.

+840. John Lyman House, b. 16 July 1811, m. Mary Ann White, d. 18 Sept. 1905.

Thomas Beebe (297) was born about 1776, possibly in Piermont, Grafton Co., NH, and died 22 Aug. 1857, age 81, in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada. He married Esther House, daughter of Francis House of Fairlee, VT. She died 4 June 1863. Both were buried in Beebe Village Cem., Stanstead, Canada. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

841. James W. Beebe

+842. Anson Beebe, b.c. 1809, m. Betsey E. Bodwell, d. 16 Jan. 1879.

843. Sarah Beebe

844. Ruth Beebe; probably the Ruth Beebe who m. Amos Moulton, 8 Jan. 1835 (Derby, Orleans Co., VT).

845. Catherine Beebe

846. Esther Beebe may be the Esther Beebe “of Derby” who m. Beriah Stratton, 22 Aug. 1837 (Derby, VT).

847. Emily Beebe

+848. Francis David (or Dennison) Beebe, b. 6 July 1827, m. ‑‑‑‑‑‑, d. 8 Nov. 1896.

Calvin Beebe (298) was born 22 Feb. 1777, possibly in Piermont, Grafton Co., NH, and died 22 Nov. 1876 at age 99, perhaps in Schenectady, Schenectady Co., NY. He married Deborah Cole, probably as his first wife, married second Elouisa (or Elvira) (Turner) Coggswell on 24 June 1827, and married third ‑‑‑‑‑‑ Perrin, possibly in Schenectady, NY. Calvin’s second wife, Elouisa/Elvira, was born about 1797 and died in 1844. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe, by Deborah Cole

849. Emilie Beebe, d. 2 May 1814 (Bethel, Windsor Co., VT).

850. Deborah Beebe (probably the Deborah who married Russell Belknap, 10 Jan. 1836 in Randolph, Orange Co., VT).

851. Daniel Tillotson Beebe, m. Sarah A. Hyde.

852. John Dana Beebe, b. 2 Jan. 1821 (Randolph, VT), m(1) Armanda H. Snow, 4 Nov. 1842 (Massena, St. Lawrence Co., NY), m(2) Polly Ricard, 20 Sept. 1849 (Massena, NY), d. 15 Nov. 1904 (August, WI).

Children - Beebe, by Elouisa Turner

853. William Beebe

854. Luther Beebe

+855. Simeon Beebe, b. 11 Feb. 1833, m. Cynthia Brown, 23 Nov. 1857.

Zera Beebe (301) was born 10 April 1784 possibly in Pomfret, Windsor Co., VT, and died in 1845. He married Laura (or Louisa) Hartshorn on 31 March 1805 in Newport, Orleans Co., VT. She was born 1786 and died in 1844. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

+856. Horace Beebe, b. 1809, m. Esther Lamb, 1841, d. 1903.

857. Seba Beebe

858. Erastus Beebe (probably the Erastus who m. Eliza Shephard of Derby, VT on 2 Dec. 1833).

859. Deborah Beebe

860. Harriet Beebe

861. Mary (or Mary Jane) Beebe, b. 1822, m. William Monroe, d. 1903.

862. George Beebe

Anson Beebe (302) was born 1785 in New Hampshire, and died in 1847 in Rose, Oakland Co., MI. He married Abigail Young in Beebe, Quebec, Canada. They moved from New York state to Rose, MI in 1835 where he operated the Beebe Tavern. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

863. Mary Beebe

864. Tammie Beebe

865. Lucinda Beebe

866. Laura Beebe

+867. Anson Hayes Beebe, m. Betsy Hovey, 31 Dec. 1834, d. 23 March 1905.

868. Sarah Beebe

CHILDREN OF REUBEN BEEBE (83) AND XENIA MATTHEWS

Joel Beebe (305) was born about 1780 in Woodstock, Windsor Co., VT, and died at So. Apalachin, Tioga Co., NY. He married Mary ‑‑‑‑‑‑. She died and was buried in Horton, Bremer Co., IA. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

869. David Beebe

870. Fanny Beebe

871. Mary Beebe

872. Abraham (Abram) Beebe

Joseph Beebe (309) was born 13 Feb. 1785 in Woodstock, Windsor Co., VT, and died 16 Nov. 1861. He married Eunice Beardsley on 19 Oct. 1809 in Little Meadows, Susquehanna Co., PA. She was born 25 Sept. 1790 and died 22 Nov. 1864. They were both buried in the So. Apalachin Cem., So. Apalachin, Tioga Co., NY. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

873. Marinda Beebe

874. Lyman Beebe

875. Avery Beebe

876. Lewis Beebe

877. Allen Beebe

878. Morris Beebe

879. Reuben Beebe

880. Amorillas Beebe

881. Catherine Beebe

882. Caroline Beebe

883. Andrew Jackson Beebe

884. Juliette Beebe

885. Almira Beebe

886. Burrace Beebe

CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM BEEBE (87) AND ABIGAIL MARTIN

Ephraim Beebe, Jr. (315) was born 1 March 1770 probably in Wallingford or Cheshire, CT, both in New Haven Co., and died after 13 Jan. 1847 when he appeared in Genesee Co., NY to testify for his cousin Eunice (Lewis) Crossman’s petition for a widow’s pension. He married Triphena Hale on 13 Sept. 1792. The identification of his wife and children is from Genealogical Abstracts of Rev. War Pension Files by Virgil D. White. They lived in Wells, Rutland Co., VT until 1816. He was in Essex Co., NY in April 1816, and subsequently moved to Warsaw, NY (presently in Wyoming Co.) where he repaired wagons and made wooden sleighs. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

887. Elizabeth Beebe, b. 5 Dec. 1793.

888. Betsey Beebe, b. 2 May 1796.

889. Ansel Beebe, b. June 1797.

890. Marcia Beebe, b. 21 Aug. 1799.

891. Cynthia Beebe, b. 11 Jan. 1801.

892. Reubin Beebe, b. 26 Nov. 1803.

893. Ira Beebe, b. 21 Sept. 1806.

894. Ephraim Beebe, Jr., b. 11 Oct. 1808.

895. Alvina Beebe, b. 24 Sept. 1810.

896. Tryphena Beebe, b. 6 Nov. 1817.

Abigail Beebe (316) was born 25 Feb. 1772 probably in Glastonbury, Hartford Co., or Cheshire, New Haven Co., CT, and died 25 Sept. 1846. She married Joseph Bodfish of Wells, Rutland Co., VT about 1791. He died 17 March 1804 in Wells, VT. She married second Josiah Churchill of Hubbardton, Rutland Co., VT on 21 Oct. 1804. (R‑149)

Children - Bodfish

897. Mehitable Bodfish, b. 1792, m. Jeremiah Churchill.

898. Joseph Bodfish, b. 1794, m. Sarah Rollins or Rawlings.

899. “Epheram” Bodfish, b. 1797, m. Clarissa Brown.

900. Socrates Bodfish, b. 1799, m. Jerusha Smith.

901. Thankful Bodfish, b. 1802, m. Salmon Whitlock.

Ozias Beebe (317) was born by 1775 probably in Wallingford or Cheshire, CT, both in New Haven Co., and died before 1812. He married Roxana Andrews, daughter of Joseph Andrews and Elizabeth Staples, about 1797. The Andrews came from Granville, NY and settled in Wells, Rutland Co., VT in 1801. Roxana married second Stephen Clark in Wells, VT. In the Fair Haven, Rutland Co., VT probate records of 26 April 1814 dealing with Ozias’ heirs, he is referred to as “late of Clarendon” (Rutland Co., VT). (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

+902. Levi Beebe, b.c. 1798, m(1) Polly Simond, m(2) Electa Searls, d. 22 Feb. 1859.

903. Ozias Beebe, Jr., b.c. 1804; “went West at an early day.”

904. Harriet Beebe, m. Thomas Hall (of Pawlet, VT).

905. Abigail Beebe, m. Amos Winchell, 14 Jan. 1840 (Wells, VT).

Aaron Beebe (319) was born 1 March 1779 probably in Cheshire, New Haven Co., CT, and died 17 Oct. 1841 in Gaines, Orleans Co., NY. He married Clarissa White on 2 April 1801. She died in June 1807. He married second Lovina Comstock (?). She died 10 July 1848 in Newfane, Niagara Co., NY. According to Wilbur Owen’s History of Aaron Beebe & Descendants, children were born to Aaron in 1802, 1804, and 1809 in Granville, NY, in 1811 and 1812 in Wells, Rutland Co., VT, in 1814, 1816, and 1821 in Westfield, NY, in 1823 and 1824 in Granville, NY, and in 1827 in Penfield, NY. The birth order of the children is as listed in the Albion, Orleans Co., NY Surrogate Court records dated 17 Aug. 1846. The dates of birth for the last four children come from the guardianship records dated 29 Dec. 1841, also from the Surrogate Court. Sarah, Horace, Benjamin and Warren are definitely children of the second marriage based on the 1807 death of Clarissa, but it is unclear which children are from the first marriage. (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

906. Lyman Beebe

907. Clarissa Beebe, m. Calvin N. W. Owen.

908. Chester Beebe

909. Louisa Beebe, m. Samuel R. Clement.

910. Orin Beebe

911. Maria Beebe, m. Philo M. Clement.

912. Sarah Ann Beebe, b. 1821 (Westfield, Chautauqua Co., NY).

913. Horace H. Beebe, b. 10 March 1823 (Granville, Washington Co., NY).

914. Benjamin Franklin Beebe, b. 20 Oct. 1824 (Granville, NY).

915. Warren S. Beebe, b. 3 April 1827 (Penfield, Monroe Co., NY).

Silas Beebe (320) was born before 1785 probably in Cheshire, New Haven Co., CT, and died 22 Aug. 1826 in Murray, Orleans Co., NY. He married Lovina Clark, daughter of Stephen Clark, on 20 Nov. 1807 in Wells, Rutland Co., VT. She applied for a pension on 28 June 1878 based on Silas’ service during the War of 1812. She received land warrants 114 and 843 dated 2 Feb. 1875 when she lived in Girard, Branch Co., MI. Her pension application was rejected 18 Dec. 1878 on the grounds that Silas’ service was as a civilian employee (transporting a sleigh-load of soldiers from Plattsburgh, NY to Sackets Harbor, NY from 16 May to 23 June 1813). (R‑149)

Children - Beebe

+916. Uriah Beebe, m. Lorena Knowles, d. 7 May 1865.

CHILDREN OF EPHRAIM BEEBEE (OR BEEBE) (97) AND DELIGHT KENT

Ephraim Beebee (338) was born in 1782. He married Elizabeth Taylor. She was born about 1789 and died 11 Sept. 1849, age 60. They lived near High Bridge in Hanover, Chautauqua Co., NY, where they were both buried, though t