The GRAVES Family of Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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THOMAS GRAVES (bef. 1585 - 1662) m. Sarah Unknown
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JOHN GRAVES (d. 1677) of Hatfield m. Mary Smith
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JOHN GRAVES (b. abt 1653) of Hatfield m. Sarah White
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SARAH GRAVES (b. 1679) m. Nathaniel Clark
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ELIZABETH GRAVES m. Joseph Hibbert


First Generation

THOMAS GRAVES (bef. 1585 - 1662)

Parents:

Thomas Graves was born before 1585. [Ref] He died in Nov 1662. [Ref] He married Sarah Unknown. [Ref]

Thomas came to New England with his wife Sarah and five children before 1645. [Ref] They moved to Hartford in 1645. [Ref] He came from Wethersfield to Hatfield in 1661 with his sons Isaac and John. [Ref]

Children of Thomas Graves and Sarah Unknown:

  1. Sgt. Isaac Graves was born about 1620 in England. [Ref] Along with his brother John, he was killed by Indians in the 19 Sep 1677 attack on Hatfield. [Ref] He married Mary Church. [Ref][Ref] Mary was the daughter of Richard and Anna Church. [Ref]
  2. John Graves was born in England. He died on 19 Sep 1677 in Hatfield. He married first Mary Smith. He married second the widow Mary (Bronson) Wyatt.
  3. Samuel Graves was born in England. [Ref]
  4. Nathaniel Graves was born about 1629 in England [Ref]. He died on 28 Sep 1682, age 53, in Wethersfield. [Ref] He married Martha Unknown on 16 Jan 1655 in Wethersfield. [Ref] Martha died on 13 Apr 1701, age about 75, in Wethersfield. [Ref]
  5. Elizabeth Graves married Joseph Hibbert

Second Generation

JOHN GRAVES of Hatfield (d. 1677)

Parents: Thomas Graves and Sarah Unknown

John Graves was born in England. [Ref] He was killed by Indians in the 19 Sep 1677 attack on Hatfield. [Ref][Ref] He married first Mary Smith. [Ref] He married second, as her second husband, on (probably) 20 Jul 1671 Mary Wyatt. [Ref] Mary was the daughter of John Bronson. [Ref] She married first John Wyatt of Haddam. [Ref] John was killed in the 19 Sep 1677 Indian attack on Hatfield. [Ref] She married third Lieut. William Allis on 25 Jun 1678. [Ref] She married fourth Capt. Samuel Gaylord. [Ref]

John moved to Hatfield in 1661. [Ref]

Inventory was taken on John's estate on 26 Mar 1678. [Ref] The settlement of his estate mentions his widow Mary Graves; her son Isaac Wyatt; his eldest son John Graves; his second son Isaac Graves; his third son Samuel Graves; his eldest daughter Mary (Graves) (Stebbins) Ball; his second daughter Sarah (Graves) Stebbins; his third daughter Elizabeth (Graves) Jones; his younger sons Daniel, Ebenezer and Nathaniel Wyatt. [Ref]

  1. John Graves was born about 1653. He married Sarah White.
  2. Mary Graves was born about 1654. [Ref][Ref] She married first Samuel Ball. [Ref] She married second Benjamin Stebbins in 1690. [Ref]
  3. Isaac Graves was born about 1655. [Ref][Ref] He married Sarah Wyatt in 1679. [Ref]
  4. Samuel Graves was born about 1657. [Ref][Ref] He married Sarah Unknown. [Ref]
  5. Sarah Graves was born about 1659. [Ref][Ref] She married Edward Stebbins in 1679. [Ref]
  6. Elizabeth Graves was born on 6 Dec 1662 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] She married Thomas Jones. [Ref][Ref]
  7. Daniel Graves was born on 7 Dec 1664 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] He married Hannah Warriner. [Ref]
  8. Ebenezer Graves was born on 20 Nov 1666 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] He married Mary Unknown. [Ref]
  9. Bethia Graves was born on 7 Jan 1668 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] She died on 21 Jan 1668. [Ref][Ref]
  10. Nathaniel Graves was born on 10 Jun 1671 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] He married Rebecca Allis. [Ref]

ELIZABETH GRAVES

Parents: Thomas Graves and Sarah Unknown

Elizabeth Graves married Joseph Hibbert on 20 Oct 1670. [Ref]

Third Generation

JOHN GRAVES (b. abt 1653) of Hatfield

Parents: John Graves and Mary Smith

John Graves was born about 1653. [Ref][Ref] He married Sarah White [Ref][Ref] on 12 Feb 1678. [Ref]

Children of John Graves and Sarah White:

  1. Sarah Graves was born on 15 Feb 1679 in Hatfield. She married Nathaniel Clark.
  2. John Graves was born on 28 Mar 1681. [Ref]
  3. Mary Graves was born on 24 Feb 1682. [Ref] She married Jeremiah White. [Ref]
  4. Thomas Graves was born on 4 Jul 1685. [Ref] He died in Oct 1689. [Ref]
  5. Abigail Graves was born on 29 Oct 1687. [Ref] Abigail Graves of Hatfield married Francis Wilcox [Ref] of Middletown on 13 Nov 1711 in Middletown. [Ref]
  6. Martha Graves was born on 4 Nov 1689. [Ref] She married first John Crofts. [Ref] She married second Eleazer Allis in 1734. [Ref]
  7. Daniel Graves was born on 13 Oct 1690. [Ref] He died young. [Ref]
  8. Thomas Graves was born on 5 Jun 1693. [Ref]
  9. Daniel Graves was born on 28 Jan 1697. [Ref]
  10. Rebecca Graves was born on 4 Mar 1700. [Ref] She married Moses Nash. [Ref]

Fourth Generation

SARAH GRAVES (b. 1679)

Parents: John Graves and Sarah White [Ref]

Sarah Graves was born on 15 Feb 1679 [Ref] in Hatfield. [Ref] She married her second cousin Nathaniel Clark on on 27 Oct 1702 in Middletown. [Ref][Ref]

References

Adams, Charles Collard, Middletown Upper Houses: A history of the north society of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1650 to 1800, with genealogical and biographical chapters on early families and a full genealogy of the Ranney family, New York, Grafton Press, 1908.

Barbour Records

Ellis, Charles M., trans. "Early Records of Roxbury," New England Historical and Genealogical Society 2, 1848, 52-4.

Gibbons, F. C. H., A History of Hatfield, Massachusetts: in three parts, Springfield, c. 1910

Hibbard, Augustine George, Genealogy of the Hibbard Family: who are descendants of Robert Hibbard of Salem, Massachusetts, Hartford, A.G. Hibbard, 1901.

McPherson, Gladys Redfield, Ancestry of Addie Clark Harding: Daughter of Abner Clark Harding, Jr., and Maud McCain, Chicago: unknown, 196-?.

Middletown, Middlesex Marriages 1664-1749.

Scofield, Ethel, "Contributions to Massachusetts Source Material," Notes section, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 112, 1985, 235-6.

White, Lorraine Cook, ed., The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.