TWELFTH GENERATION

4038. * John Graves ⁽²⁹⁹³⁾ was born between 1590 and 1595 in England.^{(2994) (2995)} *E-Mail : 7/5/96 "The Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 by Charles Edward Banks. Baltimore, 1957, lists John Graves from Nazing and Harlow, Essex, England, emigrating to Roxbury, MA."

*E-Mail : 8/8/96 "John Graves (1) was probably born about 1590 -1595 in England." ... "He was from Nazing, Essex, England." He emigrated in 1633 from England.⁽²⁹⁹⁶⁾ He immigrated in MAY 1633 to Massachusetts.^{(2997) (2998)} *E-Mail : "Savage (pp 294-295) states: John Graves of Roxbury came in May l633 with wife who died soon after, and 5 children: John; Samuel; Jonathan; Sarah; and Mary, according to the church record. The ship William and Jane came in that month but, as Winthrop says, she brought only 30 passengers. I think these came, perhaps that month in the other ship, Mary and Jane, which had 196."

*E-Mail : "From "The Town of Roxbury" , Francis S.Drake,1905, pp 11, 49, 393 : "Early in 1633 John Graves, with his wife and five children, left their home for the shores of New England"

*E-Mail : 8/8/96 "He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in May 1633 with his wife, who died soon after, and five children. He probably arrived in the Mary and Jane. He died on NOV 4 1644 in Roxbury, MA. ⁽²⁹⁹⁹⁾ He is my 9th great grandfather. 9th great grandfather

*E-Mail : "John Graves - Here is the info on John Graves of Roxbury, MA : JOHN GRAVES OF ROXBURY, MA A NEW POSSIBILITY FOR IMMIGRANT ANCESTRY. This information came from pages 82 and 83 of the 1994 Graves Family Newsletter. Although the information about immigrant John Graves of Roxbury MA has been known and published for many years, he and his descendants do not seem to have been written up by John Card Graves or any of the other compilers of genealogies, and I know of no one who claims ancestry from him. That is especially strange, since his home in England is known. At first I thought he might be the same as John Graves of Concord, MA, but that is obviously not the case, since John of Roxbury died in 1644, and his children were all born before those of John of Concord. More research will be done to discover who he is and whether he is connected with other immigrants or with some of the known American Graves families.

The Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650 by Charles Edward Banks. Baltimore, 1957, lists John Graves from Nazing and Harlow, Essex, England, emigrating to Roxbury, MA.

Savage (pp 294-295) states: John Graves of Roxbury came in May 1633 with wife who died soon after, and 5 children: John; Samuel; Jonathan; Sarah; and Mary, according to the church record. The ship William and Jane came in that month but, as Winthrop says, she brought only 30 passengers. I think these came, perhaps that month in the other ship, Mary and Jane, which had 196. ln Dec.1635 he married Judith Alward, or Allard, had Hannah, born 8 Sept.1636; was freeman 18 April 1637, and died 4 Nov. 1644. Elliot calls him 'Godly brother' and after mention, next to him, of funeral of 'Thomas Ruggles, a godly brother' adds: 'these two broke the knot first of the Nazing Christians. I mean they
first died of all those Christians that came from that town in England.’ As he, also, came from that little town, we know how he must have felt their loss. Fourth after death of the son we read in the record Jan. about 24 day, old mother Graves died. She was about 80 years of age." In his will, of 1 Nov. 1644, he provides for his mother, his wife, and all the children. Executrix Sarah, who was probably dead; but on 26 Nov. of the next year his son John made his will and gives to all his brothers and sisters, yet more to Sarah than the other two, and to his father's widow. On 5 Dec. 1645 the writer adds to his sad list: "John Graves, a godly young man, eldest son of him who died the year before." The widow Judith married 2 June 1646, William Potter, survived him and married 13 Dec. 1654,
Samuel Finch, and Hannah married 24 May 1654 John Mayo.

According to Thomas Lechford's Notebook, 1885, pp. 38-39): 'To all to whome these presents shall come greeting, Knowe yee that I John Graves of Roxbury in New England, Cowleech, guardian of Sarah Graves my Daughter under age, Doe hereby constitute and make my wellbeloved friends Robert Wood of Harlowe in the County of Essex, shoemaker, and Nicholas Campe of Nasing in the said County, husbandman, my true and lawfull Attorneys joyntly and severally for me and in myne name and my said daughters name to demand and receive by suit of law if need to recover of Lydia Ford late of Nasing aforesaid, widdow my sister, the summe of seaven pounds and tenne shillings, for six years rent of a certaine peice of meadow in Nasing aforesaid, to be ended the Twenty first day of March next ensuing the date thereof, being part of my said daughter's legacy, according to the last will and Testament of Thomas Finch late of Hertford in the county of Hertford, yoeman, deceased. And acquittance or acquittance therefore in my name and my said Daughters name to make upon such receipt, and the same money received to return unto my well beloved freind Nicholas Parker of Boston in New England, Planter, whome I have appointed to receive the same... (dated 23 Nov. 1638)
(NOTES: 1. John Graves was a friend of John Eliot the Apostle, coming as did Eliot, from the town of Nasing, in Eccex, and living in Roxbury. He died in 1644. @This provision for one of the daughters of John Graves may account for the omission of her name in his will, made Nov 1 in 1644, by which his estate was left to his wife, mother, and children, except for Sarah. Perhaps she was the only surviving child by a second wife (daughter of Thomas Finch), who died shortly after his arrival in New England, or of Judith Alward, or Alward, or Allard, his third wife.)

From "The Town of Roxbury" , Francis S. Drake,1905, pp 11, 49, 393: "in the year 1631 the ship Lyon, William Pierce, master, left the shores of England with the first batch of Nasing pilgrims on board. Eliot, The Apostle, was there, with William Curtis and Sarah, his wife. Eliot's sister and their children, in company with the the wife of Govenor Winthrop. Early in 1633 John Graves, with his wife and five children, left their home for the shores of New England...emigration from Old to New England ceased about 1640, when the popular cause there began to look hopeful. West of stony Brook and south of Heath Street, a district since included in the Lowell and Heath Estates, originally containing the homesteads of Philip Eliot, James Astwood, Isaac Johnson, Robert Pepper, JOHN GRAVES, Arthur Gary, John Perry, and William Heath." He was married to * Judith Alward in DEC 1635 in Massachusetts. ⁽³⁰⁰⁰⁾ *E-Mail : see Savage (pp 294-295) "ln Dec.1635 he married Judith Alward, or Allard, had Hannah, born 8 Sept.1636;"

4039. * Judith Alward⁽³⁰⁰¹⁾ is my 9th great grandmother. 9th great grandmother

E-mail : She was John's 3rd wife "Judith Alward, or Alward, or Allard, his third wife" Children were:

2019 i. * Hannah Graves.