John Graves

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Mar 1633; After the death of his first wife, John came to New England, possibly on board the Mary and Jane with his five children, John, Samuel, Jonathan, Sarah, and Mary.
• Will: 1 Nov 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; He is mentioned in his father's will.
• Inventory: 13 Jun 1646, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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Died:
The Rev. John Eliot says of him, "1645 10 month 5 days Iohn Graue, a godly young man, the eldest son of him who dyed the year afore, he dyed of an vlcer in his lung."

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was a cow leech, that is veterinarian.
• Immigration: Mar 1633; After the death of his first wife, possibly on board the Mary and Jane with his five children, John, Samuel, Jonathan, Sarah, and Mary. From the Rev. John Eliot's Reccord of Church Members: John Graves - he arrived in the 3^d month. 1633. he brought 5 children John. Samuel. Jonathan. Sarah. Mary, his wife quickly dyed, &, he maryed Judith, a maid servantt, by whom his first child Hanah was borne about the end of the 7^th month. 1636.
• Freeman: 18 Apr 1637, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; On 18 April 1637 in Roxbury, Massachusetts he was admitted as a freeman.
• Land/House: Between 1638 and 1641; John Graves of Roxbury, N. E., makes Robert Wood of Harlow and Nicholas Campe of Nasing, co. Essex, attorneys to receive rents from his sister, the widow Lydia Ford of Nasing. from between 1638 and 1641.
• Will: 1 Nov 1644, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Iohn Grave. November (1) 1644. John Grave late of Roxbury. Vnto sonne John the ten Acre lott containing six Acres more or lesse. Also my two Oxen & the vse of halfe the barne during the time of his mothers life & then the barne to be divided as his mothers land is, one halfe vnto him. Also my best suite & the bed that he lyeth vppon. John shall pay vnto dau. Mary sixe pounds at the age of twenty-one years —but in case she dye before, John to pay his brother Samuell & Jonathan fourty shillings apiece. Also vnto sonne Samuell my lot called the four acre lott, the lott of goodman Lewis between the land of Robert Seaver & the land of goodman Lewis, vnto him, &c. vnto Jonathan my son that lott lying on the great hill of 5 Acres —if my two frends, Phillip Eliot & Will^nj Heath exchange it for land more convenient & vsefuli for my son, I give them full power so to doe. Also my lot of Comon w^ch was last divided vnto me by the towne, I give to my foresaid three sonns equally to be divided — wife to haue free liberty to fetch fyre wood. To dau. Many the bed & all that belongeth thereto w^ch her grandmother now lyeth vppon. If wife liue fyve years after the death of my mother, then she shall pay vnto my daughter Hanna six pound —if she dye before, then Iohn & Samuell & Jonathan to pay vnto her fyve pound. Testifyed before the Court Phillip Eliot. William Heath. Increase Nowell sec^r — Iohn Grave. 26 (9) 1645. John Grave late of Roxbury. My land to be sould.—Vnto my brother Samuell Sixe pound, to brother Jonathan four pounds. —to sister Saiah three pound — to ray sister Hanna three pound—to sister Marah sixe pound w^ch I was to giue vnto her by my ffathers will—to be paid her at the age of one & twenty—vnto Georg Brand what he doth owe vnto mee —vnto my Mother all my wearing apparell—vnto Phillip Eliot what he doth owe mee, whom I doe make mine Executor. What is left to be divided between my Executor & my mother. What I was to haue by my ffathers will, after the death of my mother my two brethren, Samuett & Jonathan shall ^njoy it equally. They to pay sister Sarah five pound, & to sister* Marah three pound, & to sister Hanna three pound. The testimonies of Robert Pepper, Widdowe Grave & John Hansett. See in the book of affidavits,* fol. 43.
• Last Full Review: 26 Sep 2020

Notes:

Immigration: The date in the record is 1633, however Anderson (2003) uses 1635 because of the dates placement. I have chosen to use 1633.

Death: His death was recorded as 4 (9) 1644.

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Died:
The Rev. John Eliot, said of him in in journal, "Iohn Graues, a godley brother of the church, he took a deep cold, which sweld his head with rhume and ouercame his heart."

John married Sarah Finch in by 1624. Sarah was buried on 10 Jun 1626 in All Saints' Church, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Parents: Father: Thomas Finch
• Other Will: 18 Nov 1625, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; Thomas, her father, left Sarah and her husband 10/ in his will of 18 November 1625 written in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England.
• Last Full Review: 26 Sep 2020