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| Mary Hoar m. Oct 21, 1668 Concord MA b. Aug 23, 1648 Concord MA d. Jun 5, 1697 MA |
Mary b. Jan 18, 1669 Concord MA d. Oct 22, 1736 Marlboro MA |
Elizabeth b. Apr 25, 1671 Concord MA d. Apr 4, 1730 New London CT |
Ruth b. Nov 25, 1674 Concord MA d. Nov 12, 1755 Concord MA |
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Benjamin b. Mar 2, 1676 Concord MA d. Dec 30, 1752 Colchester CT |
Joseph b. Sep 1, 1679 Concord MA d. after Apr 2, 1756 Saybrook CT |
Johanna b. Feb 2, 1681 Concord MA |
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| John b. 1683 ?Concord MA d. Dec 29, 1766 Walpole NH |
?Rebecca b. 1685? Saybrook CT |
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Benjamin served as member of Capt. Thomas Wheeler's company and fought in the
Colonial Wars against the Indians in July and August 1675 and February 1676. |
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He and his younger brother John Graves of Sudbury, Mass., with others, purchased
on May 20, 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 at a place
called Cold Spring near William Longley's house, with liberty to dig, delve or
use land, and to erect buildings, etc." Benjamin did not move there. Instead,
he moved to Saybrook, [Conn.] and resided at Pattaconk, where he bought
land on Jan 25, 1703. |
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Benjamin deeded one-half of his farm in Saybrook CT to son Joseph on Mar 18, 1715,
"certain lands" to his son John of Killingworth, Conn., Sept. 14, 1716. |
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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' [Connecticut] at the northward side of ye land formerly
owned by Benjamin Graves in Pattaconke", action taken at Saybrook, 5 Jan. 1724/5. |
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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. |
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Sources: Concord Register, Book Y. 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). Graves, John Card, "Notes on the Graves Family", unpubl. Mss. in the Grosvenor Collection, Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, NY. Rixford, Elizabeth M. L., Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors... ; Rutland, VT, Tuttle, 1934; pp.121-122. Wheeler, Ruth R., Concord, Climate for Freedom, Concord Mass., The Concord Antiquarian Society, 1967. |
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