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Joan? m. England | Benjamin b. Mar 3, 1645 Concord MA d. by Mar 23, 1724 Saybrook CT |
John b. 1647 Concord MA |
?Abraham b. 1649 Concord MA |
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Sarah b. 1650? Concord MA d. Sep 6, 1694 |
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Mary Smith m. May 18, 1654 Wetherfield CT b. Oct 9, 1628 Hadleigh, Suffolk, England d. Dec 16, 1665 |
?Mary b. 1654? Wethersfield CT |
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John is said to have signed the petition to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1643
in favor of Ambrose Martin. |
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Concord, Massachusetts 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. 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. |
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John appears in a 1664 Petition Pledging to Assist ... in Maintaining a Charter.
This is the earliest list, though incomplete, of inhabitants of Concord. |
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John was the master of the Tryall, the first ship built in America in 1648. |
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Sources: Graves, John Card, "Notes on the Graves Family", unpubl. Mss. in the Grosvenor Collection, Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, NY. Wheeler, Ruth R., Concord, Climate for Freedom, Concord MA, The Concord Antiquarian Society, 1967, p. 200. |
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