Thomas Graves

1605 - 1653  (48 years)

• Name	Thomas Graves  [1, 2]
  Birth	6 Jun 1605	Ratcliffe, Stepney, Middlesex, England   [3, 4]
  Baptism	6 Jun 1605	Stepney, Middlesex, England   [5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	16 Jun 1605	Stepney, Middlesex, England   [3, 6]
  Alternate birth	of Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Death	31 Jul 1653	Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I37995	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TS
  Last Modified	9 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	John Graves   d. Between 1 Aug 1637 and 15 Dec 1637, Lymehouse, Middlesex, England
  Mother	Sarah Malter,   b. Bef 8 Nov 1579   d. Bef Jun 1624 (Age < 44 years)
  Marriage	6 Apr 1597	Stepney, Middlesex, England   [6]
  Family ID	F22873	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Gray,   b. Bef 30 Jun 1605   d. 21 Feb 1683, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachussets (Age > 77 years)
  Children	+ 1. Rebecca Graves,   b. Abt 1631   d. 8 Sep 1664, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 33 years)
  Family ID	F22327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2022

  
  

• Notes

  He was a shipmaster who settled in Charlestown, and made frequent voyages back and forth across the Atlantic. He fought in the English Civil War, where he attained the rank of Rear Admiral. He should not be confused with the Thomas Graves, an engineer who arrived in New England in 1629, settling at Charlestown, who apparently returned to England in 1633.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6864] William B. Saxbe, Jr., "Adams, Cary & Quincy: Cousins on the Frontier and in the White House." Mayflower Descendant 71:68, Winter 2023. [S7376] The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1636-1638 by Ian Watson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2024. [S6426] John Insley Coddington, "A Royal Descent from King Edward III of England to Thomas1 Coytmore of Charlestown, Mass., Elizabeth Wife of William1 Tyng of Boston, Sarah Wife of Ralph1 Eddowes of Philadelphia Co., Pa., John Quincy Adams, Neville Chamberlain and Other." The American Genealogist 32:9, 1956. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945. [S6863] Elaine C. Nichols, "Myles of Sutton, Suffolk." In "Genealogical Notes." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 138:39, Jan 1984. [S6873] Eben Putnam, "Notes on the Ancestry and Connections of 'Rear Admiral' Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Mass." Essex Institute Historical Collections 31:174, 1895.