Richard Graves |
Richard Graves<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Circa 1673 - Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Colony<br>Occupation: surveyor general who laid out the town of Beaufort in 1713<br>Marriage: Spouse: Hannah Linnington (born Kent) - Circa 1715<br>Death: Apr 11 1730 - Craven County, Province of North Carolina<br>Father: <br>Mother: Jane Davenport Doughty (born unknown)<br>Wife: Hannah Linnington (born Kent)<br&;gt;Children: Mary Nixon (born Graves), Thomas Graves<br>Siblings: John Graves, Francis Graves, Jr., Thomas Graves, James Graves
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Richard Graves<br>Birth name: Richard Graves<br>Gender: Male<br>Birth: Circa 1673 - Rappahannock, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America<br>Marriage: Spouse: Hannah Kent - Circa 1715 - North Carolina, British Colonial America<br>Death: Apr 11 1730 - North Carolina Colony, British Colonial America<br>Parents: Francis Graves Sr., Jane<br>Wife: Hannah Kent<br>Children: Mary Elizabeth Bright (born Graves), Mary Elizabeth Nixon (born Graves), Captain Thomas Graves<br>Siblings: John Graves, Francis Graves Jr., , Jane McGuffey, Elizabeth Davenport, John McGuffey III<br>This person appears to have duplicated relatives. View it on FamilySearch to see the full information.<br> Additional information:
LifeSketch: Graves Family Associationrg/gen220.htm had bought a sloop in partnership and they probably engaged in coastwise trade. Richard apparently died about 1730, since this seems to be the Richard Graves of Craven Precinct, N.C., who in his will, dated 11 April 1730, referred to nephews "Richard and Francis, sons of brother Thomas Graves in Virginia." In the Essex Order Book mentioned above, Francis Graves (Richard's brother) testified in Sept. 1714 that, since leaving Essex Co., Richard had sent him a small Indian boy in payment for a debt. of recognized ability. According to Charles Paul, in Colonial Beaufort, “Sometime prior to the fall of 1713, permission had been obtained from the Lords Proprietors to lay out a town by the name of Beaufort at this site, and on October 2, 1713, Robert Turner had Richard Graves, Deputy Surveyor, lay out the town. A plat was made of the town by Graves and recorded in the office of the secretary of the colony. Streets were named; allotments were provided for a church, a town-house, and a market place; and lots were offered for sale.”[2] In 1726 Richard Graves represented the Precinct in the Lower House of the Assembly of N.C. (Colonial Records of N.C., vol. 2, p. 528). of Thomas Cornell and Rebecca Briggs.ll had six daughters. Sarah was the oldest and Hannah was the youngest. The Kents were Quakers, but Hannah married “out of union[3]” to Richard. Sarah Kent married Lawrence Consolvos when Hannah was 11 years old. Their only son, Thomas, was born 1684 and died 1687. Sarah married two more times, to John Johnson and to William Long, and died 3 May 1718. Hannah Kent first married John Smithwick, who died in 1696. She married second Furnifold Greene (or Farnifold Green), killed in the Tuscarora War. She married Richard Graves third, and then married George Linnington (or Lillington?), whom she survived. to Perquimins Precinct from Massachusetts, and were Quakers. Hannah Kent was born 10 May 1673. The marriages of several of her sisters are in the Quaker records, but her’s isn’t. See Journal of North Carolina Genealogy, pp. 1379-1380, Winter 1964, and also Virkus, VII, p. 641, showing the Kent family. The Albemarle Co., NC Quaker records are found in Berkeley Parish Records, published by Hathaway. (R‑1, R‑907)
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