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| From http://wolves.dsc.k12.ar.us/cyberace/sbgone/gen/fam1/cotton/william.htm74 • Married twice after husband William's death: to Rev. Francis Doughty and Rev. Nathaniel Eaton. • WTF lists her mother as Katherine Stone • Daughter of Capt. Thomas Graves and Katherine Croshaw • Some have her as the daughter of William Stone, first Protestant governor of Md. and others have their daugher Verlinda married William Stone. I have her sister Verlinda married to William Stone. • Her will was proved 18 July 1683 in Charles Co., MD, and names six of her eight grandchildren and her deceased son Samuel Eaton If she was in fact the daughter of Thomas Graves, his info (from the same site) is: Capt. Thomas Graves, Immigrant • Born in Gravesend, England • Came to Virginia on the Mary & Margarett with Capt Christopher Newport as commander of the 2nd supply ship to Jamestown. "The Second Supplie was a ship called the Mary Margett, which arrived here nine months after, about the time of Michaelmas, in her sixty persons, most gentlemen, few or no tradesmen, except some Polanders to make pitch, tarre, potashes, & etc., to be returned for perfect gaine, foe meanly likewise were there furnished forth for victualles, that in lesse than two monthes after their arrivall, want compelled us to imploye our time abroad in trading with the Indians for corne." (Colonial Records of Virginia, State Paper Office. Vol. 3, No. 21 I) • Settled in Jamestown, James City County, Va in 1608. Thomas was active in the colony. He went on an exploring expedition and was captured by Indians and taken to Opechancanough (half-brother of Powhatan and uncle of Pocahontas). Thomas Savage, who had come to Virginia with the first supply on the "John and Francis" in 1608, rescued him." • One of the original Adventurers (stockholders) of the Virginia Company of London • Member of the First Legislative Assembly for Smythe's Hundred when it met at Jamestown on July 30, 1619. Smith's Hundred Company was formed for the culture of tobacco in 1617 and the name changed in 1619 to Southampton Hundred. • Entreated to take charge of the people and works at Smythe's Hundred in April 1619. • There is no record of his being in Virginia after the meeting of the Burgesses in July-August of 1619 until he is shown as living on the Eastern Shore in 1623. It seems reasonable that he was in England at the time of the Indian Massacre of March 1622, and upon returning to Virginia settled on the Eastern Shore where it was less perilous to live. • A list compiled in 1625 showed his land on the eastern shore: Immediately to the north of the Blower/Saunders tract was the patent of fur trader Captain Henry Fleete, above which was the land of Thomas Graves, patented in 1628. • Records of the Virginia Company state that in 1622 "a patent to Thomas Graves of Doublin in the Realm of Ireland, gent.", This is believed to be a clerical error. As stated in the original charter of the Virginia Co. of London, the first Adventurers to Virginia were to be from the city of London. • His patent for 200 acres on the Eastern Shore is of record 14 March 1628 (Patent Book No. 1, p. 72, Land Registrar's 0ffice, Richmond, Va.). This land was in what was then known as Accomack, now a part of Northampton Co., Va, on the eastern side of the Bay of Chesapeake, westerly of the lands of Capt Henry Flute, an explorer of the Bay • member of the House of Burgesses, representing Accomack for the 1629-1630 session and for the 1632 session. • The first vestry of Hungars Episcopal Church was appointed in 1635, the first meeting on 29 Sept 1635. Capt. Graves headed the list of those present. . • On 9 Aug. 1637, his son John Graves patented 600 acres in Elizabeth City County near the upper end of Back River, "due in right of descent upon his father Thomas Graves who transported at his own costs himself, Katherine Graves, his wife, sons John Graves, the patentee, and Thomas Graves, Jr., and 8 persons. This patent was near the lands of Capt. Adam Thoroughgood • Died in Accomack County., Va | ||||||
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