Fourteenth Generation

13546. Admiral Thomas GRAVES was born on 6 June 1605 in Stepney, London, England. He died Thomas Graves was admitted to the First Church, Charlestown, with his wife, 7 Oct. 1639, and was made freeman at general court, Boston, on 13 May 1640. He became possessed of a large amount of land in Charlestown and Woburn. (Woburn is next to and just south of Wilmington.) He continued to follow the sea, and while in command of a merchantman captured a Dutch "man-of-war" vessel in the British Channel, for which gallant act he was appointed by Parliament captain of the frigate President in the Royal Navy on 30 May 1652. The following year he was appointed rear admiral of the White, and on board the St. Andrew (with 360 men and 56 guns)[7] he participated in the naval battles with the Dutch, and was killed 31 July 1653.[8][9] His body was landed from the fleet in Aldborough Bay, Co. Suffolk, England, 8 Aug. 1653, and buried the same day, his wife's family being from that county. Parliament granted his family 1000 pounds. His will dated 13 June 1652, deposited with his brother Abraham in England, was forwarded to America. It was presented for probate by his widow and proved on the first of the tenth month of 1653 (old style calendar, 1 Dec. 1653), several months after his death. on 31 July 1653 at the age of 48 at Sea Battle, English Channel in At Sea. Thomas GTraves was born 6 June 1605 at Ratcliff, England, near London (or at Stepney, England), was baptized 16 June 1605 at Stepney, part of the city of London, and died 31 July 1653 (old style calendar, 31st day, 5th month, 1653) in a sea battle with the Dutch in the English Channel.  (A number of sources say he died in Charlestown, MA, but this definitely appears incorrect; e.g., Tracy Genealogym p. 177, and NEHGS Register.)  His will was dated 13 June 1652 and probated 1 Oct. 1653.
Thomas Graves sprang from a prominent shipbuilding and mariner family of London, and came to America as early as 1628.  He was a skillful shipmaster, and was mate of the Talbot, in which Higginson came to Salem, Mass. in 1629. He was mate of the Arabella, master of the Plantation in 1630, master of the Plough in 1631, of the Whale in 1632, of the Reformation and Elizabeth Bonadventura in 1633 and 1634, and of the James in 1635.  He was master of the first American built ship, the Tryall, on her second voyage in June 1643, and followed the sea more or less until his death.  He brought his family (consisting of his wife and two children) to America about 1636 or 1637 and settled in Charlestown, Mass., probably at the same time that his wife's mother came.
He married Katherine (or Katharine or Catharine) Gray before 1635 (probably by 1630) in England.  She was born about 1606 at Harwich, England, died 21 Feb. 1682 (old style calendar, 21, 12, 1681), and was buried 23 Feb. 1681/2. She was a daughter of Thomas Gray and Katherine Myles (daughter and co-heir of Robert Myles, of Sutton, in County Suffolk).
homas Graves (29) was born 6 June 1605 at Ratcliff, England, near London (or at Stepney, England), was baptized 16 June 1605 at Stepney, part of the city of London, and died 31 July 1653 (old style calendar, 31st day, 5th month, 1653) in a sea battle with the Dutch in the English Channel.  (A number of sources say he died in Charlestown, MA, but this definitely appears incorrect; e.g., Tracy Genealogy, p. 177, and NEHGS Register.)  His will was dated 13 June 1652 and probated 1 Oct. 1653.
Thomas Graves sprang from a prominent shipbuilding and mariner family of London, and came to America as early as 1628.  He was a skillful shipmaster, and was mate of the Talbot, in which Higginson came to Salem, Mass. in 1629. He was mate of the Arabella, master of the Plantation in 1630, master of the Plough in 1631, of the Whale in 1632, of the Reformation and Elizabeth Bonadventura in 1633 and 1634, and of the James in 1635.  He was master of the first American built ship, the Tryall, on her second voyage in June 1643, and followed the sea more or less until his death.  He brought his family (consisting of his wife and two children) to America about 1636 or 1637 and settled in Charlestown, Mass., probably at the same time that his wife's mother came.
He married Katherine (or Katharine or Catharine) Gray before 1635 (probably by 1630) in England.  She was born about 1606 at Harwich, England, died 21 Feb. 1682 (old style calendar, 21, 12, 1681), and was buried 23 Feb. 1681/2.   She was a daughter of Thomas Gray and Katherine Myles (daughter and co-heir of Robert Myles, of Sutton, in County Suffolk). Katharine GRAY and Admiral Thomas GRAVES were married in < 1635 in England.

13547. Katharine GRAY was born about 1606 in Harwich, England. She died on 28 November 1659 at the age of 53 in Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, BCA.

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