Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 726. (396) THOMAS GRAVES. The following is from "Charlestown Genealogies", Vol 1, p 432, by Thomas Bellows Wyman, and also from the "Symmes Memorial" by John Adams Vinton: also from Sewall's History of Woburn, p 69, and "Frothinghams History of Charlestown" p 139. Also from "Notes on the Ancestry and Connections of Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves" by Eben Putnam, all on file at the New England Historical & Genealogical Society of Boston. Thomas Graves was born June 16/1605 at Stepney, London, and died July 31/1653. He was a sea faring man and Master of the ship "Whale", "Elizabeth Bonadventure", "James", and "Trial", that plied between England and New England between 1629 and 1635 inclusive. He at length settled at Charlestown, between that place and Woburn, but becoming discontented, he returned to the seafaring life. For good conduct in capturing, though on a merchant ship, a Dutch Privateer in the English Channel, he was put in command of a ship-of-war, and was made a Rear-Admiral by Cromwell. His Will left to his daughter Rebecca œ5, and to her children œ3. To his son John, his house in Limehouse near Dicks Shoar, he to pay his mother œ33 1/3rd, and to pay œ56 2/3rds to be divided between his brothers Thomas, Nathaniel and Joseph and his sister Susanna. To Thomas, after his mother's decease, my dwelling house and orchard, Thomas to pay Rebecca, Nathaniel, Susanna and Joseph œ10 each. His estate was inventoried at œ225.15.0. (Also given as œ1054). He married Katharine Gray, daughter of Thomas & Katharine (Miles) Gray. She married, 2nd, Thomas Cotymore of Charlestown. Katharine was born 1604-5 and died December 21/1681. Thomas had a grant of land from the town of 250 acres at Land-of-Nod (Wilmington) in 1643. He also owned 1/16th strip in Trades Increase, and a house at Ham England. Issue:- 1. Rebecca Graves. Married Samuel Adams. 2. John Graves. Lived at Ham, England. 3. Thomas Graves. Graduated at Harvard in 1656. He was a Tutor, Physician and Judge. He married, 1st, on May 16/1677, Elizabeth Chickering, born 1635, died July 22/1679. 2nd, on March 15/1683, Sarah Alcock, died May 31/1697. 4. Nathaniel Graves. Bapt September 5/1639. 5. Susanna Graves. Born May 8/1643, died July 23/1681. She married on November 18/1669, as his first wife, Zechariah Symmes, born January 9/1637. See subject 362 for issue and further particulars. 6. Joseph Graves. Born February 13/1645. Was of Sudbury, Mass.