Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Birth1 Apr 1584, Lamborne, Berkshire, England52679,52668,52673,52674,52680,52681
Memoca 1575? 1580 Ireland? bef 5 Jan 1635/6?
ResidenceVA52670
Memoeastern shore
Death1635, Accomack County, VA52682,52683,52684
FatherThomas Graves (1556-<1637)
MotherJoan Blagrove (1560-<1615)
Misc. Notes
MD & VA Colonials47187
p.315 Capt Thomas Graves Sr ... (Note: He appears to have been the same “Thomas Graves of Doublin in the Realme of Ireland, to whom a patent was granted in VA, 20 Nov 1622, and who was one of several who had “... undertaken to transport 100 persons apiece to VA” (Records of the VA Company of London, 1906-1934, vol. II, p.132, by Kingsbury)) ....
We do know that about 1621, he was captured by the Indians, who would have killed him but for the intervention of Capt John Smith, who sent Ensign Thomas Savage to rescue him.
Capt Graves lived at Jamestown, in the early years, of course, but he was living in Smythe’s Hundred by early 1619, when Governor Yeardley “...entreated Capt Graves an Antient officer of this Co(map)ny to take charge of the people and the works”.
It has been said that Capt Graves was living “on the Eastern Shore” (Accawmacke Co, VA), “the following year” (1620), and he was certainly there at the time of the muster of 1624/5; and in Feb 1627/8, the General Court appointed him “Commander of the Plantation of Accawmacke”. He was a member of the Quorum, in Jan 1632/3, when his name headed the list of Commissioners (Justices), at the first extant court of record, held for Accawmacke. He continued in the latter capacity until about the time of his death, and was also appointed a member of the first vestry of Hungar’s Parish, there, in Sep 1635.
Military
Captain Thomas47193,47187

Pg 883 Capt Thomas Graves47187
Research
IGI Thomas Graves & Katherine Crosher child:Henry Graves b: 1663 Gloucester, VA (S: Member)4263 (another child born 40 years after the rest of the children, born in VA vs England?)

p.316 Following books and articles dealing in varying degrees with Capt Graves and his children:47187
“Capt Thomas Graves and Some of His Descendants” by William Montgomery Sweeny (William & Mary Quarterly, 2nd Series, Vol. XV, pp.385-394)
“The Graves Family of Essex Co” by Mrs. P.W. Hiden (ibid, Vol. XVI, pp.650-668)
“Three Rectors of Hungar’s Parish & Their Wife” by Mrs. P. W. Hiden (Ibid, Vol. XIX, pp.34-41
“Addenda” (Ibid, Vol. XXI, pp. 157-171, & 256-270)
“The Graves Family of Spotsylvania County” by Mrs. P.W. Hiden (Tyler’s Quarterly Magazine, Vol. XIX, pp.176-185 & Vol. XX, pp.54-64
“The Stones of Poynton Manor: by Harry Wright Newman (1937)
“Graves Chapter in Adventurers of Purse and Person, VA 1607-1625” by Annie Lash Jester, pp. 188-193)
Spouses
Birth1586, Gravesend, Kent, England52673,52686,52687
Death2 May 1636, Accomack County, VA52688,52689
Memoaft 20 May 1636?
Alias/AKACroshaw52690
FatherJoseph Crosher (~1561-)
Research
Sprigg Grooms in MD: SPRIGG, Thomas married GRAVES, Kathryne, daughter of Thomas Graves & Katherine Griffin, & widow of William Roper, on 3/3/1651 Northampton Co VA (source: "MD&VA ColonialFamilies", Sharon Doliante (1991, 1998, Genealogical Publg Co) Submitter: Carol Middleton50104 (Katherine Griffin is Thomas Sprigg’s mother? Katherine Crozier’s daughter Katherine Graves married Thomas Sprigg)
Marriage1610, Accomack County, VA52673,52674,52691,52692
Marr MemoEngland or Ireland?
ChildrenJohn (ca1611-<1640)
 Thomas (ca1617-)
 Francis (1619-)
 Elizabeth Anna (1621-)
 Katherine (1621-<1668)
 Verlinda (1623-<1675)
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