Abraham GRAVES

Abraham married Thankful BARDWELL on 23 May 1717. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thankful GRAVES

Samuel married Sarah ?. Sarah died on 27 Oct 1689. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary SMITH. Mary (daughter of Lieut. Samuel SMITH and Elizabeth SMITH) was christened on 19 Oct 1628 in Hadleigh, Englan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Lt. Samuel Smith

Notes:

Excerpt from "Genealogies of Hadley Families": Lieut. Samuel Smith, with wife Elizabeth and children, Samuel, age 9, Elizabeth, age 7, Mary, age 4, and Philip, age 1, sailed from New England, the last day of April, 1634, in the "Elizabeth" of Ipswich. He and his wife were each then called thirty two years of age. He came from Wethersfield, Ct., where he was a leading man, to Hadley, where he held important offices both in church and state. He is supposed to have died in 1680, age abt. 78. His inventory was taken January 17, 1681.

Name:
The following evidence supports the identification of Samuel Smith, the 1634 immigrant, as the son of John and Mary (Gardiner) Smith.

The 1634 passenger list shows Samuel as aged 32, which agrees with his baptismal date.

He was baptized in Burstall, Suffolk, near Whatfield (where he married in 1624) and where his older children were baptized (Whatfield and Hadleigh).

He was named in the wills of his grandmother Gardiner in 1615 and his father in 1618. Because he had immigrated to New England in 1634, he was not named with his brothers in 1635 will of their aunt Elizabeth (Gardiner ) Hayward.

Samuel and Elizabeth named a son Philip, presumable either for his brother or her father (or both).

Four of Samuel and Elizabeth's six grown children named a child Nathaniel, perhaps for his brother Nathaniel.

Samuel married Elizabeth SMITH on 6 Oct 1624 in Whatfield, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth was born about 1602; died on 16 Mar 1686. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]