John Graham (1694 - 1774)

Born 20 Sep 1694 in Armagh, County Armagh, Ireland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Love (Sanborn) Graham — married 9 Jan 1720 in Kingston, New Hampshire

Husband of Abigail (Chauncey) Graham — married 13 Sep 1726 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1774 at age 80 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Also lived in Armagh, Ireland

Christening, 1 October 1694 Armagh, Ireland

Marriage 9 JAN 1720 Wife: Love Sanborn

Burial, 12 December 1774, Woodbury, Conn

Rev John Graham was born to Andrew and Jane Masters Graham in Armagh, Ireland.

He entered an academy in Ireland at the age of 11, he studied logic and philosophy. At age 13 he entered the University of Glasgow and graduated in 1711 at age 17.

He received his education in Glasgow and also studied medicine. But his call to the ministry would be his destiny. Coming to this country in August 11,1718, landing in Boston. He then resided in Exeter, New Hampshire. He was the first clergyman of Stafford, Connecticut but found little success and was dismissed in 1731. After moving to the second church of Southbury (then Woodbury) he would spend the next 40 years of his life. He was very active in the Great New England Revival of 1740 and was the author of " A Ballad Against the Church of England in Connecticut".

John married Love Sanborn on the January 8, 1719 in Rockingham, Connecticut, and they had three children:

1. Elizabeth 1720-1775
2. Rev John Jr, 1722-1786
3. Dr Robert 1724-1793

Love Sanborn, died March 1, 1725 in Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

John married Abigail Chauncey in September 1726 and they raised additional children:

1. Rev Chauncey 1727-1784
2. Dr Andrew 1728-1785
3. Love 1732-1820
4. Sara 1735-aft 1778, m. Gideon Hurd.
5. Abigail 1737-1738
6. Rev Richard Crouch1739-1772
7. Abigail 1741-1795

His tombstone inscription reads:

In Trust at Best

Here lies the Rev

Mr John Graham

who departed

this life December

the 11 AD 1774 in the

81 year of his age

& 54 year of his

Ministry

Sources

• Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934
• Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
• Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Place: America; Year: 1718; Page Number: 143
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Volume: 10; SAR Membership Number: 1802
• http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsmss/umich-wcl-M-2937.1gra?view=text
• Find A Grave [Memorial# 10386182] Originally Created by: John Whalen
• Author: Nathan Sanborn, M. D.(Henniker, NH), : Title: Genealogy of the Sanborn Family Publication: Name: H W Dutton; Location: Boston, Suffolk, Massashusetts, USA; Date: 1856;
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:9SJS-B6Q : accessed 2016-11-11), entry for Rev. John Graham Sr., submitted by jgraham2744821.
• Hollister, Gideon. The History of Connecticut, From the First Settlement of the Colony to the Adoption of the Present Constitution (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1857) Vol. 1, Page 509-10
• The Reverend John Graham of Woodbury, Connecticut, and his descendants. by Carpenter, Helen Graham (Fairbank) 1868- Publication date 1942 https://archive.org/details/reverendjohngrah01carp/page/n11/mode/2up
• Proceedings of the North and South Consociations of Litchfield County, CT. (Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford, 1852) Page 75.