Mary (Williams) Graves (1706 - aft. 1771)

Born 1 Sep 1706 in New Kent County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Graves — married 1726 in Virginia

Descendants

Died after Apr 1771 after age 64 in Granville, North Carolina

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Biography

Mary (Williams) Graves was a Virginia colonist.

This profile is part of the Graves Name Study.

The Mary Williams (01 Sep 1706 - after April 1771), of Mecklenburg Co., VA or Granville Co., NC, who was the daughter of John Williams and Mary Keeling is "said to be" the second wife of Henry Graves (b. bef. 1694 - d. bef. Feb 1749) of colonial Hanover Co., VA.^[1]

Mary's birth date of 1706 comes from a letter from Jno. D. Williams of Laurens District, SC to Dr. Alexander Williams of Greeneville Courthouse, Tennessee, dated 17 June 1845.^[2]

The best documented research I have seen on Mary Williams and Henry Graves comes from Evelyn Wallace's WILLIAMS, GRAVES and DANIEL Families, and according to her, Mary Williams and Henry Graves had four sons and three daughters:

1. Henry who married Rachel ____ and whose will was proved Aug 1797 in Granville Co.
2. William who married Mary ____ and whose will was proved May 1786 in Granville Co.
3. John who may be the John Williams Graves who left a 1789 will in Granville Co.
4. Elijah who may be the Elijah who left a 1799 will in Mecklenburg Co.
5. dau. ____ who married John Christmas
6. Elizabeth, b. 1741, who married Joshua Coffee and had a son b. 1772, Gen. John Coffee "of Tennessee" who married Mary Donelson, whose sister Rachel was wife of Andrew Jackson
7. dau. ____ who married ____ Barnett (or Barrett)

Sources

1. ↑ WILLIAMS, GRAVES and DANIEL Families, By Evelyn Wallace
2. ↑ Vol. 13 of McClung Papers Collection by Calvin Morgan McClung held by McClung Historical Collection, Knoxville Public Library, Knoxville, TN.

• “My Maternal Ancestors” Compiled by Ruth Cobb Oliver (1987); Ruth Cobb Oliver and her mother did extensive genealogical research. They traveled to archives across the United States gathering information which was documented/copied/compiled in a book "My Maternal Ancestors" in the Ashville, Alabama archives.

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L66R-1WY

See also:

• Mary Williams, by Kay Haden

• Henry White Graves Notes, by John E. Abernathy, Jr.

• Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, Volume 2: Families G-P. Genealogical Publishing Com, 2004, pp. 154–155.

• Williams, Scott K. "Early Descendants of John Williams, Hanover Co., Virginia." Accessed on 29 July 2023.

• Worth, Stickley Ray (1945). Colonial Granville and Its People, Loose Leaves from The Lost Tribes of North Carolina, Austin, TX: Self-published.

• The Graves Family Association. (2016, June). CAPTAIN THOMAS GRAVES, 1608 Settler of Jamestown, Virginia, and His Descendants." Revised 1 Feb. 2021.