Stephen Graves briefly refers to his wife in a pension application on September 25,1820 as "my wife Jenny age 60. I believe she is as stout as perhaps any at her age could be supposed to be."[1] Adam Dunlap's will, dated June 6, 1796, states "I bequeath to my daughter Jean Graves five shillings."[2] Jenny's attribution is based upon these two pieces of information. Since they have a son named Adam, it is possible they were related. Adam Dunlap was one of the signers on letters to the government of North Carolina dated November - December 1789, contained in the state archives, known as the French Broad Petitions.[3] Stephen Graves' property was south of the French Broad.[4]
Sources
↑ Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38757, Stephen Graves, Mass. National Archives and Records Administration. Web. 14 December 2019. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54710793.
↑ Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Tennessee County, District and Probate Courts.
↑ Petition Sundry Inhabitants South of French Broad. North Carolina General Assembly Session Records. Nov-Dec 1789. Box 4. Folder 81. North Carolina State Archives.
↑ Graves, Jessie Wagner. Branching out from Stephen Graves: (1759-1828). Tennessee Valley Pub., 1991.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jenny by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
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