Jesse Graves

1755 - 1820  (65 years)

• Name	Jesse Graves
  Born	30 Jan 1755	CT   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	12 Oct 1820	Salisbury, Addison Co., VT   [2]
  Person ID	I15439	Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Joshua Graves,   b. 1723, Saybrook. Middlesex Co., CT ,   d. 23 Aug 1803, Salisbury, Addison Co., VT  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Rhoda Bronson,   b. 30 Mar 1729,   d. 16 Sep 1807  (Age 78 years)
  Married	5 Apr 1750  [1]
  Family ID	F07233	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth Remington,   b. 5 Aug 1755, Hingham, MA ,   d. 29 Apr 1839, Salisbury, Addison Co., VT  (Age 83 years)
  Married	Between 16 Feb 1780 and 1790	Cummington, MA   [1, 3]
  Notes	The Graves family website has the year of marriage as 1780, while the Cummington, MA, VRs (published transcription) says 1790. The pension application states that Ruth was married in the winter after she was 32 years old, which would make it 1788. At the time she made that statement, Ruth was in her 80s and may have forgotton the exact details. Affadavit of Chauncey Graves in behalf of Ruth Graves, widow of Jesse Graves, Revolutionary soldier from VT: " . . . My brother the said Jesse Graves, after the war, returned to Salisbury, and some years afterwards was married in Cummington Massachusetts to Ruth Remington, who is still living as his widow, at Salisbury. The said Jesse Graves died some years ago at Salisbury, and his widow has ever since remained unmarried." (dated 19 Sep 1838)
  Children	1. Polly Graves,   b. Abt 5 Oct 1791, Salisbury, Addison Co., VT ,   d. 2 Apr 1874  (Age ~ 82 years)
  Last Modified	7 Aug 2018
  Family ID	F05947	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  According to the Graves family website, Jesse was born in either New Cambridge (now Bristol), Hartford Co., CT; or in Waterbury, New Haven Co., CT. The family lived in Salisbury, VT. Jesse built the first cider mill in Salisbury in 1803.

  
  

• Sources

  [S013100] Graves family website. [S012634] Revolutionary War Pension File. [S013448] The Vital Records of Cummington, MA, 1762-1900, William W. Streeter & Daphne H. Morris, 119.