Excerpt from Genealogy of the Graves Family in America, Vol. 1 of 3: Sketch of the Family in England; Genealogy of the Family of Thomas Graves, of Hatfield, Mass In America who does not find his ancestry in this volume should at once correspond with me, and furnish his own family record and those of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Seven ms. pages, signed and dated by Graves (1902 Aug. 9) together with a printed page stating "John C. Graves of Buffalo, N.Y., hereby certifies that he has been engaged for more than twenty-five years in compiling the Genealogy of the Graves Family in America."

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Descendant of John Graves born in 1703 in the German Palatinate and died in 1804 in Tennessee. After emigrating to America before 1757, he settled in Stinking Quarter Creek, North Carolina.