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About Samuel Greave
St. (?) Falls Monthly Meeting - 1/5/1701 - Samuel Graves who formerly lived amongst us and went without a certificate, to have one.
3/2/1701 - A certificate would be order to be signed for him.
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting - 4/27/1701 - Samuel Greaves requests a certificate to Chester County.
5/25/1701 - Some persons ordered to write one for him.
Samuel appears in the 1693 assessment of Sussex County, PA along with John Graves and a Jonathan Wynne.
Samuel was appointed on Committee 7/4/1703.
Samuel was appointed with others 2/3/1708 to build a Meeting House 40' x 20.'
He was appointed overseer with Joel Bailey until further orders 7/3/1708.
He was appointed with others to oversee the building of the Center Meeting House 9/3/1711. He was appointed 12/2/1711-12 to lay out the land for the building on the Center Meeting house, collect subscriptions and pay the workmen.
9/7/1720 Samuel is appointed Elder for the Center meeting.
12/5/1730-1 - Samuel is appointed to write the marriage certificates for the Newark preparative Meeting.
12/3/1732 - A receipt for the following is noted : " Bought of Samuel Greave a coverlid for ye use of John Cox and Wife ye price £0:16:0.
9/6/1741 - Samuel, being deceased, is succeeded by Thomas Chandler as Elder for the Center Meeting [Gilbert Cope Collection, PA, pp. 151 -152]
Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Graves-1874
Samuel Graves, son of Thomas, was born about 1670 (or 1677 or 1675), probably in Ireland, and died 5 Oct. 1741 in New Castle Co., Del.
He married Sarah Bezer, daughter of William Bezer and Sarah Cool of Chichester, Chester Co. (now Delaware Co.), Pa., in June 1702. She was born 25 (or 26) April 1677, and died 15 Oct. 1751 in Delaware.
He was a weaver by trade, and lived near the present village of Centerville, Delaware. He was for many years an accepted minister in the Society of Friends and an elder in the Center Meeting. (R-106)
Children:[1]
- Martha Graves, b. 27 July 1704, m. Jacob Chandler (son of Swithin Chandler and Ann --), 3 Sept. 1730, d. 29 Oct. 1751. He d. 8 March 1745.
- John Graves, b. 7 Oct. 1706, m. Jane Chandler, 2 Oct. 1733, d. 1 Jan. 1773.
- William Graves, b. 8 July 1708, d. 3 Nov. 1734
- Samuel Graves, b. 10 April 1710, m. Sidney Wynne, 1 June 1732, d. 6 Sept. 1746
- Jonathan Graves, b. 29 May 1712, m. Sarah Chandler, 14 Nov. 1739, d. 3 June 1774 .
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Samuel Greave's Timeline
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1670
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Ireland
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October 7, 1704
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Christiana Hundred,New Castle,Delaware,USA
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May 8, 1708
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Christiana Hundred, Delaware, United States
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1709
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Chester County, Pennsylvania
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April 10, 1710
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Christiana Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, United States
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1719
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Christiana, New Castle County, Lower Counties on the Delaware
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| 1741 |
August 5, 1741
Age 71
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Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
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October 5, 1741
Age 71
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New Castle,,Delaware,USA
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