Sarah Newton

• Not listed as a daughter of Thomas Graves At https://gravesfa.org/gen083.htm
• 144. Hannah Graves, b. 12 Nov. 1715, m. John Waite, 18 Oct. 1739 similar birth date

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Sarah Graves (1) was born about 1715. She married Abraham Newton, son of Abraham Newton and Rachel Newton, on 5 Nov. 1735 in Southboro, MA. He was born 25 June 1715 in Marlborough, MA. He was descended from Richard Newton who immigrated to Sudbury, MA from Lincolnshire, England about 1639. Four of their sons (Isaac, Jacob, George, and Samuel) moved to NC in the 1750's and settled Newton Cross Roads in New Hanover Co., NC. In 1769, Abraham served on the jury for a murder trial in Deplin Co., NC. Abraham was living with or near his four sons in 1779 in Duplin Co., NC, where all five signed a petition for the formation of Sampson Co. from Duplin Co. It is thought that Sarah was in NC also. There is an obituary for a Mrs. Sarah Newton in the Cape Fear Mercury, 29 Dec. 1773. It is assumed that this was Sarah Graves Newton and that she died sometime in Dec. 1773. All four of the sons in NC were in the Revolutionary War.

Sarah is assumed to be the same as the "Mrs Sarah Newton" who died in Wilmington N.C. and who's obit was written in the Cape Fear Mercury, December 29, 1733.

However We also have information showing she married Noah Graves in 1754. [NO - that’s her mother in law, Rachel Newton.]

Because of this contradiction in events We are not sure when Sarah died. The Sarah in the obit may be a daughter in law.

References

• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Sarah_Graves_%2846%29 has no parents for her
• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-TTDP : 10 November 2020), Sarah Graves in entry for Abraham Newton, 5 Nov 1735; citing Marriage, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004934226.
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWYV-4Y5
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Graves-1446