GENERATION 11

GENERATION 10

Biography

BENJAMIN GRAVES was born in Concord, Middlesex, MA, Mar. 3, 1645. He was in the Colonial Wars as a member of Captain Thomas Wheeler's Company and fought against the Indians in July and August 1675. It is also noted that he was a soldier in King Philip's War in Captain Wheeler's Company and was in the fights at Wickaboag Pond and Brookfield, on Aug. 16, 1675. He served in Groton in Feb. 1675/76, and his name appears again on the payroll Aug. 24, 1676.

BENJAMIN and his brother, John, of Sudbury, MA, along with others, purchased land in Groton, CT, on May 20, 1681. They also purchased all mining rights. BENJAMIN did not move to Groton, but continued to live in Concord until after 1681, and all his children were born in Concord.

BENJAMIN moved to Saybrook, CT, and lived at Pattaconk, north of Saybrook, where he bought land on Jan. 25, 1703. He deeded half of his farm to his son, Joseph, on Mar. 18, 1715, and other lands to his son, John of Killington, CT, on Sep. 14, 1716.

Saybrook is on the south shore of Connecticut at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Pattaconk was about 7 miles up river, then a part of Saybrook but now the town of Chester. Killington is about 5 miles west of Chester and about 5 miles north of Clinton, CT.