When Abner Graves was born in 1734, in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, British Colonial America, his father, Abraham Graves, was 43 and his mother, Thankful Bardwell, was 37. He married Dorcas Belding about 1765, in Swanzey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 2 February 1787, in Stratton, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 53.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New Hampshire is 9th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
English (northern and eastern England): variant of Grave , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: alternatively, a variant of Greaves or Grieves .
Altered form of German Greff , with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related Names"Abner Graves was born about 1734 at Swanzey, N.H. and died 2 Feb. 1878 at Stratton, Vt. He served in the Rev. War in with his brother Joshua Captain Joseph Whitcomb's Co., Colonel Ashley's Regime …
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