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From: Gene McLaughlin <>
Subject: [MDSTMARY-L] Hugh Benson
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 05:17:08 -0400


I have been trying to make a connection with Hugh Benson for several
years. I am copying an excerpt from the Graves Family Website
(gravesfa.org.) that mentions Hugh Benson as having married CAtherine
Greaves of South Yorkshire England and then immigrated to St. Mary's
Co., Md. Is the same as your Hugh Benson? See the very last section of
the excerpt below. Do you have anything that authenticates this
genealogy from gravesfa.org?

Gene McLaughlin

Rev. 4 May 1995, Gen. 336

DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM GREAVES OF GREENHILL,
NORTON (NR. SHEFFIELD), SOUTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND


GENERATION 1

William Greaves (1) was of Greenhill, parish of Norton, near Sheffield,
South Yorkshire, England. He married ------. His will was dated 31 Dec.
1662.
A note at the end of the chart of this family in Familae Minorum Gentium
states: "The account of the family of Greaves in these four pages I
received in writing from Mr. Charles Greaves of Rowlee [now spelled
Rowsley], by whom it was compiled, when I called upon him at his
residence at Rowlee in Woodlands parish of Hope [Derbyshire], on Sunday
Oct. 16, 1836. He shewed me at the same time a Marriage Certificate of a
marriage of a Greaves & an Eyre in 1654, before Randolf Ashenhurst, Esq.
I do not feel quite confident respecting the Greaves of Greenhill at the
head of the pedigree, the rest I have reason to think correct."
There was a John Greaves of St. Clement's. St. Mary's Co., MD (genealogy
247), who applied for land certificates in 1719 and died in 1748. He may
have been William's son, John, but more likely (based on his likely
birth of 1680-1690) he was a grandson. The mention in his will of a
right to an estate in England probably referred to the estate of William
Greaves. It is also likely that Joshua Graves of MD (genealogy 346) was
related to these families. It is also possible that the family of
William Greaves and Ann Brittlebank of Hathersage, Derbyshire (genealogy
395) may be related to this family.
It is also interesting to see in this family several names that showed
up in Virginia, including a Crawshaw (marrying #24), perhaps of the same
family as the probable wife of Capt. Thomas Graves of VA (genealogy
169). (R-1)
Children - Greaves
+2. William Greaves, m. Agnes ------, d. Jan. 1696/7.
3. Christopher Greaves
4. John Greaves; executor of his father's will.
5. Catherine Greaves, m. Hugh Benson (of St. Clement's Bay, St. Mary's
Co., MD). The widow of a Hugh Benson married Thomas Cooper by 1707 in
St. Mary's Co., MD; this widow might have been Catherine Greaves.
6. Anne Greaves, m. ------ Poynton.


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