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From: marianne dillow <>
Subject: Re: [VASPOTSY] John Graves and Frances Unknown
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <304584.98365.qm@web65715.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>


Thanks Joan for sending this to the list. I was in a rush and didn't think of it. I talked to Ken Graves last night and he confirmed my Graves line. Thanks for being so kind to share this with me and others because I didn't know from the last time I had talked with Ken that my line had finally been proven after many many years. This should help a lot of people. thanks to you for making us aware. :)

Marianne


--- On Thu, 9/4/08, Joan Horsley <> wrote:

> From: Joan Horsley <>
> Subject: Re: [VASPOTSY] John Graves and Frances Unknown
> To:
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 4:03 PM
> These are the links I sent to Marianne earlier this
> week showing the latest information about John Graves m.
> Frances that her posts today have discussed. These pages
> give more details and follow the family lines for several
> generations. 
>  
> These links regarding the Graves Families in early
> Virginia and Spotsylvania are from the Graves Family
> Organization. Their homepage is http://www.gravesfa.org
>
> This section discusses the DNA findings regarding John
> Graves family of KQ/KW & Spots, including John Graves
> Jr marr Frances unknown 
> http://www.gravesfa.org/gen270.htm
>
> This section discusses "the other" John Graves
> family of Spotsylvania, wife Susannah
> http://www.gravesfa.org/gen169app5.htm
>
> This section discusses some of the changes that recent DNA
> testing has made to traditional genealogies of  Capt.
> Thomas Graves
> http://www.gravesfa.org/gen169.htm
>  
> Joan
>
> --- On Thu, 9/4/08, SarahReveley
> <> wrote:
>
> From: SarahReveley <>
> Subject: Re: [VASPOTSY] John Graves and Frances Unknown
> To:
> Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 2:05 PM
>
> We just may be cousins. I have a lot of Unknowns in my
> family. ;-)
>
> Altho DNA testing shows that you do not descend from Capt.
> Thomas Graves, would
> it show that you might descend from one of his line back in
> Northamptonshire,
> England if you had a Graves in England to submit to DNA?
>
> The reason I'm asking is that my Thomas Reveley
> emigrated in 1765 from
> Cumberland, England to Stafford County, and I am trying to
> tie him into
> Northumberland, England Reveleys. (Thomas' son William
> settled in
> Spotsylvania County and married Ann Towles).
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah
>
>
> For those who might be interested , DNA testing has
> finally
> > proven that the line of John Graves and Frances
> unknown who
> > I descend from their son , James Graves and Sarah
> unknown,
> > who were in Spotsylvania and Culpeper counties does
> not
> > descend from Capt. Thomas Graves.
> >
> > DNA testing has proven this line descends from John
> > Graves, spelled sometimes as Greaves, born ca 1655
> fom
> > Northamptonshire, England and was a immigrant who
> came to
> > King and Queen and King William counties before his
> sons
> > John Jr, Thomas and Joseph came to Spotsylvania and
> Culpeper
> > counties.
> >
> > Marianne Dillow
> > Illinois
>
>
>



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