Individual Details

Married Hannah Kent.


From the Graves Association:
http://www.gravesfa.org/gen220.htm

Richard Graves (4) may have been born about 1673 in Old Rappahannock Co., VA. He left Essex Co., Va. between 1708 and 1714 (Essex O.B. 1708-14, pp. 608-609). He and Francis Shackelford had bought a sloop in partnership and they probably engaged in coastwise trade. Richard apparently died about 1730, since this seems to be the Richard Graves of Craven Precinct, N.C., who in his will, dated 11 April 1730, referred to nephews "Richard and Francis, sons of brother Thomas Graves in Virginia." In the Essex Order Book mentioned above, Francis Graves (Richard's brother) testified in Sept. 1714 that, since leaving Essex Co., Richard had sent him a small Indian boy in payment for a debt.
Richard took a prominent part in the affairs of Craven Precinct and was a person of recognized ability. According to Charles Paul, in Colonial Beaufort, “Sometime prior to the fall of 1713, permission had been obtained from the Lords Proprietors to lay out a town by the name of Beaufort at this site, and on October 2, 1713, Robert Turner had Richard Graves, Deputy Surveyor, lay out the town. A plat was made of the town by Graves and recorded in the office of the secretary of the colony. Streets were named; allotments were provided for a church, a town-house, and a market place; and lots were offered for sale.”[2] In 1726 Richard Graves represented the Precinct in the Lower House of the Assembly of N.C. (Colonial Records of N.C., vol. 2, p. 528).
He married Hannah Kent, daughter of Thomas Kent and Ann Cornell, in 1715 in Albemarle District, NC. Ann was a daughter of Thomas Cornell and Rebecca Briggs.
It was previously believed that the wife of Richard Graves was Hannah Cosolvo, daughter of Lawrence Consolvo, but that is not correct. Thomas Kent and Ann Cornell had six daughters. Sarah was the oldest and Hannah was the youngest. The Kents were Quakers, but Hannah married “out of union[3]” to Richard. Sarah Kent married Lawrence Consolvos when Hannah was 11 years old. Their only son, Thomas, was born 1684 and died 1687. Sarah married two more times, to John Johnson and to William Long, and died 3 May 1718. Hannah Kent first married John Smithwick, who died in 1696. She married second Furnifold Greene (or Farnifold Green), killed in the Tuscarora War. She married Richard Graves third, and then married George Linnington (or Lillington?), whom she survived.
North Carolina Colonial Records, 1693-94, Thomas Lepper proved ten rights: Thomas, Ann, Sarah, Rebecca and Ann Kent, Jr., along with five men, including hemself. The Kents had come to Perquimins Precinct from Massachusetts, and were Quakers. Hannah Kent was born 10 May 1673. The marriages of several of her sisters are in the Quaker records, but her’s isn’t. See Journal of North Carolina Genealogy, pp. 1379-1380, Winter 1964, and also Virkus, VII, p. 641, showing the Kent family. The Albemarle Co., NC Quaker records are found in Berkeley Parish Records, published by Hathaway. (R‑1, R‑907)
Children - Graves
+17. Mary Graves, m. Richard Nixon, Jr.
+18. Thomas Graves, m. Sara Turner, c. 1745, d.c. 1767.

Birth	1673
Death	Abt 1730

Father	Francis Graves (1630 - 1691)
Mother	Jane ?Davenport (1635 - )
Sibling	Francis Graves Jr. (1679 - 1748)
Sibling	Thomas Graves (1684 - 1743)