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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 23 Apr 1743 / / DE Death: 15 Apr 1817 / Wayne / IN
Qualifying Service Description:
Priviate in Capt John Garrett's Co In Regt, Commaned by Col Ouff, District of Christine Hundred, Delaware
Additional References:
NSSAR # 131673 and # 136848
PA in the War of the Revolution, Battalion and Line, 1775 - 1783, John Blairlinn & Wm H Engle, Vol 1, pg 229
Author: Philip Lee Hinshaw
Jacob Graves (Greaves), Sr. was born on June 23, 1743 in New Castle County, Delaware. His parents were Jonathan Greaves (1712-1774) and Sarah Chandler (1712-1760) who were married in 1739.
Jacob’s siblings were Rebecca (1741-1747), Jonathan (1774-1834), Mary (1749-1771), and David (1754-?). Jacob married Rebecca Langley, daughter of Jonathan Langley and Sarah Mendenhall of New Castle County, Delaware, on July 2, 1771 in Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington, Delaware. Rebecca was born about 1750 and died before 1816 in Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware.
Jacob was complained of on August 15, 1771 at the Newark-Kennett Friends Meeting because he had married out of the Quaker faith.
He enlisted in a Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment Company commanded by Captain Peter Grubb on March 23, 1776. The “Revolutionary War Patriots of Delaware lists Jacob Greaves as a private in a militia company in Cristiana Hundred along with David, Jonathan and Samuel Greaves. No further information about his military service has been found.
Jacob farmed at Wilmington, Delaware, about one-mile southeast of Centerville, New Castle County, Delaware. He sold his farm in the Christiana Hundred area on November 4, 1816 after the harvest season was completed and moved to Wayne County, Indiana.
Jacob Graves, Sr. died on April 15, 1817 (or 1818), a few days after his 85th birthday, in Whitewater, Wayne County, Indiana.
He was buried in the family lot in Smyrna Quaker graveyard about four miles southeast of Richmond, Indiana where his son Jacob Jr. and other family members are buried.
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