Re: Bartlett Eaves descendants & ancestors book ready
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Re: Bartlett Eaves descendants & ancestors book ready
Linda schlenker 3/07/07
Sorry, but I can't tell if there is a connection to my line of Eaves.It is certainly possible that your Thomas was the son of William Eves.If he was born around 1667 he would have been about 85 when he died in 1752, which was not unusual for the Eaves men who survived infancy and early childhood.
1. William Eves (? – ca 1688)Some researchers believe he married a descendant of Capt. Thomas Graves because he named a son Graves.That William married a Graves is certainly possible, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that she was a descendant of Capt. Graves, a prominent early Jamestown settler.I have been unable to find any record that gives any name at all for William’s wife.He had a son named Thomas who was living in Northumberland County, Va., in 1718 and who appears to have been an adult when his father died in 1688.
2. Graves Eves (ca 1678-ca.1746)He married Eliza/Elizabeth Jones, daughter of John and Goodlove (-?-) Jones, and had moved from Northumberland County, Va., to Brunswick County, Va., by 1728.He too had a son named Thomas who died in 1785 in Brunswick County.Thomas left a will naming two sons, William and Mark.
3. Graves Eves/Eaves(ca 1713;1720-ca 1805).He married Sarah (-?-)He moved to Tryon County [later Rutherford County], N.C., by 1775.So far as I can tell, he named no son Thomas.He was the father of Bartlett Eaves.