52 Ancestors - Week 404: #627 Ruth (Collins) Graves (1685-1715) of Lynn, Massachusetts

 Ruth Collins (1690-before 1715) is #627 on my Ahnentafel  List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #626 Thomas Graves (1686-1756)  in 1710 in Lynn, Essex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #313 Ruth Graves (1711-????) married #312 Isaac Buck (1706-1780) in 1729. 

* their son #156 Isaac Buck (1732-????) did not marry #157 Mary Richards (1733-????).

*  their son #78 Isaac Buck (1757-1846) married #79 Martha Phillips (1757-1830) in 1791.

* their daughter #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882)married #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834)  in 1817.

* their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.
* their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

*  Name:                            Ruth Collins[1–2]

*  Sex:                              Female

*  Father:                          Joseph Collins 1643-1724

*  Mother:                        Mariah Smith 1664-1734

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                            26 October 1685, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

*  Death:                           before 22 February 1714/5 (before age 28), Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[3]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                      Thomas Graves(1686-1756)

*  Marriage 1:                   9 January 1709/10 (age 24), Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[2]

*  Child 1:                        Ruth Graves (1711-????)   

   

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Ruth Collins was born 26 October 1685 in Lynn, Massachusetts, the eldest child and daughter of Joseph and Mariah (Smith) Collins of Lynn[1].  She lived her whole life in Lynn.

She married Thomas Graves (1686-1756) at age 24 on 9 January 1709-10[2]. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah (Brewer) Graves of Lynn. They had one child, born and recorded in Lynn:

*  Ruth Graves (1710-????), married Isaac Buck (1706-1780) in 1729 in Reading, Massachusetts.

Ruth (Collins) Graves died at about age 29 in Lynn before Thomas married his second wife, Ruth Taylor, on 22 February 1714/5 in Lynn[3].

There is no death record or burial record for Ruth (Collins) Graves.  

5.  SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1906), 2 Volumes, Births, page 188, Ruth Collins birth entry, 28 October 1685.

2. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 161, Thomas Graves and Ruth Collins marriage entry, 9 January 1709/10.

3. Vital Records of Lynn, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 161, Thomas Graves and Ruth Taylor entry, 22 February 1714/5.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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