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 Abraham Greaves (alt. Graves, Mr Abraham Graves) (b. ca. 1614; d. ?1689). Shipwright.
-An online genealogical source gives Abrahame Greaves' date of birth as Jan 13th 1616/17, and lists three marriages, firstly to Elizabeth, and secondly, in September 1654, to Mary Wallace, and thirdly to Sarah. According to this source, Mary Wallace was the daughter of Martin Wallace (or Walker), a merchant tailor of Cornhill. She died a year after their marriage.<ref>[http://libbygraves.me/Graves_files/GEN_28.pdf Anonymous, Greaves family of Stepney, London, England, and descendants of Rear Admirall Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Massachusetts, rev. 12 Dec. 2007];[http://www.gravesfa.org/chart028-autosomal.pdf Greaves Family of Stepney, London, England and Descendants of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA (Gen. 28), Autosomal DNA Testing, rev. 22 Oct 2012]</ref> The marriage to third wife Sarah took place between 1655 and 1659.
+An online genealogical source gives Abraham Greaves' date of birth as Jan 13th 1616/17, and lists three marriages, firstly to Elizabeth, and secondly, in September 1654, to Mary Wallace, and thirdly to Sarah. According to this source, Mary Wallace was the daughter of Martin Wallace (or Walker), a merchant tailor of Cornhill. She died a year after their marriage.<ref>[http://libbygraves.me/Graves_files/GEN_28.pdf Anonymous, Greaves family of Stepney, London, England, and descendants of Rear Admirall Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Massachusetts, rev. 12 Dec. 2007];[http://www.gravesfa.org/chart028-autosomal.pdf Greaves Family of Stepney, London, England and Descendants of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA (Gen. 28), Autosomal DNA Testing, rev. 22 Oct 2012]</ref> The marriage to third wife Sarah took place between 1655 and 1659.
 Abraham Greaves's third wife, Sarah, was the widow of Captain John Jefferson, who was master and partowner of the 440 ton ship the ''Thomas and William''. Abraham Greaves is listed as co-defendant in a case involving the deceased John Jefferson, together with Sarah Greaves, Abraham's wife, who is described as Jefferson's widow.<ref>[[MRP: C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 1 C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 1]]; [[MRP: C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 2 C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 2]]; [[MRP: C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 3 C 6/151Pt2/28 f. 3]]</ref>

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 |Res country=England
 |Birth year=1616
-|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate,
+|Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate, HCA 13/72 f.459v Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Feb 13 1657, Aug 13 1658
 |Has infobox completed=Yes
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 Abraham Greaves (alt. Graves, Mr Abraham Graves) (b. ca. 1614; d. ?1689). Shipwright.
-An online genealogical source gives Abrahame Greaves' date of birth as Jan 13th 1616/17, and lists three marriages, firstly to Elizabeth, and secondly, in September 1654, to Mary Wallace, and thirdly to Sarah. According to this source, Mary Wallace was the daughter of Martin Wallace (or Walker), a merchant tailor of Cornhill. She died a year after their marriage.<ref>[http://libbygraves.me/Graves_files/GEN_28.pdf Anonymous, Greaves family of Stepney, London, England, and descendants of Rear Admirall Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Massachusetts, rev. 12 Dec. 2007];[http://www.gravesfa.org/chart028-autosomal.pdf Greaves Family of Stepney, London, England and Descendants of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA (Gen. 28), Autosomal DNA Testing, rev. 22 Oct 2012]</ref>
+An online genealogical source gives Abrahame Greaves' date of birth as Jan 13th 1616/17, and lists three marriages, firstly to Elizabeth, and secondly, in September 1654, to Mary Wallace, and thirdly to Sarah. According to this source, Mary Wallace was the daughter of Martin Wallace (or Walker), a merchant tailor of Cornhill. She died a year after their marriage.<ref>[http://libbygraves.me/Graves_files/GEN_28.pdf Anonymous, Greaves family of Stepney, London, England, and descendants of Rear Admirall Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Massachusetts, rev. 12 Dec. 2007];[http://www.gravesfa.org/chart028-autosomal.pdf Greaves Family of Stepney, London, England and Descendants of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, MA (Gen. 28), Autosomal DNA Testing, rev. 22 Oct 2012]</ref> The marriage to third wife Sarah took place between 1655 and 1659.
 Resident in 1657 and 1658 in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.
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 C 6/151Pt2/28 Short title: Moudiford v Greaves. Plaintiffs: James Moudiford, Robert Dawes, Jonathan Dawes, William Rider, John Portman and Philip Scarth. Defendants: Abraham Greaves, Sarah Greaves his wife and Richard Hutchinson. Subject: money matters, Middlesex. Document type: answer only. 1659
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
 Abraham Greaves (alt. Graves, Mr Abraham Graves) (b. ca. 1614; d. ?1689). Shipwright.
 Resident in 1657 and 1658 in Limehouse in the parish of Stepney.
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 - sons William aand Abraham are mentioned in will
 - son Thomas and his heirs house where I now dwell near Dickshore in Lymehouse; son William and his heirs male one third of dock, wharf, yard and crane lying near to Dickshore aforesaid as far as it is boarded with the red house and way under it by the house that is tiled and now occupied by John Askew, joiner ; two thirds of said dock, yard, wharf and crane to sons Abraham and Nathaniel Greaves and if they die without heires male to the survivor, and if they all three so die to my sons Thomas, Matthew and Robert; in case either choose to sell the others to have option of buying at £5 less than any one else ; sons Abraham and Nathaniel £50 each, and they to be freed of their apprenticeship indentures<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/essexinstitutehiv31esse#page/168/mode/2up Eben Putnam, 'Notes on the ancestry and connections of Rear Admiral Thomas Graves of Charlestown, Mass.'Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 31 (Salem, Mass., 1894-95), esp. pp.169-170], viewed 26/10/2016</ref>
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 One of the younger sons of Limehouse shipwright John Greaves (alt. Graves) (b. ?; d. ca. 1637) and younger brother of Limehouse shipwright William Greaves or Graves (b. ?; d. ca. 1668).<ref>PROB 11/175/493 Will of John Graves, Shipwright of Limehouse, Middlesex 15 December 1637; PROB 11/326/323 Will of William Greaves, Shipwright of Stepney, Middlesex 03 March 1668</ref> Abraham Greaves' ship yard was located near Dickshore in Limehouse. The will of his father, the shipwright John Greaves or Graves mentions his "dock, wharf, yard and crane lying near to Dickshore".<ref>PROB 11/175/493 Will of John Graves, Shipwright of Limehouse, Middlesex 15 December 1637</ref>
-The location of Abraham Greaves' dock is confirmed in the Admiralty Court testimony of [[Thomas Blackman]], master's mate of the ship the ''Pilgrim'', from Ratcliff in Stepney, who states that "the ''Pilgrim'' was put into the dock to be repaired and ameded of the hurt shee received by the ''Exeter Merchant'' falling fowle of her and forcing her on ground and thereby wringeing her as aforesayd, and hee this deponent helped to put her into the sayd dock being the dock of one Mr Graves neere dicks shoare by the order of James Watkins the master and one of the owners of the ''Pilgrim''".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.497v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.497v]]</ref>
+Had dock near Dickshore. The location of Abraham Greaves' dock is confirmed in the Admiralty Court testimony of [[Thomas Blackman]], master's mate of the ship the ''Pilgrim'', from Ratcliff in Stepney, who states that "the ''Pilgrim'' was put into the dock to be repaired and ameded of the hurt shee received by the ''Exeter Merchant'' falling fowle of her and forcing her on ground and thereby bringeing her as aforesayd, and hee this deponent helped to put her into the sayd dock being the dock of one Mr Graves neere dicks shoare by the order of James Watkins the master and one of the owners of the ''Pilgrim''".<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.497v Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.497v]]</ref>
 An online genealogical resource suggests that Abraham Graves was born in 1616 or 1617 in Limehouse and was the ninth child of John Greaves (b. 1560, Walley, Lancashire; m. 1597, Ratcliffe, Middlesex; d. 1637) and Sarah Malter (b. abt 1568, Stepney, Middlesex; d. 1643).<ref>Online genealogical resource: http://www.elsberry.org/ghtout/gp738.htm, viewed 26/10/2016</ref>
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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
-Forty year old Abraham Graves deposed on February 13th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Hatton and Company in the case "hatton ffoote and Company owners of the ''Exeter Merchant'' against the ''ffrancis and Mary'' and against Smith Beake and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.478r]]</ref>
+Forty year old Abraham Graves deposed on February 13th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Hatton and Company in the case "Hatton ffoote and Company owners of the ''Exeter Merchant'' against the ''ffrancis and Mary'' and against Smith Beake and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.478r]]</ref>
 Forty-four year old Abraham Greaves deposed on August 13th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Bland Bathurst and Company against the ''Exeter Merchant'' and against Woodfin and company".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.459v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.459v]]</ref>

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 ==Evidence from High Court of Admiralty==
-Forty year old Abraham Gravesdeposed on February 13th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Hatton and Company in the case "hatton ffoote and Company owners of the ''Exeter Merchant'' against the ''ffrancis and Mary'' and against Smith Beake and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.478r]]</ref>
+Forty year old Abraham Graves deposed on February 13th 1657 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation on behalf of Hatton and Company in the case "hatton ffoote and Company owners of the ''Exeter Merchant'' against the ''ffrancis and Mary'' and against Smith Beake and Company".<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.478r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.478r]]</ref>
 Forty-four year old Abraham Greaves deposed on August 13th 1658 in the High Court of Admiralty. He was examined on an allegation in the case of "Bland Bathurst and Company against the ''Exeter Merchant'' and against Woodfin and company".<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.459v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.459v]]</ref>

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	Graves then turned to the necessary repairs to the ''Pilgrim'' after the accident with the ship the ''Exeter Merchant'' coming foul of her. Graves minimised the damage to the ''Pilgrim'' in his testimony, saying that the damage was restricted to the ''Pilgrim'' breaking her bowspritt, costing perhaps £5. He was, however, testifying on the behalf of Thomas Woodfin, one of the parties to the dispute.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.460r Annotate\|HCA 13/72 f.460r]]</ref>		Graves then turned to the necessary repairs to the ''Pilgrim'' after the accident with the ship the ''Exeter Merchant'' coming foul of her. Graves minimised the damage to the ''Pilgrim'' in his testimony, saying that the damage was restricted to the ''Pilgrim'' breaking her bowspritt, costing perhaps £5. He was, however, testifying on the behalf of Thomas Woodfin, one of the parties to the dispute.<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.460r Annotate\|HCA 13/72 f.460r]]</ref>
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		+	The young London merchant Phillip Bayliffe mentioned the yard of "one Mr Graves in Limehouse" in a deposition he made in the High Court f Admiralty on November 8th 1660. Baylliffe stated that "there were twelve chaines lying betweene London Bridge and Blackwall for the publique use, and there the same have layne for very many yeares, And saith that about a weeke or tenn dayes since the arlate Thomas Clarke, William Lee, George Joyce, Roger Ha[nnis] and William Brand did of this deponents sight and knowledge take upp one of the foresaid Chaines lying neare Blackwall and carried the same into the Yard of one Mr Clarke at Blackwall and the said persons aforenamed alsoe tooke up halfe another of the foresaid Chaines lying neere [?XXX] and carried the same into the Yard of one Mr Graves in Limehouse, In which places this deponent hath seene the same lying since their taking upp."<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.537v Annotate\|HCA 13/73 f.537v]]</ref>

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