GRAFTON FAMILY GENEALOGY

Life in the Past Lane
This is our beginning?
Welcome researchers! Welcome family! This site is a collection of genealogical information of my GRAFTON ancestors, from many sources collected over many years . Some of the information comes from my own work searching databases, www, microfilm, books, and the like. Other information has been graciously passed to me from fellow family researchers and members. If you are a researcher, my hope is that here you will find a lead. If you descend from people recorded here, contact me. I am Victoria Taylor-True - Daughter of Mary Jane GARDNER and Keith Bremmen TAYLOR. My direct tree lines are HERE If you are related to the lineages listed please contact me.

Yeah that is a picture of me in 1983 in olden days attire. I know I was born in the wrong generation. I do so love the times of yesteryear.

Share information and help me fill our family Hall of Time. Time stands still for no man and our heritage grows daily. If there is a story or info you can share regarding family history or info please post it to the message board or email me to post it. I will be updating and adding new pictures and pages detailing each ancestor with a page, pictures and info. As time goes along I am sure I will get all caught up , "yeah one can wish , can't they? LOL", so bear with me as I gather info and pictures to complete this major collection. Anything you have feel free to share, as I can use all the help I can get to complete this for future generations.
"Remembering Our Past, Sharing Our Future and Telling Our Stories, Sharing Our Lives."
Victoria Taylor True






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"Life in the Past Lane" unfolds!! Over the years many researchers have shared info and now the results of many years of work will now hopefully start to take form here. This is a set of genealogical records with both ancestry and decadency sets of data based on my family.
Nothing is set in stone and all things in genealogy have to be vailidated to be true. So at this point , this genealogist is data collecting and processing validation as it become founded or shared. All validation will show in the family group it belongs as well as photos and documents.

This quest is now advancing to levels that a clone or two will be needed, I am sure. (and Santa didnt have one under my tree last year again..*sigh*
Please check back often to see the progress and to see if you are a long lost cuzin. Email if you find a name or branch that is a link in the tree. We would love to hear from you and include your information. ~ Sooooooooo grab a cup of coffee and get comfee. This is going to take a while to read. If you find a linking line please email me at kentuckywebmaster@yahoo.com . We will look forward to meeting all the new cousins out there. Welcome to "Life in the Past Lane"

I am updating often..Anytime you revisit this page, be sure to refresh the page to enable new viewing of all the new additions/corrections.

12-2005 : Information is being worked up. Verifying and getting the correct information in order SURE is fun. *S* My quest gathering needed some revamping (9-05) so a change from individual pages to now a large one page file. This should enable all the see the whos who of the family. TO find a name among the data use "Control - F" (this opens up a FIND box) and enter the name you are looking for. Be sure you find the right name , as many of our ancestors all carry the same names.

Noted: Sources A Credits to contributors through direct emails or mail show online with a link to their email, or a noted www or hardcopy email.

[To find a name, among the vast information, use CONTROL and the F key .. and type in the name.
PLEASE!!! If you find I have a mistake or a typo , dont hesitate to let me know. I hate to post wrong info but it happens, so bear with me and others , as we get this fine tumed , as it is an ongoing project.






Spelling variations include: Grafton, Graphton, Graffton and others.

First found in Worcestershire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066 A.D.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: James Grafton who settled in Virginia in 1634; John Grafton settled in Virginia in 1653; another John Grafton settled in Carolina in 1774; Joseph Grafton settled in New England in 1680.

Some noteworthy people of the name Grafton
Augustus Henry Fitzroy Grafton (1735-1811) English statesman
Richard Grafton (c.1513-c.1572) English printer and historian





MY GRAFTON LINEAGE
7 G.........Joseph Grafton married Mary Moore
6 G.........Priscilla Grafton married John Gardner
5 G.........John GARDNER md Christianna FINCH
4 G.........James GARDNER b. 1758 md Tobitha MARTIN
3 G.........Andrew Washington GARDNER b. 1825 md Mary Elizabeth QUESENBERRY
2 G.........Martin VanBuren GARDNER b. 1853 md Amanda Jane GARDNER
1 G.........William Issac Jones GARDNER b. 1885 md Ida Mae CHAPMAN
Parents...Mary Jane GARDNER b 1926 md Keith Bremmen TAYLOR
Me..........Victoria Lynn Taylor 1952- ME!! your devoted webmaster

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INFO that might belong here somewhere >>> ??? ABSTRACT OF THE COUNTY COURT RECORDS OF ESSEX COUNTY, MASS. 1636-1693.
Scarlet, Ann of Salem, will 2d, 1, 1639. She died Feb. 28, 1639. Her brother Samuel Scarlet in England, sister Demaris Scarlet, brother Browning, brother Joseph Grafton of Salem, dau. Margaret Scarlet of Salem, son Joseph Scarlet of Salem. Witnesses, James Lynds, James Moulton both of Salem.



  • Joseph Grafton, Sea Capt b 1596-1600, Southwold Suffolk England d 24 Jun 1682, Salem Essex MA md
    (1) Mary MOORE in 1622 in England b. 1600 d. Nov 1674 in Salem Essex MA buried in Gardner ? Salem MA d/o Thomas Moore and Ann __
    (2) Bethia Rea /Ray [ widow of Lathrop ] by June 1676 d. Dec. 6, 1688 in Ipswich, MA d/o Daniel Ray and sister of Joshua [ she married 3rd William Goodhue]
    --- BETHIA, b. say 1630; m. (1) before 1652 (when he returned to England and told his mother that he had no children and was not likely to have any [ EQC 6:170]) THOMAS LOTHROP ; m. (2) by June 1676 Joseph Grafton [ EQC 6:170 -- Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975) ]; m. (3) by 1685 William Goodhue. Bethia Goodhue, wife of Deacon [William] Goodhue, d. Ipswich 6 December 1688. **
    --- Joseph Grafton, mariner, Salem, 1636.
    --- They were in Salem as early as 1636, when Joseph received a land grant.
    ---Joseph baptized 1636, John Bapt 1639, and Nathaniel baptized 1642.
    ---His name was among the Freemen created 17 May 1637.
    ---Goodwife Grafton desired of the town a lot for her mother at the end of her husband's lot in 1637 Ch.
    ---Made a successful voyage to Pemaquid and Boston in 1639.
    --- Joseph was a Salem sea captain and merchant who had a ketch of forty tons which on may 17, 1640 made a voyage to Pemaquid and brought back some twenty cows, oxen with hay and water for them to the bay. Later Grafton got mixed up in the LaTour D'Aulnay controvery and lost his ship and suffered severly. Joseph settled in Salem in 1636 he was possibly in New England for several years before then. He began early on to make voyages and conduct mercantile enterprises. He left a considerable estate and shares in several vessels at his death.**
    ---Master of the bark Endeavor in 1641.
    ---Two imperfect wills were set aside, and distribution made by consent of heirs as follows: to Bethia Goodhue, John Grafton, John Gardner (for his ch. by wife Priscilla, ) the two sons of Joseph Jr., dec.; the three daus. of Nathaniel; to Mary Meade, William and Edmund Herfield, Robert Kitchin and his three sisters, Mary Fox, Elizabeth Colyer and Samuel Gardner, Jr. Joshua Salem 1649.
    The Pioneers of Massachusetts A Descriptive List drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches and other Contemporaneous Documents by Charles Henry Pope, Boston Mass 1900. P196
    ---It is thought that he had something to do with the shipping business,and in 1650 he was known to have voyaged as far as Virginia.
    --- Occupation: Mariner/Merchant **
    --- Aspinwall's notarial records for 1648 make several mentions of a William Wolcott that is assumed to refer to him: - Valentine Hill granted a tre. of Attr. (power of attorney) to Joseph Grafton (a Salem merchant shipowner) to recover & Receive the Bills of Tristram Dodge, William Woolcot & William Davies or any other in Newfoundland with absolute power &c." **
    ---In the case of Joseph Grafton and Edmund Henfield of Boston in New England, 3 February 1650/1. Robert Henfield of Boston, mariner, deposed on that date, aged about 28 years, that Joseph Grafton of Salem in New England and William Andrews of Cambridge in New England were owners of the ship Diligence of Boston, which was seized between Cape Sable and Cape Cod in May last four years by two French men-of-war, and the crew were put ashore on an uninhabited island off Cape Sable, in St. John's Bay, Newfoundland.
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  • Priscilla Grafton b 1626 Salem Essex MA d 1717 at Nantucket, MA. married John Gardner 20 Feb 1654, Salem Essex MA died 1717, Nantucket Nantucket MA s/o Thomas Gardner and Margaret Fryer (Friar). b 1624-1625 in Nantucket Nantucket MA, d 6 May 1706 in Nantucket Nantucket MA . They are buried in Old Nantucket Nantucket MA.

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    6 G.........Priscilla GRAFTON md Capt. John GARDNER b. 1624
    5 G.........John GARDNER md Christianna FINCH
    4 G.........James GARDNER b. 1758 md Tobitha MARTIN
    3 G.........Andrew Washington GARDNER b. 1825 md Mary Elizabeth QUESENBERRY
    2 G.........Martin VanBuren GARDNER b. 1853 md Amanda Jane GARDNER
    1 G.........William Issac Jones GARDNER b. 1885 md Ida Mae CHAPMAN
    Parents...Mary Jane GARDNER b 1926 md Keith Bremmen TAYLOR
    Me..........Victoria Lynn Taylor 1952- ME!! your devoted webmaster





    Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever-----Isaiah 30:8

    I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father and his father and all our fathers, and in front to see my son and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes. As I felt so they had felt, and were to feel, as then, so now, as tomorrow and forever. Then I was not afraid, for I was in a long line that had no beginning and no end. And the hand of his father grasped my father's hand and his hand was in mine, and my unborn son took my right hand and all, up and down the line that stretched from Time That Was to Time That Is and Is Not Yet, raised their hands to show the link. And we found that we were one....
    From: "How Green Was My Valley", by Richard Llewellyn
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