Thomas Graves

As a representative and early settler Capt. Thomas Graves was a member of the First Legislative Assembly in America, and, with Mr. Walter Shelley, sat for Smythe's Hundred when they met at Jamestown, Virginia on July 30, 1619. His name appears on a monument to the first House of Burgesses which stands at Jamestown today.

Smythe's Hundred was abandoned after the Indian uprising of 1622. The next record of Captain Graves showed him living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia by February 16, 1624.

His daughter, Verlinda, eventually married governor of Maryland, William Stone, and his daughter Anne married Harvard's headmaster Nathaniel Eaton, and had at least one son named James Eaton. A descendant of Gov. Stone and Verlinda was Founding Father Thomas Stone, a signatory of the declaration of independence, and nephew of Founding Father Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer.