Deacon John Grave Foundation
Madison, Connecticut

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Document Collection

The Grave Foundation Collection includes 150 pages of original documents preserved by the family. The earliest dates from 1675 and the latest from 1895. The documents are currently preserved at the Charlotte L. Evarts Memorial Archives in Madison.

Among the documents are letters, Justice-of the-Peace records, deeds, records from the Revolutionary War period, tax records from 1764 and a portion of a 1795 journal of a voyage to the West Indies.

Elias Grave's Revolutionary War Commission 1777

Front cover of Mabel Murray Grave's Bible 1763

Letter from Capt. Arnold 1775

Military Pay List 1780

Invoice for Goods Received from England 1683

Ten 18th Century Justice of the Peace Documents with Transcriptions

17th Century Letters from England

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