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From: "Beverly Pack" <>
Subject: [PACK-L] Graves PACKE
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 14:48:41 -0700


The following information was found in William & Mary Quarterly, Series 1,
Volume 3, pp. 267-269. I have typed it exactly as it appears.

"Personal Notes--From The Maryland Gazette. 1765--May 10--An account of a
schooner which sailed out of York River, bound up the Bay, and was lost in a
violent gust of wind above the mouth of Rappahannock, all on board perished.
There were two passengers, one of them "Mr. Graves, son of Mrs. Sarah Packe
of Williamsburg, a very hopeful youth, of about 18 years of age." The
friends request the favor of good Christians who may happen to find or hear
of their bodies, "to give notice to Mr. Parks, printer at Williamsburg."
Mr. Packe was a thin slender youth; had on a scarlet Great-Coat, a new green
cloth Waistcoat, with white metal buttons, a new pair of leather breeches,
and a new pair of boots; and had a silver watch in his pocket, the maker's
name, Bradford of London, with a silver seal hanging to it; and had a
mourning ring on one of his fingers. They both had money in their pockets,
and other effects with them of considerable value." The date of the
accident was March 27, or that was the day when the schooner sailed.

In a letter of Mrs. Ann (Thomson) Mason, dated 1743, she states that her
sister Mary Thomson married first a Mr. Booth, and secondly "Capt. Graves
Pack." She had but one child by her second husband, a son who died in
infancy.(1)

(1) In the York county records is the following order: "June ye 21, 1725:
On the petition of Booth Armistead by Robert Armistead, Gent., his next
friend, setting forth that Thomas Booth, late of this county deceased, by
his last will & testament did give and bequeath 200 pds sterling to y sd
petr & by his sd will did constitute Mary his wife Ex who has since
intermarried with Graves Pack, Gent, ordered that the sheriff summon the
said Pack to answer y sd petition at next court."

Robert Booth was clerk of York court as early as 1645. He married Frances
_____, and had Elizabeth, who married Dr. Patrick Napier. Robert and
William Booth succeed him in the York records, and were probably his sons.
William left a will, which shows that he (William) had no sons. Robert
married Anne, daughter of James Bray, Esq., and Angelica, his wife, but as
he left no will, it cannot be said positively that Thomas Booth was his son.
Capt. Robert Armistead (Anthony, William) had two sons by a first wife,
Booth (died in 1727) and Ellyson; and he then married, secondly, Kathatine
Nutting, widow of Capt. William Sheldon, and had Robert, Booth, and
Angelica. It looks as if Armistead's first wife was Miss Booth, either a
daughter of grand-daughter of Robert Booth, the younger. (See Keith's
Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, p. 21; Quarterly, Vol. II, p. 234) Graves
Pack married, secondly, Sarah _____. He was justice of the peace of York
county, and under date Feb 16, 1740, is the following: "Edward randolph of
Loudoun, mercht, now residing in Virginia, devisee under the will of Graves
Pack, late of London, mariner, dated 16 Dec 1728, for 25L current money of
Va.," sells to John Kaidyee 4 lots in Queen Mary's Port, near the capital of
Williamsburg. Witness, J. Palmer, Bedford Davenport, John Parker.--Editor"

Beverly L. Pack
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