Dear Cathy and any others who are researching the CHRISTMAS surname.

Would you perhaps be researching the following family?

Family Group Report - August 4, 1999

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Family ID 863

Husband: John CHRISTMAS - 2442
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Wife: Mary GRAVES - 2443
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Father: Henry White GRAVES Sr. - 3074 (1690-1745)
Mother: Mary WILLIAMS - 3075 (1706-)
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Children...
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1. M Child: William CHRISTMAS - 2350
Spouse: Perhaps Jane YANCEY - 18571

Husband's Notes...
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Notes:
John Christmas was "noted first 'City Planner' who laid out Warrenton and
Raleigh."

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Copied from Cavaliers and Pioneers Abstracts of Virginia Land patents and
Grants 1523-1800:

Patent Book No. 14

THOMAS CHRISTMAS, 731 acres (O. & N.L.), Hanover County; adjacent Major John
Leigh, Richard Wetherford, William Noble, John Stanley, George Pemberton,
and Henry Graves.
April 11, 1732
page 385.

400 acres part granted John Matlock.  35 shillings.
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