Joshua Graves (237) was born probably about 1725 in Swanzey, N.H., and died in 1777. He married Lydia Woodcock, daughter of Jonathan Woodcock and Melitiah Love, on 12 Oct. 1758. She was born in 1738. They lived in Swanzey.
Joshua was probably in Capt. David Howlet's Co., Col. Ashley's Regt. of Militia from Keene, N.H. to reinforce the Continental Army at Ticonderoga, N.Y. in June 1777. They traveled 102 miles. He was in Col. Ashley's Regt. in Oct. 1776 in the same company and service as his brother Abner.
