Person:Sebastian Graves (1)

Boston was a blacksmith. During the Revolutionary War he served as a private in Capt. William Rogers' company of Col. William O'Neil's regiment of Orange County, N.C. troops (DAR lineage book, vol. 100, page 38)... Was captured by the British and held for eleven months and later exchanged. His name appears in a list of Revolutionary pensioners publilshed in King's Mountain Men, 1924. His application for pension, filed Aug. 23, 1832, gives his age as 85, the name of his wife as Sarah; states that he was born in Pennsylvania Oct. 1, 1747, moved to Orange County, N.C., where he was drafted in 1779...In 1833 he was awarded a pension of $40 per annum.

  Boston's name appears on the tax lists of Orange County, N.C., for 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, and 1785, also in the Grantor Book of Orange County, Boston Graves to John Efland, Aug. 25, 1795.  This may have been about the time he moved to Tennessee.
  "Many residents  of Orange County, N.C., were loyal to the Crown.  After the Battle of Alamance May 16, 1771, these rebellious citizens were forced to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown, and, being a very religious people, they either evaded service in the Continental Army or fought for the King.  At the outbreak of the Revolution, Boston Graves and his brother-in-law John Efland were operating a wagon shop on Stinking Quarter.  A call came twice for Boston but for some reason John Efland served in his stead.  The third call found Efland too ill from exposure to respond, so Boston went into the service, and if tradition is correct, was at Yorktown and brought the silver spoon belonging to Lord Cornwallis, which spoon came down by Boston's request to each succeeding eldest son." 

Boston migrated with his father and kin to Sharp's Station on the Clinch River.