The Greaves or Graves Family Crest

Among the New England prominent men mentioned in Princes Chronological History, Edition of 1736, we find a Thomas Graves, of Charlestown, Mass., mentioned as Esquire or Gentleman. He descended from the emigrant, Thomas Graves, one of the original grantees of the Massachusetts Company (1628). On the tombstone of the first-named Thomas Graves, M.D., buried in 1746 (aetet. 63), in the Charlestown Burial Ground, we find the arms we give. They are those of the Greaves, of county Kent, and of St. Leonard's Forest, county Sussex, England, with the martlet added as mark of cadence. The Greaves of Greaves, county Derby, recognized in the time of Henry III., are the head of the family and bear these armorial devices. There is a baronial title in the English family.

Family

Greaves or Graves

Motto

Aquila non captat muscamAn eagle does not catch mice.

Blazon

An Eagle Displayed, Or, Winged, Gules.

Source

America Hereldica