Person:George Gray (51)

Married to Mary Strother (daughter of James Strother and Margaret French). He is the brother of Sarah Gray who m1 George Weedon and had son George Weedon born after his father's death. Sarah then married William Strother. George Gray served the family as executor of William Strother's will.

1.   Green, Raleigh Travers, and Philip Slaughter. Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia: embracing a revised and enlarged edition of Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish. (Culpepper, Va: Raleigh Travers Green, 1900)
   pg 54, 81.

   pg 54:
   
   James Strother who was dead on the 16th of December 1761,
left children: French,James and Mary, who married George Gray.
   pg. 81:
   
   Mildred, daughter of Rev. John Thompson, married Capt. George Gray,
Rev. Officer, who was the son of John and Mary Strother Gray, daughter of
Jas. Strother and wife Margaret French dau. of Daniel French, issue of Capt.
Geo. Gray, Sr.Google Books

2.   "Descendants of Francis Gray", in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute)
   vol XII (1903), p 267-271.

   There is a deed recorded in Stafford county from Nathaniel Gray, of Washington Parish, in the county of Westmoreland, yeoman, selling to Thomas Kitchins, of the Parish of St. Paul's, King George county, 460 acres, once sold by Jarvis Dodson to Nathaniel Jones, Aug. 31, 1660, and by the said Jones bequeathed to his three daughters by his will dated July 3, 1702, and from one of his daughters, Sarah Jones, the land descended to her son Nathaniel Gray, above named. This deed is dated Aug. 20, 1709. There is the will of James Strother proved in Stafford county, October, 1766. It names brother French Strother, sister Mary, "wife of Mr. George Gray, of Stafford Co.," whom he appoints executor.
   
   6 George⁴ Gray (Nathaniel³, Francis², Francis¹) and Mary Strother had issue,
   10 George⁵ Gray, eldest son and heir at law, which is proved in this way.
   
   In King George county there is a deed from Nathaniel Gray, of the county of Caroline, to Henry Alexander Ashton, of the county of King George, which recites that Nathaniel Gray, late of the county of Stafford, now King George, father of the grantor Nathaniel, his eldest son, and heir at law, was seized of a tract of land on the north side of Machodick Creek, in Westmoreland county, as tenant in fee tail, and having executed a writ of ad quod damnum, he sold the same to his brother George Gray, who died leaving George Gray his eldest son and heir.
   
   10 George⁵ Gray (George⁴, Nathaniel³, Francis², Francis¹) married Mildred Thompson, daughter of Rev. John Thompson and Elizabeth Rootes. (See Strother's St. Mark's Parish, and Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, IV., p. 208.) Issue, John Thompson8 Gray, who married Mary Ormsby.
   
   In Culpeper county there is a deed dated July 2, 1760, which recites that Daniel French, then of Fairfax county, and Margaret French, late wife of James Strother, were children of Daniel French, late of King George county, who gave some slaves to his said daughter Margaret in his will, of which he made his brother Hugh French executor. The deed also states that Jane Strother, of Culpeper, French Strother, and Mary Gray, wife of George Gray, were children of the said James Slaughter and Margaret his wife, late Margaret French, deceased, sister of Daniel French, party to the deed.
   
   There is a deed recorded in Culpeper of Nathaniel Gray and Mary his wife, of Caroline, dated 1779.
   
   There is a power of attorney from George Weedon recorded in Stafford county, to George Gray, to sell his lands, or, in case of his death, he devises it to his mother, and his sisters Margaret Strother, Sarah Strother and Patty Strother. Recorded in 1756, and witnessed by Nathaniel Gray and others.