Person:Simon Ray (5)

In 1676, Simon became a Deputy Warden and afterwards Warden of Block Island for almost fifty years. For about 30 years, he represented the colony in the Rhode Island General Assembly.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 [4023] Simon¹ Ray, in Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain, comp. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850: including the Modern Towns of Randolph and Holbrook and the City of Quincy. (Boston, Massachusetts: Published in cooperation with the Quincy Historical Society by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983)
   1336.

   "Simon (Ray), bapt. (Hundon) Dec. 20, 1638. Removed about 1661 to New Shoreham, Block Is, R.I, m. 1st about 1664, Mary Thomas of Marshfield, m. 2nd Elizabeth, widow of Humphrey Tiffany of Rehoboth."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} 9. John Rowning, in French, Elizabeth. Genealogical Research in England - Rowning. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   69:27-28.

   "Simon (Ray), bapt. at Hundon 20 Dec. 1638; d. on Block Island, R. I., 17 Mar. 1737 [? 1736/7]; m. (1) abt. 1664 Mary Thomas, dau. of Maj. Nathaniel of Marshfield; m. (2) after 27 Oct. 1685 Elizabeth (_____) Tiffany, widow of 'Squire' Humphrey of Rehoboth; four children by first wife."

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 2. Simon² Ray, in Moriarty, G. Andrews. Early Block Island Families - The Ray Family. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1932)
   86:326-27.

   "2. Simon² Ray (Simon¹), of Braintree, Mass., and of New Shoreham (Block Island), R. I., baptized at Hundon, co. Suffolk, England, 20 Dec. 1638, died at Block Island 17 Mar. 1736/7. … He was brought by his parents to Braintree in New England about 1639 or 1640, and his youth was passed in the family of his stepfather, Peter George. Both Peter George and Simon Ray were among the original purchasers of Block Island, and the latter was among those present at the house of Dr. George Alcock in Roxbury on 27 Aug. 1660, to confer about the purchase. … He was a freeman at New Shoreham in 1664 and deputy warden in 1676. Austin says that he was one of the first company who embarked for the Island in the shallop that sailed from Taunton, Mass., in April 1661, but his name is not in the list of those passengers, as recorded in the New Shoreham records, and it is probable that he came shortly after the first company of settlers. … In 1687/8 he was appointed by Sir Edmund Andros a justice of the General Quarter Sessions and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas held at Newport. … In 1689, when the Island was captured by the notorious French buccaneer, Captain Picquart, who had been at the sack of Maracaibo with Lolonois, the French ruffians offered great indignities to Mr. Ray, the aged magistrate of the Island, as related by the Rev. Samuel Niles in his 'History of the Indian Wars.' He was head warden of the Island in 1700 and for many years thereafter. Simon Ray is buried in the Common Burying Ground at New Shoreham, under a large flat stone …"

4. ↑ Simon Ray, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   3:512.

   "Simon (Ray), Block isl. s. of the preced. an orig. propr. of the isl. in 1661, m. Mary d. of the first Nathaniel Thomas of Marshfield, had Mary, b. 19 May 1667; Dorothy, 16 Oct. 1669; Simon, 9 Apr. 1672; and Sibel, 19 Mar. 1675. He liv. to see num. progeny thro. male and fem. lines, and d. 17 Mar. 1737, in 102d yr. says the gr.-stone; and from him came into the fam. by subseq. interm. the Hon. Nathaniel Ray Thomas, one of his Majesty's Counsellors of Mass. Bay 1774."

5. ↑ Simon Ray, in Find A Grave.