Person:Edward Gray (3)

Browse
Edward Gray
b.Abt 1629
  • HEdward GrayAbt 1629 - 1681
  • WMary WinslowEst 1632 - Abt 1663
m. 16 Jan 1650/51
  1. Desire Gray1651 - 1690
  2. Mary Gray1653 -
  3. Elizabeth GrayAbt 1655/56 - Abt 1721
  4. Sarah Gray1659 - 1737
  5. John Gray1661 -
  6. Anna GrayAbt 1663 -
m. 12 Dec 1665
  1. Edward Gray1666/67 - 1726
  2. Susanna Gray1668 - 1727
  3. Thomas Gray1669 - 1721
  4. Rebecca GrayBef 1670 -
  5. Samuel GrayAbt 1672 - 1712
  6. Lydia GrayAbt 1678 - 1771
Facts and Events
Name Edward Gray
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] Abt 1629
Marriage 16 Jan 1650/51 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Winslow
Marriage 12 Dec 1665 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United Statesto Dorothy Lettice
Death[1][2][3] 30 Jun 1681 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Possible Match

There has been speculation that he was the Edward Gray christened in Stapleford Tawney, Essex in April 1623[4]. This is questionable. See notes on the page of Edward Gray of Stapleford Tawney.

Estate

Abstract of Partition of Estate of Edward Gray, based on Source:Pilgrim notes and queries, p. 4:91, "Plymouth County, Mass., Records of Deeds"

Dated 30 Oct 1684, agreement between

  • "Nathaniel Thomas Gent: & Mrs Dorothy Gray as Gardians & in behalf of Edward Thomas Samuel Susanna Rebeckah & Lidiah the Children of Mr Edward Gray late of Plimouth ... Deceased which he had by her the abovesd Dorothy", later referred to as "six younger Children abovesd"
  • "Nathaniel Southworth & Desire his wife"
  • "Seth Arnold & Eizabeth his wife"
  • "Samuel Little & Sarah his wife"
  • "Capt John Walley Esq'r as Gardian & in behalf of Anna Gray"
  • "John Gray Eldest son of the sd Edward"
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 "Mayflower Increasings": 2nd Edition
    34.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Plymouth Grays, in Gray Genealogy
    262.

    Oldest stone in Plymouth Burial Ground: "Here lyeth a body of Edward Gray, Gent., aged about 52 years, and departed this life ye last of June, 1681."
    [Birth calculates to about 1629.]

  3. Earliest Inscriptions from Plymouth Burying Hill, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    4:254.

    Here lies the body of Edward Gray, Gent, aged about 52 years, and departed this life the last of June, 1681.

  4. Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin, and Little Compton Historical Society [Rhode Island]. Little Compton Families. (Little Compton [Rhode Island]: Little Compton Historical Society, 1967 (College Hill Press : Providence, R.I.))
    1:292.

    "EDWARD1 GRAY, born 15 April 1623 (?) in England, died in June 1681 in Plymouth, ..."