Person:Henry Bray (10)

Henry Bray was a Regulator as is revealed by entries in The Colonial Records of North Carolina, in the counties of Mecklenburg, Granville, and Orange. They were organized shortly before the American Revolution to protest against unjust taxation and official extortion. He took part in the Battle of Alamance in May 1771, a rebellion by 1,000 regulators against the Colonial Government of North Carolina.

Served in Chatham County Militia 1772 in Capt. Jeduthan Harper's company with Thomas Brooks, James McDaniel, WIlliam Harris, Isaac Jones and others.

In 1773 Henry was one of the commissioners appointed to lay out a public road that was to run from a point on the Dan River to Campbelton near Fayetteville. It was to pass through Guilford, Chatham and Cumberland counties. Henry lived in western Chatham County, through which the road passed.

Henry was also part of the construction of a road in Chatham from the Piney Mountain to the iron works on Deep River in 1775. On October 9, 1769 Herman Husband made over to Henry Bray 480 acres on Love's Creek, being part of the Granville Grant of August 5, 1758. This tract is near the southern part of Siler City. Grant No. 30 from Orange County, issued June 30, 1762, went to Henry Bray for land on the south side of Rock River (later in Chatham County).

He is storied to have sold corn and grain for the militia during the American Revolution.