Thomas Wells Bray, elder son of John Bray, a native of Ireland, and of Lydia Bray, of Branford, Connecticut, was born in Branford on September 22, 1738, and was baptized two days later by the name of Thomas. … His mother was the youngest child of William and Elizabeth (Frost) Hoadley, of Branford, and divorced wife of Alexander Montgomery. When he was about three years old, his father was drowned in Long Island Sound, and his mother after this removed to Farmington, Connecticut."
