Person:John Pray (3)

John Pray
b.Abt 1636 England
m. 15 Jan 1627
  1. Elizabeth Pray1622 -
  2. Ephraim Pray1623 - 1710
  3. Hugh Pray1628 -
  4. Richard Pray1630 - 1693
  5. Quentin Pray1630 -
  6. Sarah Pray1632 - 1655
  7. Dorothy Pray1634 - 1705
  8. Hannah Pray1634 - Bef 1718/19
  9. Joan Pray1636 -
  10. John PrayAbt 1636 - Abt 1676
  11. Ephraim PrayAbt 1637 - 1710
  12. William Pray1640 -
  13. Thomas Pray1642 -
m. Bef 1662
  1. Ephriam Pray1661 - 1708/09
  2. Joseph Pray1673 - Bef 1748
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4] John Pray
Alt Name John Pray
Gender Male
Alt Birth[4] 1632 Kittery, York, Maine, United States
Birth? Abt 1636 England
Marriage Bef 1662 Maineto Joanna Downham
Death? Abt Sep 1676 Braintree, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Alt Death[4] 31 Oct 1676 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

On 26 December 1664 son John Pray is mentioned in the will of Quinton Pray.

    Inventory the estate of John Pray of Braintree was taken 23 September 1676 by John French, Caleb Hobart and Joseph Arnold.  House and lands were valued at Ð237; total at Ð335-5-7.  On 31 October 1676, administration was granted to widow Joanna.  (Suffolk Probate Records xii, 12, 112).
References
  1. Henry Ernest Woods. Pray of York and Kittery, Maine. (New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 55, July 1901)
    pp. 280-281.
  2. Waldo Chamberlain Sprague. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, MA 1640-1850. (Frank E. Dyer)
    Pray family card 3942R, 3943, 3944R.
  3. 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)
    3:476-477.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "FAMILY TREE" BY ROSIE (FLECK) UTECHT.

    Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc. _FOOT: Ancestry.com, One World Tree (sm) (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.). Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc. _ABBR: Ancestry.com, One World Tree (sm) (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.).

  5.   Sprague, Waldo Chamberlain; Frank E. Dyer; and Robert J. Dunkle. Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Massachusetts, 1640-1850 (CD ROM): including the Modern Towns of Randoloph & Holbrook and the City of Quincy, after the Separation from Braintree in 1792-3. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999).

    JOHN2 PRAY, (Quinton1), born ____, died about Sep. 1676.
    Married May 7, 1657, Joanna Downam, born about 1640, died ____, dau. of ____. She Married 2nd about
    1678 Daniel Livingston and went to York, Me.
    Daniel Livingston & Ephraim Pray took the oath of allegiance at Braintree about 1678. Daniel Livingston was
    aged 34 years when he deposed Jan 6, 1679 (80)
    Children of John & Joanna born at Braintree:
    i. John, Mar. 11, 1658, died Nov. 25, 1658
    ii . John, Jul. 11, 1659, died young
    + iii. Ephraim, near 1661
    iv. Hannah, Mar. 21, 1663, died Dec. 12, 1664
    v. Hannah, Mar. 16, 1665, m. James Bell of Taunton (S. D. 55:280)
    vi. Richard, May 3, 1667
    v ii. Samuel, Apr. 16, 1669, m. Mary Fernald. Res. in York, Me.
    viii. John, Feb. 10, 1672, died young
    ix. Dorothy, m. Daniel Furbush (or Forbish) of York, Me. (S. D. 55-280)
    x . Joseph, m. Mary Grant. Res. in York, Me

  6.   Henry Ernest Woods, "Pray of York and Kittery, Maine," , in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
    55:280, 1901.