Person:Simon Ray (6)

Simon Ray

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m. 1635

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Simon Ray
Gender	Male
Christening^[1]	6 Nov 1610	Cowlinge, Suffolk, England
Marriage	1635	Little Wratting, Suffolk, Englandto Mary Rowning
Death^[1]^[2]	30 Sep 1641	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory^[1]	20 Feb 1641/42	£122/14/4 taken by Martin Saunders & Richard Brackett

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 [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)
1335-36.

[4023] Simon¹ Ray (Rea), was baptized at Cowlinge, Co. Suffolk England Nov. 6, 1610 a son of Simon and Sarah (Pegron or Pilgrim) Ray of Hundon & Cowlinge. His ancestry for several generations back has been established (see N.E. Hist. Gen. Register Vols. 63, 64, 66, 69, 86, & 104). He came to New England about 1639 or 1640 and settled at Braintree where he died soon afterwards on Sep. 30, 1641. The inventory of Simon Ray was taken Feb. 20, 1641 (2) by Martin Saunders & Richard Brackett, £122/14/4."
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 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), Braintree, came, it is said, from Braintree, Co. Essex, and d. 30 Sept. 1641. His will was copied on one of the lost pages of our Vol. I. in Prob. Court, if we may believe the Index; and his inv. of 20 Feb. foll. shows good est. Perhaps Mary, wh. m. 15 Nov. 1651, Samuel Deering, was his d."