Jerusha (Bradford) Gay (1699 - 1783)

Born 10 Mar 1699 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Ebenezer Gay Jr — married 13 Nov 1719 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 19 Aug 1783 at age 84 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Jerusha, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Rogers) Bradford, was born in Plymouth, MA on March 10, 1699. She married Reverend Ebenezer Gay in Duxbury, MA on November 13, 1719.^[1] Jerusha died in Hingham, MA in 1783 (either August 19th or September 8th.

Children

Ebenezer and Jerusha (Bradford) Gay had the following (11) children:^[2]

1. Samuel, born 15 January 1720/1; buried 21 March 1745/6
2. Abigail, born 8 September 1722; died 8 February 1728/9
3. Calvin, born 14 September 1724
4. Martin, born 29 December 1726
5. Abigail, born 20 August 1729
6. Celia, born 13 August 1731; died 18 February 1748/9
7. Jotham, born 11 April 1733
8. Jerusha, born 17 March 1734/5
9. Ebenezer, born 3 March 1736/7; died 3 July 1738
10. Persis, born 2 November 1739; died 24 March 1752
11. Joanna, born 23 November 1741; died 23 July 1772

Sources

1. ↑ Diary of Rev. John Robinson (Connecticut State Library) Page 2

   "Bradford, Jerusha, Mrs., of [Lebanon], m. E[ ] Gay, of Hingham, Nov. 12, 1719, by Rev.J[ohn] Robinson"

2. ↑ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Silver Books, Volume Sixteen, Part 2, The Descendants of John Alden Through His Daughter Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, 2002 Edition, Published 2002, Page 11

• Alice Westgate, comp., Ann T. Reeves, 2000 ed., Peggy M. Baker, 2013 ed., Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Thomas Rogers, Volume 19, second edition (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2013) 78, 305-308
• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Extracts From The Itineraries and Other Miscellanies of Ezra Stiles (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, Conn., 1916) Page 209 & Page 212
• Fessenden, G.M. A Genealogy of the Bradford Family, New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, 1850) Vol. 4, Page 47
• Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 50