Priscilla
Gray
Born in Province of Maryland
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Priscilla Gray is a part of US Black heritage.
1708 Birth and Parents
Priscilla Gray was born, say, 1708. From later court documents it appears that her mother was white and her father was not. [1]
1727 Occupation
In November 1727 Priscilla Gray was a "malatto" servant of Mrs. Sarah Magruder, Sr., of Prince George's County. [1]
1727 Children
in November 1727 she confessed to the court that she had an illegitimate child by a "negroe." [1]
On 23 March 1730/1 the court presented her for having another child by information of the constable for Mount Calvert Hundred. She admitted her guilt, and the court ordered that she receive five lashes and serve her mistress an additional nine months.
The court called her "Priscilla Gray alias Malatto Priscilla" when it bound her son Dick, aged about three months, to Lingan Wilson until the age of twenty-one. [1]
In November 1732 she was called a "Mollatto Woman born of a white Woman" when she confessed to having a child by "Malatto George belonging to Mr. William Digges." The Court ordered her to serve an additional seven years and bound her son William for thirty-one years. [1]
She was presented for the same offense in March 1735, and on 28 November 1738 the court bound her "Mallatto" son Joseph, born 9 August 1738, to her master, William Magruder, until the age of thirty-one. [1]
She may have had a common-law marriage with a member of the Grimes family since she was called "Priscilla Grimes Als Gray" on 26 November 1745 when she confessed to having an illegitimate child named Kate who was bound to William Magruder until the age of thirty-one. [1]
On 27 November 1750 she confessed to "Mollatto Bastardy," and the court ordered that she serve seven years and bound her daughter Anne to William Magruder until the age of thirty-one [Court Records 1726-7, 626; 1730-2, 2, 5; 1732-4, 118; 1734-5, 357; 1738-40, 199; 1744-6, 298-9; 1749-50, 244]. [1]
All told, her children were
- Dick
- William
- Joseph
- Kate
- Anne
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Mike Marshall. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties. Profile for Sarah (Unproven) Mills Accessed 26 July 2020 jhd
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