Henry Gray (abt. 1653 - 1731)

Born about 1653 in Fairfield, New Haven Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Carpenter) Gray — married 1700 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 21 Nov 1731 at about age 78 in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Henry Gray, son of Henry Gray and [[Frost-63|Lydia Frost], born about 1653, died 21 Nov 1731 at Westport, CT. He testified in 1692 at Disbrow witch trail (his age then about 39 years) and called Jacob Gray his brother^[1]

married 1st to ----- unknown

married 2nd about 1700 to Hannah, widow of Samuel Gunn and daug of Andrew Sanford

married 3rd Margaret ---- who died 29 Aug 1754 at Westport.

Children by first wife:

1. Isaac died 7 Nov 1745 at Westport, CT
2. Henry died 29 May 1713 at Westport
3. William died 27Aug 1761 at Westport
4. David
5. Deborah marr ---- Dickerson
6. Mary marr --- Crane

Children by second wife:

1. Samuel bapt 25 June 1704

Children by third wife:

1. Martha bapt 6 Mar 1714/15

Henry's will dated 18 Nov 1731, proved 21 Dec 1731, mentions wife Margaret, sons Samuel, Isaac, William, David, grandson Benjamin Gray, granddaughter Elizabeth Gray, daughters Deborah Dickason, Mary Crane, and Martha Gray. His inventory was taken on 28 January 1731/32.^[2]

Burial: Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Sources

1. ↑ "History and genealogy of the families of old Fairfield" compiled and edited by Donald Lines Jacobus, vol 1 p 234, publ 1930 download from https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/43068?availability=Family%20History%20Library
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T2QN  : 3 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627301, image 627-629, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 8, 1725-1740, Page 285-289.

See also:

• Sons of the American Revolution. A National Register of the Society, Sons of the American Revolution (A. H. Kellogg, 1902) Volume: 72; SAR Membership Number: 14213.

• Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass. (Tarrytown, New York, 1887) Page 199

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1930) Vol. 1, Page 234, Page 517.

• Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut (J.J. Little & Co., Astor Place, New York, 1889) Page 474: Christ's Church, Fairfield. Bapt. April 30, 1699 Isaac, Henry, William David, Deborah, Mary.

• Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, down to 1721. Page 148.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines. An American Family, Botsford-Marble Ancestral Lines (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Connecticut, 1933) Page 43.