In 1771, Patience wished to have her dower distributed to her late husband Samuel's heirs and her children, John Gray, Mary, wife of Benjamin Cook, Samuel Gray, and the heirs of Wait Gray.[1]
Sources
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-8HKH : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1771-1778 vol 21-23 > image 32-33 of 827; State Archives, Boston.
Mayflower Families Vol. 15 p. 118
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of the Wadsworth Family in America: Containing an Acount of the Family Reunion, at Duxbury, Mass., September 13, 1882, and a Genealogical Register / page 178
Page 55: "In memory of Mrs Patience, Widow of Mr Samuel Gray, she died April ye 23- 1782, in ye 76th year of her age."
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Patience by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Patience: