Born about in West Riding, Yorkshire, England
Daughter of Thomas Lettice
and Anne (Unknown) Lettice
Wife of
Edward Gray Sr.
— married
12 Dec 1665 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Wife of
Nathaniel (Clark) Clarke
— married
after 1681 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Rebecca (Gray) Cole, Edward Gray II, Susanna (Gray) Cole, Thomas Gray, Lydia (Gray) Loring and Samuel Gray
Died
at about age 92
in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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Biography
Dorothy (Lettice) Clarke immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Parents: Dorothy was the daughter of Thomas Lettice (1604-1681) and Ann [Savoy]Lettice (1606-1687) (SAVOY is undocumented) Dorothy was born on November 28, 1633, in West Riding, Yorkshire, England. She married Edward Gray on December 12, 1665, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. [1][2][3]They had six children in 18 years. She died on April 30, 1726, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the impressive age of 92.
- Children
- Edward Gray II (1666-1726)
- Thomas Gray (1669-1721)
- Rebecca Gray Cole (1670-1731)
- Lydia Gray Loring (1678-1771)
- Samuel Gray (1682-1712)
- Spouse's
- Edward Gray (1629-1681)
- Nathaniel Clarke, (1643-1717) married 1681 and and divorced 04 June 1686.
- Dorothy was also the 2nd wife of Dr. Edward Gray
- Siblings:
- Ann Lettice Jenney (1628-1687)
- Elizabeth Lettice Shurtleff (1636-1693)
- Note Burial location now is shown on Find A Grave: Memorial #35936695
- Date on memorial now coincides with this profile
- Evidently not buried at Burial Hill?
- Burial: Burial Hill, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts,
- Burial in Rhode Island?
- BURIAL NOTE: Burial described in detail within “Massachusetts, Town Clerk...d Town Records, 1626-2001”[4] (tombstones were faded and author Lewis Bradford, town clerk 1829, sought to record their locations in a descriptive narrative)[5]
She died intestate and on 8 July 1728, Dr. Caleb Loring was granted the administration of her estate. her inventory was taken on 24 July 1728[6]
Sources
- ↑ Raymond, Marcius Denison, Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., https://archive.org/details/graygenealogybei00raym/page/262/mode/2up?view=theater.
- ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 (Liahona Research) Marriage: 12 Dec 1665 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- ↑ Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (1985), 319, Dec 1665.
- ↑ Film # 007009754; image 120/221; page 113 of original book
- ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897M-B34S?i=67&wc=Q4D7-T3N%3A353350201%2C353525801%2C1005984801&cc=2061550
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-FC4K : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1724-1731 and 1838-1842 vol 5-5T > image 266-267 of 596; State Archives, Boston.
- Cutter, William Richard New_England_Families_Genealogical_and_Memorial|New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial]] (Lewis Historical Publishing, New York, New York, 1913)
- Yates Publishing, 'U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900|U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900]] (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004) Birth: 1629. Marriage: 1665 MA.
- Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001) Death: 30 May 1728 Plympton, Plymouth, MA, USA.
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA. Birth: 1648.
- Find A Grave memorial #35936695
- Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700]] (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Page 319 Dec 1665.
- Clarke's Kindred Genealogies]] (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 32 & Page 89-90: poem in honor Dorothy Lettice Gray, wife of Edward Gray.
- "The Descendants of James Cole of Plymouth 1633"; by Ernest Byron Cole (Grafton Press, New York, 1908) pp.32 (9); Daughter Rebecca's marriage
- See bio at Find a Grave for a note on Church Proceedings against her and husband; [1]
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Hope this helps someone... = Burial described in detail within Massachusetts, Town Clerk...d Town Records, 1626-2001; Film # 007009754; image 120/221; page 113 of original (tombstones were faded and author Lewis Bradford, town clerk 1829, sought to record their locations in a descriptive narrative)
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