James
Raymond
Born in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of David Raymond
and Bethiah (Newcomb) Gray
Brother of
Abraham Raymond, Abraham Raymond, Mercy (Raymond) Dixon, Newcomb Raymond, Sarai (Raymond) Gray, Hannah Raymond, Deborah Gray [half] and Bethiah (Gray) Hibbard [half]
Husband of
Melissa (Burritt) Raymond
— married
9 Oct 1791 in New York
Descendants 
Father of
Philander Raymond
Died
at age 85
in Sugarcreek Township, Venango, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Apr 2018
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Biography
James was born in 1767, the son of David and Bethiah (Newcomb) Raymond. His father passed in 1771 and his mother remarried in 1773 to Deacon Nathaniel Gray. James married to Melissa Burritt, daughter of the Reverend Blackleach Burritt. James was one of the earliest pioneers of Sherburne, New York, where he settled in 1792-3. He passed away in 1852, widowed, and living with his grandson James P. Raymond in Venango County, Pennsylvania.
Sources
- Residence: James P. Raymond (grandson), Venango County, Pennsylvania 1850
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DC8W-NLD?cc=1401638&wc=95RZ-1XS%3A1031314301%2C1034857601%2C1031735101 : 9 April 2016), Pennsylvania > Venango > Sugar Creek > image 10 of 21; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.). Residence: James Raymon, Sherburne, Chenango County, New York
- "United States Census, 1820," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYYN-9F9J?cc=1803955&wc=3L7F-STF%3A1586986403%2C1586987802%2C1586988852 : 16 July 2015), New York > Chenango > Sherburne > image 9 of 10; citing NARA microfilm publication M33, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- 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 62
- Newcomb, Bethuel. Andrew Newcomb, 1618-1686, and His Descendants. (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co, New Haven, Conn., 1923) Page 47
- Find A Grave: Memorial #62042729
- Fairfield Historical Society, Reports and Papers (Bridgeport, 1892) Page 31
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