John Gray (1692 - 1720)

Born 16 Aug 1692 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Died 14 Jan 1720 at age 27 in New London, New London, Connecticut Colony

Biography

John Gray was an American silversmith. He was apprenticed to John Coney who was also the master of Apollos Rivoire, father of Paul Revere.

John Gray was born in 1692 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Colony, the son of Samuel Gray and Susanna (Langdon) Gray. He was brother of silversmith, Samuel Gray. John married Mary Christophers on October 14, 1714 in New London, Connecticut.

Sources

• Gray genealogy : being a genealogical record and history of the descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and also including sketches of other Gray families Author: Marcius Denison Raymond. Publisher: Tarrytown, N.Y 1887. Page: 142 #VI.

• Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915 database, FamilySearch, John Gray, 16 Aug 1692; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 592,866.

• American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition, By Stephen G. C. Ensko

• Bohan, Peter. Early Connecticut Silver, 1700–1840 (Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Connecticut, 1970) Page 236.

• Totten, John R., Christopers Family, The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1920) Vol. 51, Page 21.