John Gray (1661 - 1732)

Born 1 Oct 1661 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Joanna (Morton) Gray — married 9 Dec 1686 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died 29 May 1732 at age 70 in Kingston, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

John Gray, son of Edward Gray and Mary (Winslow) Gray, was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts on October 1, 1661.^[1][2]

John married Joanna Morton in Plymouth on December 9, 1686.^{[3] [4]} John and Joanna settled in Kingston and had the following children there:

1. Edward, b. September 21, 1687,^[5] d. February 20, 1687/8^[5]
2. Mary, b. December 7, 1688,^[5] d. March 17, 1703^[5]
3. Ann, b. August 5, 1691,^[5] m. John Tinkham^[4]
4. Desire, b. December 1, 1693,^[5] d. December 6, 1695^[5]
5. Joannah, b. January 29, 1695/6,^[5] m. Ebenezer Fuller^[4]
6. Samuel, b. December 23, 1701/2,^[5] m. Patience Wadsworth^[4]
7. Marcey/Mercy, b. February 4, 1703/4,^[5] m. Jabez Fuller^[4]

John Gray died in Kingston on May 29, 1732, at the age of 71.^[6][4] In his will he made bequests to his wife Joanna, John TInkham (Ann Gray's widower), and his surviving children: Joanna, Samuel and Mercy.^[4] John's son Samuel Gray was appointed as executor.^[7] The full text of his will can be found at: "The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History," Volume 21 January 1, 1919, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, pp 62-64.

His inventory was taken on 7 August 1732 in Kingston.^[8]

In 1738, his daughters, Joanna Fuller, wife of Ebenezer Fuller, and Mercy Fuller, wife of Jabez Fuller, all of Kingston, quitclaimed their share of their father's estate to their brother Samuel Gray.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ van Antwerp, Lee D., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1993. p. 663. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
2. ↑ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts. Vol. III. J.H. Beers & Co., 1912. p 1669. Link to page at archive.org.
3. ↑ van Antwerp, Lee D., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1993. p. 85. Link to page at americanancestors.org.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6} "The Will of John Gray of Kingston, Mass.: The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Volume 21, January 1, 1919. Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. pp 62-64. Link to page at hathitrust.org.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9} Bowman, George Ernest. "Plymouth Births, Marriages and Deaths." The Mayflower Descendant. A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. 1899. Volume I. p. 145. Link to page at hathitrust.org
6. ↑ Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911. p 354. Link to page at archive.org.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-NHWP : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1730-1733 and 1839-1845 vol 6-6U > image 108 of 589; State Archives, Boston.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-NHQB : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1730-1733 and 1839-1845 vol 6-6U > image 120-121 of 589; State Archives, Boston.
9. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-D265?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-7TL%3A337872301 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1732-1738 vol 7 > image 225 of 242; State Archives, Boston.

See also:

• MF Vol. 15 p. 37-38
• 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 262
• Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants In The State of California (Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1917) Page 87: Calf. No. 54, General No. 3088 Samuel Bradford Doten, Reno, Nevada.
• Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 75