Edward Gray (1705 - aft. 1773)

Born Nov 1705 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Descendants

Died after 1773 after age 67 in Maine

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Biography

EDWARD GRAY, b. at Andover, Nov 1705 son of Edward Gray and Sarah Osgood;^[1] d. after 1773 perhaps in Maine; m. by 1742, SARAH who has not been identified.^[2]

Little firm information is known for this family. They had four children recorded at Andover (although one of the births occurred at Hatfield).^[3] The family was in Rindge, New Hampshire briefly. Edward’s son John and his wife Beulah stayed there for several years, but Edward and Sarah were there for a short time being warned out of Rindge in 1773.^[4]

On 26 June 1770, Edward Gray with his wife Sarah sold several tracts in Andover, including his homestead farm, to Daniel Lovejoy for payment of £106.13.4. The deed was witnessed by John and Beulah Gray.^[5]

Children

i EDWARD GRAY, b. 6 Oct 1742; d. 4 Aug 1747.

ii JOHN GRAY, b. at Andover, 26 Dec 1745; d. perhaps at Jay, ME (where youngest children were born); m. at Andover, 26 Apr 1770, his third cousin (through Holt line), BEULAH HOLT, b. at Andover, 12 Apr 1744 daughter of Oliver and Susannah (Wright) Holt.

iii SARAH GRAY, b. at Hatfield, 17 Jan 1753; nothing further known.

iv EDWARD GRAY, b. at Andover, 17 Nov 1756; d. 24 May 1763.

Sources and Footnotes

1. ↑ * Gray, Edward, s. Edward and Sarah, Nov. ––, [1705?]. Andover Vital Records, volume 1, p 180; https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Andover/Images/Andover_B180.shtml
2. ↑ It is possible that this is Sarah Coombs who married Edward Gray in Tolland, CT in 1741. Edward’s first cousin Abiel Gray was in Tolland at that time and there are no other Gray families there during that period.
3. ↑ From the Andover records: Sarah, d. Edward, jr. and Sarah, at Hatfield, Jan. 17, 1753.
4. ↑ Stearns, History of the Town of Rindge, p 539
5. ↑ Massachusetts Land Records, Essex County, 128:17

• Stearns, Ezra Scollay. 1875. History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Rowley Canada or Massachusetts Charter, to the Present Time, 1736-1874, with a Genealogical Register of the Rindge Families. Boston: G. H. Ellis.