Ancestry of
William Gray
(1810–1892)
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- Father of William Gray — 2nd Generation
- Ahnentafel No:
- 2
- Father:
- William Gray
- Mother:
- Elizabeth Chipman
- Birth Date:
- 23 Jun 1783
- Birth Location:
- Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
- Christening Date:
- Christening Location:
- Death Date:
- 29 Jul 1831
- Death Location:
- Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
- Burial Date:
- Burial Location:
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
- Spouse Name:
- Mary Clay
- Marriage Date:
- 19 Oct 1809
- Marriage Location:
- Newark, Essex, New Jersey
- Children:
William Gray (Ahnentafel No:1 )
Francis Henry Gray
Frederic Gray
Ellen Gray
- Notes:
William Gray's name was changed to William Rufus Gray in 1802 by a legislative act. It is said that this was done due to the number of William Grays in Salem, Massachusetts at the time.
William Rufus Gray
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Sources for William Rufus Gray
- 1 Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047760.
- 2 General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15603, Membership application for Katharine Cunningham (Gray) Bingham.
- 3 Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Undertaker's return and physician's death certificate for son William Gray.
- 4 Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for son Frederic Gray.
- 5 Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841-1915, Death record for son William Gray.
- 6 Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Death record for William R Gray.
- 7 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 387, Birth record for William Rufus Gray.
- 8 Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Boston, Vol. 429, p. 65, Death record for son William Gray.
- 9 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, p. 330.
- 10 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 321.
- 11 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1851, Vol. 5, p. 56.
- 12 New Jersey Marriages, 1678-1985, Marriage record for William Rufus Gray and Mary Clay.
- 13 New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949, Death record for daughter Ellen Gray.
- 14 The Evening Post (New York, New York), 02 AUG 1831, p. 2, Obituary for William B [sic] Gray.
- 15 Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie, M.D., A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family, Columbia, South Carolina: The R.L. Bryan Company (1901), 44.
- 16 Cumming, Montgomery, Table of the descendants of Joseph Clay of Savannah, Ga., 1741 to 1804, Washington, D.C.: n. p. (1897), Film #007958261, Item 5.
- 17 Gray, Edward, William Gray, of Salem, Merchant: A Biographical Sketch . . ., Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1914), 9, 19.
- 18 Greeley, George Hiram, Genealogy of the Greely-Greeley Family, Boston, Massachusetts: Frank Wood, Printer (1905), 450.
- 19 Massachusetts, Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: General Court of the Commonwealth (1898), 1802, May Session, Chapter 14, p. 16.
- 20 Park, Lawrence, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1914), 32.
- 21 Raymond, Marcius Denison, Gray Genealogy, Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass., and Also ..., Tarrytown, New York: M. D. Raymond (1887), 272.
- 22 Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 109.