Ancestry of
William Rufus Gray

(1783–1831)

William Gray

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• • Father of William Rufus Gray — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Abraham Gray 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Calley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Jun 1750 
  • Birth Location:
  • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 3 Nov 1825 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Chipman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Mar 1782 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Rufus Gray (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  Horace Gray

  • Notes: 

  • 9th Lt. Gov. of Massachusetts

    Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for William Gray

  • ¹ Boston Commercial Gazette (Boston, Massachusetts), 07 NOV 1825, p. 2, Obituary for William Gray.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A047760.
  • ³ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 15603, Membership application for Katharine Cunningham (Gray) Bingham.
  • ⁴ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 22397, Membership application for Elizabeth (Gray) Parker.
  • ⁵ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/23/2020).
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 1, p. 303, Birth record for son Horace Gray in Medford.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 1, p. 387, Birth record for son William Rufus Gray.
  • ⁸ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1931, Vol. 85, pp. 329-330.
  • ⁹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1913, Vol. 67, p. 321.
  • ¹⁰ The Evening Post (New York, New York), 02 AUG 1831, p. 2, Obituary for son William B [sic] Gray.
  • ¹¹ The Shoe and Leather Reporter: Representing the Interests of All Who Manufacture or Deal in Boots, Shoes, Leather . . ., 04 AUG 1892, Vol. 54, "The Gray Family".
  • ¹² Ellery, Harrison and Charles Pickering Bowditch, The Pickering Genealogy: Being an Account of the First Three Generations of the Pickering Family of Salem, Mass., . . ., Cambridge: University Press, John Wilson and Son (1897), 433.
  • ¹³ Gray, Edward, William Gray, of Salem, Merchant: A Biographical Sketch . . ., Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1914).
  • ¹⁴ Park, Lawrence, Major Thomas Savage of Boston and His Descendants, Boston: Press of David Clapp and Son (1914), 32.
  • ¹⁵ 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), 271-273.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020).
  • ¹⁷ Wikipedia, "William Gray (Massachusetts)", (accessed 07/13/2019).
  • ¹⁸ Woodbury, Charles Levi, Genealogical Sketches of the Woodbury Family: Its Intermarriages and Connections, Manchester, New Hampshire: The John B. Clarke Company (1904), 63.