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Story Musgrave

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William Rufus Gray

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Story Musgrave — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • William Gray 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Chipman   
  • Birth Date:
  • 23 Jun 1783 
  • Birth Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Jul 1831 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • 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:28 )

  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.

• 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.