Ancestry of
Frank Lloyd Wright

American Architect

Ebenezer Gray

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Frank Lloyd Wright — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Gray 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Langdon   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Oct 1697 
  • Birth Location:
  • Preston, New London, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Sep 1773 
  • Death Location:
  • Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, Windham Co., Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Prentice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Feb 1728 
  • Marriage Location:
  • First Church of Christ, New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Mary Gray (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  • Notes: 

  • Dr. Ebenezer Gray is one of the original 46 founders of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Rhode Island. It is the oldest lending library and the oldest library building in continuous use in the United States.

• Additional marriages for Ebenezer Gray

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Gardiner
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Jun 1720

• Sources for Ebenezer Gray

  • ¹ Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Ebenezer Gray.
  • ² Connecticut, Marriages, 1729-1867, Marriage record for Ebenezer Gray and Mary Coit.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Windham, p. 108, Birth record for Ebenezer Gray, born in Preston.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/21/2013).
  • ⁵ Binney, Charles James Fox, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, Etc., from 1631 to 1883, 2nd Edition, Boston: Published by the Editor (1883), 280-282.
  • ⁶ Cogswell, Rev. William, The New Hampshire Repository, Gilmanton: Alfred Prescott (1846), Vol. 1, p. 110.
  • ⁷ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1992, Vol. 25, p. 7.
  • ⁸ Holgate, Jerome B., American Genealogy, Being a History of Some of the Early Settlers of North America and their Descendants, New York: George P. Putnam (1851), 63.
  • ⁹ 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), 142-149.
  • ¹⁰ Redwood Library and Athenaeum, "Original Propietors", (accessed 06/21/2013).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#84 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The New England Ancestry of Frank Lloyd Wright, with Notes . . .", www.americanancestors.org/notes-on-other-architects, (accessed 09/23/2014).