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GRAY



            Thamas Gray, an "Ancient Planter", was listed in the Jamestown Muster of 1624-5 with a wife named Margaret, but this may have been a error, or he had an earlier wife, because land grants show his wife as Avis or Anis.  A later wife was named Rebecca.  He had five known children:

  Jane (1619 - ?) married John Hux.

  William (1622 - 1714) married Mary ________.

  Thomas (ca. 1625 - 1676) never married.

  John (ca. 1627 - 1683) married Mary ______ a had one daughter.

  Francis  (ca. 1630 - 1679)
 

         The son, William Gray, lived in Surry County.  In 1677 he and his brother John, being joint heirs of Thomas Gray, sold Col. Thomas Swann 100 acres lying between Swann and the mouth of a creek formerly called Smith's Fort Creek, now known as Gray's Creek. In 1680 William patented 680 acres, part of which had belonged to William Harris.  he later sold parcels of land. He and wife Mary _______ had four children:

  Lydia married Samuel Judkins and Thomas Pitman.

  Gilbert (ca. 1640 - 1710) .

  John (ca. 1650 - 1708) died before his father and brothers.

  Thomas (ca. 1652 -ca. 1717) married and left one son, Thomas, an orphan in 1717 when he choose William Foster as a guardian.