Thomas BRAY

1604 - 1691  (87 years)

• Name	Thomas BRAY
  Born	1604	England
  Gender	Male
  Noteworthy	Early settler of Gloucester, MA
  Occupation	Ship’s carpenter
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	30 Nov 1691	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
  Buried	unknown   [1]
  Person ID	I36546	Main
  Last Modified	27 Nov 2023

  
  

  Family	Mary WILSON,   b. 3 May 1626, England ,   d. 27 Mar 1707, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 80 years)
  Married	3 May 1646	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Mary BRAY,   b. 16 Jan 1647, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 11 Apr 1725, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 78 years)   2. Sarah BRAY,   b. 1651, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1727  (Age 76 years)   3. Thomas BRAY,   b. 1658, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 1743  (Age 85 years) + 4. Hannah BRAY,   b. 21 Mar 1662, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. 22 Mar 1717, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 55 years)   5. Esther BRAY,   b. 1664, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts ,   d. ?
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2012
  Family ID	F12802	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1604 - England Married - 3 May 1646 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Died - 30 Nov 1691 - Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Sedgley, George Burbank, and Henry DeLore Burbank. Genealogy of the Burbank family: and the families of Bray, Wellcome, Sedgley (Sedgeley) and Welch. (Farmington, Maine: G.B. Sedgley, c1928), 391-92. Thomas Bray, immigrant ancestor; ship-carpenter and farmer; born in 1604, died Nov. 30, 1691. He was married by Mr. Saltonstall, March [May; misinterpreted double dating] 3, 1646, to Mary Wilson (she died March 27, 1707). In a deposition dated 1658 he gave his age as 54 years. He was an early settler in the seaport town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and had with other grants of land, six acres in 1647 at the head of Little river, and in 1651 one-quarter of an acre in the bottom on the north side of Coro-Island marsh, "for a house to be sett on". He probably settled at that time in the part of the town not far from where his descendants still continue to reside and do business. There is a "Bray Hill" and a "Bray Street" in Gloucester. It is stated, by Prof. Verrill of Yale - a direct descendant, that he was in King Phillip's War. ----- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862), 1:239-40. Thomas (Bray), Gloucester, shipwright, m. 3 May 1646, Mary Wilson, had Mary, b. 16 Jan. 1647; Thomas, 31 Mar. 1649, d. in Aug. 1653; ano. Thomas, 16 May 1653, d. soon; John, 14 May 1654; Nathaniel, 21 June 1656; [Sarah;] Thomas, again, 19 Jan. or Feb. 1659; Hannah, 21 Mar. 1662; and Esther, 13 Apr. 1664. He d. 30 Nov. 1691, and his wid. d. 27 Mar. 1707. [Mary m. 18 Nov. 1664, John Ring of Ipswich; Sarah m. James Sawyer;] Hannah m. 4 Feb. 1678, John Roberts[; and Esther m. 30 Oct. 1683, Philip Stanwood].

  
  

• Sources

  [S96] Find a Grave, database and images, 178948224.