Gray, George (1803-1874)

Name:

Gray, George (1803-1874)

Title:

Director, Dover Bank, 1842, 1847, 1850
Member, Quecheco Encampment No. 4, I.O.O.F., 1850, 1862
Member, Tiger Engine Company, City of Dover, 1870
Police Officer, Town of Dover, 1837, 1844, 1846
Surveyor of Wood and Lumber, Town of Dover, 1839
Sealer of Weights and Measurers, Town of Dover, 1833, 1834, 1836, 1846
Hay Weigher, Town of Dover, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1836, 1837, 1847, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1858
Assessor, Ward 3, City of Dover, 1869
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1843

Born:

12/29/1803

Birthplace:

Salem, MA

Died:

07/19/1874

Death Location:

Dover, NH

Residence:

Salem, MA 1803-
Portsmouth, NH
Dover, NH 1825-1874

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Goldsmith 1825-1865
Silversmith
Jeweler
Retired 1865

Father:

Gray, Samuel Jr. (1765-1850)

Mother:

Ropes, Ruth (1768-1844)

Relations:

Siblings:
Gray, Sally Ropes (1788-1797; b. Salem, MA)
Gray, Samuel (1790-1804; b. Salem, MA)
Gray, Robert (1792-1860; b. Salem, MA; res. Portsmouth, NH; Gold & Silversmith, Jeweler; m. Sarah Ela; children)
Gray, Ruth (1793-1827; b. Salem, MA)
Gray, Sally (1799-; b. Salem, MA; m. Thomas Hodgdon 1824)
Gray, Margaret Cook (1801-; b., res. Salem, MA; listed as residing with her father on 1850 census; not married)
Gray, Elizabeth Sinclair (1806-; b. Salem, MA; m. James Chamberlain 1829)
Gray, Priscilla Lambert (1808-; b. Salem, MA)
Gray, Samuel (1810-1811, Salem, MA)
Parents: Ruth Ropes (1768-1844) and Samuel Gray Jr. (1765->1850), of Salem, MA. Samuel is listed as a shoemaker on the 1850 Salem census.
Grandparents: Priscilla Lambert (1738-1808) and Daniel Ropes (-1821), m. 1761; Samuel Gray Sr.

Spouse:

Lydia J. Barden (1804-1875), September 16, 1827

Children:

George Frederick, born July 23, 1828, Dover; died March 6, 1880.
Marcellus, died 1869.
Ruth E., born 1831; died October 3, 1849

Notes:

Henry N. Flynt and Martha Gandy Fales, The Heritage Foundation Collection of Silver, With Biographical Sketches of New England Silversmiths, 1625-1825. (Old Deerfield, Massachusetts: The Heritage Foundation, 1968), 232.

William G. Hennessy and Charles H. Batchelder, "NH Profiles," March 1955, 42.

Charles S. Parsons, New Hampshire Silver. (Cranbury, New Jersey: Adams Brown Company, 1983), 104.

Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume I. Births (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1916), 383.

Dover Directories, 1830, 1833, 1846, 1848, 1859, 1865, 1867, 1869.

New Hampshire Business Directory, 1856.

Advertisement, New Hampshire Republican, Dover, New Hampshire, January 25, 1825, 3.

Marriage Notices, Salem Gazette, Salem, Massachusetts, October 2, 1827.

Advertisement, Dover Enquirer, Dover, NH, July 5, 1831, 4.

"Death of an Old Citizen," The Democratic Press, Dover, New Hampshire, July 24, 1874, p. 3.

"Strafford County," Mirror and Farmer, Manchester, New Hampshire, July 25, 1874.

Pine Hill Cemetery, Dover, NH