Moses Wiley GRAY

1745 - 1805  (59 years)

• Name	Moses Wiley GRAY
  Birth	30 Nov or 31 Dec 1745	Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	8 May 1805	Sauquoit, Oneida County, New York, USA
  Notes	Moses and Sally removed to Templeton, Massachusetts, soon after their marriage. Here eight of their children were born. He was one of the Minute Men who to the call at the battle of Lexington and he remained in the army afterwards. In 1787 he removed to Grafton, Vermont, where his wife died. In 1794 he removed to Oneida County, New York, and settled in the Sauquoit Valley, at a place that is now called Sauquoit, eight miles south of Utica. Here he married Anna Buckingham, by whom he had four children. Among the grandchildren of Moses and Sally was Asa Gray (b. 18 Nov 1810) who became a distinguished biologist and professor at Harvard College. He authored the book "Flora of North America." [2]
  Person ID	I2984	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2010

  
  

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• Sources

  [S263] Rice, Franklin P., Worcester, Birth, Marriages and Deaths, (Worcester Society of Antiquity. Publication Authorized by the City. Published 1894 NEHGS REF F74/W9/W88), Part 1 of Vol. 12, p. 117 (Reliability: 3). [S262] Raymond, Marcius Dennison, Gray Genealogy, (Tarrytown, N.Y., 1887), p. 157 (Reliability: 3).