Mary Hungerford

Disputed Origins

Birth surname has also been reported to be:

• Graves
• Gray

Date of birth has been reported to be September 18, 1653.

Date and place of death have also been (erroneously?) reported to be:

• 1705 at a forgotten location
• 1706 at a forgotten location

Not the same as Mary Gray

notes

• Looking at Torrey's sources, I observe that the name of wife of Thomas Hungerford (1648-1714) is not established between Mary Gray or Mary Green (or even Mary Graves). Mary was "of Narragansett" RI.
• Mary Gray (dtr. of Mary Winslow and Edward Gray) did not get married and is presumed to have died without issue (per the Parkhurst research, and per the Mayflower Society, following an application submitted, based on the error that she did marry Thomas Hungerford).
• Apparently, in an LDS document (perhaps a family sheet with an error), and thus in Ancestry.com, Mary Gray is noted as having married Thomas Hungerford. This is incorrect, but it is an error that has exponentially increased from people copying trees.
• Most genealogies indicate that the wife of Thomas Hungerford was Mary Green. Some sources show that her name was Mary Gray, and that she was the daughter of Edward Gray, the Governor of Narragansetts Plantation in Rhode Island. Those people who wrote that even though the written records looked like the name was Gray, it couldn't be because Edward Gray said he had no daughter.
• It is a matter of historic public record that Thomas Hungerford and his wife Mary were heavily fined for "fornication before marriage" because their first child arrived too early. It is also a fact that Thomas Hungerford married his Mary at Narragansetts Plantation before bringing her back to Connecticut. The source I believe speculated that Edward Gray disowned his daughter because of early conjugal activity.
• Unless some heretofore undiscovered document comes to light I'm afraid the answer to what is Mary's last name is will remain unknown.

links

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/e/i/Laurie-Peirick/WEB...
• http://genforum.genealogy.com/hungerford/messages/132.html
• http://www.familyorigins.com/users/b/l/o/Peter-E-Blood/FAMO4-0001/d...

Life Sketch:

 •  From Family Search There was a Maiden name conflict as a result of the "Torrey" record. However, after a deep dive into numerous other records to clarify who this is and there is no "maiden name conflict". This is MARY GRAY, daughter of Edward Gray and Mary Winslow Gray.

# # # # # Torrey says Thomas Hungerford the younger m. Mary Green or Gray, because they had a son named Green Hungerford. [See below added on 27May2021] Per Mayflower Families Through Five Generations James Chilton Vol. 15 pg. 13.

The information given in the Mayflower Chilton book is "ii Mary b. 18 Sept. 1653; living Nov. 1665 but d. bef. 24 Aug. 1681 leaving no issue (not mentioned in settlement of the estate of her father Edward Gray)." There is no other information for Mary Gray and a possible spouse or children.

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CORRECT INFORMATION:

Mary Gray ID #LTKK-J4N is also connected to this man with a son, named GREEN as referenced above.

Thomas A. Hungerford II 1648–1714 • LBFC-CJF​​

Show Less Birth about 1648 Hartford, Connecticut, British Colonial America Death 29 January 1714 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, British Colonial America Burial 1714 Old Cove Burying Ground, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, British Colonial America Spouse Female Mary Gray Children Female Elizabeth Hungerford Male Thomas Hungerford III Male John Hungerford Female Susannah Hungerford Female Sarah Hungerford Female Mary Hungerford Male Green Hungerford Female Esther Hungerford Male Benjamin Hungerford Female Eunice Hungerford Parents Male Thomas Hungerford Female Mrs. Thomas Hungerford Siblings Female Sarah Hungerford

Other records: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Winslow-88 show Mary [Winslow] Gray was "Mary Gray's" mother, to-wit: Mary Gray formerly Winslow Born 1630 in Plymouth Colony map

ANCESTORS Daughter of John Winslow and Mary (Chilton) Winslow Sister of John Winslow Jr., Susanna (Winslow) Latham, Edward Winslow, Sarah (Winslow) Middlecott, Samuel Winslow, Joseph Winslow, Isaac Winslow, Unknown Winslow and Benjamin Winslow

Wife of Edward Gray Sr. — married 16 Jan 1651 in Plymouth Colonymap

DESCENDANTS Mother of Desire (Gray) Southworth, Mary (Gray) Rider, Elizabeth (Gray) Arnold, Sarah (Gray) Little, John Gray and Anna (Gray) Leblond

Died before Nov 1665 [other records show death on 15 April 1628] in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap Profile managers: Mayflower Project WikiTree private message [send private message], Casey Clark private message [send private message], and John Rue Clegg private message [send private message] Profile last modified 28 Jul 2020 | Created 19 Oct 2010 This page has been accessed 3,891 times.

The Mayflower. Mary (Winslow) Gray was related to a passenger on the Mayflower. Join: Mayflower Project Discuss: MAYFLOWER Biography John Winslow's will mentions Mary and her husband Ed Gray, other children are also mentioned.

Mary Winslow Gray's birthday is found as 1630 in her father's will

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., 12 volumes in 10 (Boston 1855-1861) has Mary Winslow's birthdate simply as "1632" in Plymouth.[1]

Children born in Plymouth:[2]

Desire Gray b, 6 No 1651 Mary b. 18 Sep 1653 Elizabeth b. 11 Feb 165? Sarah b. 12 Aug 1659 John b. 1 Oct 1661 Anna b. c 1664. Sources ↑ Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1-3. Boston, MA, USA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995 ↑ Sherman, Robert Moody, Wakefield, Robert S and Finlay, Lydia Dow (compilers) Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Fifteen Family of James Chilton and Family of Richard More. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants,1997) p. 13. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, V2, p5-20. Mayflower Increasings Through Three Generations, Susan E. Roser, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1989, p41-42, on my bookshelf. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations Vol. 15 Chilton/More 1997 p. 7, 13 Find A Grave memorial #153500343 Signers of the Mayflower Compact By Annie Arnoux Haxtun. Pages 72, 124 marriage and birth date found. By Annie Arnoux Haxtun Mitchell, Nahum. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, in Plymouth County, Massachusetts (Kidder & Wright, Boston, 1840) Page 409 Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 32 & Page 71: She died in 1663.

Hence:

Working out discrepancies apparently caused by confusing different generations of “Mary” and perhaps concluding the name "Rider" was a husband, rather than her middle name.

Mary Chilton [daughter of James and Mrs CHILTON] married John Winslow; they had a daughter named Mary Winslow b. 1628/30 d. 28October1663 at age 35 (see GEDCOM reference below) FS ID #....... who married Edward Gray in Plymouth on 16January1650/51

They had six children, #2 was named “Mary” GRAY b 18 September 1653 d 1681 ("Rider" may have been her middle name but all records indicate this Mary Gray married Thomas A. Hungerford) Source: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=162359948&pi...

Mary Gray married Thomas A. Hungerford Mary Gray's sister - Desire Gray m. Southworth, together they had Mary Southworth who m. Rider (Hence Mary S. Rider was Mary Gray's niece, but not Mary Gray herself)