Desire Southworth

Descendant of James Chilton and his wife, and Mary Winslow (Chilton), Mayflower passengers

Edward and Mary had had six children:

• 1.      Desire, born 06 November 1651, married Nathaniel Southworth

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Desire (Gray) Southworth (1651 - 1690)

Desire Southworth formerly Gray

Born 6 Nov 1651 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Daughter of Edward Gray Sr. and Mary (Winslow) Gray

Sister of Mary (Gray) Rider, Elizabeth (Gray) Arnold, Sarah (Gray) Little, Rebecca (Gray) Cole [half], John Gray, Anna (Gray) Leblond, Edward Gray II [half], Susanna (Gray) Cole [half], Thomas Gray [half], Rebecca Gray [half], Lydia (Gray) Loring [half] and Samuel Gray [half]

Wife of Nathaniel Southworth — married 10 Jan 1672 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Mother of Constant Southworth, Mary (Southworth) Rider, Ichabod Southworth, Nathaniel Southworth, Elizabeth (Southworth) Sprout and Edward Southworth

Died 4 Dec 1690 at age 39 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Desire (Gray) Southworth was related to a passenger on the Mayflower.

She was NOT married to Nathaniel Baker.

Biography

She was born 6 Nov 1651 in Plymouth, MA.[1]

She married 10 Jan 1670 or 1672 Nathaniel Southworth.[2]

She died 4 Dec 1690 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.[3]

Sources

↑ ”Plymouth Colony Records,” published in ‘’Mayflower Descendant,’’ 16 (1914):237, citing Plymouth Register p 13: [1651] Desire Gray the daughter of Edward Gray born the sixt of November.”
↑ ”Plymouth Colony Records,” published in ‘’Mayflower Descendant,’’ 18(1916):68: citing page 37: Nathaniel Southworth marryed to [Mary (crossed out)] Desire Gray the tenth of January 1671.”
↑ Name: Desire Southworth Gender: Female Death Date: 04 Dec 1690 Death Place: Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Nathaniel Southworth "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHYX-JM8 : 10 February 2018), Nathaniel Southworth in entry for Desire Southworth, 04 Dec 1690; citing Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, reference p247; FHL microfilm 416,334.
MF Vol. 15 p. 35-36
Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass. (Tarrytown, New York, 1887) Page 262
The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants)
Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography (The American Historical Society, Boston, MA. 1917) Vol. 5, Page 355
Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 75
Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 82
Preston, Belle. Bassett-Preston Ancestors (Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930) Page 264

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50606627/desire-southworth

Desire Gray Southworth

BIRTH 6 Nov 1651 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH 4 Dec 1690 (aged 39) Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

BURIAL Burial Hill Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Daughter of Edward Gray Sr. and his first wife Mary Winslow. Desire's grandmother Mary Chilton was the first female to disembark from the Mayflower at Plymouth. After Desire's death at age 39 her husband Nathaniel Southworth removed to Middleboro, Massachusetts.

Desire's son Edward Southworth (1688-1748) married Bridget Bosworth on June 25th, 1711. (per Terri)

Family Members

Parents
Edward Gray 1623–1681

Mary Winslow Gray 1628–1664

Spouse

Nathaniel Southworth 1648–1711 (m. 1671)

Siblings

Sarah Gray Little 1659–1736

John Gray 1661–1732

Half Siblings

Edward Gray 1666–1726

Susannah Gray Cole 1668–1727

Thomas Gray 1669–1721

Rebecca Gray Cole 1670–1731

Lydia Gray Loring 1678–1771

Samuel Gray 1682–1712

Children

Mary Southworth Rider 1676–1757
Ichabod Southworth 1678–1757
Nathaniel Southworth 1684–1757

Elizabeth Southworth Sproat 1687–1723

Edward Southworth 1690–1749

• http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/edward-gray-and-ma...

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GEDCOM Note

She was NOT married to Nathaniel Baker.

Biography

She was born 6 Nov 1651 in Plymouth, MA.<ref>”Plymouth Colony Records,” published in ‘’Mayflower Descendant,’’ 16 (1914):237, citing Plymouth Register p 13: [1651] Desire Gray the daughter of EdwardGray born the sixt of November.”</ref> She married 10 Jan 1670 or 1672 Nathaniel Southworth.<ref>”Plymouth Colony Records,” published in ‘’Mayflower Descendant,’’ 18(1916):68: citing page 37: Nathaniel Southworth marryed to [Mary (crossed out)] Desire Gray the tenth of January 1671.”</ref>

She died 4 Dec 1690 in Plymouth, MA.

Sources

<references />

• MF Vol. 15 p. 35-36* Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass. (Tarrytown, New York, 1887) Page 262* The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants)* Encyclopedia of Connecticut Biography (The American Historical Society, Boston, MA. 1917) Vol. 5, Page 355* Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 75* Brainerd, Dwight. Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (Montreal, Quebec, 1948) Page 82

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Disambiguation

Not the wife of Nathaniel Baker

From https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/27772/resolved-were-wife-wives-nathani...

The only Desire Gray in Yarmouth Records was born in 1651, dau of Edward Gray. This is in the Yarmouth VR. She would have been 10 when she supposedly married Nathaniel Baker. And in fact, Desire, dau of Edward Gray (and therefore single) married in 1672 Nathaniel (!) Southworth. In Yarmouth VR. They had children through 1688 so she could not have been wife of Nathaniel Baker.