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About Dorothy Clarke
Dorothy Lettice
- BIRTH 28 Nov 1633 England
- DEATH 30 Apr 1726 (aged 92) Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
- BURIAL Burial Hill Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA *MEMORIAL ID 35936695
- Parents Thomas Lettice, 1604–1681 Ann Savoy Lettice, 1606–1687
- Spouse: Edward Gray, 1629–1681 - married 12 Dec 1665 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
- Spouse: Nathaniel Clark, 1643–1717 - married after 1681
- Siblings Ann Lettice Jenney, 1628–1687 Elizabeth Lettice Cole, 1636–1693
- Children 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
Mary Winslow Gray died at Plymouth before December 1665.
Edward married, second, Dorothy Lettice on 12 Dec 1665. She was the daughter of Thomas and Ann (maiden name unknown) Lettice.
Edward and Dorothy had six children:
- 1. Edward, born 31 January 1665/66, moved to Tiverton, Rhode Island
- 2. Thomas, married Anna Little and Phebe ____, moved to Little Compton, RI
- 3. Samuel, moved to Little Compton, RI
- 4. Susanna born 15 October 1668, married John Cole
- 5. Rebecca, m. Ephraim Cole
- 6. Lydia, b. 12 Marcy 1677/8, married Caleb Loring
Edward and Susanna’s births are recorded in Plymouth Vital Records.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35936695/dorothy-gray
Daughter of Thomas & Ann Lettice. Wife of Edward Gray, married on December 12, 1665 at Plymouth, MA. Also, wife of Nathaniel Clarke, married 1681 and and divorced 04 June 1686.
There was a ruling in the church in 1685, Dorothy had done something wrong, and confessed to it, the church was satisfied. The church then went to Nathaniel, "The Elder then speaking a few serious words to Nath: Clarke as a child of the church, he brake forth into a wicked passion & spake vile words, intimating, as if the church would cleare the guilty & condemne the innocent, abusing also Pauls words to the mariners, as if it were better & nearer to salvation to be out of such a church then in it etc which 1 carriage & words of his were highly offensive, & soe declared by the Pastour to be, but at the present it was thought meete not further to proceed thereupon."
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From Find A Grave Memorial# 35936695
There was a ruling in the church in 1685, Dorothy had done something wrong, and confessed to it, the church was satisfied. The church then went to Nathaniel, "The Elder then speaking a few serious words to Nath: Clarke as a child of the church, he brake forth into a wicked passion & spake vile words, intimating, as if the church would cleare the guilty & condemne the innocent, abusing also Pauls words to the mariners, as if it were better & nearer to salvation to be out of such a church then in it etc which 1 carriage & words of his were highly offensive, & soe declared by the Pastour to be, but at the present it was thought meete not further to proceed thereupon."
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Ben M. Angel notes: The original data for this person included a birthplace of Leighton, Lincolnshire, and a burial "Of Little Compton, Rhode Island".
Attempts to identify a Leighton village or parish in Lincolnshire turned up no results, but in nearby Huntingdonshire, there was a village named Leighton Bromswold, and a parish named Leighton.
The burial location "Of Little Compton" says little of the actual burial location. The last home may have been at Little Compton, but this is the sort of information that should be here, in the About Me section.
In both cases, I've removed and replaced data and put the original data here for reference.
Sources
- http://massandmoregenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/edward-gray-and-ma...
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lettice-6 cites
- 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
- Cutter, William Richard. New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial (Lewis Historical Publishing, New York, New York, 1913)
- Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (HEGHS, Boston, Mass., 1923)
- Dodd, Jordan. Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850 (Liahona Research) Marriage: 12 Dec 1665 Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2004) Birth: 1629. Marriage: 1665 MA.
- Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001) Death: 30 May 1728 Plympton, Plymouth, MA, USA.
- AGBI: American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, CT, USA. Birth: 1648.
- Find A Grave memorial #35936695
- Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/27591505/family
- Torrey, Clarence Almon. Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985) Page 319 Dec 1665.
- Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 32 & Page 89-90: poem in honor Dorothy Lettice Gray, wife of Edward Gray.
Footnotes
- "The Descendants of James Cole of Plymouth 1633"; by Ernest Byron Cole (Grafton Press, New York, 1908) pp.32 (9); Daughter Rebecca's marriage* See bio at Find a Grave for a note on Church Proceedings against herand husband; [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35936695] https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=42044+paget+brewster&ah...
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 14 2023, 7:41:15 UTC
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Dorothy Clarke's Timeline
| 1626 |
April 30, 1626
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Plymouth,Plymouth,Massachusetts
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| 1633 |
November 28, 1633
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West Riding, Yorkshire, England, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1655 |
1655
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Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
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| 1666 |
January 31, 1666
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Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1667 |
1667
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(Present Plymouth County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
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| 1668 |
October 15, 1668
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Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
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1670
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Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
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| 1678 |
May 12, 1678
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Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts), Colonial America
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1682
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Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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