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About Joanna Gray
Profile last modified 25 Mar 2023 | Created 15 Jan 2013 | Last significant change:
25 Mar 2023
Biography
Joanna Morton, the wife of John Gray, was most probably the daughter of Ephraim Morton and Ann (Cooper) Morton. Mayflower Families, Volume 15, page 37, states that John Gray married the daughter of Ephraim and Ann (Cooper) Morton and explains that although Joanna is not mentioned in Ephraim's will, the will of Nathaniel Morton (Ephraim's son) names Ann Gray, the daughter of his sister Joanna Gray.[1] Some family trees list the parents of Joanna, wife of John Gray, as George Morton (Ephraim's eldest son[2]%29 and Joanna (Kempton) Morton. This is improbable, however, because, although George and Joanna Morton had a daughter named Joanna, that Joanna would have been only 13 at the time of John Gray's marriage[3][2] and sources show that she was married in 1696/7 to a man named Thomas Holmes.[4][2]
Based on Joanna's parents' residency and her date of marriage, Joanna Morton was probably born in Plymouth about 1665.
Joanna married John Gray in Plymouth on December 9, 1686.[5][6] Joanna and John settled in Kingston and had the following children there:
Edward, b. September 21, 1687,[7] d. February 20, 1687/8[7]
Mary, b. December 7, 1688,[7] d. March 17, 1703[7]
Ann, b. August 5, 1691,[7] m. John Tinkham[6]
Desire, b. December 1, 1693,[7] d. December 6, 1695[7]
Joanna, b. January 29, 1695/6,[7] m. Ebenezer Fuller[6]
Samuel, b. December 23, 1701/2,[7] m. Patience Wadsworth[6]
Mercy, b. February 4, 1703/4,[7] m. Jabez Fuller[6]
In 1709, Joanna and her daughter Anna were mentioned in her brother, Nathaniel Morton's will.[8]
Joanna's husband, John, died in Kingston on May 29, 1732.[9][6] In his will he made bequests to Joanna, John TInkham (Ann Gray's widower), and his surviving children: Joanna, Samuel and Mercy.[6] Samuel Gray was appointed as executor.
Joanna (Morton) Gray died, presumably in Kingston, sometime after August 23, 1738, as on that date, she and others confirmed the closing of John's estate.[6]
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Morton-2515
Joanna (Morton) Gray (abt. 1665 - aft. 1738)
Joanna Gray formerly Morton
Born bout 1665 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]
Daughter of Ephraim Morton and Ann (Cooper)
Sister of George Morton, Ephraim Morton II, Rebecca (Morton) Wood, Josiah Morton, Mercy (Morton) Rickard, Nathaniel Morton, Eleazor Morton, Thomas Morton and Patience (Morton) Nelson
Wife of John Gray — married 9 Dec 1686 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
Mother of Edward Gray, Mary Gray, Ann (Gray) Tinkham, Desire Gray, Joanna (Gray) Fuller, Samuel Gray and Mercy (Gray) Fuller
Died after 23 Aug 1738 after about age 73 in Kingston, Plymouth Colony, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]
14:24: Chase Ashley edited the Biography for Joanna (Morton) Gray (abt.1665-aft.1738). (Minor corrections. ) [Thank Chase for this]
Sources
↑ 1.0 1.1 Post by Moe Crosby on epluribus.me.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Allen, John K. "George Morton of the Plymouth Colony and Some of His Descendants." 1908. p 14
↑ 3.0 3.1 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
↑ 4.0 4.1 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 "The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History," Volume 21 January 1, 1919, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, pp 62-64
↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L97D-6SVL : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1702-1710 vol 2 > image 93 of 106; State Archives, Boston.
↑ 9.0 9.1 "Vital Records of Kingston, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850." New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911. p 354
See also:
MF Vol. 15 p. 37-38
Register of the Society of Mayflower Descendants In The State of California (Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1917) Page 87: Calf. No. 54, General No. 3088 Samuel Bradford Doten, Reno, Nevada.
Clarke, Augustus Peck. Clarke's Kindred Genealogies (Harvard Print. Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1896) Page 75
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Joanna Gray's Timeline
| 1667 |
March 27, 1667
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Plymouth, Plymouth Colony
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| 1687 |
September 21, 1687
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| 1688 |
December 7, 1688
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Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1691 |
August 5, 1691
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Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass
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| 1693 |
December 1, 1693
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Massachusetts
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| 1696 |
January 29, 1696
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Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1701 |
December 23, 1701
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Kingston, Plymouth County, MA, United States
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| 1703 |
1703
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Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1738 |
August 23, 1738
Age 71
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Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
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