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John Pray, II

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
Death: June 02, 1751 (70-71)
Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of John Pray and Sarah Pray
Husband of Sarah Pray
Father of Capt. Ephraim Pray
Brother of Sarah "Mary" Brown; Richard Pray; Mary Brown; Penelope Aldrich; Hugh Pray, Sr. and 2 others

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About John Pray, II


Biography

1 John Pray Junior 1680-1751 John is the first great-grandchild of Chad Browne and first grandchild of John Browne. At age 33 John married in Attleborough Bristol MA Bay Colony on 14 July 1713 according to MA Town Clerk and Vital Town Records 1626-2001. I wonder why he married late in life. He died at age 38 in Scituate Providence RI Colony 2 June 1751.

He married Sarah Downing born 1661 Providence County Rhode Island. She died age 57-58 in 1739 and was buried or lost at sea. She was 19 years younger than her husband. John and Sarah Downing Pray had one son, per 1924 book "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County New York" J. Wilson Poucher, M.D.; Dutchess County Historical Society; volume II. Book OCLC Number: 1305676, and according to Find a Grave. 1

Children:

  1. Ephraim Pray 20 November 1733 – 10 April 1805. Married Susanna Sheldon

References

  1. "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCQH-GZH : 28 December 2022), John Pray, 14 Jul 1713. Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
  2. https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:MFLZ-KM7
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John Pray, II's Timeline

1680
1680
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
1733
November 20, 1733
Dover Plains, Dutchess, New York, British Colonial America
1751
June 2, 1751
Age 71
Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, British Colonial America
1935
June 8, 1935
Age 71
1936
June 24, 1936
Age 71
1945
October 18, 1945
Age 71
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