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Luke Ray

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Prince Georges, Maryland, USA
Death: after 1767
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Ray, II and Elizabeth Ray
Husband of Private
Father of Joseph Ray
Brother of Private William Ray, III; John Ray Sr.; Margaret Pritchett; Eleanor Busey; Mary Ray and 13 others

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About Luke Ray

  • FOLLOWING RECORDS DISCOVERED BY GEORGE ARTHUR TRAIL IV
  • Prince George's County Court Records.......November Court 1728 (p.341)......"Ordered by the Court that a new Hundred be erected....above the creek called Seneca Creek and that it be named Monocacy Hundred..."
  • P.G. County Court Records..."June Court 1740 (pg. 657)... (Petition for bridge over Sinnequor (Seneca) by Henry Cramton's).. "...Thomas Prather Jr., Luke Ray, John Huson, John Veatch, James Veatch,..."
  • Prince George's County Court Record... November Court 1741... "Overseers of the Highways" "From Monocousy to the first Mountain.....Luke Ray"
  • Prince George's County Court Record.... June Court 1742. ( pg. 2).. "The jurors by information of Capt. Thomas Cresap do present Luke Ray for not complying with his duties as Overseer of the Highways" (Mainperson for Luke Ray was his father William Ray)
  • Prince George's County Court Record... August Court 1743.. (pg.19).... " Ordered in like manner that John Hueson his recognizance in...Mainpersons James Perry, Luke Ray, and Robert Perle.."
  • PG. County Levy Book 1734-1748.. 1742 "Crows and Squirrells"... ".....George Cook, Joseph Ray, son of Luke, Richard Butt..."
  • Prince George's County Bonds....1744..." Know all men by these presents that we Eleanor Jones of Prince George's County spinster, Charles Jones and Luke Ray of the county aforesaid Planters are held and firmly bound unto...the Lord Proprietary....above bound Eleanor Jones Administratrix...of Edward Jones late of Prince George's County deceased...."
  • Frederick County Land Records...liber E,p.286....." At the request of William Norris Junior the following deed was recorded October the fifth Anno Domini seventeen hundred and fifty three,..in considerstion of thirty pounds sterling money....to him in hand paid by the said William Norris Jun. ...Luke Ray hath granted....all that tract of land called "Ray's Venture".....near the mouth of the Monocacy....containing 150 acres...in presence of Alexander Beall and John Clagett.."
  • John Glassford and Co. Records..1766 Bladensburg Ledgers (Rock Creek)....Luke Ray Account .. ( Account was insolvent and considered a " Desperate Debt" because Luke Ray had migrated to Amherst County Va.).
  • The account of Luke Ray apppears in the Ledger on the same page and adjacent the accounts of his brother in law Thomas Witten and his step cousin Thomas Birdwhistle, half brother of Ann Ray.
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Luke Ray's Timeline

1709
January 15, 1709
Prince Georges, Maryland, USA
1725
1725
1767
1767
Age 57
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States