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William Ray, II

Also Known As: "William Rae"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Prince George's County, MD, United States
Death: 1760 (73-74)
Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Ray and Mary Anne Ray
Husband of Mary Warner Ray and Elizabeth Ray
Father of Private William Ray, III; John Ray Sr.; Luke Ray; Margaret Pritchett; Eleanor Busey and 14 others
Brother of John Ray; Jane Ray Prather Ward; George Ray; Thomas Ray; Elizabeth Boyd and 6 others

Occupation: Carpenter
Managed by: Private User
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About William Ray, II

  • Following records discovered by George Arthur Trail IV
  • National Records of Scotland....(Old Parish Registers Births 709/ Haddington) pg. 114 of 357).....19 October 1667.....William Rea and Jeane Mour had a son Willliam born 21st baptized the 22nd...witness: George Wilson, John Browne, John Warrander and John Mour..." ( Haddington, Scotland)
  • Frederick County Court Records....1750....Lordship vs. Rebecca Ray....securities: William Ray and George Wilson. ( William Ray's baptism was witnessed by a George Wilson in 1667 at Haddington)
  • Prince George's County Court Record......March 24, 1717/18. pg. 584...."The petition of William Ray Jr. and Thomas Ray to the ...Justices of Mount Calvert Court.. may have a rolling road from both their houses thro' John Perry's land to the main road..
  • Calendar of Maryland State Papers- The Black Books (p.23)....1719...Prince George's County....List of taxables in Collington Hundred, taken by Lamar,constable.....James Mullikin, James Holmeard, John Mattin, William Ray Jr., Jonathan Simons...
  • The Inhabitants above Rock Creek in the county of Prince George's whose names are subscribed prefer to the court here the following petition...the inhabitants for many miles above the said Rock Creek have been for above these past fourteen years used and enjoyed a road for rolling their tobacco to a certain landing called Powell's Landing without any trouble....George Beall may be refrained from hindering your petitioners from benefit of the road...shall ever pray .......James Plummer, William Ray, Thomas Lemar, Robert Lamar, Luke Barnit...
  • Calendar of Maryland State Papers- The Black Books (p.42)....1733...List of taxables in Potowmack Hundred ,taken by Samuel Magruder III......William Fields, Edward Jones, Charles Jones, Charles Busey, Joshua Busey, William Ray, William Ray Jr., William Whitenhall....
  • P.G. County Levy Book (1734-1748).. p.188...." Crows and Squirrells Heads Anno Dom 1739 "....Thomas Wilcoxen, William Ray Senr., Alexander Magruder Junr....."
  • Prince George's County Court Record.... August Court 1740..(pg. 9)....... "William Ray prefers to the Court...ye petitioner's son Thomas Ray having lost intirely the use of one of his hands which renders him incapable of any Labour.."
  • Frederick County Court Record..June Court 1752..." Petition of William Ray humbly sheweth that your petitioner through the infirmities of old age almost incapable of Laboring for a support much less to pay levies he therefore prays your worships would please to set him Levy free..."Upon reading ..it is ordered by the court the petitioner to be levy free for the future.."
  • Frederick County Wills. F:140... William Ray Sr.... 19 April 1760..." to son William Ray... to son John Ray... to daughter Margaret Pritchet... to daughter Elizabeth Pritchet... to daughter Elenor Busey...to daughter Rebecca Ray... to son Thomas Ray ...to daughter Ruth Ray.. to daughter Mary Ray..70 acres of the tract called "Charles and Thomas" being where I and my son William now live.." witness:Thomas Graves, Josiah Jones, James White Jr.
  • P.G. County Levy Book 1734-1748. (MSA)..pg. 322.... "...Samuel Beall Jr., William Ray Sr., William Ray Jr., William Norris,...
  • P.G. County Court record....November Court 1733 (pg. 483)....Memorandum this day to wit the twenty ninth day of November Anno Domini seventeen hundred and thirty three Elizabeth Warner of Prince George's County Widow, Edward Willet Sr. and John Davis Jun....executed a certain writing obligatory.... unto William Ray Jun. and Samuel Warner with conditions that the above bounden Elizabeth Warner.....truly satisfy and pay unto the above named William Ray Jun. and Samuel Warner......their respective portions of their deceased father Samuel Warner's Estate...
  • Prince George's County Land Records...Liber BB, pg. 228...Dec.19,1746...".....At the same place , William Ray, aged about 62 years, declared that about 38 years ago, some person he cannot rightly tell, but believes it was either Nathaniel Wickham, Luke Barnet (Bernard) , or Morris Miles.....that James Mullikin chopped the the said sapling and sat down upon it..."
  • Bonds....1760 ..William Ray...Securities: Mary Ray, Josiah Jones, Thomas Greaves...witnesss: John Cooke...
  • Frederick County Accounts...William Ray (deceased)...Nov. 28,1761...Payments to John Glassford and Co.paid to Robert Peter, Andrew Heugh, Stephen West, Peter Butler....Legatees: John Ray, Rebecca Ray, Joshua Bucey, Thomas Pritchett, John Pritchett, Thomas Ray...Executrix : Mary Ray
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William Ray, II's Timeline

1686
April 2, 1686
Prince George's County, MD, United States
1705
October 31, 1705
Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland, Colonial America
1707
1707
Queen Anne Parish, Prince George's County, Maryland, Colonial America
1708
December 27, 1708
Aylesbury, Bucks.
1709
January 15, 1709
Prince Georges, Maryland, USA
1711
January 29, 1711
Prince George's County, Maryland
1713
December 25, 1713
Queen Anne Parish, Prince Georges, Maryland
1716
October 16, 1716
Prince George's County, Maryland
1717
November 13, 1717
Aylesbury, Bucks.