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An American Family History

Dorothy Collins Gray

Settlers from Salem purchased land in an area known as Saugus from the Indians. This land originally included the towns of Swampscott, Nahant, Saugus and Lynnfield. In 1630 the land was incorporated as the Town of Saugus. The settlers changed the name to Lynn in 1637 in honor of their first official minister, Samuel Whiting, from King’s Lynn, England.

Dorothy Collins Gray was born on March 6, 1675 in Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts. Her parents were Joseph and Sarah Collins.

She married Robert Gray on October 19, 1700 in Lynn. 

Their children were Dorothy Gray Tarbox (August 23, 1701), Deborah Gray (November 24, 1704), Robert Gray (June 27, 1708), and Sarah Gray (November 25, 1713). 

In the Lynn records on January 8, 1729/30 "Nathaniel Evans of Reading forbids the banns of matrimony of Robert Gray, jr., of Lynn." To forbid the banns is to raise an objection.

Robert had a second wife named Abigail. He made his will on September 5, 1731.
Lady Day Before 1752 the year began on March 25th. Dates between January 1st and March 24th were at the end of the year, not the beginning.
Children of Joseph
and Sarah Collins
  • Sarah Collins
  • Joseph Collins
  • Henry Collins
  • Ann Collins Ingalls
  • Dorothy Collins Gray
  • Sarah Collins Eliot Richards
  • Esther Collins
    • and Maria Smith
  • Ruth Collins Graves
  • Mary Collins
  • William Collins
  • Elizabeth Collins Graves
  • Joseph Collins
  • Ezekiel Collins
  • Martha Collins Odell
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    Essex Institute Historical Collection published by Essex Institute, 1916

    		  
     

    There is nothing which shows whether or not, William Gray had any connection with Robert Gray of Lynn, whose marriage intention is recorded at Lynn, Oct. 19, 1700, to Dorothy Collins.

    		  
       
       

     

         

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