Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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John Gray and Susanna Armstrong




Husband John Gray 1 2

           Born: 1698 - County Antrim, Ireland 1
     Christened: 
           Died: Feb 1785 3
         Buried:  - Paxtang Church Cemetery, Paxtang, Dauphin Co, PA
       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Hannah Stevenson (1711-1781) 3 - 1753 3



Wife Susanna Armstrong 3

           Born: 1700 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Oct 1750 3
         Buried: 


Children
1 M George Gray 3

           Born: 1732 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 25 Feb 1798 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 M Joseph Gray 3 4 5

           Born: 1734 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Oct 1794 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Elizabeth Forster (1744-1816) 3 4
           Marr: 11 Nov 1779 3


3 M Capt. William Gray 3 6 7 8 9

           Born: 1738 - Paxtang, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Jul 1804 or 1815 - near Lewisburg, Union Co, PA 3 10
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Agnes [2] Rutherford (1740-1813) 3 9 11



General Notes: Husband - John Gray


He was born in county Antrim, Province of Ulster, Ireland; emigrated to America about 1730, locating at first in Chester County, Pennsylvania; subsequently, in Paxtang township, Dauphin County. He was one of the early pioneers in that section of the Province, and, during the French and Indian war (1755-1764), was captain of a rifle company in Col. Elder's battalion, subsequently Col. Asher Clayton's.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 768.

2 Franklin Ellis & Samuel Evans, History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 762.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 769.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1002.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 154.

6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 252.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 108, 154.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1011.

9 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 122.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 108.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 1001, 1011.


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