General Notes

Bible of Joseph and Milly Gray in possession of Dorothy Elliott.


Frontice Page

                                                       The

                                                 Holy Bible

                                                containing the

                                     OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS:

                                             translanted out of

                                          THE ORIGINAL TONGUES,

                                                  and with the

                    Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised

                                           ______________________
                                                     Stereotyped

                                       FOR THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
                                              
                                                   By D. & G. Bruce
                                                          _______
                                  Printed by D. Fanshaw, No. 26 State Lane,
                                                         New York
                     
                                                              1822


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1st page just inside cover

Martin Gray son of joseph and
Milly his wife was born on
August 8 1822  (very blurred)


(Also very blurred)
Margaret Gray daughter of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born
August the 9 or 19 day 1820


2nd page just before frontice page

William Gray the son of Joseph Gray and
Milly, his wife was born
October 5 day 18------------(blurred)

Isaac Gray son of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born
                      18--- 1 or 12 (other records
                                          say 1802)

Benjamin Gray, son of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born
January the 16 day 1809

Anna Gray daughter of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born on
August the 11 day of 1811

Barney Gray son of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born on
March 16 day 1813

Lydia Gray daughter of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born on
                     1814 or 1818 (According to
                                            death record
                                            --1814

Back pages

Joseph Gray son of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born
October 17, 1818

Charles Gray the son of Joseph Gray and
Milly his wife was born
October 15, 1826

Griffin Gray the son of Joseph and
Milly his wife was born
October the 11 1828

(The above two entries were repeated on the next page also)

Ann Mariah Harrison was born
November the 14 1842

Joseph Harrison was born
September 5 1844

(These last two must be grandchildren possibly of daughter Margaret (Mary) who married Richard Harrison.)




(This Bible)
"Was in possession of their son Griffin Gray and when his daughter Elizabeth Gray died it was given to me---------Carolyn Miller Powers.  My parents always visited "Lizzie" and her mother Anna who lived on So. 3rd St. near present Hulman Street---3rd house south of Hulman on west side of street."   
(This is in Terre Haute, Indiana)

The above information was written by my Mother---Carolyn Miller Powers---in 1966 from a copy of the birth records she had made from the bible in the 1930's. The bible is very deteriated now and writing hard to read as it was in pencil to begin with.     Dorothy Powers Elliott      April 17, 1999

1800 Census (same as 1820) Joseph Gray    10120   31010------I think this may be a different Joseph than the one in 1820.
                    
1820 Census Elizabeth City, Pasquotank Co. NC lists a Joseph Gray   500010    30010.  In same census is listed a Griffin Gray   300010     10100.


Madison County, Indiana Deed Record #1
Page 344

Grantor:   Joseph Gray and Milley his wife
Grantee:  William Gray All of madison county
Dated 11 February 1830
Red.:  4 December 1830
Amount:  $1l00
Descr.:   E 1/2 of SW 1/4 of Sec 18 Twp 18 Range 8 Dist. of Brookville.  Beg at stake on W side of sd Gray line in Sec 18 Twp 18 Range 8 running S on sd line 24 poles to stake on sd thence E 20 poles then N 24 poles then W to beg.
                                              Signed:  Joseph (X) Gray
                                                             Milley  (X) Gray
                                              Wit.:       William Nelson
                                                            Andrew Nelson
                                                            Asa Nelson
                                                             

Deed Record #3  Pg 242

Ebenezer Hunt to Joseph Gray



Deed Record #4  pg 247

Joseph Gray to John a. McClanahan (Wife Milla Gray)
Dated oct. 31, 1838



Deed Record # 6  pg 319

Joseph and Milly Gray to Richard Stephenson
Dated Dec. 9, 1840





Joseph and Millie, according to a relative's notes, came to Terre Haute, Indiana in about 1840 from Anderson, Indiana.  They had come from North Carolina by ox-cart, about 1830 with several other families and settled in and around Anderson, Indiana.  The home site (in T. H ) was supposed to have been on what is now known as the "Old Ijams Farm" south of Terre Haute, a short distance.  President Harrison is said to have made two spectacular trips to T.H. to visit with Margaret Gray Harrison after the disappearance of her husband.



1790 census Pasquotank County NC

Joseph Gray   10100