Patience (Gray) Stocking (abt. 1774 - 1850)

Born about 23 Mar 1774 in Pelham, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 26 Apr 1850 at about age 76 in Flackville, St. Lawrence, New York, United States

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Biography

Origins

Patience Gray’s birthdate is uncertain.

• 23 Mar 1774 is a calculated birthdate from her headstone – death date 26 Apr 1850 aged 76 years, 1 month 3 days.
• Stocking Ancestry gives 23 Dec 1776 as birthdate.^[1]
• The 1850 mortality census says she was 73 years old in April of 1850, yielding a birth year of 1777.^[2]

Patience’s parents marriage record was noted in Pelham, Hampshire, MA, and some of her siblings were married there. There were no Gray family births recorded for Isaac and Mary’s family, but the assumption is that the children were also born there.^[3]

Family

With her husband Billius, she lived in St. Lawrence co, NY. She is noted on deeds with Billius.^[4]

It's not clear where Patience and Billius met and married. Family time lines would suggest that their paths crossed in or near Hebron, Washington co. NY between 1790 and 1800, but that is only inference from other family records. In 1820 Isaac Gray, Patience's brother, was living adjacent to the Stocking household

Death

Patience died 26 Apr 1850 in Lisbon, St. Lawrence, NY^[5]. The headstone inscription reads

In memory of Patience the Wife of Billius Stocking who closed her life on the 26th of April 1850 In the latter part of which she was severely afflicted Aged 76 Years 1 Months, 3 days. An aged member of the Church, Her human eyes were blind

The 1850 mortality census records that she had been ill with “dropsy” for 10 years before her death.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Rev. Charles Henry Wright Stocking, DD, The Stocking Ancestry, p72 The Lakeside Press, 1903, Loose-leaf interim edition updated 1991 by Greg Stocking, p102
2. ↑ US census of mortality, 1850, Lisbon, St. Lawrence NY, p99
3. ↑ Vital Records of Pelham, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society…, 1902.
4. ↑ For example, St. Lawrence Deeds Vol 43A:419, 1850, from “Billus” and Patience to [son] James T Stocking for $1, the farm, part of mile square #8, Range 7, from the east side of Mill Road and northerly side of Canton turnpike, 6.98 acres. This land would be roughly across from the “Halfway House” (see Billius Stocking record).
5. ↑ Headstone, Flackville Cemetery, near Flackville-5 Mile Road and highway 68
6. ↑ US census of mortality, 1850, Lisbon, St. Lawrence NY, p99. Dropsy was the term used for lower leg edema, commonly related to congestive heart failure [see any historical medical reference for further data]

• Raymond, Marcius Denison. Gray Genealogy: Being a Genealogical Record and History of the Descendants of John Gray, of Beverly, Mass. (Tarrytown, New York, 1887) Page 277
• Rootsweb data
• Stocking, Charles. The Stocking Ancestry (Lakeside Press, Chicago, 1903) Page 36 & Page 72