Question

I am totally stuck on Gray-16279 and haven't been able to go any further. Can anyone help with his parents?

Comments

If I knew how to trace these Ulster Scots immigrants to America back to their origins, I'd do so. I'll be watching to see if you get some good advice here.   ;-)

That History of Worcester book linked from the profile looks like it has some good leads.

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Noting that his grandson was born in Virginia, try

 

John Gray

 in the Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850

 

Name:	John Gray
Date:	23 Apr 1751
Location:	Augusta Co., VA
Notes:	This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks:	John Gray's will, yeoman - Wife, Agness; son, Jacob; son, William; son, David; son, Joseph; son, Benjamin; daughter, Ann Gray; son, Saml.; son, John; daughter, Elizabeth. Executors, son Samuel and John Lyle. Proved by all witnesses, and both execut
Description:	Decedent's Son
Book:	WB1-396
Prove Date:	27 Nov 1751

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004.

Original data:

Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912.