Samuel is son of Joshua Gray (1714-1781) and second wife Jennat Elliot. [Mark E. Honey ("Castine Patriot," 8 July 2004, p. 5) reports: "Jennat Elliot Gray, wife of Joshua Gray, the pioneer, served as the resident healer or medicine woman during the British occupation. Some chose her methods over those of the British surgeon at Fort George."]
Snow ("Brooksville, Maine...", p. 25): Samuel m. Mercy Watson (b. ca. 1752, d. 28 Sept 1828 at Brooksville, dau. of Shadrack Watson and Mary Kimball of Sedgwick, ME) and had twelve children. To avoid being impressed into pilot service by the British at Castine, he fled to Owls Head with his family, but returned after the war to his farm on the west side of Walker's Pond, where he is buried in the churchyard on his land. See also "Penobscot Pioneers," Philip Howard Gray (Camden, 1993), p. 10. Cf. "Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 3," pp. 97-98.
Snow ("Brooksville, Maine...", p. 25): Samuel m. Mercy Watson (b. ca. 1752, d. 28 Sept 1828 at Brooksville, dau. of Shadrack Watson and Mary Kimball of Sedgwick, ME) and had twelve children. To avoid being impressed into pilot service by the British at Castine, he fled to Owls Head with his family, but returned after the war to his farm on the west side of Walker's Pond, where he is buried in the churchyard on his land. See also "Penobscot Pioneers," Philip Howard Gray (Camden, 1993), p. 10. Cf. "Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 3," pp. 97-98.
Samuel is son of Joshua Gray (1714-1781) and second wife Jennat Elliot. [Mark E. Honey ("Castine Patriot," 8 July 2004, p. 5) reports: "Jennat Elliot Gray, wife of Joshua Gray, the pioneer, served as the resident healer or medicine woman during the British occupation. Some chose her methods over those of the British surgeon at Fort George."]
Snow ("Brooksville, Maine...", p. 25): Samuel m. Mercy Watson (b. ca. 1752, d. 28 Sept 1828 at Brooksville, dau. of Shadrack Watson and Mary Kimball of Sedgwick, ME) and had twelve children. To avoid being impressed into pilot service by the British at Castine, he fled to Owls Head with his family, but returned after the war to his farm on the west side of Walker's Pond, where he is buried in the churchyard on his land. See also "Penobscot Pioneers," Philip Howard Gray (Camden, 1993), p. 10. Cf. "Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 3," pp. 97-98.
Snow ("Brooksville, Maine...", p. 25): Samuel m. Mercy Watson (b. ca. 1752, d. 28 Sept 1828 at Brooksville, dau. of Shadrack Watson and Mary Kimball of Sedgwick, ME) and had twelve children. To avoid being impressed into pilot service by the British at Castine, he fled to Owls Head with his family, but returned after the war to his farm on the west side of Walker's Pond, where he is buried in the churchyard on his land. See also "Penobscot Pioneers," Philip Howard Gray (Camden, 1993), p. 10. Cf. "Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 3," pp. 97-98.
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