Captain Simon Ray, III

Simon Ray

Birth: Dec. 20, 1638, Hundon, Suffolk, England

Death: Mar. 17, 1737, Rhode Island, USA

Birth based on age at death

Father: Simon Ray b: BEF 6 NOV 1610 in Cowlinge, Suffolk, England

Mother: Mary Rowning b: BEF 12 AUG 1613 in Hundon, Suffolk, England

Marriage 1 : ABT 1664

Wife: Mary Thomas

Children:

• Sybil Ray b: 19 MAR 1664/65 in New Shoreham, RI
• Mary Ray b: 19 MAY 1667 in New Shoreham, RI
• Dorothy Ray b: 16 OCT 1669 in New Shoreham, RI
• Simon Ray b: 9 APR 1672 in New Shoreham, RI

Marriage 2 : BEF 18 OCT 1690

Wife: Elizabeth b: ABT 1645

Simon Ray and his stepfather Peter George were among the original purchasers of Block Island in 1660. In the early years of the settlement, he and James Sands were the most prominent people on the island. In 1687/8 he was appointed a justice of the General Quarter Sessions and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Newport.

He was a magistrate and prominent land owner about 1660, Block Island, Newport, RI

THIS MONUMENT Is erected to the Memory of SIMON RAY Esquire One of the original Proprietors of this Isand He was largely concerned In settling the Township And was one of the chief Magistrates and such was his Benevolence That besides the care which he took Of their civil Interests He frequently instructed them In the more important concerns Of our Holy Religion He was deprived of his eyesight many years Cheerfully submitting to the will of God His Life being in this trying Influence As in all others A Lovely example of Christian Virtue He died on at age 102, March 17, 1737

Burial: Island Cemetery, New Shoreham, Washington County, Rhode Island. Also known as: Old Cemetery; Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Block Island #1

Sources:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=ray&GSiman=1&...

Created by: Douglas Little

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Title: New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Media: Book, Page: 153:453