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BRAY James

Male - 1725


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  • Name BRAY James  [1
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 1026 
    Death 25 Nov 1725  [1
    Notes 
    • Wm & Mary Quarterly: James Bray, son of James Bray, was a Burgess from James City County in 1702. He was grandfather of Elizabeth Bray, who married Colonel Phillip Johnson. Note: the wife of Governor Edward Diggs was a Bray.

      WMQ: Vol XIV:
      JAKES BRAY(James) was a member of the House of Burgesses from James City county in 1688 and 1702, and married about 1697 Mourning, widow of Thomas Pettus, of "Littletown" (York County Records). He died November 25, 1725, and his wife, Mourning, January 6, 1711 (Bruton Parrish Register).
      Issue:
      Thomas.
      James.

      Elizabeth.

      Apprentices of Virginia

      Master: Bray, James     
      Beginning date: 02/19/1705     
      [p.12] Sex: male     
      Source: Christ's Hospital Register (London)     
      James City Co.     
      Occupation: merchant     
      Ending date: unspecified     
      Race: white     

      All Virginia Old Churches, Vol. 1 results for James Bray
      Hon. Daniel Parke, Colonel John Page, James Besouth, Robert Cobb, Mr. Bray, Captain Chesley, Mr. Aylott, Hon. Thomas Ludwell, Hon. Thomas Ballard, James Vaux, William Korker, George Poindexter, Thomas Whaley, Captain Otho Thorpe, Captain Thomas Williams, Martin Gardiner, Daniel Wyld, Thomas Taylor, Christopher Pierson, Gideon Macon, Robert Spring, George Martin, Abraham Vinckler, Samuel Timson, John Ownes, Captain Francis Page, Thomas Pettus, Colonel Thomas Ballard, Ralph Graves, Captain James Archer, George Norvell, John Dormar, Edward Jones, Thomas Thorp, Daniel Parke, Jr., Hon. Edmund Jennings, Hugh Norvell, William Pinkethman, Henry Tyler, John Kendall, Baldwin Mathews, Philip Ludwell, Jr., Robert Crawley, Timothy Pinkethman, Joseph White, James Whaley, Hon. John Page, Jr., William Hansford, William Timson, Frederick Jones, David Bray, James Bray, Ambrose Cobb, James Hubard, Nathaniel Crowley, Matthew Pierce, John Custis, Henry Carey, John Holloway, Archibald Blair, Michael Archer, Baldwin Mathews, John Clayton, Lewis Burwell, David Bray, Jr., Thomas Jones, Samuel Timson, Sir John Randolph, George Nicholas, William Robertson, Hon. John Blair, Sen., Thomas Cobbs, Ralph Graves, Edward Barradale, James Barber, Daniel Needler, James Bray, Jr., Henry Tyler, Jr., John Harmer, James Wray, Matthew Pierce, Edward Barradale, Jr., Benjamin Waller, William Parks, Peyton Randolph, William Prentiss, William Timson, Jr., John Holt, William Graves, Armstead Burwell, John Palmer, Pinkethman Eaton, Robert Carter Nicholas, Thomas Everard, Nathaniel Shields, Frederick Bryan, George Wythe, John Prentiss, John Power, William Eaton.


    Person ID I44  Booth Family
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2013 

    Father BRAY James,   b. Abt 1610   d. 24 Oct 1691, Middle Plantation, York County Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Mother GIBSON Angelica,   b. 1634, James City County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1663, Williamsburg, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage 1658 
    Family ID F10  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family PETTUS Mourning   d. 6 Jan 1711 
    Marriage Abt 1697  [1
    • WMQ: Vol XIV:
      JAKES BRAY(James) was a member of the House of Burgesses from James City county in 1688 and 1702, and married about 1697 Mourning, widow of Thomas Pettus, of "Littletown" (York County Records). He died November 25, 1725, and his wife, Mourning, January 6, 1711 (Bruton Parrish Register).

      son of James Bray, Esq., of the council, was justice of the peace from James City county, and member of the house of burgesses in 1688 and 1702. He married about 1697 Mourning, widow of Thomas Pettus, of "Little Town," James City county. He died Nov. 25, 1725, leaving issue Thomas, James and Elizabeth.
    Children 
     1. Col. BRAY Thomas   d. 2 Aug 1751
     2. Maj. BRAY James   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. BRAY Elizabeth   d. 1765
    Family ID F3430  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jul 2012 

  • Sources 
    1. [S164] William & Mary Quarterly...on file (Reliability: 2).