Captain Arthur Gray

Other Events and Attributes:

• Military Service: Abt 1776; American Revolution (US) 2nd Regiment, Hunterdon Co., New Jersey Militia (Colonel Hoops commanding) Station at Staten Island May 1776, Elizabetown, Germantown. Under Colonel David Chambers)

Notes:

John Rockefeller served in the Revolutionary War. At one time he was a buyer of cattle for the army. He was elected First Lieutenant, Captain David Jones Company, Third Regiment, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Militia, Colonel David Chambers, April 01, 1775. At battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, June 28, 1778; afterwards served as First Lieutenant to the end of the war in companies commanded by Captains John Phillips and John Schenck, Third Regiment, and Captain Arthur Gray, Second Regiment, Hunterdon County,New Jersey Militia, Revolutionary War. John Rockefeller of Revolutionary fame, was a member of a New Jersey regiment that was part of Sullivan's army in the campaign against the Indian in central and western New York in 1779. Historians state that Sullivan's soldiers were so charmed with the " Finger Lake" and the Genesee region that, when the Senecas were placed on reservations in Washington's administration, many soldiers returned to the new country and made homes there. John Rockefeller's descriptions were what induced his sons, Henry and Samuel, to pioneer that choice part of New York State

◦Arthur GRAY and John READING of Hunterdon County... [bound to]...
William LIVINGSTON, Governor... 500 pounds... 3 April 1778. ...
contract of marriage between Arthur GRAY...and Mary READING... [w]
Sam:ll HENRY, Jas PAXTON
◦Captain Gray was in the militia and a member of the county board of chosen freeholders. He was also one of the first trustees of the Flemington Presbyterian church.


Abstract of Will of Arthur Gray of Chenango, Broome NY; New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999; Broome Wills, letters, Vol A-C, 1806-1852 by cchldrss:
Wife Mary, son Daniel and John G Christopher Executors; daughters Hannah Hankerson, Euphemia Dean, Anastasia Ogden, Mary Page and Catherine Gray $400 each, Catherine to receive such additional sum to make her share equal to that other daughters have received heretofore; son William $1; grandson Jasper Gray, at age 21, one horse of $40 value; wife Mary third part life estate; devise to sons Daniel, Arthur, Isaac, and Brazallai each fourth part of real estate, to them their heirs and assigns, with stipulations that Daniel relinquish claim on note for about $110, that the devises be subject to the life estate therein; and that, upon Arthur reaching age of 21, or upon his death, said partition of the real estate be made for said sons by Samuel Allen, John G Christopher and Mason Whiting, with proviso that if one of them should die that the surviving two appoint a third person of their choosing. Signed and sealed, Arthur Gray, this fourteenth day of June 1809. Witnesses: Phinehas Bartholomew Jas McKinney Mason Whiting. Recorded 27 December 1809

"died on the 24th of Nov 1809; Mortuary Notice of Monday, December 18, 1809, Trenton Federalist, Trenton, NJ, Vol. XI, Issue: 564, Page 3: "DIED-At his seat at Chenango, in New York State on the 24th of November last, Captain Arthur Gray, formerly of Flemington in this county.

Arthur married Mary Reading on 3 Mar 1778 in Flemington, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Mary (daughter of Daniel Reading and Euphemia Reid) was born on 31 Mar 1756 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey; died in 1838 in Chenango, Broome County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jacob E. Hoagland. Jacob was born in 1783 in Somerset County, New Jersey; died on 14 May 1861 in Granby, Oswego County, New York; was buried in Jacksonville Cemetery, Lysander, Onondaga County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]