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Note: Her birth date: either "15 September 1824" [source?], or "16 September 1824" [Brighton, Maine Town Records. Also, in "John Chase, 1795-1887" by Winifred Chase Hazelwood].
Josephine (Rollins) Sawyer wrote that Elizabeth Gray's father, James Gray, Senior, "Had an interesting rule in his family. It was that no child who happened to be readinbg when some minor chore needed to be done, should be called upon to do that chore, and . . . Elizabeth always had her nose in a book." [Josephine (Rollins) Sawyer, letter to [her niece], dated [ ]. This letter was transcribed by L. Austin Gray, Junior of Wesley, Maine who gave a copy of his transcription to Stephen Robbins.]
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