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Note: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"/> </head> <body> <div align="left">    1. Will :    Records of York Co. Va. June 24,1653</div> <div align="left"><br />           <font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">: son Thomas R. to have land att New Poquoson & at Mop-Jack Bay; failing<br /> heirs, to<br /> </span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#800000"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Christmas</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"> Ray; failing heirs, to Mary Ray; to his son Thomas an Indian Girl, 2 cows, 2 calves,<br /> 1 Turkey<br /> rugg, 1 pott & one Pestle: residue to my wife Mary, son </span></font><font face="Times New Roman" color="#800000"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>Christmas</b></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"> & dau. Mary, to be equally<br /> divided: a<br /> hoghead of tobacco for a sermon preached at the New Poquoson Church, some Sabbath day; gr. son<br /> Thomas<br /> Coleman one cow-calfe; dau Anne Skipworth one cow calfe. Mr. Thomas Kirby, Peter Starkey &<br /> Henry ffreman<br /> overseers. Witn: Henry Freeman, Tho. R. Ray. Thos: Kirby his mark, Peter Starkey. Pr. 24<br /> June, 1653.<br /> <br /> </span></font><span style="font-size:12pt">  </span></div> <div align="left">        Two years later Thomas Ray's father-in-law Doctoris William Christmas left a will also, which was witnessed by the same three who were "oversee -ers" of his will.</div> <div align="left">       </div> <div align="left">       <font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">Amor Via he was not a French Huguenot. he was transported to Virginia by John Ray Thomas Rays brother from England. his maiden name is unknown. his family recent [dna tests] show [j2 ]thats Spanish Moor. the Viers was French and lived nearby.<br /> <br />     </span></font></div> <div align="left">    <font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">in 1749 the ablemarle family family Rays was around down here. Later Thomas Ray tooka piece of land right near Nathaniel Gist his wife had one Negro slave female. Notice Hezekiah was a common name. and they was all over.<br /> Granville 1755</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br /> <font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">    Thomas RAY was granted 300 acres on the Severne River for the transportation of himself and five other persons, one of them a Darby RAY. </span></font></div> <div align="left"><br /> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">    </span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial Unicode MS" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">Chiefly, a record of various Ray families in England, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and elsewhere covering a 600 year period starting about 1420 thru 1997. One of the early Ray's to arrive in America was Thomas Ray of Denston England. In 1636 Thomas Ray emigrated to America settling in the Colony of Virginia. He was later joined by his wife Mary Christmas Ray and son Darby in 1642. Mary was the daughter of Doctoris William and Elizabeth Christmas. Thomas Ray died in York County, Virginia in 1653.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br /> </div> <div align="left"><span style="font-size:12pt">    <br /> </span><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">    <br />     </span></font></div> </body> </html>
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