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Joshua Rea or Ray

Birth
Suffolk, England
Death
1710 (aged 81–82)
Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
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The name is spelled Joshua Ray, Joshua Rea, and probably in several other ways in old records.

Arrived in America in 1630, became a member of the First Church of Salem in 1668, and became a freeman on May 3, 1665.

"He and his wife were among the original members of the church at Salem Village." (Cutter)

1693: keeper of the ship-tavern at Salem.

Sources:

Thanks to Find A Grave member Putnam Wyatts for providing biographical information about Joshua Rae

The Ray Genealogy - Showing the Line from Daniel Ray who settled at Plymouth Colony about 1630. Grinnell, Iowa: Ray & Frisbie, Printers, September 20, 1919

Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, 1908, v III, pp 1501-1502
The name is spelled Joshua Ray, Joshua Rea, and probably in several other ways in old records.

Arrived in America in 1630, became a member of the First Church of Salem in 1668, and became a freeman on May 3, 1665.

"He and his wife were among the original members of the church at Salem Village." (Cutter)

1693: keeper of the ship-tavern at Salem.

Sources:

Thanks to Find A Grave member Putnam Wyatts for providing biographical information about Joshua Rae

The Ray Genealogy - Showing the Line from Daniel Ray who settled at Plymouth Colony about 1630. Grinnell, Iowa: Ray & Frisbie, Printers, September 20, 1919

Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Boston and eastern Massachusetts, William Richard Cutter, 1908, v III, pp 1501-1502


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