At 02:32 AM 7/8/00 -0400, someone wrote: >Direct Descendants of Lydia Gray & Aaron Gould > 1 Lydia Gray b: June 03, 1759 MD, Andover d: February 05, 1830 in WV, >Upshur Co., French Creek > "Hello again Cousins!" Have been looking at Aaron GOULD and Lydia GRAY for almost twenty- four years now, and don't believe anyone can prove me wrong on this! Have seen this written up incorrectly in so many places, am hoping to get this out so that anyone who either happens to share descent through this family, or has a research interest in same, might not have to waste their research time chasing incorrect information. Please do check the records and see what you find! I have come across absolutely nothing whatsoever to put Lydia GRAY in Maryland at any time! I attribute the doubly erroneous citation for her birth as having been Andover, Maryland, to someone inadvertently hitting the "D" instead of an "A", when meaning to type the abbreviation for Massachusetts. But Andover, Massachusetts, for the birth place of Lydia Queen GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD, is still INCORRECT! There is a birth record in Andover, Massachusetts, dated 3 Jun 1759, for a Lydia GOULD, dau. of Thomas and Lydia GRAY, but if you also check the death records for Andover, Massachusetts, you will find, Lydia GRAY, died 26 Jan 1786, dau. of Thomas and Lydia GRAY, and therefore definitely cannot be our Lydia Queen GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD. The Andover, Massachusetts, birth place for Lydia GRAY, wife of Aaron GOULD, was submitted by someone to the I.G.I. many years ago, but is still just as incorrect today for our Lydia Queen GRAY as it was when originally submitted to the I.G.I. all that time ago. The only place I know of to date, that we have found the name "Queen" associated with our Lydia GRAY, is in the will of her husband, Aaron GOULD. Might any one of you know of any other occurrence listing her name as Lydia Queen GRAY in any other primary source record? I have failed to locate, and know of no one else who has been able to locate a birth record for our Lydia Queen GRAY. The records of the French Creek Presbyterian Church attribute her as having been a sister of Mrs. Jenny Jane PEEBLES, and a birth record does exist for Jenny Jane GRAY, b 19 Jun 1771, Pelham, MA, dau. of Deacon Ebenezer and Sarah (JOHNSTON) GRAY. Aaron GOULD and Lydia GRAY were married, 29 May 1781, Pelham, MA, while her sister, Jenny Jane GRAY, and Pattrick PEEBLES were married 19 Jul 1801, Pelham, MA. The only complication, if someone might wish to view it as such, is that Deacon Ebenezer GRAY m. Sarah JOHNSTON, 12 Feb 1767, and with Lydia Queen GRAY being their dau., she would only have been about fourteen years of age at the time of her marriage. No one that I have come across at any time has yet attributed Deacon Ebenezer GRAY as having been married prior to his marriage to Sarah JOHNSTON, but he was twenty-four years old when he married Sarah, so that possibility does exist. Might any one of you know of a previous marriage for Deacon Ebenezer GRAY? I have looked for the surname "QUEEN" in the records for Pelham, and have found very, very little of any consequence whatsoever as yet. To date, the only mention of that surname that I've come across among the Pelham, MA, records is as follows: Pelham, MA, Town Meeting, 15 Feb 1763: "Matthew GRAY was allowed five shillings and four pence for 'warning Curtis CLEMENS & his wife' out of the town". John GRAY "was allowed five shillings & four pence for Warning the Widow Elizabeth QUEEN out of town." Whether the above has significance to our search, only time may tell! To date I know nothing of the ancestry of Sarah JOHNSTON, reportedly b 3 Sep 1749, d Feb 1776, so a possibility still exists that we may be looking for a QUEEN family link somewhere in her ancestry, but once again, only time may tell! Should any one of you happen to have records that might either dispute or call into question, any of the above, please do contact me! Please do contact me as well, should you have any information for any of the above family that would indeed link our families! TTYL Craig "Always looking for Cousins!"