AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1810. 



ter, January 16, 1766. He married Sarah Wiley 1 

 about the year 1729. They had ten children ; the 

 eighth was Moses Wiley Gray, my grandfather, born 

 in Worcester, December 31, 1745. About the year 

 1769, he married Sally Miller, daughter of Samuel 

 and Elisabeth (Hammond) Miller, of Worcester, 

 and removed to Tenipleton, Mass. About 1787 he 

 removed to Grafton, Vermont, where his wife died in 

 1793. In 1794 he removed to Oneida County, N. Y., 

 and settled in the Sauquoit Valley, 2 where he died 

 from injuries received from the fall of a tree, May 8, 

 1803. 



My father, Moses Gray, was the youngest of the 

 (eight?) children of his mother. There were three 

 half-brothers and a half-sister by a second wife, born 

 in Oneida County, none of whom survived my father. 

 He was born in Templeton, Mass., February 26, 

 1786. 3 He was therefore in his eighteenth year when 



1 Robert Gray, one of John Gray's sons, was twenty years old when 

 he came to America. There is a tradition in the family that the 

 acquaintance and courtship began on the voyage. 



2 Sauquoit was a settlement in the eastern part of the town of 

 Paris, the township so named in grateful recognition of a supply of 

 food, sent by a Mr. Paris, of Oswego, at a tune when the early 

 settlers were near starving. A. G. 



3 Moses Gray was the eighth child, a boy and a girl were born 

 later, and one step-brother, Watson, survived Moses Gray. Moses 

 Wiley Gray made the journey to Sauquoit, on horseback, taking be- 

 fore him his son Moses, then a boy of eight. The Mohawk Valley at 

 this time was the far West, with only slow and tedious communication 

 beyond Schenectady, but opening, in its lovely tributary valleys, 

 tempting regions of hill and valley, well wooded, with clear, spar- 

 kling streams. The land offered good farming opportunities when 

 cleared of trees, and the rapid streams gave good promise of water 

 power. Here Moses Wiley Gray took a farm on the top of a hill, and 

 cultivated the land for ten years. He was injured by the fall of a 

 tree, and his leg was amputated. He died the next day, May 8, 1803, 

 leaving his son Moses, with his stepmother and her children largely 

 dependent on his assistance. 



