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LETTERS OF ASA GRAY. 
CHAPTER I. 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 
1810-1843. 
My great-great-grandfather, John Gray, with his 
family, among which was Robert Gray, supposed to 
be one of his sons, emigrated from Londonderry, 
Ireland, to Worcester, Mass., being part of a Scotch- 
Trish colony... The farm they took up was on the 
north side of what is now Lincoln Street. 
Robert Gray, my great-grandfather, died in Worces- 
1 This colony was composed of rigid cece pee heres to 
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nineteen persons, nine of whom were clergymen. The report brought 
verted their property into money, and embarked in five ships for 
Boston, which they reached August 4, 1718. In Boston they sepa- 
rated for different places, but the larger part were sent to Worcester, 
then a frontier settlement of fifty-eight dwellings and two hundred 
inhabitants, but needing a larger population as protection from the 
Indians. John Gray — there were two of his name in the original 
party — went to Worcester, where he owned considerable land, and 
was evidently a man of influence in the colony, to judge from the 
various public offices held by him. 
