2 AUTOBIOGRAPHY. [1810. 
ter, January 16, 1766. He married Sarah Wiley! 
about the year 1729. They had ten children; the 
eighth was Moses Wiley Gray, my grandfather, born 
in Worcester, December 31, . About the year 
1769, he married Sally Miller, daughter of Samuel 
and Elisabeth (Hammond) Miller, of Worcester, 
and removed to Templeton, 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,? where he died 
from injuries received from the fall of a tree, May 8, 
1803. j 
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, 
1786.2 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 Pac 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 time when the early 
s GQ, 
® 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- 
re 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 gon rag? Big: 
tempting regions of hill and valley, well wooded, with ¢ spar- 
leaving his son Moses, with his stepmother and her children largely 
dependent on his assistance. 
