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Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA

Notes:
Gray is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 6,820 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. Gray is home to regional headquarters for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, which maintains a fish hatchery and wildlife park. It is also home to an NOAA National Weather Service Forecast Office, which issues forecasts and severe weather warnings for New Hampshire and Maine.

History

The area was granted on March 27, 1736 by the Massachusetts General Court to a group from Boston. In 1737, the township was laid out and roads cleared, with the first settlers arriving in the spring of 1738. But during the ongoing French and Indian Wars, the settlement was attacked in the spring of 1745 by Indians, who killed cattle and burned the meetinghouse and all dwellings. Inhabitants fled to other towns. In 1751, the village was resettled, but wiped out again in May 1755.

Consequently, Fort Gray was built in 1755. It featured a blockhouse measuring 50 feet (15 m) long by 25 feet (7.6 m) wide, set within a garrison palisade 100 feet (30 m) long by 75 feet (23 m) wide. The town had been without a name until about 1756, when it began to be called New Boston. On June 19, 1778, New Boston Plantation would be incorporated as Gray after Thomas Gray, a proprietor.

Gray had many farms and some quarries. Other industries included a gristmill, 12 sawmills, a tannery, granite and marble works, carriage and sleigh manufacturer, and shuttle maker. Along Collyer Brook, Samuel Mayall established in 1791 the firsrst successful water-powered woolen mill in North America. British woolen guilds had prohibited the production of goods in the colonies and tried to prevent British technology from being put to use in competition against them. Mayall smuggled out of England plans for machinery hidden in bales of cloth meant for trade with the Indians. When the guilds learned of his deception, they tried at least twice to kill him. They sent him a hat in which were hidden pins laced with poison, and theen a box with loaded pistols rigged to fire when opened. Suspicious of the packages, Mayall avoided an untimely death. His daughters Mary and Phanela took over the mills when he died in 1831, and built the Lower Mill in 1834. The Mayalls retained ownership until about 1879. The business closed in 1902. The ruins of the mill and associated structures are still visible to this day and are open to the public.

During the Civil War, a confederate soldier's body was accidentally sent to Gray. Instead of sending it away, the people of Gray gave it a proper burial and funded a gravestone marked "The Stranger". A statue dedicated to the "Unknown Soldier" w was later erected in Gray Village Center. Every year on Memorial Day, the Unknown Soldier is respected with a confederate flag marking the grave. Gray devoted a lot of emotion and men to the Civil War, having sent proportionately more men to war than any other town in Maine. There are more than 178 Union soldiers and one Confederate buried in the Gray Village Cemetery.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Bryant, Elizabeth	Tuesday 22 December 1767	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447722	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Cummings, Amos	Sunday 20 November 1768	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447765	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Cummings, Chloe	Tuesday 24 July 1764	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447763	Veenkoloniale voorouders
4	Cummings, Daniel Jr	Monday 06 October 1766	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447764	Veenkoloniale voorouders
5	Cummings, Elisha	Sunday 15 June 1755	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447757	Veenkoloniale voorouders
6	Cummings, Ruth	Monday 09 August 1762	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447762	Veenkoloniale voorouders
7	Cummings, Sarah	Monday 07 May 1770	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447766	Veenkoloniale voorouders
8	Cummings, Susanna	Sunday 30 November 1760	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447761	Veenkoloniale voorouders

Death

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Cummings, Daniel	Sunday 11 October 1812	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447731	Veenkoloniale voorouders
2	Cummings, Molly	Tuesday 19 May 1840	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447754	Veenkoloniale voorouders
3	Cummings, Susanna	Saturday 04 November 1809	Gray, Cumberland County, Maine, USA	I447761	Veenkoloniale voorouders