Brief Life History of Elliot
When Elliot Gray was born on 1 April 1786, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Robert Gray, was 28 and his mother, Keziah Foster, was 33. He married Triphosa Guilford on 12 October 1805, in Ashfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 daughters. He died on 6 April 1814, in his hometown, at the age of 28.
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- Eliot Gray in the Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850
- Elliot GRAY (Grey) in the Massachusetts, Town Marriage Records, 1620-1850
- Eliot Gray in entry for Keziah Gray, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1788 · The First Presidential Election
The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (especially Eastern Ulster; of Norman origin): habitational name from Graye in Calvados, France, named from the Gallo-Roman personal name Graec(i)us, meaning ‘Greek’ + the locative suffix -acum. This is probably the chief source of the surname in Britain.
English: nickname for someone with gray hair or a gray beard, from Middle English grey (Old English grǣg, grēg) ‘gray’. In Ireland it has been used as a translation of various Gaelic surnames derived from riabhach ‘brindled, gray’, including Mac Giolla Riabhaigh; see McGreevy . In North America, this surname has assimilated names with similar meaning from other languages.
French: habitational name from Gray in Haute-Saône or Le Gray in Seine-Maritime.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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