Quinton Pray

Abt 1595 - 1667  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Quinton Pray  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1595  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	17 Jun 1667	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I40645	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of XYZ
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Joan   d. Aft 17 Jun 1667
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Pray   d. Between 1716 and 3 Feb 1719
  Family ID	F23809	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  First of record at Lynn, where about 1646 he was employed in the ironworks as a "fineryman". "Quinton Pray ... appears to have been one of the ironworkers who came to Lynn in 1643, under the auspices of the Iron Works Company, at its beginning in New England, perhaps sailing from England when John Winthrop, Jr., in 'May, 1643, did at great costs and charges imbarque himself, with many workmen, servants & materialls for the said setting vp of iron workes, in the good ship the An Cleeve, of London'. Later he removed to Braintree, continuing in the Iron Works there. The Christian name Quentin was not uncommon in Scotland, and the surname Pray is said to be of French origin, from Pré, a meadow. It may be significant that Anderson and Downing, of the early founderymen at Lynn, were from Scotland." [Henry Ernest Woods, "Pray of York and Kittery, Maine," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 55:280, July 1901.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S4974] Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Mass. 1640-1850, Including the Modern Towns of Randolph & Holbrook and the City of Quincy, After the Separation from Braintree in 1792-3 by Waldo Hamilton Sprague, compiled from 1934 to 1960. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001.