Grace Tay

1645 - 1716  (70 years)

• Name	Grace Tay
  Birth	23 Aug 1645	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Baptism	24 Aug 1645	First Church, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	23 Jan 1716	Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Burial	Salem Street Burying Ground, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I42515	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2025

  
  

  Father	William Tay,   b. Abt 1608   d. Between 20 Apr 1680 and 12 Apr 1683 (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Grace Newell,   b. Abt 1622   d. 11 Apr 1712, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 90 years)
  Marriage	14 Sep 1644	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Family ID	F24868	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deacon Thomas Willis,   b. 28 Dec 1638, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 14 Aug 1725, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
  Children	+ 1. Jane Willis,   b. 9 Apr 1677, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Oct 1757 (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F24867	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Toy. The record of her baptism on 24 Aug 1645 at Boston's First Church in Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 (citation details below) describes her as "aged about 3 days", which is not consistent with the record, shown two pages earlier, of her birth on 23 Aug.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2706] Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699 and Boston Births, 1700-1800: two volumes in one, ed. William S. Appleton from the records of the Boston Registry Department and the Boston Record Commissioners. Baltimore: Clearfield, 1994. [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64., date only. [S1797] Vital Records of Medford, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1907. [S8228] Find a Grave page for Grace Tay Willis. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.