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.