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Subject: RAY/REA/RHEA of Maine
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:57:34 -0500 (EST)


Looking for data on the Ray/Rea/Rhea line in Maine.

In particular, John America Ray/Rea/Rhea, b. 1780, somewhere in Mass.; wife
?, m. ?; d. ?,
probably Dixmont, Penobscot Co., Maine. His son, Gideon, b. 8 Apr 1805, d. 26
Jan 1882, prob. Dixmont; m. 10 Aug 1826 @ Troy, Waldo Co., Me. (adjacent to
Dixmont) Mary Packard, b. 25 Dec 1808, d. ? Mary was 2nd dau., 5th child (of
12) of Lebbeus Packard and Betsey Mitchell. I have the Packard line and 2
earlier gen. of Mitchells.

Gideon Ray and Mary Packard had 11 children: William B., 1826; John
America?, 1829; Mary Jane, 1831; Lebbeus, 1833; Joshua, 1835; Matilda Chase,
1838; Viola T., 1839, Mercy, 1840; Helen, 1843; Gideon, Jr., ("June"), 1846;
and Benjamin, 1849-1850. I have at least some descendants of John, Mary (m.
David Edminster), Matilda (m. Hiram C. Stone), and Gideon, Jr.

I'll be glad to send what I have to anyone interested. I'm hoping to find
some cousins (Mary Packard is my GGG Aunt) and the Ray ancestral line.

Dick Packard, 51 Colonial Dr, Littleton, MA 01460-1613

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