Download or read book From Meetinghouse to Statehouse, 1683-1783 written by Norma Adams Price and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Gray (ca. 1650-1718) emigrated from Barbados to Philadelphia where he married Mary Beardsley in 1692. After her death he went back to Barbados where he died. Descendants lived chiefly in Pennsylvania where one descendant, George, 4th, became speaker of the Pennsylvania Assembly.