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Description
An old note with the slippers says: "Were 150 years old Dec 1879. Mrs. John Gray’s Wedding Slippers, Mrs. Edward Goodings' Great Grandmother."
John Gray was probably the grandfather of John Gray b. Jan. 19, 1773. He and his wife Joanna were the parents of Susan B. Gray, who married Isaac Skillin in 1817. Two of their children were daughters Adelade G. Skillin, (Mrs. Edward Gooding) and Joanna Drinkwater Skillin, who married Robert Low in 1845.
If the date given for these slippers—1729—is correct, they would have been Phebe Chandler Gray’s slippers, the great-great grandmother of Adelade.
Nellie Leighton, a descendant, asks if the items belonged to Mrs. Andrew Gray, not Mrs. John Gray.
About This Item
- Title: Mrs. John Gray's Wedding Slippers, North Yarmouth, 1729
- Creation Date: circa 1729
- Subject Date: circa 1729
- Location: North Yarmouth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Leather
- Dimensions: 26 cm x 7 cm
- Local Code: Collection 61
- Collection: Smith-Leighton Family collection
- Object Type: Physical Object
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- Gray, Phebe Chandler--Associated objects
- Shoes--Maine--North Yarmouth
- Wedding costumes--Maine--North Yarmouth
- Wedding--Clothing & dress--1720-1730
- Women--Clothing & dress--1720-1730--Maine--North Yarmouth
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North Yarmouth Historical Society10 Village Square Road , North Yarmouth, ME 04097
(207) 772-1568
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