Lang, H. O., ed.  "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description 
of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and 
Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal 
Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers."  Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and 
Job Printer, 1885.  p. 595.

GEORGE GAY

     Born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1810; at the age of eleven years he
was apprenticed as a sailor and followed the sea for twelve years, and in 1833
found himself at the port of Monterey, in California.  Here he deserted his ship
and joined Ewing Young in a trapping expedition northward.  In 1835 he came
overland to the Willamette Valley with John Turner, Dr. Bailey, and one or two
others.  The next year he returned to California again, to bring up a band of
cattle, whose increase soon made him rich.  He occupied a great and undefined
tract of land in Yamhill and Polk counties.  He died near Wheatland on October
7, 1882.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.