Publius Rutilius Rufus Pray (June 10, 1793 – December 11, 1839)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1838 to 1839.
[2] Born Rufus Pray in Maine,[3] on June 10, 1793,[4] he was the son of Ebenezer Gray and Rebecca Learned.
[1] Pray "resided at Pearlington, near the sea coast, where lands were held mainly under old French and Spanish grants.
In doing the work he was "ambitious of originality" and caused the code "to smack too strongly of the Roman law".
[3] Pray was elected to a seat on the state supreme court in 1837 and held the position until his death in 1839.