Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


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Capt. John Hays and Barbara King




Husband Capt. John Hays 1 2

            AKA: Capt. John Hayes 3
           Born: 1726 - Ireland 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Nov or 5 Nov 1796 - Meadville, Crawford Co, PA 2 4
         Buried: 


         Father: John Hays (Abt 1705-1789) 1 5 6
         Mother: Jane Love (Abt 1712-1806) 3 5 6


       Marriage: 16 Oct 1760 2

   Other Spouse: Jane Walker (      -      ) 2 7



Wife Barbara King 7

            AKA: Barbary King 2
           Born: Abt 1740
     Christened: 
           Died: 11 Aug 1770 7
         Buried: 


         Father: James King (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Mary Boyd (      -      ) 7




Children
1 F Mary Hays 7

           Born: Abt 1761
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Sep 1776 7
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Did Not Marry


2 M John Hays 7

           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 9 Oct 1821 - Lycoming Co, PA 7
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Jane Horner (1759-1824) 7


3 M James Hays 7

           Born: Abt 1764
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Mar 1829 7
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Hannah Palmer (      -      ) 7



General Notes: Husband - Capt. John Hays


He was two years old when his parents arrived in America. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, he raised a company and marched with it as captain to Philadelphia, in December, 1776; he was thereafter known as Captain John. After the war he resided in the settlement, engaged in milling, teaming, and farming, until 1790, when he was taken sick during an expedition into Crawford County, to examine a tract of land which he wished to acquire, and died at Meadville.

In the year 1763, he purchased a tract of land, containing 108 acres, from his mother-in-law, Mary King, situated on the Catasauqua creek, in Allen township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, being part of a larger tract which the said Mary King, by deed dated December 4, 1750, purchased from the attorneys of Evan Patterson, of the city of London. Under date of April 25, 1763, Mary King took a lease for life of the following part of said tract, as follows:
"A certain piece or lot of ground situate in Allen township, on the west side of a creek or rivulet called Callisuka, (Catasauqua,) and upon the south line, (within the bounds of his, the said John Hays', 108 acre tract, lately granted to him by the said Mary King,) containing seven and a half acres, bounded eastward with Callisuka creek, southward and westward with the said Hays' orchard and land, and northward with the land of Robert Lattimore, in the occupation of the said Mary King. Also, one acre of meadow-ground, to be allotted and staked out on such part of the said John Hays' grass land, as she shall think fit to choose."
During the year 1760, John Hays, together with the celebrated missionary, Frederick Post, and the Indians Isaac Stille and Moses Tatamy, were sent by the Provincial Government to attend an Indian treaty west of the Ohio river. The journal of John Hays is recorded in Pennsylvania Archives, vol. iii, (first series,) pages 735-741. John Hays also served during the Revolutionary war as quartermaster to Col. John Siegfreid's battalion, Northampton County militia.
John Hays resided on the tract of land referred to, where he carried on a tannery, and where in the year 1790, he erected a grist mill, yet standing and in operation [1883], now owned and occupied by the writer [Jacob Fatzinger, Jr.], whose father purchased it in the month of January, 1827.

He died near Meadville, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1796. [CBRCP-CCUS, 793]

He died at Meadville, Pennsylvania, while on a trip to the Northwestern part of the state, accompanied by his son William, in order to examine some property purchased by him from John Heckewelder and George Huber, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Sources


1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1883), Pg 208.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1701.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 793.

4 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1883), Pg 210.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 743.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 114, 1701.

7 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1883), Pg 209.


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