Robert Hays and Mary Allison

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Husband Robert Hays ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Robert Hayes 3 4
           Born: 1742 - Northampton Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1819 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Hays (Abt 1705-1789) 1 5 6
         Mother: Jane Love (Abt 1712-1806) 4 5 6

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Allison ^{3 4 7 8}

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           Born: Abt 1755
     Christened: 
           Died: Aug 1835 8
         Buried: 

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         Father: James Allison (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Jennet [Unk] (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 M John Hayes ^{4 8}

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            AKA: John Hays 8
           Born: 3 Nov 1770 or 1772 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 1803 4 8
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Margaret Falls (      -      ) 8

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2 F Jane Hays ^{4 8}

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           Born: 15 May 1774 or 1779 4 8
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1863
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Moses Laird (Abt 1771-1816) 4

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3 M William Hayes ⁹

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            AKA: William Hays 8
           Born: 23 May 1776 4 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 17 Feb 1843 4
         Buried:  - Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg, Union Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Wilson (1783-1827) 10
           Marr: 4 Oct 1803 11

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4 M James Hays ^{4 8}

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           Born: 21 May 1778 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 1855 4
         Buried: 

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5 M Joseph Hays ^{4 8}

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           Born: 1 Aug 1780 4 8
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 Mar 1870 4
         Buried: 

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6 F Mary Hays ^{4 8}

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           Born: 29 Jan 1782 or 1783 4 8
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1866
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Walker (      -      ) 4

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7 F Sarah "Sally" Hays ^{4 8}

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           Born: 6 May 1785 8
     Christened: 
           Died: Bet 1845 and 1855 - Michigan
         Buried: 

         Spouse: [Unk] Shipman (      -      ) 4

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8 F Elizabeth "Betsy" Hays ¹²

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            AKA: Elizabeth Hayes 3 4
           Born: 21 Jul 1788 - Northampton Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Jan 1884 - Cochranton, Crawford Co, PA 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Thomas Brown (      -1864) 3 13
           Marr: 1814 3

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Hays

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He and his wife moved to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, (from Northampton County?) in 1790. [HMC 1888, 1147]

He was captain of a company of Associators in the Revolutionary war [2nd Series Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. XV, page 62], and moved to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, in 1790. For nine years he lived on a farm near Warrior Run Church, for seven years at Derry, and in 1806 removed to a farm in Delaware township, near what is now Dewart. Although this farm was a large one, containing more than 200 acres, there were but seven or eight acres cleared when he came to it, and the work of cutting off and burning the pine timber, which grew on the place, was a burdensome one. There were then two huts on the premises, used respectively as a dwelling and a school house. [CBRCP-CCUS, 793]

He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, on June 15, 1776. After the war he removed, in 1790, to Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and settled near Warrior Run Church, where he lived for nine years. He then moved to a farm a mile south of White Hall, in Montour County, where he remained for seven years, during which time occurred the death of his mother, in 1806. He next moved to a farm near Dewart, which at that time was overgrown with woods and had only a cabin built on it. His indomitable energy soon changed the place into a beautiful home, which afterward passed into the possession of his grandsons, Robert and Joseph. He became blind in his old age, and died at the age of seventy-seven years. His descendants changed the spelling of the name to "Hayes."

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 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1147.

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

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 213.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1702.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 793, 871.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 794, 871.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 794.

12 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1061.

13 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 554.