William Hays - Hayes

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Husband William Hays - Hayes ¹

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            AKA: William Hays 2
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         Father: [Father] Hays - Hayes (      -      )
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General Notes: Husband - William Hays - Hayes

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He came to Pennsylvania in company with his brothers, Patrick, Hugh, and James, about 1728, all of whom took up land in what is now Derry township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He followed the Virginia and Carolina migration of the few years subsequent. [CBEDC 1896, 114]

Among those who emigrated to the Province of Pennsylvania were the brothers Patrick, Hugh and David Hays, also William and James Hays, either brothers or near relations. They came to Pennsylvania in 1728, and all purchased land in what was then the county of Lancaster.
He followed the Virginia and Carolina migrations of the few subsequent years and of his descendants we know nothing. Yet a rather striking incident occurred in Washington during the war of the Rebellion, in which possibly a descendant of his figured. The late S. I. Irvine entered a military hospital in that city, and seeing a figure on a cot which, because of the great likeness, he mistook for John Sharp Hays, exclaimed "Why, John Hays, what are you doing here?" John Hays was the name of the wounded man, only he was from South Carolina and was in the Confederate service. [BACC 1905, 699]

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 114.

2 Editor, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 699.