Mary (Gay) Buchanan (1735 - 1813)

Born 1735 in Henrico, Virginia

Ancestors

Died 27 Nov 1813 at about age 78 in Chesterfield, Chesterfield, Virginia

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Biography

Mary (Gay) Buchanan is a descendant of Pocahontas. Here is the trail.

Mary was a daughter of William GAY ca 1705-1749 and Elizabeth BOLLING ca 1709-1766

She married in 1763, Virginia, to Neil BUCHANAN 1738-1793

Sources

• Mentioned in the will of her mother, Elizabeth (Bolling) Gay.

• The GAYRE or GAY FAMILY GENEALOGY. By Lanette Hill Brightwell. Available to read on Google Books at http://tinyurl.com/p7q9noa
• Ackerly, Mary Denham,. "Our kin" : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia. unknown: unknown, c1930.On Ancestry Card Catalog.

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kyborn/gay.html
• https://gw.geneanet.org/yuille?lang=en&iz=689&p=mary&n=gay

• Morenus, David. The Real Pocahontas website, "Pocahontas Descendants" chart, 5dc.

• "The Ancestors and Descendants of John Rolfe", in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 23, no. 1 (Jan 1915), p. 94.

• Robertson, Wyndham (1887), Pocahontas and her Descendants, p. 34 (gen 5).