John Fay was born 1648 in England, [1]
He immigrated at the age of 8 on 27 June 1656 to Boston, MA, via the Speedwell from Gravesend.[2][3]
He married twice.
He was one of those selected to help defend the town of Marlborough, Massachusetts during King Philip's War (1675).[9]
It appears he lived in Marlborough (at least during King Philip's War) and also in Watertown.
He was made freeman in Marlboro on 18 Apr 1690.[10] (Or was this his son?)
John died 05 Dec 1690 in Marlboro, Massachusetts.
Notes from Fay Genealogy: [1]
John Fay embarked May 30, 1656, at Gravesend, England, and arrived in Boston on June 27, 1656, at the age of 8 years on the Speedwell (sister ship of the Mayflower). John was by no means the first Fay to come to America. Available Town records in New England show for example that (1) Richard Fay resided in Dorchester MA in 1634; (2) Henry Fay, a weaver of Newberry MA died 6/30/1655 and (3) William Fay was admitted as a townsman in Boston in 1643. These Fay's unquestionably preceded John Fay to America (1656), but there are no records to establish any interrelationship between any of them.
There is, however, reasonable evidence that his father and a brother Michael had preceded him to America. Although there is no documented record of the father (David) or Michael's birth or death. Reference is made in the early Town records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, that the father of John and Michael was David Fay "who came to America prior to 1656." On the other hand the direct lineage of the descendants of John Fay from his birth in 1648 down to 1898 were clearly and logically documented in the records accumulated in Orlin P. Fay's book.
The passenger list of the Speedwell lists five minors, including John Fay age 8 years. These young men were bound to Sudbury MA (settled 17 years previously) where each of them had parents or relatives. It is presumed that since John Fay was the youngest of these minors, he very likely had parents already residing in Sudbury.
Shortly after John Fay's arrival a group of recent immigrants, including young John moved to a new grant which was newly incorporated under the name of Marlboro, MA. The early records of Marlboro show that John Fay was made a freeman in 1669, at which time he had a wife and child. In 1675 the name of John Fay appears among the proprietors of Worcester Mass., and that he had a lot of 50 acres assigned to him "in the eastern squadron, lying next to the County road to Boston." Although, he owned land in Worcester he continued to live in Marlboro until the marauding Indians during the Phillips War made it necessary to move his family to the greater security of Watertown Mass. While in Watertown he buried his first wife, Mary Brigham and one child. His second marriage was to Susan "Susanna" Shattuck who was the widow of Joseph Morse. She had 7 children by Morse and 4 by John Fay. After John Fay's death, Susan married as her third husband, Thomas Brigham, who was a brother of John Fay's first wife, Mary Brigham. It is interesting to record that from Susan's last marriage, one of her descendants [actually it was her husband Thomas' brother Samuel] was Peter Bent Brigham who left a sum of $1,000,000 which was not to be spent until 25 years after his death. By this time the fund had grown to $2,000,000 and was used to build the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a world famous medical research hospital connected with Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass.
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I add some names some days ago (as i discover wikitree this week). Is the Fay' tree on wikitree completed (not the time yet to check it) ? Is the site "https://sites.rootsweb.com/~fayfamily/index.html " still alive ? updated ? Thank you for t your job here. Hiro Fay
The History of Westborough. Appendix. II. Land Grants, pp.454+
History often does this to us, dated events in certain places, then we change the map and place names and confuse the whole thing... In the 1790 census, there are only 2 Fay listings in Marlborough, 6 in Northborough, 6 in Westborough and 13 in Southborough.
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John Fay, I Birth 1648 England Death 5 Dec 1690 (aged 4142) Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Burial Unknown Memorial ID 5721922 · View Source Share Save to Suggest Edits Memorial Photos 2 Flowers 22 Birthdate year is approximate. Exact date, unknown. The following is taken from the book, "History of Hardwick, Massachusetts, with a Genealogical Register, by Lucius R. Paige. Published 1893, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
John Fay, Sr. was born in England about 1648. He came to New England (USA) aboard the ship, Speedwell, which arrived at Boston June 27, 1656. John was only 8 years old. He became an inhabitant of Marlborough, where he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge, Read More
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