Moses Fay (1712 - 1780)

Born 7 Oct 1712 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Pike) Fay — married 6 Apr 1737 (to 30 Oct 1751) in Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 11 Dec 1780 at age 68 in Winchester, Cheshire, New Hampshire, USA

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Biography

Orlin P. Fay book, p. 228: Moses, b. 7 Oct 1712 in Marlboro, m. Mary, m. 2nd Hannah. He was a fenceviewer, Tythingman, and was styled Capt. res . Southboro. Supposed to haveremained at the homestead north of Clear Hill until about 1769, when herem. to Barre. 1 0 chil. b. S.

Howland Atwood manuscript, p. 1 contains copy of will, Moses Fay, of Winchester, Cheshire Co, NH, dated 8Sep 1778 (witnessed by Mary Learned & Amos Mar sh). Mentions children 1. Comfort (daughter) & Ephraim Butler 2. son William 3. Sarah (daugher) and Samuel Smith 4. Micajah 5. Moses - bequeathed all his real estate in Winchester$

wife Hannah Fay, will proved Dec 11 1780

"Comfort Butler and Sarah Smith were daughters of Moses Fay. All of theten children were by his first wife Mary Pike . Half of them died beforetheir father, four of them as young children. The youngest son Solomonwas not mentioned i n his father's will, but except for his birth recordnothing more is known of him.

We do not know anything about the ancestry of Mary Pike. It is thoughtthat the strong Indian features in some of the f ollowing generations,suggests that Mary Pike was at least part Indian. THe tribe of theatarea (Worcester County) was N ipmunk."

The sister of Moses, Sarah was married to a Pike also:

iii. SARAH FAY, b. March 01, 1704; m. EBENEZER PIKE, November 12, 1729, Marlborough, Massachusetts. Notes for SARAH FAY: Removed to Framingham, Massachusetts.

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Children of Moses Fay and Mary Pike are: (death records in Southborough VR) 1. Comfort Fay, b. 1737. 2. Mary Fay, b. 1739, Southboro. (d. Moses, died April 11, 1739) 3. Moses Fay, b. 1740, Southboro. 4. Mary Fay, b. 1741, Southboro. (died Oct 5, 1745) 5. Susannah Fay, b. 1743, Southboro. (died Oct 20, 1745) 6. Sarah Fay, b. 1744, Southboro. 7. William Fay, b. 1746, Southboro. 8. +Micajah Fay, b. 1747, Southboro. 9. Mary Fay, b. 1749, Southboro. (died Apr 10 1751) 10. Solomon Fay, b. Aug 16, 1751, Southboro.

Moses married Hannah Carver sometime between 1751 and July of 1753, when an account of guardianship of his wife, Hannah was presented to the Plymouth probate court. Moses acknowledged that he received the balance from the estate of her former guardian, Samuel Lucas, decd., (brother to Elisha Lucas, who presented the account).^[1]

Sources

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=szemke&id=I5229
• BIRTH - Vital records of Marlborough, Massachusetts - https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028816060#page/n77/mode/2up/search/FAY
• MARRIAGE - Vital records of Southborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 -https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofso00sout_0#page/n217/mode/2up/search/Fay

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-68W6 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1751-1755 vol 13 > image 50 of 298; State Archives, Boston.

See Also MARRIAGE - "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q29L-TTL1 : 3 November 2017), Moses Fay and Mary Pike, 06 Apr 1737; citing Marriage, Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 861,127.

• DEATH of WIFE - Vital records of Southborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849- https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofso00sout_0#page/n327/mode/2up/search/Fay