Thomas Hayes (1715 - 1775)

Born 31 Jan 1715 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony

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Died 31 May 1775 at age 60 in Salem, Westchester, New York

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Biography

"Thomas Hayes, born 1/31/1714/15; married Elizabeth Benedict; "Colonel"; moved to the "Oblong", South Salem, Westchester County, New York, in 1763; and to Cairo, in 1779; doesn't appear in the 1790 Census. The records of Mrs. R. Martha (Boardman) Lewis gives Thomas, instead of Nathaniel as the father of Nathaniel Hayes (Hayes-6939) born July 1744."

Written in 1942 by my grandmother, Camilla Purple Brott, her "Hayes-Mead" manuscript. Adam Austin Arnold

This biography is an amalgamation of three different Thomas Hayes - the father who is the subject of this profile and two of his sons who were both named Thomas (one was named Thomas Allen).

Thomas Hayes, the father, was born in January 1714/15. He along with his children including two sons named Thomas moved to the "Oblong", South Salem, Westchester County, New York, from Norwalk, Connecticut, about 1763. At the same time, one of his sons named Thomas married Elizabeth Benedict. Thomas Hayes, the father, died in 1775 as shown by his will as listed in the references which lists Thomas and Thomas Allen as two of his sons and heirs. His son Thomas who married Elizabeth Benedict returned to Connecticut during the Revolutionary War eventually settling in the New Stratford parish of Huntington, Connecticut, where he died just before the 1790 census was taken when Elizabeth Hayes was listed as head of household. His other son Thomas may have moved to Cairo in 1779.

Sources

• Pelletreau, William. Early Wills of Westchester County, New York, from 1664 to 1784 (F.P. Harper, New York, 1898) Page 312-3

• Leaves legacies to wife Ruth, and to daughters Ruth wife of Josiah Betts, Rachel wife of Eleazer Dobson, and her daughter Betsey, and to Abigail daughter of my son Daniel. Rest to his 3 sons Thomas, Josiah and Thomas Allen Hays. Witnesses Michael Abbot, Benaijah Northrup, Wm Bashford, May 23, 1775, Proved June 17, 1775.

• Betts, Charles Wyllys. Thomas Betts, of Guilford and Norwalk, and His Descendants (1888) Page 62.