map showing WE Fay land in the center, with Clancy land to the east.
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Bridgehampton, Michigan 
When: 1876.
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W.E. Fay married Catharine Leitch, D. Clancy married Mary Leitch. They were sisters, so the men were in-laws and their descendants were cousins...
I think from memory there were also some Leitch names on this county map...
1876 Sanilac County, MI, residents map. The Fays came into Michigan from Ontario about 1851, they missed both the 1850 and 1851 censuses.
In the 1870 US Census, Edwin W.Fay had $1200 in real estate and $500 personal estate. (In 1860 Census, he was a laborer with no estate $.
His father Israel Fay in 1860 was a farmer and had $400 in real estate, $150 personal estate. In 1870, he had $1200 real and $200 personal estate. In the 1880 US Census, he is apparently deceased because his wife is a widow, with 115 acres, worth $2500, with $200 in livestock.
David Clancy is in the 1870 US Census, as a farmer, but he has no estate values. He and his wife Mary live on her father's farm. Neil Leach or Leitch was 80 years old, from Scotland, a farmer and had $2000 in real estate and $1000 in personal estate. He is also E.W. Fay's father in law.
Edwin W., Edward W., or William E. Fay were names used in census records from 1860 to 1920 for the same man in Michigan. He was born in Ontario about 1838, came into Michigan about 1851, farmed in Sanilac County till about 1880, then maybe due to the big forest fires, they moved on to other places in St.Clair county, where they lived till they died in the 1900s. He and his wife are buried in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan.
edited by Loren Fay