Sarah (Hall) Bay (1726)

Born 1726 in Nottingham, Colony of Maryland

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Sarah was born in 1726.

According to Christopher Johnston, Sarah Hall married “Andrew Bay, of So. Carolina.” In another work, Johnston elaborated in her mention in her father's will stating: “to his daughter Sarah, who had married a Mr. Bay, and then resided in South Carolina, a lot of negroe slaves and other personal property.”^[1]

This was the Rev. Andrew Bay, and according to George Howe he had also resided in Maryland for a time and mentions the following in a footnote: “Rev. Andrew Bay married a daughter of Elihu Hall, of Nottingham, Md., and Hon. Elihu Hall Bay, one of the associate justices of South Carolina, was his son. -(Materials, etc., p. 3.) Judge Bay studied for the ministry, but was deterred from entering it by an impediment in his speech, which troubled him also on the bench. Judge O’Neall’s ‘Bench and Bar of South Carolina,’ i., p. 57, relates an amusing instance.”^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Christopher Johnston
2. ↑ George Howe

• Christopher Johnston. "Hall Family of Calvert County." Maryland Historical Magazine. Vol. 8 (1913) 296.
• Christopher Johnston. History of Cecil County. (1881) 481.
• George Howe. History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, Vol. 1 (1870) 343.