Person:David Hayes (4)

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Sources

J. L. Ziegler, An Authentic History of Donegal Presbyterian Church located in East Donegal Township, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Philadelphia: F. McManus Jr. & Co., 1902.

Egles Notes and Queries Series 3, vol 2, p. 264, published 1896

Related

person:David Hays (2)

This article is for the David Hays who received a land warrant in 1737 in PA, on the same date as person:Hugh Hays (1) and person:Patrick Hays (6).

Overview

David Hays can be shown to have been present in Lancaster County PA, by 1733, via a land warrant which he took out in that year, for property on Conewago Creek in Lancaster County. Egle's Notes and Queries describes his extended family as coming from Donegal Ireland in 1728, but this has not been verified. ^[2]

David eventually settled, not on the Conewago property , but on land between Chickes Creek, and Little Chickes Creek in what is now Rapho Township, in western Lancaster County. Egles uses David's will ^[3] to identify his wife as Jean, and his children as

John

Robert

Patrick

David

plus an unnamed daughter who married an Alexander Scott. He left a legacy to a nephew David Kerr, may suggest that David was a member of his wife's family. Some have used that information as the basis for identifying Jeans maiden name as "Kerr", but there are other possibilities. Among those possibilities, in particular, is the fact that at this time what we would now call a grandson, was sometimes referred to as a "nephew". In this interpretation, Nephew David may have been the son of an unidentified, and perhaps deceased, daughter who married a Kerr.

We know from the fact that he secured a land warrant in 1733, that he was at least 21 years of age at that time, and born before 1712. We also know that in 1740 he was a ruling elder in the Donegal Presbyterian church, near Mt. Joy, in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County Pa:

On the 4th of June, 1740, two hundred acres of land were deeded to the "Rev. James Anderson, Pastor, John Allison, James Mitchel and David Hayes, Elders of the Church, by Thomas Penn, by the powers and authority to him granted by the said John and Richard and of his own right." — (Patent Deed.)J. L. Ziegler, An Authentic History of Donegal Presbyterian Church located in East Donegal Township, Lancaster Co., Pa

This suggests that he was most likely in his middle age in 1740, and probably born well before 1712.

Land

David secured a number of land warrants over the course of his life. In some cases the warrants were used as the basis for surveying and patenting land. In other cases, land may have been occupied for a period under the authority of the warrant, but the property was never surveyed or patented. In these cases it is somewhat difficult to identify the exact location of the property in question.

1733. David's first land warrant was taken out in 1733. The warrant indicates that he was interested in a parcel on Conewago Creek, in Donegal Township. However, the warrant was never used as the basis for a survey, and no land was patented on it. It seems likely that he settled at least briefly on Conewago Creek, but where exactly we do not know.

1737. A second warrant was taken out in 1737, on the same day as Person:Hugh Hays (1) and Person:Patrick Hays (6) secured warrants. We can presume that David was related in someway to both Hugh and Patrick, though the nature of that relationship would be speculative. Hugh and Patrick used their warrants to secure land on a tributary of Swatera Creek, via survey and patent, in what is now Derry Township, Dauphin County, near Hershey PA. Again, David did not take these steps, and no land was ever surveyed or patented under this warrant. Nonetheless, later surveys in the area near where Hugh and Patrick settled do identify a parcel adjacent to Patrick and Hugh as that of David Hays. Presumably he made use of this property for a short while, but never formalized that usage. Instead, he took out additional warrants, this time in nearby Rapho Township, in modern Lancaster County.

1738. David's third warrant was taken out in 1738, and surveyed and patented in the same year. This survey, on Chicques Creek, was for 463 acres, and is presumed to be the location of his homeplace.

1745 AND 1748. Subsequently, in 1745 and 1748, he secured additional warrantees, having land surveyed and patented in 1768 and 1755 respectively.

At the end of these property acquisitions David owned a swatch of land covering approximately 627 acres, and extending bank to bank from Little Chicquies Creek to Chickies Creek.

David Hays initially secured a warrant for land on Conewago Creek in Donegal Township in 1733; He did not have land in this area surveyed, and may never have lived on it. In 1737 he secured another warrant, this time for land near modern Hershey PA, in modern Derry Township, perhaps ten miles further east, on a tributary of Swatera Creek. While surveys of other parcels in this area show him in possession of land adjacent to kinsmen Hugh Hays, and Patrick Hays, he again did not have this land surveyed, and never took formal possession of it. Instead, the following year he secured the patent for another parcel on what is now known as Chicques Creek. In subsequent years he acquired other parcels in this same area based on a warrant of 1745, surveyed 1768, and another warrant of 1748, surveyed 1755. These properties are located adjacent to each other, between Little Chicques Creek, and Chicques Creek in Rapho township, a few miles south of Mt. Joy, PA.

Sources

From: Egles Notes and Queries, Vol 1.

Apparently from his will.:
David Hayes, of Rapho, d. in May, 1780 leaving a wife Jean, and children as follows:

i. [a dauy, m. Alexander Scott.

ii. John.

iii. Robert.

iv. Patrick.

v. David; m. Jean and had Elizabeth.

He left a legacy to his nephew, David Kerr. The executors were Robert and Patrick Hayes and Alexander Scott.

Footnotes

1. ↑ :J. L. Ziegler, An Authentic History of Donegal Presbyterian Church located in East Donegal Township, Lancaster Co., Pa.; Philadelphia: F. McManus Jr. & Co., 1902.
2. ↑ What has been verified is that David's extended family did indeed come from Ireland before 1740, entering the country through Philadelphia. This point is based on the importation oaths of kinsmen Person:John Hays (20) and Person:Patrick Hays (1). Since David took out a land grant in 1733 in Pennsylvania we know that they were in this country by at least that date, assuming that David (4) and John (20) and Patrick (1) all came together. The 1728 date, and place of origin as Donegal, given by Egle is probably based on oral history collected by him in the 1880's. It may be correct, but it his sources are undocumented, and the data has not been independently verified.
3. ↑ Egles Notes and Queries Series 3, vol 2, p. 264, published 1896. He does not specifically identify the will as his source of information, but this seems likely in the context of the passage. Egle gives his DOD as May 1780, but this may be the wills probate date. )J. L. Ziegler, An Authentic History of Donegal Presbyterian Church located in East Donegal Township, Lancaster Co., Pa identifies Jean as "Jean Kerr" but does not give a specific source for her last name. He does indicate that the will was written 15 March 1776.