Person:James Gay (9)

Note: the Elizabeth Dunlap mentioned below married a different James Gay:

(i) James2 (Robertl), the heir at law. One may guess that he was not of age in 1762 -the mention of Robert Gay's "orphans" points to that inference. His deed of 1773 to his brothers, above, may have been an attempt to make a fair division of the father's land. His wife was Elizabeth. I offer as a guess that she was the Elizabeth Gay mentioned in the will of John Dunlap of Rockbridge, dated Feb. 25, I804, proved in Rockbridge, April 3, I804, wherein he names son Alexander; dau. Elizabeth Gay, and her son Robert Gay, 3,ooo acres including the old town of Cilicotta on the Ohio; son James; daughter Ann Bratton; daughter Mary Hodge; her son Sam'l Hodge, Lebanon Meeting House. Chalkley, II, io8; see also will of Ann Dunlap, widow of John, wherein daughter Betsey Gay is mentioned. Will dated May Ig, i8o8; re- corded in Rockbridge, April 3, i8o0 (Chalkley, II, i92). I also guess that this was the James who was on the 1782 list of tithables in Capt. James Bratton's Company, which would place him in the Calf Pasture presumably as owner of part of Lot 22, supra.