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Facts and Events
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- Source:Egle, 1896:334 et seq
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I. William Hays, a native of Scotland, left that country
during the religious persecutions, and settled in the county
Tyrone, north of Ireland. He was at the siege of Derry, and
endured its trials until relief came, being absent from his family
twenty-two months. His wife and two small children were of
the number of those who had been "driven to the wall," having been forced to walk with her little ones twenty English miles — the only food, a little oatmeal secreted about her person.
A piece of horse hide, purchased during the siege just before relief came for a guinea, was preserved. Of two of their children we have record :
- i. Martha, m. John "Wallace, (see Wallace and Weir record).
- ii. James, who m. ; and left issue.
II. James Hays, (William) b. at Derg Bridge, county Ty-
rone, Ireland; married, and had a large family, most of whose
descendants came to America "between the Peace and 1789."
William and Dickey Hays located at "Bald Ridge," in, then,
Northumberland county; James; (Rev.) Joseph, of county
Down, another son, father of Matthew, of Triana town, Madi-
son county, Alabama ; William, of Wythe Court House, Vir-
ginia ; Rebecca Hay-Leitch ; Sarah Hay-McCormick, of Pitts-
burgh, Pa., and Elizabeth, who remained in Ireland, with
John, whose line is here given :
- i. John, b. about 1740 ; m. Eleanor Leach.
III. John Hays, (James,' William) b. about 1740, emigrated to America in 1789, arriving in Philadelphia in September of that year. After remaining the following winter at Maytown, Lancaster county. Pa., he purchased a farm at the head of Yellow Breeches creek, on the Walnut Bottom road, Cumberland county, Pa. He resided there ten or twelve years, but was unable to obtain a proper title for his property, and his first payment of £500 was lost. He afterwards purchased three hundred acres in Path Valley, Franklin county. Pa., where some of his descendants yet reside. He died in 1814. Mr. Hays married Eleanor Leach, a native of the north of Ireland, who died in 1826, in Path Valley. They had issue ….
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