Family:Jonathan Hays and Elizabeth Elliott (1)

Summary

The main source of information about this line is

It indicates that family stories about Jonathan and Elizabeth indicate that they had twelve sons. Some variants of the presentation say 12 sons and one daughter, others that there were no daughters. In any case, the main source for this provides only the name of a single son, Jonathan Hayes, who settled in Frederick County MD and married Mary Henderson.

Despite the lack of information about the children of this couple, other than that about Jonathan who married Mary Henderson, numerous genealogists have identified other children of this couple. The data below was extracted from Ancestry 26 Aug 2014.

These lineages identify 7 children of this couple

Eliot Hayes 1733-1736

John Hayes

Johnathan C Hayes 1729-1793

Joseph Hayes 1731-1736

Mary Hayes 1710-1785

Samuel Hayes 1731-1736

Stephen Hayes

The DOB-DOD's for these children, as given in the Ancestry extractions, is a bit suspicious, with at least three children dying in 1736 at ages 3, 5, and 5. More critically, the single daughter in the list, Mary Hays, is given a DOB of 1710, fully 19 years before the next youngest child, Jonathan, is born. While not impossible, these differences suggest that the connection between the children and Jonathan Hays=ELizabeth Elliott is "a reach".

Curiously, almost ALL of the son married a "Mary Henderson", a fact in itself suggesting the the documentary basis for ALL of the identifications are suspect.

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