Person:Daniel Hayes (8)

Daniel was the great-great grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

In 1707/08, Daniel was taken prisoner by the Indians and held captive in Canada for five years.^[5][6]

1. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   vol. 2 .

   [Hayes] "GEORGE, Windsor 1682, had there Daniel, b. 1686; George, 1695; and William, 1697; beside four ds. rem. to Simsbury, and descend. long there."

2. ↑ The Hayes Family of Windsor and Granby, CT, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol. 36, page 388.
3. ↑ The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Url: http://www.rbhayes.org/.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Hayes Family, supra
   page 389.
5. ↑ Holcomb, James and Randall. Holcomb Family Genealogy, Url: http:/www.holcombegenealogy.com/
   "Daniel Hayes was taken prisoner by the Indians in 1707/08, carried to Canada, and kept in captivity at least five years. He earned his own ransom, for which he was reimbursed by Ct. Martha Buel Holcomb witnessed Daniels' capture far from her home as she was walking to get cows at the bottom of a far hill".
6. ↑ Williams, Mark. Tempest in a Small Town: The Myth and Reality of Country Life, Granby, Connecticut, 1680-1940. (Salmon Brook Historical Society, Granby, Connecticut, 1996)
   page 101.
7. ↑ Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1638-1925.

   Daniel son of George Hayes was born Aprill 26th 1686 (Bk I p. 20)