Person:John Gay (2)
John Gay
b.Bef 1613 England (probably)
d.4 Mar 1688/89 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Samuel Gay1638/39 - 1718
  2. Hezekiah Gay1640 - 1669
  3. Nathaniel Gay1642/43 - 1711/12
  4. Joanna Gay1644/45 - 1708
  5. Eleazer Gay1647 - Bef 1723
  6. Judith Gay1649 - 1718
  7. Abiel Gay1649 - 1718
  8. John Gay1651 - 1731
  9. Jonathan Gay1653 - 1713
  10. Hannah Gay1656 - 1660/61
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Name[1][2] John Gay
Gender Male
Birth[2] Bef 1613 England (probably)
Emigration[1][2] 1634
Residence[1][2] 1634 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[2][3][4][5] 6 May 1635 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1][2] 1637 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1638 Massachusetts, United StatesWatertown or Dedham
to Joanna Hooker
Will[2][3] 18 Dec 1686 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2][3][5][6] 4 Mar 1688/89 Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[2][3] 17 Dec 1689 Inventory presented; will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 John Gay, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    128.

    "Gay, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1634; [Resided] Watertown, Dedham [GM 2:3:36-42; NEHGS 164:114-20]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 John Gay, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    3:36-42.

    "ORIGIN: Unknown.
    MIGRATION: 1634 (based on admission to freemanship).
    FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown.
    REMOVES: Dedham 1637.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Watertown church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship. On 25 July 1639, '_____ Gay the wife of John Gay was received with good satisfaction to the church' at Dedham [DeChR 21]. On 12 April 1644, 'John Gay was received into the church' [DeChR 28].
    FREEMAN: 6 May 1635, 29 May 1644, [blank] May 1645 [MBCR 1:370, 2:293, 294]. …
    BIRTH: By about 1613 (based on estimated date of marriage).
    DEATH: Dedham 4 March 1688/9 [DeVR 21]."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Gay, Frederick Lewis. John Gay, of Dedham, Massachusetts: and Some of His Descendants. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1879)
    33:45.

    "John Gay emigrated to America about 1630 [1634]. He settled first at Watertown, and was a grantee in the Great Dividends and in the Beaver Brook plowlands, owning altogether forty acres. He was admitted freeman May 6, 1635. With others of Watertown he was one of the founders of the plantation at Dedham, his name appearing on the petition for incorporation Sept. 6, 1636, and among the original proprietors of lands. He was one of the selectmen, 1654. He died March 4, 1688. Joanna, his wife, died Aug. 14, 1691. She is said in family tradition to have been widow Baldwicke [actually Borden] before her marriage to John Gay. His will in the Suffolk records, dated, Dec. 18, 1686, was proved Dec. 17, 1689, his wife Joanna and son John being his executors. His estate was valued in the inventory at £91 5s. 8d."

  4. ↑ Gay, in Bond, Henry, M.D., and Horatio Gates Jones. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, including Waltham and Weston (1860): To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. With Illustrations, Maps and Notes. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860)
    235.

    "John Gay, resident and proprietor of Wat., 1636-7, but not in 1642; adm. freeman, May 6, 1635; probably moved to Dedham."

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 John Gay, in 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)
    2:236-237.

    "John (Gay), Watertown, freem. 6 May 1635; rem. to Dedham, by w. Joanna (in fam. tradit. said to have been wid. Baldwicke [actally Borden], and to have had s. John by former h. perhaps in Eng.) had Samuel, b. 10 Mar. 1639; Hezekiah, 8 July 1640; perhaps Eliz. wh. m. 1660, Richard Martin [actually daughter of her first husband Borden]; certain. Nathaniel, 11 Jan. 1643, or as Geneal. Reg. VI. 373, perhaps wrong. gives the date 11 Nov. 1642; Joanna, 23 Mar. 1645; Eleazer, 25 Mar. 1647; Abiel, and Judith, tw. 23 Apr. 1649; John, 6 May 1651; Jonathan, 1 Aug. 1653; and Hannah, 16 Oct. 1656, wh. d. young. He d. 4 Mar. 1688; and his wid. d. 14 Aug. 1691. Hezekiah d. unm. 20 Nov. 1669, hav. in his nuncup. will 25 Oct. preced. rememb. f. mo. brs. and sis. Nathaniel, John, Jonathan, Samuel, Abigail, and Judith, and giv. especial. to 'sis. Whiting that new book concerning Thomas Savage,' for wh. I fear, all search in bibliograph. works will be vain. In the lists of freem. 1644 and 5 appears the name of John Gay, but it may well be feared, that one, if not both, is or are repetition only. Ano. fam. of Gay there was, indeed, in Dedham, or in that part wh. bec. Wrentham, who widely spread, but of wh. the progenit. is not kn. to me."

  6. ↑ Hill, Don Gleason, Editor. The Record of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, and Admissions to the Church and Dismassals Therefrom: Transcribed from the Church Records of the Town of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1638-1845. Also all the Epitaphs in the Ancient Burial Place in Dedham, Together with the Other Inscriptions before 1845 in the Three Parish Cemeteries. (Dedham, Mass.: Town of Dedham, 1888)
    21.

    "[16]88 Deaths. … John Gay, senr, deceased March 4."

  7.   Linda Taylor <taylorl@laurie.net>.

    John came to the New World in 1630 on the 'Mary & John'. The Old Village Cemetery is the oldest in Dedham. It is a very small cemetery and the graves are unmarked.

  8.   John Gay, in Find A Grave.

    No image provided; no actual evidence of burial presented.

Founders of Dedham, Massachusetts
Winthrop's Journal states that a town was formed on the banks of the Charles on September 1, 1635--a town that must have been Dedham. Twelve men attended the first town meeting held on that day. In November 1636, those 12 and 7 others petitioned the General Court for an enlargement of their grant for a township. In July 1637, twelve more men arrived, bringing the total to 31, at which time the town admitted freeman and established a church. [1] [2]
1636 Petitioners: Edward Allyne - Abraham Shaw - Samuel Morse - Phileman Dalton - Ezekiel Holliman - John Kingsbury - John Dwite - John Cooledge - Richard Ewed - John Howard - Lambert Genere - Nicholas Philips - Ralph Shepard - John Gay - Thomas Bartleet - Francis Austin - John Rogers - Joseph Shaw - William Bearstowe
Current Location: Norfolk County, Massachusetts   Parent Towns: Newton, Cambridge   Daughter Towns: Norwood, Westwood, Dover, Natick, Needham, Wellesley, Walpole, Medfield, Medway, Millis
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