Person:John Haye (2)

On 14 March 1473/4, John Hay received a grant from the Abbot and Convent of Robertsbridge of a messuage and curtilage called "the George" and a parcel of pasture called "Upper Fayrefield". On 15 Mar 1477/8, he received a grant from the Abbot of Robertsbridge of a messuage and garden in Robertsbridge, and another messuage called "Henry Awardes". In 1501, he was listed as a plaintiff in a writ of praecipe concerning property in Battle. (Other plaintiffs: Nicholas Morant, and John Parker; deforciants: John Brecher and his wife Margaret, Richard Henry and his wife Joan, and John Primer and his wife Margaret. He may have died in 1516. ^[1]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Reed, Paul C. The English Ensigns: Ancestral of Thomas(1) Ensign of Scituate, Massachusetts, and James(1) Ensign of Hartford, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan, Apr, Jul 2000)
   p. 234-5.