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Robert Gay
b.Abt 1698 Ulster, Ireland
d.Abt 1760 Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1685
  1. Thomas GayEst 1690 - Aft 1741
  2. Archibald GayEst 1693 - Aft 1741
  3. Samuel GayEst 1695 - Aft 1741
  4. Robert GayAbt 1698 - Abt 1760
  5. William GayAbt 1702 - Abt 1789
  6. Henry Gay, of the Calfpasture, Augusta County, VAAbt 1704 - 1779
Spouse and Children
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m. Est 1728
  1. Robert GayEst 1729 - 1791
  2. Isabel GayBef 1739 - Aft 1760
  3. Joseph GayBef 1739 - 1780
  4. Mary GayBef 1739 - Aft 1760
  5. Thomas GayBef 1739 - 1809
  6. John GayAft 1738 - 1780
  7. Archilbald Gay1740 - Abt 1817
  8. Ann GayAft 1741 -
  9. Sarah GayAft 1741 - Aft 1760
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Name Robert Gay
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1698 Ulster, Ireland
Marriage Est 1728 Lancaster County, Pennsylvaniato Isabella Unknown
Death? Abt 1760 Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania


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Will of Robert Gay

WILL OF ROBERT GUY III
Robert Gay (III) had a will dated September 15, 1760. {The first part contains the standard format so I will skip to the people he designates to receive a legacy).
Item. I give and bequeath unto Isabel my dearly beloved Wife, Ben my Negroe Boy and my black pacing Mare, and be furnished with a good new Saddle at the expence of the Two Boys that get the Plantation, and also keep the Creature in Food Summer and Winter,. Sufficiently and likewise they are to find her in Sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparrell and Lodging during the time that she remains a Widow also Bed and Furniture.
Item. I Give to my Well beloved Daughter Mary Ray five shillings to be paid in a Year after my decease.
Item. I Give to my Well beloved son Joseph Fifty Acres of ye land untitled, joining Robert Willins. Item. I Give to my Well Beloved Daughter Isabell Bell Five Shillings.
Item. I Give unto my Well Beloved Sons Thomas and Archibald the Remainder of my Plantation and all my goods and Chat tells, Each to have an Equal Share they paying all debts and legaceys, above mentioned or here-after mentioned to them and their Heirs and Afans (Assigns) for Ever.
Item. I Give to my well beloved, Son, John Twenty pounds to be paid to him when he is of Twenty one years of Age.
Item. I Give to my well beloved Son Robert the sum of Twenty pounds to be paid to him when he Arrives at the Age of Twenty one years and to have one years schooling and then to be bound to a Trade.
Item. I Give to my Well Beloved daughter Sarah the sum of ten pounds to be paid to her when she is 18 years of age and she is to have one Years Schooling.
Item. If any of the above mentioned Legatees should die before they come of Age, their part or parts is to be Divided equally amoung my Sons.
Item. I likewise appoint and Constitute my Wife Isabel and my Son Thomas Gay, make and ordain my only and Sole Exes of this my Last Will and Testament AND I DO hereby utterly disallow Revoke and disannull all and Every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Executors by my and any ways before this named, willed & bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament.
Signed
Robert Gay by His Mark

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tkreh/My%20Pictures/guyhistory.doc


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Information on Robert Gay

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/a/y/William-L-Gay/GENE2-0002.html#CHILD3

3. ROBERT2 GAY (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1698 in Ulster, Ireland, and died Abt. 1760 in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA. He married ISABEL UNKNOWN Bef. 1738 in Lancaster Co. PA. She was born Abt. 1710, and died Aft. 1760 in Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA.

More About ROBERT GAY and ISABEL UNKNOWN: Marriage: Bef. 1738, Lancaster Co. PA

Children of ROBERT GAY and ISABEL UNKNOWN are:

i. MARY3 GAY, b. Bef. 1739, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Aft. 1760; m. UNKNOWN RAY.
ii. ISABEL GAY, b. Bef. 1739, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Aft. 1760; m. UNKNOWN BELL.
iii. ARCHIBALD GAY, b. 1740, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Abt. 1817, Rockbridge Co., VA.
iv. JOSEPH GAY, b. Bef. 1739, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. 1780, Lancaster, Co. PA.
v. THOMAS GAY, b. Bef. 1739, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. 1809, Augusta County, VA.
vi. JOHN GAY, b. Aft. 1738, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Sep 1780, Augusta Co. VA; m. ELIZABETH GAY, Aft. 1766, Augusta Co. VA; b. Abt. 1735, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Jun 1785, Augusta Co. VA.
vii. ROBERT GAY, b. Aft. 1738, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Feb 1816, Rockbridge Co. VA.
viii. ANN GAY, b. Aft. 1741, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., P
ix. SARAH GAY, b. Aft. 1741, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster Co., PA; d. Aft. 1760.
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