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Ebenezer (1757-1826) s/o Paul HAYES
NH, Strafford Co., Early Marriages, 1995, p.450
Ebenezer HAYES, m. 31 Oct 1782, by Rev. Joseph Haven, Phebe Huckins.
Journals of Enoch Place, DR, p.249
Tues June 27 {1826} - I preached at Rochester at the funeral of Mr Hugh Tucker, who drowned himself on Sunday last in Round pond at Barrington. ... within 2 miles of this fatal Spot Mr Ebenezer Hays of Strafford cut several times into his throat with a razor the Same afternoon and died to day. Mr H. was near 70 and Mr T. I believe 77. it is Supposed that Mr H....
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Ebenezer (1757-1826) s/o Paul HAYES
NH, Strafford Co., Early Marriages, 1995, p.450
Ebenezer HAYES, m. 31 Oct 1782, by Rev. Joseph Haven, Phebe Huckins.
Journals of Enoch Place, DR, p.249
Tues June 27 {1826} - I preached at Rochester at the funeral of Mr Hugh Tucker, who drowned himself on Sunday last in Round pond at Barrington. ... within 2 miles of this fatal Spot Mr Ebenezer Hays of Strafford cut several times into his throat with a razor the Same afternoon and died to day. Mr H. was near 70 and Mr T. I believe 77. it is Supposed that Mr H. had not his reason as he was in the last stage of a consumption ...
Journals of Enoch Place, F, p.249
Thurs 29. (Jun 1826} - I went to the funeral of Mr E. Hays in Strafford. Br George of Barnstead preached. the congregation was learge over 400.
{Enoch made a note here indicated by a hand pointing to the right >>>}
>>> Mr Hays was a rich man
Mr Tucker, a town pauper.
NH, Barnstead, FR, Journals of Enos George
June 1826:
28 Wed Af Fu. Strafford near Crown Point
Ebenezer HAYES who hastened
500 people at hiss Death by cutting his throat
at a though evidently insensible of what
moderate he was doing at the time - by his
Calculation request previous to this event I
attended & Preached from his Chosen text Rev. 14:13
NH, Strafford, GSI, HAYES GY, 1B-2
W. side of 1st Crown Point Rd, .65 mi N. of Strafford Corner
Former site of the Methodist church
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{No grave stone found in 2002}
Journals of Enoch Place, p.1733
Death Records, 1826:
June Ebenezer HAYES over 70y
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John HAYES of Dover, NH, 1936, p.59-61
12 Capt. PAUL-3 HAYES (John-2, John-l), born 16 Sept. 1713 in Dover, N.H. (NHVR); died 9 Apr. 1776 in Barrington, N.H.; probably married (1) between 18 Apr. 1741, when she was bapt. in Dover, and 1744, MERCY EVANS, born 6 Dec. 1717, daughter of Joseph and Mercy (Horne) Evans, mentioned in her father's will of 3 Dec. 1750 as "my daughter Mercy HAYES to have £100 out of my estate"; married (2) Tamsen-4 Drew (Thomas-3, Francis-3, Francis-2, William-l), daughter of Thomas and Tamsen Drew and widow of Joseph-4 Drew (Francis-3, John-2, William-l), who died in 1757. In the settlement of thc estate of Joseph Drew in 1762, the wife of Paul HAYES is mentioned as Tamsen "formerly wife of Joseph." Tamsen was born about 1718; received baptism 5 Apr. 1727; was living in 1789, in which year "because of infirmity of age" she placed herself under the guardianship of her "son-in-law" Paul-4 HAYES (Strafford Prob.
Court, vol. ii, p.471). [The term "son-in-Iaw" was used often at that time with significance of step-son and its use here would indicate that Paul-3 had a former wife.]
Mercy Evans' parents lived on Littleworth Road in Dover. Her mother was a sister of Mary Horne, who married the pioneer John HAYES. Mercy's brother John was scalped and her brother William killed by Indians in 1725.
The Drews lived at "Back River" in Dover and were neighbors of Paul's uncle Samuel-2 HAYES. Tamsen's son Joseph by her first husband married Leah[4] Nute, the dnughter of Mary-3 HAYES and granddaughter of Samuel-2 HAYES. They lived in the "garrison house" of Samuel-2 HAYES, where their eleven children were born, one of whom, Abigail-6 Drew, married Francis-5 HAYES (Paul-4-3, John-2, John-1). Tamsen's daughter Abigail by her first husband married Paul-4 HAYES, the son of her second husband by his first wife. Furthermore, Tamsen's grandson Francis-6 Drew married Mary[5] Jones, great-granddaughter of Samuel-2 HAYES as shown by Samuel's will; and Tamsen's son Elijah-5 Drew married Abigail Thomas, the daughter of the third wife of Samuel-2 HAYES. Tamsen belonged to a family that had suffered much at the hands of the Indians, Her father was carried captive to Cannada and her mother was taken captive, with and iniant child whom the Indians killed. Her uncle Benjamin was killed and probably also her uncle John and his wife. Her grand-father was slain in captivity and her grandmother on account of fewbleness was left by the Indians to die in the woods.
Paul HAYES, designated "Captain" in Barrington Town Book, lived on the south side of "Green Hill" in Barrington, "here his father "in consideration of Love Good Will and Natural effection" gave him 100 acres of land in 1739 (N.H. Prov. Deeds, 43:112) when he was twenty-six years of age. The old house still stands, though changed by the removal of the long sloping roof in the rear. The present (1934) owner is Dr. John A. Boyle of Boston, Mass.
Paul received £5 from the will of his mother's brother Col. Paul Wentworth. He signed the "Petition of the People of Dover and other Towns for a Township" 3 Mar. 1732; was taxed in Barrington in 1742; elected constable in 1744; in 1762 signed petition for representation for the town of Barrington in the General Assembly (State Papers, vol. ix). It is interesting to note that the five signatures on the petition of 1762 all represent members of the HAYES family directly or by marriage: Paul HAYES, John HAYES, Hezekiah HAYES, Mark Hunking, Francis Winkley, Jr.
Paul HAYES was selectmen in 1755, 1756 and 1758. In 1758, a suit was brought against him and other town officers for having arrested and imprisoned Samuel Wallace for non-payment of his church tax to the Reverend Joseph Prince (Court file 8038). He was elected surveyor-of-highways in 1766. In 1768 Paul successfully represented his town as one of two agents in asking to have Durham, Rochester and Barrington kept together when the counties of New Hampshire were formed. He was appointed to examine the accounts of the selectmen (Town Book, i:307). In 1774 he again appeared as a petitioner when a question arose as to the legality of the election of the Barrington representative.
In these early days, in contrast with to-day, a man's increasing prosperity was shown not by the stock and bonds he had acquired but by his growing land holdings, and deeds show Paul's progress from "husbandman" to "gentleman." Paul's transactions in land may be represented by the following:
A purchase in 1741 from Ichabod Canney of 7 acres in Dover above "the heath" near the
Barrington line for which he paid £21 (Prov. Deeds, xxvii:131); in 1747, 15 acres in Barrington for £66, also from Ichabod Canney (50:280); in 1762 for £1800 from Jonathan Church 100 acres in Barrington (64:493), which were given to his son Paul-4 in 1765 (81:346); Lot 23 in the first range, bought in 1766 for £150 from Josiah Clark (79:345), which was given by his will in 1776 to his sons Samuel-4 and Ebenezer-4; in 1756, 1/3 of Lot 47 in the second division in Rochester, for which he paid Nathaniel Davis £320; and another third of 80 acres in the same lot for which he paid Jethro Bickford £320 (50:276, 278); in 1757, with Eleazer Young, 30 acres near "Blind Will's Neck" in Rochester, bounded on the north by Isinglass River and on the east by Cocheco River, for which they paid £1500 to Joseph Hanson.
As shown by Paul's will, he settled his sons on these tracts of land, giving the homestead to his son James-4, who later amassed a considerable fortune and made Green Hill famous. He was one of the founders of the Congregational Church of which his brother Hezekiah-3 was chosen the first deacon. The journal of the N.H. House of Representatives records his election as Justice of the Peace of Strafford County, and he held various offices of trust in both town and county; he was appointed on Committee of Safety 10 July 1775.
The will of Paul HAYES, drawn on 4 Apr. and proved 12 June 1776, is on file in Strafford Probate Records, vol. i, pp. 150-152. "Being very sick and weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory" he devised as follows:
To wife, Tamsen, 1/6 of homestead "managed and brought unto her," 1/2 of dwelling house,
1/4 of barn, 2 cows and 6 sheep, 1/2 of household goods "during her natural Life & firewood for one fire brought to the house"; to son Paul, 100 acres of land "where he now lives"; to son Joseph, 100 acres "where he now lives"; to son James, sole Executor, the homestead farm, buildings, all money and notes, farming tackle, stock not otherwise disposed of, and "one feather bed"; to Lemuel "now sick" to be maintained by son James out of the homestead, and if he gets well to be paid £70 Lawful money; to son Samuel, 100 acres in Barrington on "West Side of the Highway that goes up through said Barrington and one Yoke of Oxen" when he is 21; to son Ebenezer, 100 acres on "East Side of said Highway and one Yoke of Oxen" when he is 21; to dau. Lydia Cate £30 "Lawful money," 1 cow and 1 feather bed after her mother's decease; to dau. Mercy HAYES £30 "Lawful money" 2 cows and "the whole of my household goods" not disposed of at her Mother's decease, and the West Room in dwelling house until she marries.
Witnessed by Benjamin HAYES, Samuel HAYES and Elipht Cloutman.
Children, born in Barrington, N.H.:
By first wife, Mercy Evans:
39 PAUL-4 HAYES, JR., b. about 1744.
40 JOSEPH-4 HAYES, b. 1 May 1746.
41 JAMES-4 HAYES, b. about 1748.
LEMUEL-4 HAYES, b. about 1750 or 1752. In his father's will of 4 Apr.
1776 provision was made that he [Lemuel] "be maintained by my son
James out of the homestead as long as he is sick." The inference is
that he died soon, unmarried.
42 SAMUEL-4 HAYES, b. about 1754.
43 EBENEZER-4 HAYES, b. 6 Oct. 1757.
By second wife, Tamsen Drew:
LYDIA-4 HAYES; m. by 1776 William Gate, as indicated by her father's
will, and by a deed given to Ichabod Rollins, Jr., 13 Oct. 1777
(Strafford County Deeds, Dover, vol. ii, p. 101).
MERCY-4 HAYES; m. 13 Mar. 1777, her cousin Jonathan[4] Montgomery
(bapt. 21 July 1754, Dover), son of her father's sister Abra-3 HAYES
and John Montgomery of Strafford (Barrington Town Rec.); lived on the
Montgomery homestead in Strafford which Jonathan received from his
parents. Jonathan Montgomery signed the Association Test in
Barrington 3 Sept. 1776. Mercy, with her brother Paul and sister
Lydia, on 13 Oct. 1777, signed a deed to Ichabod Rollins, Jr., of
Somersworth, N.H., for land received by will of their Uncle John
HAYES, who had made the provision that Mercy should receive "as much
as the other two."
Children, at least two:
1. JOHN[5] MONTGOMERY, who had two sons:
(1) [HON.] SAMUEL P.[6] MONTGOMERY, b. 9 June 1806 on the
homestead at Strafford "Ridge"; d. in the South while
engaged in teaching; unm. He became State Senator; c
chairman of the judiciary committee; incorporator and
trustee of Strafford Academy.
(2) DAVID K.[6] MONTGOMERY, last of the family to live on the
old homestead in Strafford; m. Mary A.-5 Winkley.
Children: John S.[7] Montgomery, David M.[7] ontgomery.
2. ELIZABETH ("BETSEY")[5] MONTGOMERY, b. 7 Mar. 1789; d. 1 Dec.
1862; m. 22 Dec. 1809 Isaac-5 Foss (William-4, George-3, Joshua-
2, John-1), son of William Foss and Elizabeth-5 HAYES (William-
4, Hezekiah-3, John-2, John-l), whom see for family.
John HAYES of Dover, NH, 1936, p.111-112
43 EBENEZER-4 HAYES (Paul-3, John-2, John-1), born 6 Oct. 1757 in Barrington, N.H.; died 27 June 1826 in Strafford, N.H. (family record; Portsmouth, N.H. Journal of 8 July 1826 adds "by suicide"). Under date 29 June 1826, Elder Enoch HAYES Place made the entry in his Journal, "I went to the funeral of Mr. E. HAYES * * * over 400 Present"; family buried in the old Methodist Church Yard at "Crown Point," Strafford; married 31 Oct. 1782 by Rev. Joseph Haven of Rochester to PHOEBE-6 HUCKINS (John-5-4, Robert-3, James-2, Robert-l) of Strafford. (Henry Winthrop Hardon, "Huckins Family," 1916, p. 16; also, "History of Rochester," ii:608). She was born 16 Dec. 1762 and died 16 NIay 1839.
Ebenezer HAYES lived on a farm at "Crown Point," a section of the town of Strafford, so named by Revolutionary War soldiers who had served in the New York campaign at Crown Point. His father's will of 1776 bequeathed to him 100 acres of land in Barrington (later Strafford) "as well as one yoke of oxen when he shall become 21 years of age." This land was part of the land his father bought of Josiah Clark. He had 100 acres on the east side of the highway and his brother Samuel lOO acres on the west side. In the U.S. Census of 1790 he was head of a family consisting of one male over 16 yrs., 1 male under 16, and 3 females. He was drawn on Jury duty 8 Aug. 1785, and elected surveyor of highways 28 Mar. 1792. His name appears on the muster roll and pay roll of officers and soldiers paid by Stephen Evans to reinforce the continental army in the State of New York, or elsewhere, 17 Dec. 1776 (State Papers, xiv:446-447), and on the pay roll of Capt. Samuel Wallingford's Company, Col. David Oilman's Regiment, from 5 Dec. 1776 to 15 March 1777 (ibid. xiv:540-541). His will proved 17 July 1826 mentions his wife and nine children.
Children, born in Barrington (now Strafford), N.H.:
133 JOHN-5 HAYES, b. 12 Jan. 1784.
ABIGAIL-5 HAYES, b. 7 July 17S6; d. 25 June 1852; m. 17 Dec. 1818
Joshua-5 HAYES (Joshua-4, Robert-3, John-2-1), whom see for family.
MARY-5 HAYES, b. 15 Dec. 1788; m. 2 July 1818 Samuel-5 Ham (Clement-4,
Daniel-3, Joseph-2, John-1) of Somersworth, N.H. (NHVR), son of
Clement and Margaret (Roberts) Ham. He was born in 1787 and died in
1825 (Dr. John R. Ham ms.)
Children:
CLEMENT[6] HAM, b. 28 May 1819; m. Mary Crook of Great Falls, N.H.
PHEBE[6], b. 21 Oct. 1821; m. J. Ingal (or Engal) Pierce of Madbury
SAMUEL[6], b. 11 June 1824; unm.
134 MILES-5 HAYES, b. 21 June 1791.
135 EBENEZER-5 HAYES, b. 16 May 1794.
136 PHOEBE-5 HAYES, b. 7 Apr. 1797.
137 MARTHA-5 HAYES, b. 18 June 1801.
138 PAUL HUCKINS-5 HAYES, b. 19 Apr. 1804.
139 EVANS-5 HAYES, b. 22 Sept. 1808.
There is said to have been another son who died in infancy.
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