HAYES, Caleb
- Aft 1786-
Name HAYES, Caleb [1] Gender Male Will Caleb Hayes Will
I Caleb Hayes of township of Newlin in the County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania Yeoman now being under some bodily indisposition but of sound and well disposing mind and memory remembering the uncertainly of this mortal life have a desire to settle and dispose of all my temporal set which I do in the following manner viz:
Imprimis my mind and will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid & discharge by my executor as soon as may be after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary one feather bed and being one case of drawers the dough trough one pot kettles on a large brass one one tub four blue chairs all the pewter and tea ware and the use of the lower room in the new house with the privilege of passing and repeating to and from the same as she may have occasion & nine pounds a year all which I leave during the time she remains my widow in lieu of dower
Item I give devise and bequeath unto my son Isaac Hayes all the Tenement Plantation Tenent[?] and parcel of land whereon I now dwell and situate in the said township of Newline within all & singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging to hold unto him the said Isaac hayes his heirs and assigns forever / except the reservation to the widow / Together with all the personal estate that is not herein otherwise ordered & disposed of he paying the said sum of nine pounds a year to my widow as afore said and all the legacies hereafter bequeathed to the rest of my children
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Mileson the sum of five shillings to be paid in one year after my decease
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Cooper the sum of them pounds with what she have already had to be paid one year after my decease
Item I give & bequeath unto my son Caleb the sum of thirty pounds to be paid when he comes of age out of which he is to be found clothes during his apprenticeship
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Ellis the sum of thirty pounds when he comes of age
Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ruth the sum of thirty pounds to be paid when she arrives to the age of eighteen
Lastly I nominate and appoint my said son Isaac sole executor of this my last will hereby making void all wills and writings testamentary heretofore by me made allowing this and no other to be my last will & testament.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seals this nineteenth day of May Anno Domini One Thousand seven hundred and eighty [19 May 1786]
Caleb Hayes [seal]
The within and forgoing writing was signed seal’d published & pronounced & declared by the said Caleb Hayes to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who he desired to subscribe our names as witnesses whereof John North, Caleb Pierce NB it is the will of Caleb Hayes that his son Isaac shall provide firewood for his mother at the door fit for use as much as she may have occasion for.
Thornbury 20th October 1786 Then personally appeared John Worth and Caleb Peirce who on their solemn affirmations according to law did severally declare affirm and say that they were present and did see and hear Caleb Hayes the testator with named sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing writing as & for his last will and testament and that at the doing thereof he was oa a sound Y well disposing mind and memory to the best of their understandings.
Be it remembered that on the 20th day of October 1786 the last will and testament of Caleb Hayes deceased was proved in due form of Law and Letters Testamentary were Granted Isaac Hayes sole executor therein named he having solemnly affirmed well and truly to administer & bringing an Inventory of the Decd Estate into the register office for Chester County on or before the 20th day of November next and to render a true and just account of his admin in a Year or when thereunto lawfully required given under the seal of sd office … [2]Died Aft May 1786 Newlin, Chester County, Pennsylvania 
- before October; will proved in October
Person ID I1308 Shepard and John Tree Last Modified 24 May 2019
Father HAYES, Joseph, d. 1748, Chester County, Pennsylvania Mother WOODWARD, Jane, b. Abt 1708, Chester County, Pennsylvania Married 26 Aug 1727 Pennsylvania [1] - Quaker marriage Bradford MM
Family ID F1432 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BAILEY, Mary, d. Aft 1786 Married 20 Nov 1756 Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware [3] - Holy Trinity (Old Swede’s) Church, married by Erick Unander
Children 1. HAYES, Isaac 2. HAYES, Abigail, b. 21 Apr 1757, Chester County, Pennsylvania , d. 30 Jul 1811 (Age 54 years)3. HAYES, Ann 4. HAYES, Caleb 5. HAYES, Ellis 6. HAYES, Ruth Last Modified 24 May 2019 Family ID F1431 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Caleb Hayes and his wife, Mary Bailey, had a daughter Abigail who married James Milleson, Jr. James Milleson, was the son of James Milleson, Sr and his wife Grace Woodward. Grace Woodward was the half-sister of Jean Woodward, mother of Caleb Hayes.
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At New Garden Monthly Meeting:
3 Mo. 25, 1758: “Caleb Hays, son of Jos. Hays decesd having run out & marryed one of another Society by a Priest,” &c. offered a paper of acknowledgment which is not to the purpose: William Jackson and James Miller to visit him.
5 Mo. 27, 1758: “One of the frds aptd in the case of Caleb Hays being since Remov’d by Death so that the appointmnt is not Comply’d with,”
Joshua Pusey and William Swayne are appointed to join with William jackson in treating with him. As he declined to make a proper acknowledment a testimony was singed against him 8 Mo. 26, 1758 and directed to be read at Londongrove Meeting.
He purchased 130 acres of land in Newlin Township and there died in 1786. By his will dated May 19, 1786, proved Oct. 20, 1786, he provided for his wife mary, devised the plantation to his eldest son, Isaac, who was to pay small legacies to his other children. [4]
- Caleb Hayes and his wife, Mary Bailey, had a daughter Abigail who married James Milleson, Jr. James Milleson, was the son of James Milleson, Sr and his wife Grace Woodward. Grace Woodward was the half-sister of Jean Woodward, mother of Caleb Hayes.
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