Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Thomas HALEY | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - son of Sgt. Thomas HALEY and Sarah MAYER - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas3 Haley (Thomas2, Thomas1) was born about 1690. He first appears in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1719, when he bought one hundred and fifty acres of land from William Moore of Stratham for �150, it being one-half of an Exeter town grant to Capt. William Moore, the father of the grantor (Rockingham Deeds 14:184). He is called a carpenter, indicating that he followed the family trade, in a deed for two acres in Exeter made to him by Alexander [ref 46:101] Gordon on June 3, 1721 (Rockingham Deeds 37:111). This deed probably marks Thomas Haley's first marriage. There are numerous other dealings in land recorded during the following thirty years, none of them being of particular importance, Haley being named as carpenter, joiner, or housewright, including on May 18, 1752, Thomas Haley of Exeter, housewright, sold one and three-quarters acres in Exeter to "my son Thomas Haley of Brentwood husbandman" (Rockingham Deeds 59:447), in 1718 he sold thirteen acres in Exeter to Samuel Haley, Jr., of the Isles of Shoals, his wife Mary Haley releasing dower (Rockingham Deeds 113:243), and in 1779 and 1788 he deeded land in Exeter to Benjamin Haley of Exeter, yeoman (Rockingham Deeds 111:129; 127:18). Thomas Haley's Exeter property lay along the road from that town to the village of Newmarket, and a portion of his purchase from William Moore fell within the latter when it was set off from Exeter. Tradition states that he frequently swam across the Exeter River up to the end of his life. He died in 1790, at an age estimated as ninety-eight, or as the Ham family Bible states "Thomas Haley died at Exeter at the advanced age of 105 years, some say 107 years." Owing to the very fragmentary condition of the Exeter town and church records, there is considerable difficulty in determining the facts in regard to Thomas Haley's wives and children. There seems no doubt, however that his first wife was a daughter of Alexander2 Gordon of Exeter, that they were married about 1721, when Gordon deeded property to Haley, that they had three children, and that she died in 1727. Alexander2 Gordon died intestate and among his heirs in 1752 was Thomas Haley. Certainly Thomas Haley of Brentwood, was not Thomas3 Haley of Exeter, but his son Thomas4 Haley. [ref 46:102] Thomas3 Haley's second wife was Mary Bortlet (Bartlett). A Mary Haley was still the wife of Thomas3 Haley in 1781, when she released dower. Children, by first wife: Thomas, Sarah, Samuel; by a later wife, or possibly children of his son Thomas: Esther, Benjamin. [ref 46:1-103] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - children with Sarah 1722-27: Thomas, Sarah, Samuel possibly married(3) Mary ___; children 1744-47: Esther, Benjamin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Sarah GORDON | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah, d. 1727. She was the first wife of Thomas Haley III, b. 1692 Exeter, N.H., d. 1790, son of Sergeant Haley and Sarah Mayer. The m. ca. 1721. Five children: Sarah, dau., Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas. [ref 80:8] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
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