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Nathan Fay's birth in Southborough in 1772 to Nathan and Lucy Bemis is recorded in the Vital Records of Southborough. His marriage intentions with "Mehittable Clemmons" of Hopkinton are also recorded in Southborough on June 8. The marriage itself on June 27 is recorded in Hopkinton. There, she is called both Mehitable Clements and Mehitable Clemments. In Hopkinton, her birth is not recorded, but her baptism on 12/18/1774 is recorded under the name "Hitty Clamons." Mentions of her in other places vary as much as the original records.
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[Nathan] was the son of Nathan, and b. in Southbury, Mass. He m. Batsey Clemens, who was b. in Hopkinton, same state. In 1805 Mr. Fay and David Eaton passed through P. on a prospecting tour, on foot, with their knapsacks on their backs, and on their return passed through the south part of the county. In May, 1806, Mr. Fay removed with his family of a wife and six ch. to P., settling on the farm now owned in part by Lincoln Fay, p't of lot 25, T5. His first house was a log but standing on the s. p't of the lot, nearly in front of the residence of E. Dension. Afterward he built a log house on a ridge of ground north of the house on the farm of Jonas H. Martin. In 1807 he built a log house near a spring in the rear of the present residence of S. S. Jones, on p't of lot 25, on land he purchased of James Dunn, the deed of which was the first executed in town. The article of his land bears date June 6, 1806. In 1807 Mrs. Fay d___ the first death in town and the first bu. in Evergreen Cemetery. In the fall of 1809 Mr. F. m. Miss Mercy Groves in Oneida Co., this state. He lived but a short time after this marriage, dying in June 1810. He was bu. by the side of his (1st) wife. Mr. Fay was a Deist, and in politics a "republican or its equivalent." [H. C. Taylor, M.D., Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland, 1873, sketch #2]
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Taylor's Biography of David Eaton contains a great many details of the prospecting journey and the lives of the two men both in Southborough and in Portland. Nathan's marriage to Mercy Groves is discussed, for Mercy was David's choice.
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| Children of Nathan and Betsey, according to Taylor: |
(1) HATTIE: m. Simeon Guyle [Young: Guile]; settled in Wisconsin : Mr. G. d. there : Mrs. G. is living [date of book 1873] with a son in Cleveland, Ohio.
(2) JOHN: m. Nancy McClintock; settled in Westfield, N. Y., but d. in Fulton, Ill.
(3) NATHAN: went to Michigan; m. and d. there.
(4) CUTTING: went south; supposed to be dead.
(5) WILLARD: left home and was never heard from.
(6) ESTHER: lived in Ripley, this county: d. there about 1865.
(7) BETSEY: only one b. in P.; m. Samuel Moorhouse in 1829; now lives in Clark County, Missouri.
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| This is the list and information found also in Orlin, the Rice association, and Young. It is possible, however, to find out quite a bit more about these people and their descendants. Nathan, for example, moved to Michigan, and there is a separate page devoted to him. The other lines are continued below; the links above can be used to go directly to one of the lines.
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