Jeremiah LAY

Jeremiah married Prudence BELDEN between 20 Mar 1739 and 1740 in Westbrook, MIddlesex Co., Connecticut. Prudence died on 21 Nov 1762 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Simeon LAY was born on 05 Oct 1743 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
2. Aaron LAY was born on 23 Oct 1747 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
3. Prudence LAY was born on 03 Jun 1740 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died about 1833 in Middlebury, Vermont.
4. Lois LAY was born between 31 Jan 1749 and 1750 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 11 May 1753 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
5. Huldah LAY was born on 09 Jan 1753 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA.
6. Jeremiah LAY was born on 05 Oct 1745 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died in 1778 in (On the prison ship 'Blazmon Castle') New York.
7. Sybil LAY was born in abt. 1742; died on 26 Jun 1808 in Westbrook, Middlesex Co., Connecticut.

Notes:

Excerpt from "Descendants of Robert Lay": "Two adjoining tombstones in Westbrook cemetery read as follows:
"Here lies the body of Robert Lay died July 1st 1738 aged 57 years."
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Mary ye wife of Mr. Robert Lay, who died June 9th, A.D. 1755, in ye 71st year of her age."
Robert Lay lived at Westbrook, was the first of the name to settle thre, and was the well known "tavern Keeper" who kept the tavern near the so-called Dr. cone house. Mary his wife was the daughter of Daniel and Lydia (Peabody) Grinnell, grandaughter of Daniel Grinnell, of Little compton, R.I. by wife Mary, daughter of William and Mary Wodell of Boston, Mass., and Portsmouth and Tiverton, R.I. and great-granddaughter of Matthew and Rose Grinnell, of Nerport, R.I. Daniel Grinnell in his will mentions his daughter "Mary Lay," although Austin makes no mention of her. Lydia Peabody, her mother, was the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Alden) Peabody, of Little compton, R.I. and the granddaughter of John Alden of the "Mayflower". The Grinnell family were of Huguenot extraction. mary (Grinnell) Lay was one of the original members of the church at Westbrook."

Robert married Mary GRINNELL on 12 Dec 1703 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Daniel GRINNELL and Lydia PABODIE) was born about 1688; died on 09 Jun 1755. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]