Daniel LAY

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 03 Oct 1712, Westbrook

Family/Spouse: Anna BULL. Anna (daughter of Edward BULL and Mary POST) was born on 15 Mar 1712; died on 05 Mar 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Anna Bull LAY
2. Asa LAY was born in 1749; died on 23 Feb 1814.
3. Daniel LAY was born between 1734 and 1737; died in 1807.
4. James LAY died on 27 Apr 1837.

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]