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Persoonlijke gegevens Robert Lay 

• Hij is geboren rond 1617 in England.Bron 2
• Hij is overleden op 9 juli 1689 in Connecticut, USA.Bron 2
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Gezin van Robert Lay

Hij is getrouwd met Sarah Fenner.

Zij zijn getrouwd december 1647 te Connecticut, USA.Bron 2

Kind(eren):

1. Phebe Lay  1651-1699 
2. Robert Lay  1654-????

Notities over Robert Lay

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 62
pg 172-173

THE DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT LAY OF SAYBROOK, CONN.
By Edwin A. Hill, Ph.D., of Washington, D. C.

The account of the Lay family given in the Salisbury Family Histories and Genealogies, relates almost wholly to the descendants of the first John Lay of Saybrook, and the authors, in their text, Vol. I., page 333, as also in the Lay Pedigree Chart, No. VII., given in the Supplement to Vol. Ill, place Robert3 Lay, the Westbrook tavern keeper, husband of Mary Grinnell, as the son of John2 and Sarah (Marvin) Lay, and grandson of John1 Lay by his second wife Abigail; but the matter is presented in such a way as to plainly indicate a doubt as to the accuracy of the line. In fact, John2 Lay, husband of Sarah Marvin, was born in 1670, and would have been only eleven years old at the birth, in 1681, of his reputed son Robert3 and the line is unquestionably wrong, as has been often noted. In 1895, I obtained from Miss E. E. Lay of Guilford, Conn. (No. 22-vii of this genealogy), a manuscript upon the descendants of Robert1 Lay, the joint compilation of herself, and her nephew the Rev. E. C. Starr of Cornwall, Conn. (No. 44-i of this genealogy), which was based upon family records, and various conversations had by herself (born 1828) with her great uncle James Lay (No. 13), a brother of her grandfather Col. Asa Lay (No. 14), of the Revolutionary army, one of the individuals referred to in Prof. Murdock's account as quoted in the Salisbury genealogies, her father Steuben Lay (No. 22), and her own brothers and sisters. This document I then copied in part, and upon it this genealogy is to some extent based. This partial copy, with notations made by myself, I shall file in manuscript in the library of this Society, and it will contain considerable biographical matter which cannot here be published for lack of space.

1. Robert1 Lay was the first of a line of at least eight successive individuals of the name, in lineal descent. The surmise of Savage, that he was a brother of Edward of Hartford, Saybrook, and Portsmouth, R. I., and of John of Saybrook and Lyme, is confirmed by many family traditions. He was born about 1617, and died July 9, 1689, aged 72, the gravestone being still extant in Essex, Conn., cemetery.

He married, Dec., 1647 (Lay MSS. and Saybrook Records, 1-143), Sarah Fenner, widow of John Tully, who died in England in 1644-5. She came to America in 1646-7, with son John, who was baptized in 1638, and a younger daughter, and in the company of her brothers Arthur and William, and died May 25, 1676, aged 59. Her son, the ancestor of the Tully family of Saybrook, was a noted teacher of mathematics and navigation, and a compiler of almanacs. The will of William Fenner, proved at Newport, R. I., Sept. 6, 1680, names his brothers Arthur and John, his "late sister Lay" and her two surviving children, and his sister Phebe Ward.

Robert1 Lay was of Lynn, Mass., in 1638, and came to Saybrook in 1649. He lived in the present town of Essex (formerly a part of Old Saybrook),on the north side of what is now the street on Essex Point, leading to the steamboat dock. He was a freeman, May 21, 1657 (Col. Rec., 1-297), and "desired," May 17, 1660, "to take care of any of the estate of Mr. Fenwick, y' is subject to loss and damage " (Col. Rec, 1-535); a deputy to the General Court, 1666 and 1678, and a large land owner, being one of the patentees of Saybrook, and owning land both near Essex Point and in the " Oyster River Quarter" (now Westbrook).

There is recorded in Saybrook Records an agreement between Capt. George Denison and wife Ann, of the one part, and Mr. Robert Lay ofSaybrook, of the other part, providing for the marriage of their children John Denison and Phebe Lay.
Children:
i. Phebe,' b. 5 Jan., 1651; d. 1699; m. 26 Nov., 1667, John, son of Capt. George and Ann (Borodell) Denison of Stonington. (See Denison Genealogy, and Hist, of Stonington, Conn., page 389 et seq.) Children: 1. Phebe, b. 1667; d. young. 2. John, b. 1 Jan., 1669. 3. George, b. 28 Mch., 1671. 4. Robert, b. 17 Sept., 1673. 5. William, b. 7 Apr., 1677. 6. Daniel, b. 28 Mich., 1680. 7. Samuel, b. 23 Feb., 1683; d. young. 8. Ann, b. 3 Oct., 1684. 9. Sarah, b. 29 July, 1692. 10. Phebe, b. probably between 1684 and 1692.

2. ii. Robert, b. 6 Mch., 1654.

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