William Hayes

Generation 9 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Jeremiah Hayes ← William Hayes

In brief

Born April 5, 1725, in Simsbury, Connecticut. He married in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Family

Father

William Hayes

Mother

Joanna Lee

Spouse

Mary Holcomb

Spouse

Rachel Lewis

m. 1761

Children

With Mary Holcomb

William Hayes
b. Abt. 1750, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Eleanor Boughton
d. Abt. 1800 in East Nassau, New York
Jeremiah Hayes · in this line
b. Abt. 1752 in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Mabel Phelps
d. June 9, 1808, in Jay, Essex County, New York
Luke Hayes

With Rachel Lewis

Apphia Hayes
b. Abt. May 1765
Ozias Hayes
b. Abt. June 1766
d. Abt. June 1766
____ Hayes
b. Abt. 1767
d. August 1767
Eli Hayes
b. Abt. April 1770
Joanna Hayes
b. Abt. June 1773
Ahaz Hayes
d. East Nassau, New York

Siblings

Full siblings — children of William Hayes and Joanna Lee

Joanna Hayes
b. August 12, 1727
Judah Hayes
b. January 3, 1730, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Honora Lamson, February 20, 1760
Rhoda Hayes
b. March 31, 1732
Dudley Hayes
b. March 24, 1735, in Simsbury, Connecticut
m. Anne Hayes, June 22, 1756, in Simsbury, Connecticut
Silence Hayes
b. March 9, 1737
m. John Loomis in August 1763
Aaron Hayes
b. August 18, 1739
d. November 25, 1762, in Havana, Cuba
Ozias Hayes
b. Abt. 1741
d. September 5, 1762, in Havana, Cuba
____ Hayes
b. Abt. 1748
d. 1748
Rosanna Hayes
b. April 15, 1748
m. Nathan Gosard, November 20, 1766

Half-siblings — children of William Hayes and Mary ____

Jenny Hayes
b. October 15, 1754

Life story

A Salmon Brook Soldier

William Hayes was born April 5, 1725, in Simsbury, Connecticut, son of the elder William Hayes, and served in a Connecticut regiment during the Revolutionary War. He was among the earliest members of the Salmon Brook church and married twice, in Simsbury and again in January 1761.

Sources (2)

Reverend Charles Wells Hayes, George Hayes of Windsor and His Descendants (Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., 1884).
Elizabeth Weir McPherson, The Holcombes, nation builders...their biographies, genealogies, and pedigrees (Washington, D.C.: 1947) ; digital images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/16006/images/dvm_GenMono002712-00001-0 : accessed 8 July 2026).