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Descendants of John Fay

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN² FAY (DAVID¹) was born 1648 in England, and died December 05, 1690 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA. He married (1) MARY BRIGHAM 1666 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA. She was born 1638, and died 1676. He married (2) SUSANNAH SHATTUCK¹ July 15, 1678 in Watertown, Middlesex Co. MA, daughter of WILLIAM SHATTUCK and SUSANNA HAYDEN. She was born 1643 in Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA, and died March 16, 1715/16 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA.

Notes for JOHN FAY:
Notes for John Fay I:
Published Watertown records record the marriage date of John Fay and Susanna
Shattuck as the 5th of July. [John F Chandler PC 12.1.95]

John Fay arrived in Boston on June 27, 1656. John was by no means the first Fay to come to America. Available Town records in New England show for example that (1) Richard Fay resided in Dorchester MA in 1634; (2) Henry Fay, a weaver of Newberry MA died 6/30/1655 and (3) William Fay was admitted as a townsman in Boston in 1643. These Fays unquestionably preceded John Fay to America (1656), but there are no records to establish any interrelationship between any of them. On the other hand the direct lineage of the descendents of John Fay from his birth in 1648 down to 1898 were clearly and logically documented in the records accumulated in Orlin P. Fay's book.

John Fay came to America at the age of 8 years on the Speedwell (sister ship of the Mayflower), departing from Gravesend, England on May 30, 1656 and arriving in Boston Mass June 27, 1656. The vessel's master was Robert Locke. There is reasonable evidence that his father and a brother Michael had preceded him to America. Although there is no documented record of the father (David) or Michael's birth or death. Reference is made in the early Town records of Sudbury Mass. that the father of John and Michael was David Fay "who came to America prior to 1656."

The passenger list of the Speedwell lists five minors, including John Fay age 8 years. These young men were bound to Sudbury MA (settled 17 years previously) where each of them had parents or relatives. It is presumed that since John Fay was the youngest of these minors, he very likely had parents already Residing in Sudbury.

Shortly after John Fay's arrival a group of recent immigrants, including young John moved to a new grant which was newly incorporated under the name of Marlboro, MA. The early records of Marlboro show that John Fay was made a freeman in 1669, at which time he had a wife and child. In 1675 the name of John Fay appears among the proprietors of Worcester Mass., and that he had a lot of 50 acres assigned to him "in the eastern squadron, lying next to the County road to Boston." Although, he owned land in Worcester he continued to live in Marlboro until the marauding Indians during the Phillips War made it necessary to move his family to the greater security of Watertown Mass. While in Watertown he buried his first wife, Mary Brighan and one child. His second marriage was to Susan "Susanna" Shattuck who was the widow of Joseph Morse. She had 7 children by Morse and 4 by John Fay. After John Fay's death, Susan married as her third husband, Thomas Brigham, who was a brother of John Fay's first wife, Mary Brigham. It is interesting to record that from Susan's last marriage, one of her descendents was Peter Bent Brigham who left a sum of $1,000,000 which was not to be spent until 25 years after his death. By this time the fund had grown to $2,000,000 and was used to build the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a world famous medical research hospital connected with Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass

Children of JOHN FAY and MARY BRIGHAM are:

	i.		JOHN³ FAY, b. 1669.
	ii.		DAVID FAY, b. 1670.
	iii.		SAMUEL FAY, b. 1673.
	iv.		MARY FAY, b. 1674.

Children of JOHN FAY and SUSANNAH SHATTUCK are:

2.	v.	GERSHOM³ FAY, b. October 19, 1681, Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA; d. November 24, 1720.
	vi.	DAVID FAY, b. Bef. 1681; m. SARAH LARKIN.
	vii.	RUTH FAY, m. INCREASE WARD.
	viii.	DELIVERANCE FAY, m. BENJAMIN SHATTUCK.

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