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• Birth	1648	England
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 5 Dec 1690	Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I10275	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2004 00:00:00
  Father	David FAY, (8)
  Family ID	F4579	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Mary BRIGHAM, b. Between 1638 and 1639, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Married	1668	Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Notes	Virkus, 7, 850. 1668
  Children	1. John FAY, (2), b. 30 Nov 1669, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   2. David FAY, (3), b. 15 Oct 1671, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts > 3. Samuel FAY, b. 11 Oct 1673, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   4. Mary FAY, (2), b. 10 Feb 1674/1675, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4580	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Susanna SHATTUCK, b. Jun 1643, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Married	15 Jul 1678	Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Notes	G.H. Johnson 1913, One Branch of the Fay Family Tree; An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of William and Elisabeth Fay of Westboro, Massachusetts, and Marietta, Ohio. IGI. John Fay married Susanna Moss, 5 July 1678, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Also a record for John Fay and Mary on this date in Marlboro.
  Children	1. David FAY, (2), b. 23 Apr 1679, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   2. Gershom FAY, b. 19 Oct 1681, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   3. Ruth FAY, b. 15 Jul 1684, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts   4. Deliverance FAY, b. 7 Oct 1686, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4591	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Orlin P. Fay 1898, Fay Genealogy: John Fay of Marlborough and his Decendants. LDS Ancestral File gives date of birth 1652. He embarked 30 May 1656 at Gravesend, England, on the ship Speedwell, arriving Boston 27 June 1656, one of about five passengers destined for Sudbury, Massachusetts. He subsequently left to join the founders of the new plantation of Marlborough where in 1669 he is recorded as a freeman with a wife and one child. 1671: among petitioners for a grant of land (never granted?). 1675: proprietor of Worcester, with 50 acres assigned lying along the county road to Boston; he continued to live in Marlborough, in the southern part of town later incorporated into Southborough (1727). 1684: one of proprietors of the Ockoocangenesett Plantation purchased from the Indians. F.A. Virkus 1942, Compendium of American Genealogy, vol. 7, p. 850. John Fay (1648-1690) was a Huguenot refugee from France to Wales. Went to Massachusetts in the Speedwell in 1656. Lived Watertown, later Sudbury, then Marlborough 1675. G.H. Johnson 1913, One Branch of the Fay Family Tree; An Account of the Ancestors and Descendants of William and Elisabeth Fay of Westboro, Massachusetts, and Marietta, Ohio. There were 41 "Pasingers abord the Speedwell of London, Robert Lock, Master" which left Gravesend 30 May 1656 and arrived Boston 27 June 1656. All 41, including 8 year old John Fay, went to Sudbury, Massachusetts. John was in Marlborough by 1671. He received a grant of 50 acres of land in Worcester in 1675, but this may have lapsed as he never lived there. The 1688 Marlborough tax list shows john ffay for 0£ 4s 4d 0f. On 18 April 1690 he became a freeman of the Commonwealth. There were 56 grandchildren from his 8 children. Watertown records also give the death of Mary Fay, daughter of John and Mary Fay, on 2 August 1676. Mary Fay Nelson, 9 October 1997. Believes that David Fay is the father of this John Fay, but there are a number of David and John Fays. 1) David Fay married 1616 in Penton Mewsey, Hampshire, England. 2) John Fay, son of David Fay, baptised in Penton Mewsey in 1651. 3) Various Fay families around Andover, Hampshire, England. 4) Wills, burials, and baptismals document four generations of Farys in the Lord of Savernake's Estate Records, Collingsborn Ducis, Wiltshire, England, about 11 miles from Penton Mewsey. W.T. Brigham, History of the Brigham Family, LDS FHC microfilm 1033775, item #3. John Faye, Constable in Marlborough in 1668. Died 5 May 1690. William Addams Reiwiesner, Ancestry of George W. Bush, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~addams/presidential/bush.html, 18 August 2001. Married Cambridge, Massachusetts. McClernand Butler Crawford 2000, genealogy file at http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/r/a/Mcclernand-B-Crawford/. The following Fays were in American before John Fay. No family relationship to John is known. 1) Richard Fay, resident of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1634. 2) Henry Fay of Newberry, Massachusetts, died 30 June 1655. 3) William Fay townsman in Boston, Massachusetts, 1643. Sudbury, Massachusetts, records name the father of John and Michael Fay as David Fay who came to America before 1656. John owned land in Worcester, Massachusetts, but remained in Marlborough until the Indian threat (King Phillips War) forced the family to move to the security of Watertown, Massachusetts. Estate inventoried by John Newton, Samuel Brigham and Isaa Amsden on 1 January 1691. From the "selvage1" database at WorldConnect. Please contact PetersonC@missouri.edu with corrections and additions.