"Ancestrees"

Reverend David JAY ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9}

  General Notes:

Source C-611 gives a May 26, 1765 birth date for David Jay. David would have only been about 7 when his father bequeathed him 150 acres in his will. (C-169) During the Revolutionary War, according to family tradition, he was supposedly bedridden with the measles when Tories and Indians came to his home. His parents (only his mother was living at the time) rolled him in bed cloths and he crawled into a hollow log where he stayed all night to escape being killed.

He is the David Jay who became a Methodist Minister and was ordained a Deacon by Bishop Georgia on Oct. 3, 1819 in Nashville. (There is a note in the Jay family index that says this is not this David as he was never Methodist, but this is disagreed with in sources like Margaret Jay's 1998 book, C-964, C-2141). A published account of the family submitted in 1948 sourced by the grandson of William and Mary Jay through an interview of William's son, John in the late 1790's or early 1800's lists all the children of William and Mary Jay in the same order as the Jay Family Index. It does not list sister, Sarah or Deborah to Reverend David Jay. It states that David was a jovial methodist preacher who was quite social with the young people. (C-839, 1017) He was married previously to Elizabeth Earp and one second hand source says this was Margaret Martha Brown. (C-1318, 1950)

After being ordained a Deacon, he moved from Warren Co.?, TN to Lumpkin Co., Georgia, then Alabama. His will is transcribed as follows by Vince King in his book on the Georgia Jays.

"Georgia
Lumpkin County
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In the name of God Amen - I David Jay of the County of Lumpkin and State of Georgia being at present in my proper mind thanks be to God, calling to mind the mortality of man. Knowing it to be the destination for all men not to die - I do make and ordain this my last will and testament viz. principally and first of all I commend my soul into the hands of my great creator - Jesus Christ who gave it and my body to be decently buried and as touching such worldly estate - wherewith it hath pleased almighty God to bless me in this world with.....I give and bequeth the same in manner and form following viz.
1st I do give and bequeth unto Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife all my estate whereof I die possessed of. To have and to hold the same during her natural life as her soul property and at death of my wife Elizabeth all that portion of land with the mill which I die possessed of on lot No. 249 Number Two hundred and forty nine in the fifth district and first Section of originally Cherokee now Lumpkin County, which I hold in reserve it being 20 Twenty acres more or less. I will that the same shall be equally divided between my daughters - viz. Martha Harris and Mary Charles and Jane Gamblin and Elizabeth Lusk and Anna Rutherford and it shall be soul property forever and after the death of my wife Elizabeth that my sons have one dollar each viz John Jay and Sarah Parris and William Jay and David Jay Jnr. and Wesley Jay and it is my will that they have one dollar and no more.
2ndly and I do hereby make, ordain, constitute and appoint William B. Rutherford and Jane Gamblin Executors of this my last will and testament who are hereby empowered to pay off all my lawful debts and settle my accounts, but the rest shall all remain in my wife Elizabeth's hands during her natural life as aforesaid and at her death she shall have power to dispose of whatsoever personal or other estate not herein before mentioned as my seem good to her and I will that my executors shall duly fulfil and execute this my last will and testament and I do hereby disanull and utterly void all my former wills or bequethings done by me at this writing or by word of mouth, ratifying and conforming this and no other to be my last will and testament in writing where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1st day of September 1838.
David Jay Senr.
Attested:
Joseph W. Gamblin
William S. Waters
David Jay Jnr."

(C-800, 830, 839, 964, EL)
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Reverend married Unknown UNKNOWN about 1772-1773.¹

Reverend next married Elizabeth EARP, daughter of Reverend Daniel EARP and Unknown, on 3/14/1795 in , Newberry, SC.¹ (Elizabeth EARP was born about 1781 in , Fairfax, VA, USA and died in 1850 in , Lumpkin, GA, USA ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

This was David's second marriage.