Part 2 (1/2)

Dr. Green was in his second year's naval service, when, by the Rev.

Jeremy Belknap, he was married to Susanna Hayes in the twentieth year of her age. She was then reputed to have been quite handsome and a great favorite with all her acquaintance. She had a delicate and pet.i.te figure, nut-brown hair, shading bright hazel eyes that lit up her regular cut features with a winning expression, which played over a soft transparent complexion, lovely as a fresh-blown rose.

Her father's will, making his estate reversionary in the event of his daughter's decease without issue, happily placed her and her husband in no such unpleasant dilemma; for in the brief time of nineteen years, thirteen children were born to them, viz.:

i. EUNICE, b. July 1, 1780; d. Oct. 7, 1782.

ii. REUBEN HAYES, b. Aug. 20, 1783.

iii. CHARLES, b. March 26, 1785; d. April 5, 1854.

iv. DEBORAH SHACKFORD, b. March 20, 1787; d. May 7, 1860.

v. SARAH, b. Oct. 19, 1788; d. Nov. 2, 1874.

vi. SAMUEL, b. Jan. 4, 1790; d. Jan. 23, 1791.

vii. MARTHA, b. July 13, 1791; d. Nov. 25, 1792.

viii. EUNICE, b. Oct. 8, 1792; d. May 25, 1839.

ix. A DAUGHTER, b. July 15, 1794; still-born.

x. MARTHA, b. June 9, 1795; d. Aug. 3, 1795.

xi. A SON, b. April 27, 1796; still-born.

xii. SAMUEL, b. Oct. 5, 1797; d. Nov. 3, 1823.

xiii. WALTER COOPER, b. July 1, 1799.

My mother's earliest paternal ancestor[7] in America,

1. JOHN^1 HAYES, is said to have emigrated from Scotland about 1680, and settled in Dover, New-Hamps.h.i.+re. He had a grant of land in 1693. By his wife Mary Horn, he had seven sons and three daughters, viz.:

2. i. JOHN, b. 1686.

ii. PETER.

iii. REUBEN.

iv. ICHABOD, b. March 13, 1691-2.

v. SAMUEL, b. March 16, 1694-5.

vi. WILLIAM, b. Sept. 6, 1698.

vii. BENJAMIN, b. ----, 1700.

viii. A DAUGHTER, m. Phipps.

ix. A DAUGHTER, m. Ambrose.

x. A DAUGHTER.

2. JOHN^2 (_John^1_), married Mrs. Tomson, and lived at Tole-End, four miles from Dover corner. He was a deacon of the First Congregational Society in Dover. They had eight children, viz.:

i. ANN, b. June 3, 1718.

3. ii. REUBEN, b. May 8, 1720; d. 1762.

iii. JOSEPH, b. March 15, 1722.