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- Abstract of her will:
Will of Elizabeth Hayden, SMC 10/30/1760-3/4/1761. To: Heirs of son Francis, 1 shilling sterling. Children: James, John, Richard, and Susanna Drury, same. Grandson: William Drury, cattle. Son: Clement, land where Sebastian Thompson now lives, it being pt. of "Roache's Discovery with Addition", 100 ac. on the condition that he will pay to grandson, George Hayden 4700 lbs. tobacco and likewise 3000 lbs. tobacco to grandson, James Hayden, brother to sd. George Hayden, being sons of Francis Hayden. Grandsons: William and Basil Hayden, sons to George Hayden, at that pt. of land whereon William Morgan now lives, known by the name of "Shank's Risque", 102 ac. to be equally divided between them. To: Joseph Clarke, son of James Clarke, all that land where Richard Hayden formerly lived, it being pt. of "Roache's Discovery with Addition" and "Hayden's Risque", 62 ac. provided Joseph Clarke will pay to son Clement Hayden, 662 1/2 lbs. tobacco. Son: Clement, remainder of estate. Exec: Son, Clement Hayden. Wit: Robert Cole, William Morgan, Stephen Davis.
She was the second or third wife of William Hayden. Her birth surname has been variously given as Thompson, Thomas, Roach, and Clement. For a long time we gave no credit to the idea, commonly asserted online without proof, that her parents were Robert Thompson, watchmaker of St. Mary's County, who died in 1697, and his wife Mary. But then we learned that Mary, widow of Robert Thompson, subsequently married Thomas Cissell (also called Sisell, Cecil), who himself died in 1700 or 1701, leaving behind a will giving everything to his unborn child, "and in case it should happen to dye without Heirs I leave and bequeath One hundred acres being that part whereon I have built and settled Secured from that William Hayden is to have I say I bequeath it to my Daughter in Law called Betty ", etc. The wording here is confusing, but given that Betty is a diminutive for Elizabeth and that "daughter-in-law" could at the time mean the daughter of a spouse's previous marriage, this suggests that William Hayden's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Robert and Mary Thompson after all. (Although Mary Louise Donnelly -- citation details below -- says that the Elizabeth who was James and Mary Thompson's daughter was a different woman, who married, first, William Roach, then Henry Nickels, then Robert Salmond, then finally Thomas Boules.)
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
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