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J. Gay, (b. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) RECOVERY from London 1839. (Retrieved 2018, April 30).
As a young girl she probably witnessed the brutal beatings that her grandfather handed out to his slaves. They were not Separatists in England as the Pilgrims had been, yet they established the Independent Congregational church in America".
To Massachusetts came
He went to work right there and then
To make himself a name.
There were one thousand Puritans
Some of them men of fame
They brought their flocks and herds with them
And stores of every name.
They settled at old Watertown
Boston and Charlestown too
Unlike their friends of near renown,
They came prepared to do.
They marked their impress on the state
They would a nation try
To build a nation was their fate
For they would do or die.
John Gay, a worker in that band
We know that he made good
And his descendants in the land
Are better understood.
For scholars, statesman, ministers
And business men galore
Who claim him and his anscestors
Are found from shore to shore.
One grand old soldier from that band
Did long in Quincy dwell
No doubt there's many in the land
Our records do not tell
But tis a fact with justice done
It often has been said
That all the Gays have always won
Respect with fame or bread.
We cannot prove all Gays are kin
For records fail to show
But family ways are much the same
We find, where'er we go.
Samuel Gay
Tis of Samuel Gay, of Virginia
His lines of life we try to trace.
Born of a hardy rugged race
By industry won an honored place
He was a true son of the soil
He plowed his ground, chopped his wood
And grew his crops as farmers should
And took delight in doing good.
He was just and true, brave and kind
These maxims learned, he lived them too
And never quit till tasks were done
At seventy-seven Sam was gone
Tis sometimes said that blood will tell
Tho generations run
Sam Gays kin have proved him well
As ancestors begun.
Samuel never served in any war
But worked with might and main
And grew the crops that have thus far
Been thought the best for gain.
He bore hardships that we feel
We hardly need to know
Like building fires with flint and steel
Or with a string and bow.
We do believe that blood did tell
The way generations run
God in his goodness willed us well
It has since we begun.
Exerts from the works of Wm.
H. Gay, 1920
Presented to the
Library of Memorial Continental Hall Rockport, Illinois by Old Belfrey Chapter, February 1924
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Gay Surname Meaning, History & Origin
- “When young John Gay the Puritan
- To Massachusetts came
- He went to work right there and then
- To make himself a name.
- There were one thousand Puritan’s
- Some of them of fame
- They brought their flocks and herds with them
- And stores of every name.
- They settled at old Watertown
- Boston and Charlestown too
- Unlike their friends of near renown,
- They came prepared to do.”
Green Frederick Gay of Northampton, North Carolina.
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Alternatively, the name could have been derived from the Old French "gal" meaning "full of joy, lighthearted" 2
Early Origins of the Gay family
The surname Gay was first found in Surrey where Oswald le Gay was listed in the Pipe Rolls there in 1176. NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
John Gay, English convict who was convicted in Norfolk, England for 14 years, transported aboard the "Emma Eugenia" on 2nd November 1837, arriving in New South Wales, Australia14
The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X
Gay Names
- John Gay was a 17th century English poet and dramatist, the author of The Beggar’s Opera.
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