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- Find a Grave shows two marriages
1. William Gay, d. 1755
2. William Hamilton (1717-1801) m. 1757
Also links to six children:
1. John Gay (1740-1775
m. Jean Ramsey
2. Ann Agnes Gay Hamilton (1745-1806)
m. Patrick Hamilton Sr.
3. Agnes Elizabeth Gay Clark (1745-1821)
m. Lt. Robert Clark Sr.
4. Mary Elizabeth Gay Dunlap (1750-1785)
m. Ens Robert Dunlap (1741-1781)
5. William Gay Jr. (1755-1827)
m. Mary Craig
child by 2nd marriage to William Hamilton
6. Ellender Collett Hamilton Moore (1756-1848)
m. James Moore Sr. (1760-1835)
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- Gay.
William Gay, who fought at the siege of Londonderry, had at least six children who came to the Calf Pasture. These were William, John, James, Robert, Samuel, and Eleanor. Robert and Samuel did not long remain in this locality. Eleanor married William Kincaid. William Gay, who owned 900 acres of what is wrongly called Guy's Run, died in 1755. His wife, who was Margaret Walkup, afterward married William Hamilton.
A history of Rockbridge County, Virginia, page 253.
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William Gay (d 1755) of Gay's Run, Rockbridge Co., Va.; with bros., James, John, Robert, Henry and Samuel and sis. Elinor, who m Capt. William (Kincaid) Kinkead to Augusta Co., Va.; m Margaret Walkup (b. nr. Belfast, Ireland, sis. Capt. James Walkup, a cdr. at battle of Walkup's Plantation, N.C. in Am. Rev., m Margaret Pickens, aunt of Gov. Israel Pickens, of Ala., and sis. of Lt. John Walkup, cdr. Warm Springs Ft. on Va. frontier in Am. Rev., whose g.son was Joseph Walkup, lt. gov. Calif., 1858-59)
The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of The First Families of America, v. III. Edited by Frederick A. Virkus. Chicago, 1928. Page 500.
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