This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1406.3.1.1 Message Board Post: Tom---I am a descendant of John and Jane(LOVE)Hays who emigrated to Pennsylvania in about 1730 with 4 of their soon to be 9 children. Their son,John (1728-1796), had two wives during his life in PA, Barbara KING and Jane WALKER. Their family is well documented in PA history. I have never found any relation to Rebecca MAXWELL or her husband John HAYS (who apparently emigrated to MD or VA in 1750). Their descendants include some very distinguished early Americans, tho'. I have been studying the emigrant John HAYS (1704-1789) for over 50 years and continue to find little things about the HAYS family and would love to find out any connection of your John and my John if you can establish one (either on this side of the Atlantic or the other). Your John HAYS is mentioned several places in the genealogy sites on the web if I remember correctly. Let me know if you can connect Jim HAYS (Knoxville, TN)