Hayes, William Allen (1783-1851)

Name:

Hayes, William Allen (1783-1851)

Title:

Judge of Probate of York County, ME, 1828-1847.
Was incorporator of Maine Historical Society 5 Feb. 1822.
President of York County Bar for more than twenty years
President of the South Berwick Bank & the Board of Trustees of Berwick Academy.
Was Overseer of Bowdoin College from 1825-1839.

Other Names:

Judge William Allen Hayes

Born:

10/20/1783

Birthplace:

North Yarmouth, ME

Died:

04/15/1851

Death Location:

South Berwick, ME

Residence:

South Berwick, ME

Father:

Hayes, David

Relations:

Descendant of John Hayes of Dover, NH
Grandfather of Hammond Vinton Hayes, who accumulated many of the Hayes family heirlooms.

Spouse:

Lord, Susannah (1790-1870)

Children:

John Lord, b. 13 Apr. 1812
William Augustus, b 7 Aug. 1813, d. 7 Oct. 1814.
Mehetable (Hetta) Lord, b. 10 Apr. 1815.
William Allen (1817-1891; m. Elisabeth Vinton; 2 children, Hammond Vinton Hayes and William Allen Hayes)
Francis Brown, b. 12 Oct. 1819.
Susan Lord b. 19 Apr. 1821, d. 4 Oct. 1873.
Charles Cogswell, b. 4 Jan. 1823.
Sophia Elizabeth, b. 8 Sept 1824.
Augustus Lord, b. 23 June 1826.
Charlotte Have Lord, b. 17 July 1828.
Mary Osgood, b 20 or 26 May 1830, d. 10 Apr. 1884.
ConstantiaWhitrideg, b. 26 or 28 Dec. 1832, d. 17 Oct. 1851.
Joseph b. 14 Sept. 1835.

Notes:

M. 1811 to Susannah (Susan) Lord, only daughter of General John Lord. Her brother, Nathan Lord, was President of Dartmouth College.
Both Susannah Lord and William Hayes are descendants of Elder William Wentworth, founder of the Wentworth family of Colonial New Hampshire.
Graduated Dartmouth College, A. B. 1805; A. M. 1808.
Studied law with Ezekiel Whitman of New Gloucester, ME, Dudley Hubbard of S. Berwick, ME, and Artemas Ward, Chief Justice of the Boston, MA, Court of Common Pleas. Admitted to the Bar in MA in 1809 and entered into practice in S. Berwick, ME.
Was Judge of Probate of York County from 1828-1847.
Was accomplished agriculturalist.