John Hayden

John had a passion for buying and selling. When I was a boy it was said that "John Hayden once owned all the land from the Ebby Hayden corner to the river." He built five houses west of his father's, kept store and lived in them one by one, his family remaining in the last one built until about 1840. He was not successful in business and died leaving a small estate. His widow died in extreme old age. When I commenced this genealogical hunt, she rendered me valuable assistance. Her grandfather, Ammi Trumble, was a brother of Joseph Trumbull, the father of "Brother Jonathan." -- Jabez Haskell Hayden. (ref. here)