Allen Gay

DAR Ancestor #: A043701

In Red Correction File for:

1) EL-GILBERT S. GAY #833050 WAS SON OF JOSHUA GAY, A200624. THE MOTHER OF

Created: 2009-07-23 10:13:28.0, Updated: 2009-07-23 10:13:28.0, By:  2) JOHN, ELIZABETH, & GILBERT WAS NOT CELIA RAE ELBERT, BUT ABIGAIL

Created: 2009-07-23 10:13:28.0, Updated: 2018-03-29 09:01:06.0, By: 1540159 3) CASTLEBERRY. ALLEN DID NOT HAVE 1ST WIFE CELIA RAE ELBERT. DATACF 8/2008.

Created: 2010-08-23 11:23:20.0, Updated: 2016-04-25 13:22:29.0, By: 1540162 4) EL-THOMAS GAY WHO MAR WINNY X DIED A 27 NOV 1845 AND NOT SON OF THIS PATRIOT.

Created: 2010-08-23 11:23:20.0, Updated: 2018-03-29 08:56:59.0, By: 1540159 5) THIS PATRIOT HAD SON THOMAS GAY WHO WAS LIVING 1860. DATACF 8/2010.

Allen Gay - Served in the american revolution, continential army of NC. , rayford's company june 2, 1781 to may 3, 1782 (NC roster pp 9, 127, 181, 143). He was married on three occassions :

• 1 - Celia Rae Elbert,
• 2 - Abigail Castleberry,
• 3 - Mrs. Ann Benton .

He died & was buried in Coweta co. Ga. near Newnan at Macedonia Church Yard.

Ref: Allen Gay Family Bible Pages, copyright 1818, currently located in a museum in Stanton, Texas.

2.Tradition has it that soon after settling in North Coweta, prayer meetings were held in the homes of the settlers. These good people seeing the great need for a church put into motion a movement which led to the establishment of the Macedonia Baptist Church in the year 1827. Revolutionary soldier Allen Gay, Ann Gay, Nicholas Dyer, Harriet Dyer, Elizabeth Dyer, Moses Kelly, Moses Shelley, Sarah Jennings and Martha Haney were the charter members.

These consecrated pioneers invited Reverand James Reeves and Reverand Cyrus White to assist. A meeting was held Aug 23, 1827 in the home of Allen Gay, where the church was formally organized. The first church building was a log house with a clay floor, located about a mile northeast of the present church. In 1846 this building burned.

The old graveyard still marks the site of the first church building to be established in Coweta County. After the loss of the old building it was thought best to move the location to it's present site. On July 12, 1847 Jacobus Gibson, James Stamps and Owen Wood, as trustees, arranged the transfer of land for the new buildings. A larger house of worship was required to accomodate the greater attendance.

A plain old barn style building was erected with three doors and four small windows. This meeting house was dedicated in 1847. The first person to be buried in the new cemetery was an infant of James Smith. This was on a Friday. The next day, Allen Gay, the old American patriot and charter member was buried.."

- Excerpt from "A Brief History of Macedonia Baptist Church, Coweta County, Georgia (pamphlet published by the Macedonia Baptist church in Coweta county, Georgia)

The son of Thomas Gay and Frances Patience McDaniel Gay, Allen Gay began his Revolutionary War service when only sixteen years of age, volunteering to act as a substitute for his father, who had been summoned to appear at the high hills of Santee for twelve months' service in the North Carolina Militia. He was attached to a battalion belonging to General Nathaniel Greene's army. At the battle of Eutaw Springs, the company to which he was attached was a part of the advance, and he displayed a courage which would have done honor to veterans. Upon this occasion he actually took five of the enemy as prisoners.

After the war he moved to Georgia: first to Washington County, next to Hancock, County and finally to Coweta County. He married three times: first to Celia Rae Elbert in 1785; second to Abigail Castleberry on September 5, 1787 and then on October 1, 1824 to Ann Pickron Barton. Allen Gay died in Coweta County at the age of eighty-two. He was a worthy member of the Baptist Church and records indicate that the Macedonia Baptist Church was founded in his home in 1828.

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor # A043747

Married Mary Hunt.

William Gay (son of Thomas and Patience) and Mary Hunt Gay had a son William Gay who made his will  in Perry Co., Al 1870. Among heirs named is Thomas B. Gay. This

Thomas B. married Martha Nix in Perry Co., 1845.

   William Gay born 1764 (based on 1850 census Fayette Co., Ga) died 22

May 1852 was the son of Thomas and Patience Gay. He is named in the
will of Thomas in Franklin Co., NC in 1784.
1785 Received bounty land in Franklin Co, NC based on Revolutionary
War service; Land located on Little Creek;
1785 Franklin Co., NC witnessed deed Elias Gay to James Massey (Elias
Gay was the step-father of Mary "Polly" Hunt)
1786 Franklin Co., NC tax list
1788Franklin Co., NC deed William Gay to Hardy Hunt (land located on
Little Creek);
1788 Franklin Co., NC witnessed deed Joshua Gay to Hardy Hunt
ca 1791 he married Mary "Polly" Hunt (the Hunts can be placed in
Franklin Co., NC at this time)
1794Hancock Co., Ga tax list
1796 Hancock Co., Ga tax list
1801Hancock Co., Ga tax list
1802 Hancock Co., Ga estate settlement of Thomas Gay
1804Hancock Co., Ga tax list
1805Hancock Co., Ga land lottery
1810 Hancock Co., Ga marriage of daughter Martha "Patsy" Gay to
Benjamin McGee (from the settlement of the estate of Johann Sims,
sister of William, in Clayton Co., Ga in 1860, we know that Mary
Eason and Cynthia Osburn were heirs of William Gay. From the will of
Penelope Overton Perry Co., AL 1860, bequests are made to her
brothers (not named), any other legal heirs, and her sisters: Arpy
McGee, Marina Pate; Cynthia Osburn, and Mary Eason; the estate
settlement lists the heirs of Penelope Overton as: children of Martha
McGee, Arpy McGee, widow of Richard, William Gay, Ann Gay, Marina
Pate, Cynthia Osburn, Sherrod Gay, and Mary Eason);
1812Hancock Co., Ga tax list
1815Jasper Co., Ga. marriage of daughter Arpy to Richard McGee
1815Jasper Co., Ga marriage of daughter Penelope to Henry Overton
1816 Jasper Co., Ga marriage of son William to Lucy Wyatt
1820Jasper Co., Ga. census
1830Jasper Co., Ga census
1839 Fayette Co., Ga marriage of son Sherrod Haywood to Annis Allen
1840Fayette Co., Ga census
1850Fayette Co., Ga census
1852Fayette Co., death; buried on former site of plantation of
Sherrod H. Gay in present day Clayton Co.

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