• Hays Family

    Hays Family

    My great-grandfather, Theodore Clarence Brintzinghoffer, was born in Newark, NJ on September 19th, 1876. Each and every branch of his family tree came to America before the Revolutionary War. This is the story of his paternal grandmother’s line – The Hays.

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  • Henry Hays. Depositions

    Henry Hays. Depositions

    This is a transcription of multiple depositions taken in 1819 related to a lost deed for a property purchased in 1785 by Henry Hays, my 5th great-grandfather, from Daniel Ellis and William Smith, assignees of John Hays, at a public sale in Burlington Township.

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  • William Hays. Deed

    William Hays. Deed

    William Hays is my 6th Great-grandfather on my maternal grandfather’s side. This is a transcription of a property sale on his move to Burlington County in 1738.

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