Cumberland County NcArchives Obituaries.....Hay, John 1809
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Raleigh Minerva
Thurs., June 22, 1809
DIED, on Tuesday, the 20th inst, at his seat on Hay-Mount, in Fayetteville, 
JOHN HAY, ESQ., Attorney at Law, in the 52nd year of his age, for many years a 
distinguished and highly respectable man. MR. HAY was a native of Belfast, 
Ireland; a man of strong mind with a liberal education, extensive reading and 
learning and ranked among the profession at the bar of North Carolina. MR. HAY 
was a zealous friend to the Independence of the United States, and took an 
active part in its defense, and was for several years a member of the state 
Legislature for the town of Fayetteville; having also been elected at other 
times, member for Duplin, Sampson and Cumberland Counties. He was likewise one 
of the Delegates from the latter county in 1790, in the State Convention that 
adopted the Federal Constitution of which he was a warm and able advocate. MR. 
HAY was remarkable for humanity, hospitality, and politeness, and for the 
purest integrity.


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