Author: Hay, William
Biography:
Hay, William (1793-1870: ancestry.com)
He was born in Cambridge NY but the family moved when he was still a child to Glen's Falls NY, where his father had a lumber business and a store. Hay studied law and began practising in the area around Glen's Falls in 1812. During the War of 1812 he saw action as a lieutenant. About 1817 he married Sophia Paine of Saratoga Springs, with whom he would have eight children, five of whom survived him. In 1819 he became the proprietor and publisher of the only local newspaper, the Warren Patriot, and in 1827 he was elected to the State assembly for Warren County. The Hays settled in Saratoga Springs in 1840: he became Judge Hay and a pillar of the community. His most significant later publication was a history of temperance in the County (1855). He died of "apoplexy" at a church service. (William Leete Stone, Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston [1875] 391-8; ancestry.com 28 Feb. 2019)