Capt. Peter HAYES

Abt 1571 - Aft 1641  (~ 71 years)

• Name	Peter HAYES
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Abt 1571	Great Budworth Parish, Cheshire, England
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	LZ5C-J1J
  Immigration	1637	Virginia, British Colonial America   [1]
  _UID	7820E7ABA41645619F9103D7E156FA783D94
  Death	Aft 1641	Isle Of Wight, Virginia, Colonial USA
  Person ID	I101	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Sir John HAYES,   b. Abt 1546, Litley (Little Leigh), England d. Abt 1597, Chester Consistory Court, England (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth STARKEY, Stonley,   b. 1550, Great Budworth Parish, Cheshire, England d. 1577, Great Budworth Parish, Cheshire, England (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F79	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret (Howse) DAVYES,   b. Abt 1570, Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England d. May 1669, Isle of Wight Co., Virginia, British Colony (Age ~ 99 years)
  Marriage	18 Sep 1591	Hestor Parish, Middlesex, England
  Children	1. Ann HAYES   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Peter "The Envoy" HAYES,   b. 1600, Great Budworth Parish, Cheshire, England d. 1678, Isle Of Wight, Virginia, Colonial USA (Age 78 years)   3. Thomas HAYES,   b. 30 May 1602, Threekingham, Lincolnshire, England d. 1680, Cheshire, England, (Age 77 years)   4. Edward HAYES,   b. Abt 1603, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America d. Abt 1687, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age ~ 84 years)   5. Jacob John HAYES,   b. Abt 1612, Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America d. Abt 1672, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age ~ 60 years)   6. Ann CORNES,   b. Abt 1620, England, Great Britain, d. Abt 1705, Virginia Isle of Wright County (Age ~ 85 years)
  Family ID	F78	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Captain Peter Hayes, ship captain was the third son of John Hayes and his wife Elizabeth Starkey, and was born in Great Budsworth Parish, Cheshire, England, about 1571. (Will of John Hayes, Chester Consistory Court, England, 1597.) He was apprenticed to his cousin Edward Hayes of Liverpool, England who owned a ship called the Golden Hind. He married Margaret Howse, a widow living in Heston Parish, Middlesex (18 Sept. 1591). In 1603 James I of Scotland became King of England. A severe depression followed. Peter Hayes was hired by the Dutch to sail between the port on Texel Island and Greenland where the Dutch had a colony. He made his home in Edam not far from Amsterdam. In 1630 Dutch West India Company ordered Hayes to sail to the Carribean Island of Tortugas. He sailed his merchant ship Walvis from Texel on 20 Dec 1630 to Tortugas and then on to Virginia. He ended up in the Delaware Bay where his party debarked to set up a whale fishing station. The Walvis returned home and Peter Hayes stopped working for the Dutch. In 1636 he purchased 350 acres from George Hardy on Pagan Creek today known as Jones Creek near Jamestowne, Virginia. He is mentioned in the Minutes of the Virginia Assembly in 1641-a petition presented requesting that poor men be relieved of taxes. (Southern Genealogies #1, Historical Southern Families, Vol. XV, FTM CD 191)

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 9 Dec 2022), entry for Peter HAYES, person ID LZ5C-J1J. (Reliability: 3).