Joseph Fay (politician)

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Joseph Fay (born September 11, 1753 in Hardwick , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † October 26, 1803 in New York , New York ) was an American politician , Colonel of the Militia and businessman who served as Secretary of State from 1778 to 1781 Vermont was.

Life

Joseph Fay was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts in 1753 to Captain Stephen Fay and Ruth Child. The family moved to Bennington , Vermont in 1766 . His father was a leader of the Green Mountain Boys and ran the Catamount Tavern in Bennington , a base for the radical political actions that led to the independence of the Vermont Republic and its later entry into the Union.

He was Secretary of the Council of Safety from 1777 to 1778 and the Council of State from 1778 to 1784, and Secretary of State from 1778 to 1781. In 1781 and 1782, he and Ira Allen negotiated with the British Crown on the exchange of prisoners in Skenesborough. As did the negotiations with General Frederick Haldimand , which paralyzed the opposition's operations and protected the northern border against invasions during the last three years of the Seven Years' War in North America . Fay served with the rank of colonel in the Vermont Militia Second Regiment. He took part in the Battle of Bennington with his father and four of his six brothers . His eldest brother, John, was the first to be killed in the battle.

The Bennington Post Office was in his house. When Thomas Jefferson and James Madison came on a tour of the south in 1791 , they also met Joseph Fay there.

In 1794 he moved to New York City, where he worked as a merchant. There he was also a member of the Presbyterian Church .

Joseph Fay was married to Margaret Dewey for the first time. There were six children from this marriage. In his second marriage he was married to Elizabeth Betsey Broom, this marriage had three sons and a daughter. Betsey Fay died a year after her husband, at which point the youngest child was only one year old.

Joseph Fay died of yellow fever in New York between October 20 and 26, 1803 . In the parish records, October 26 is the date of death. It is not known where his grave is located.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secretaries of State, located on the Vermont Government home page , accessed February 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Joseph Fay in: The Vermont Encyclopedia edited by John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, Ralph H. Orth; Retrieved February 10, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Barbara Broome Semans and Letitia Broome Schwarz: BROOME, LATOURETTE, AND MERCEREAU FAMILIES OF NEW YORK AND CONNECTICUT , page 173, accessed February 10, 2015
  4. ↑ Vermont Historical Magazine, No XI, October 1867, page 172, accessed February 10, 2015

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personal data
SURNAME Fay, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Hardwick , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1803
Place of death New York , New York