Book excerpt: Colonel Ann Hawkes Hay (1745-1785) was born at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, the only child of Micahel and Esther Wilkins Hay. He accompanied his uncle to New York to obtain an education and while there he married Martha Smith (1745-1821) in 1763, daughter of Judge William Smith. After their marriage, the couple went to Jamaica, but after the death of their first three children there, they returned to New York and settled at Haverstraw on the banks of the Hudson. They had twelve children, 1764-1785. He served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He died two years after the war in New York City. His widow died in South Carolina. Descendants listed, chiefly descendants of the children who migrated to South Carolina, lived in South Carolina, Georgia, and elsewhere.