WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #1179
William Hayes and Sarah Bozman
William Hayes born abt 1730, was a Presbyterian and a native of Halifax, Pennsylvania . Halifax is on the Susquehanna River about twenty miles north of Harrisburg. Sarah Bozman , born about 1735 was the daughter of Thomas Bozman. She was from Fairfax County, Virginia , an area that borders the District of Columbia. William and Sarah were married by 1753 as they are mentioned as husband and wife in Thomas Bozman's will which bears that date. When William andSarah left Virginia, they moved to North Carolina, then to Natchez ,before settling in Louisiana at some time before 1784,
They settled in an area on Bayou Plaquemine Brulee that later becameAcadia Parish, L A . William owned a riverbank strip of land consisting of 507.83 acres shown on an Acadia Par ish map that represents landownership prior to 1803. His property was adjacent to the Jacob Harmon property, the eastern boundary extending to the present community of Branch. The property was bounded on the south by land originally claimed by Benjamin Andrus, Jr.
William's sons John and Bozman, owned property directly across theriver. Also across the river from William's property was land purchased by Antoine Blanc in 1784 by Nementou, chief of the Attakapas. The deed wassigned by Nementou and 13 of his warriors who inhabited the Indian village of the riverbank at the time. William served as a witness for the passage of the sale .
He was in the Opelousas Post General Census of 1788 at Plaquimines Brulees. Wm Haysse , father, 1 male 30 age gr., Wm Haysse, son 1 male 20age gr., 1 woman, 1 boy, 1 girl. |