That he was wise and farsighted is abundantly shown by the fact that all his real estate investments are held intact to this day by his heirs.
FOOTNOTES:
[7] From "Notes of Barnstable Families," lately published by Mr. F. B. Goss.
[8] Sabine's "Loyalists of the American Revolution," 1864, vol. i, page 466.
Martin Gay was a son of the Rev. Ebenezer Gay, pastor of the First Church in Hingham for the remarkably long period of sixty-eight years, nine months, and seventeen days. See "History of the Town of Hingham," by Solomon Lincoln, Jr., 1827, pages 26-30.
Captain Martin Gay was one of the firewards elected at the town meeting, March 13, 1769.—Drake's History of Boston, page 756.
[9] The foregoing is taken largely from Mr. Joseph T. Buckingham's Letter, No. XVII, in The Saturday Evening Gazette of May 21, 1859. It is understood that the facts contained therein were obtained by him directly from Mr. Davis.