Update July 2023
Dec 25, 1750 Will Book I, Page 291. John Hays‘ will, plantationer — Wife, Rebecca; three sons: son, Andrew; son, Charles; son, John (land on Roanoke joining William Miller’s plantation); nephew, John Hays, Jr. (Rebecca Hays,
daughter to son John); daughter, Jenett Mills; nephew, (?) Rebecky Guines; nephew, Robert Lusk; nephew, James Hays, son to son James; legatee, Robert Lusk; Legatee, Abigail Hayes, alias Kinseys. Executors, wife Rebecky and
sons Charles and Andrew. Teste: James Buchanan, Saml. Hayes, James Moore. Proved 26th February 1750, by all witnesses, and Charles and Andrew refuse to administer and Rebecca qualifies with sureties (no bond appears).
[csisv3,19] John Hays –pioneer— d. 1751–m. Rebecca —. Children: Charles, Andrew, Barbara, Jenette (m. — Mills), Robert, James. [A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia,” by Oren F. Morton, 1920, 492]
It is assumed when John Hays self imported in 1740 that James was over 21 years old and he died before his father in 1750 leaving a son (no mention of the mother).