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Meet the People
: People of Williamsburg
: Grissell Hay - wife of the Apothecary
- Birth date unknown
- Wife of apothecary Peter Hay
- Widowed in 1766
- Died 1778
Grissell Hay was the wife of the apothecary Peter Hay. Widowed in 1766, she
sold some of his estate at public auction and turned their home into a lodging
house. An advertisement in the "Virginia Gazette" of February 18,
1768, announced, "I take this method to inform the public, that I have
very commodious lodgings to let for a dozen gentlemen, and their servants, with
stables and provisions for their horses, and shall be much obliged to those
who will favour me with their company."
Grissell Hay died in May 1778.
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