Hannah HOLSTEIN

  General Notes:

At the time of the marriage of Mrs. Hannah Holstein
Hughes and Rev. Slator Clay she resided on the farm known as"Poplar Lane," but a short distance from " The Gulf," and about half a mile from her former home at Walnut Grove.
The location of the house at Poplar Lane was upon a hill near Balligomingo creek. That house still stands, many additions and improvements having been made to it, so that it is now an attractive country house. In the settlement of the estate of John Hughes, Poplar Lane was sold, and Walnut Grove came
by inheritance to the children of Isaac and Hannah Holstein Hughes, whose descendants retain it in the name at the present time.

The slaves, Jack and Dinah, his wife, who were given to Isaac Hughes by his father in 1770, were bitterly opposed to their mistress marrying again, and behaved so badly when Rev. Mr. Clay was at the house that their dislike to him could not be concealed. Soon after their marriage, while at breakfast with his wife and children, Mr. Clay was the first one to
taste the coffee. Finding something very peculiar and unpleasant about it, he desired that none of the family should touch it until he returned. Upon going into the kitchen he found the coffee pot filled with poke root, which Dinah had put in hoping it might sicken him and end his life. When
charged with the crime she did not deny the accusation, notseeming to have realized until that moment that there mighthave been a fatal termination, but simply anxious that Mr.Clay should not be in the same house with her mistress. When told that she could not be trusted and would have to be sold she entreated them most pitifully that they would pardon her,exclaiming that she would never do a wicked act again. They did forgive her, and ever after she continued to be a faithful,trusty servant.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Burial: Christ Church (Old Swedes), Upper Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Hannah married Isaac HUGHES on 5 Oct 1769. (Isaac HUGHES was born about Jan 1748, died in 1782 and was buried in Christ Church (Old Swedes), Upper Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.)

Hannah next married Rev. Slator CLAY, son of Slator CLAY and Ann CURTIS, on 31 Dec 1786. (Rev. Slator CLAY was born on 1 Oct 1754 in New Castle, Delaware, died on 25 Sep 1821 in Perkiomen, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA and was buried in St. James Church, Montogmery, Pennsylvania.)