Nathaniel Haies (also Nathaniel Hayes) (1634 died before March 12, 1706) was a founding

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of Norwalk,

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. He was a signer of the treaty with the Norwalke Indians in 1655. It took until March 30, 1686 before the planters at Norwalk obtained a Royal Charter from

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. On this patent, John Ruscoe, Nathaniel Hayes, Matthew Marvin Sr., and Thomas Seamore were signatories. He was born in 1634 in Dover,

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. He came to Norwalk in 1651 as a member of the Runckingheage deed settlers. He is listed on the Founders Stone bearing the names of the founding settlers of Norwalk in the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haies, Nathaniel 1634 births 1706 deaths American Puritans Settlers of Norwalk, Connecticut People from Dover, Kent