_Caleb AYARS ______
_Joseph AYARS ____________________|_Patience BROOKS __
_Jacob AYARS ___|
| | _Hugh DUNN ________
| |_Keziah [Louisa?] [Reviah?] DUNN _|_Amy SUTTON _______
_Alvin AYARS ______|
| | _Caleb AYARS ______
| | _Aaron AYARS _____________________|_Rebecca BERRYMAN _
| |_Abigail AYARS _|
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|_Edith HUTCHINSON _|
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TR#968782; 969690
The Magazine of American Geneology: Ave to Bab, Number 11, (Chicago, IL: The Institute of American Geneology, date unknown), pp. 291-295.
Marriage: Record of Marriages, Bk. A, p. 362, Cumberland County Courthouse, Bridgeton, NJ. Jacob Ayars officiated.
Was pastor of the Westerly, RI SDB Church; espoused tenets of the Millerites; became a Seventh-day Adventist(?) -- see next:
COMMUNICATION FROM BRO. AYRES
Bro. Smith:--For about two years I have been an interested and I trust a profited reader of the REVIEW. For several years I have been of the opinion that important and solemn events were at hand; but never came in contact with anything that gave form and definiteness to those things like the light that has shone from the columns of the REVIEW. Yea, praise the Lord! that in his good providence it was thrown in my way. I have been for several years an accepted minister of the word among the Seventh-day Baptists, and although I believe they have much important truth, yet being convinced that as a people they are very far behind in regard to present truth, I have deemed it my duty to take a position which has necessarily separated me from them, and, by consequence, exposed me to many severe trials and privation; but thanks be unto God for that blessed grace which makes one willing to suffer for the truth's sake. In order to explain myself, and also to show that we are already measurably under the iron rule of the Two-horned Beast of Rev. xiii, I have it to say that I have been cited to appear before the Council of the Town of Westerly, R. I., composed of Seventh-day Baptists, charged, according to the words of the complaint, not with being guilty of dishonesty or intemperance, but possesssed of a kind of religious frenzy calculated to injure my fellow-citizens and incapacitate me from being an inhabitant of said town. Without hearing, or even calling for any testimony to substantiate the above complaint, upon the day of trial, or rather, decision, the honorable Council proceeded to pass judgment against me, and in a few days sent their Officer with an instrument of writing, declaring that they had examined the above complaint, and the evidence relating thereto, and determined and adjudged, that I be ordered to leave town, or suffer the consequences of not complying with the same. At this time my family were in no suitable condition to leave, I therefore endeavored to commit the case to the Lord and await the result: and praised be his holy name! he suffered no evil to befall us; but in due time, at the end of the year I obtained a house and left the town, where I had endeavored for a number of years to labor faithfully for the good of souls. So far as I have light upon the various subjects treated of in the REVIEW, I feel that my intersts and sympathies are with you. I trust I love the Sabbath cause, and I do rejoice that the Lord is raising up a people to defend that holy truth, together with other important present truths. O, may the Lord keep them humble! that his work may triumph in their hands gloriously. The signs of the times indicate strongly to my mind that there are solemn and fearful scenes just upon us. O may the Lord help each one of us who are striving for the whole truth, to be in readiness to stand unscathed. I can say with others, that the REVIEW is truly a welcome messenger! You are at liberty to make whatever use of this communication you deem proper for the good of the cause.
Yours in the hope of the gospel.
Jacob Ayres.