The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-01-22

which a woman, trained as girls were
then trained, could carry on an extend
ed business. She was q sister of the
celebrated John Wilkes. A well-in-
formed woman, and admitted into good
society, she delighted to surround her
self with men of culture. Hayley, her
husband, had been a clerk to her first
husband, and although he attained to
the position of Member of Parliament,
and was at one time an Alderman in
London, he took no interest in any
thing but his dayboook and ledger.
This left his wife to her own resources.
She became great traveller, but trav-
eled to improve herself; was fond of the
drama, and carried this taste to such
lengths that she had box in every
theater; and it was also said that she
attended all the remarkable trials at
the Old Bailey, where place was al
ways reserved for her. Her town
house was in Great Ayliffe street, Lon
don, and her country seat, after Hay
lev's death, was at Bromley, ten miles
away. Her carriage, built after the
best fashion and elegantly furnished,
was drawn by four coal-black horses,
and on stepping into it she took her
watch in her hand and allowed her
coachman exactly one hour between the
two places.
Hayley who had large interests in
America when the Revolution broke
out, died before the war was over, ,leav-
ing a handsome fortuEe. In 1884
Madam Hayley-she was always so
addressed-came to America in the
ship Mary, Captain John Scott, a vessel
which she had chartered. She landed
in Boston, and when she reached New
port her arrival was announced in the
local newspaper of July 81, 1884. A
woman SO cultivated as was Madam
Hayley was at once well received, and
while in America she visited many
places; but her time was chiefly taken
up in trying to collect what was due to
her husbands estate. Before her re-
turn she married Patrick Jeffrey, con-
nection of Francis Jeffrey, who had been
| sent to this country as the agent of a
number of London merchants who had
claims in America.
Madam Hayley's troubles were not
confined to the collection of money due
her. The crew of the ship she had
chartered were wholly British seamen;
some of them deserted, and their places
were filled in the United States, chiefly
with Nantucket men. The ship, still
in the employ of Madam Hayley, went
south and made q good whaling voy.
age; then returned to London, where
her cargo was offered for entry as
"train oil, from fish taken by the crew
of the Mary, q British-built ship, one
third of her crew being British born
therefore free of duty" The entry
was not allowed, and the cargo, valued
at $4,000 sterling, was seized by the
authorities. Madam Hayley brought 8
suit, recovered her property, and with
it damages to the amount of f50O ster.
ling.
ftMaaam Hayley's second marriage
was ill-assorted, her third marriage wa,
anything but fortunate. She was ther
seventy years of age, and the man she
married was less than thirty. 1t wa.
not long before they separated. He
daughter by Hayley married Rober
Baker, whose son became Admiral Sil
Henry Lorraine Baker, and was will
Admiral Cockburn, in 1914, when th'
British fleet tried to push its way VI
the Potomac. At that time he was il
command of the sloop-of-war Fairy
and during the engagement wa
wounded in the cheek by musket ball
In 1916 he again came to this country
this time to see if he could be more sue
cessful than his grandmother had beer
in collecting outstanding claims. Th
following year he sat to Stuart for hi
portrait, and in the picture the evi
dence of the wound received in 1914 i
visible. The portrait is now owned b.
DR.. A. l.. Elwyn, Of Philadelphia, VIII
inherited it from his mother, to whom
it was presented by Admiral Baker.
have insensibly been led from tn
danes of Rhode Island to one of En-
glish origin. In one respect they wer
not unlike, but in others they were en-
tirely dissimilar. They had at least il
common that knowledge of busines
which have endeavored to show wa
accorded to many of the well-informe,
women of the last century.-Neypor
(R. IL Cor. NJ Y. EUeninq Post.