Robert Hays

Robert Hays was a pioneer settler of Tennessee, United States. He served as a lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War and was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati from North Carolina. Hays was granted land in Tennessee for his war service, settling on the Cumberland River just north of present-day Nashville. In 1786 he married Jane Donelson, a daughter of John Donelson. Through this marriage he was to become a brother-in-law of his neighbor, future president Andrew Jackson. He officiated the (re)marriage of Jackson and his sister-in-law Rachel in 1794. The same year Hays represented Davidson County in the North Carolina state legislature.