Udney Hay

Udney Hay
Born1739 (1739)
Scotland
DiedSeptember 6, 1806(1806-09-06) (aged 66–67)
Burlington, Vermont
Buried
North Underhill Cemetery,
Underhill, Vermont
AllegianceUnited States United States
Service/branchContinental Army
RankLieutenant Colonel

Udney Hay (also spelled Udny) (1739 – September 6, 1806) was an American deputy quartermaster general during the American Revolutionary War.[1] He was later a politician in Vermont.

He was born in Scotland in 1739.[2][3] In 1775–76, before his war service, he was a timber merchant living in Quebec and sustained financial losses supporting the revolution.[4][5]

  1. ^ Orderly Book of the Northern Army, at Ticonderoga and Mt. Independence, from October 17th, 1776, to January 8th, 1777. 1859. pp. 58, 205.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference crockett was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Gillies, Paul, ed. (1991). Records of the Council of Censors of the State of Vermont (PDF). p. 774.
  4. ^ "Losses sustained in Canada by Udney Hay, (late of Quebeck, timber-merchant, now D. Q. M. General to the Northern American Army,) in the years ' 75 and ' 76". American Archives Documents of the American Revolutionary Period, 1774–1776.
  5. ^ "Udny Hay to General Gates". American Archives Documents of the American Revolutionary Period, 1774–1776.