Personal Life
When a law was passed requiring state officials to live in Raleigh, Haywood bought land bounded by New Bern, Blount, Edenton and Person Streets, and built Haywood Hall, which to this day remains a popular venue for small groups. For many years Haywood and his first wife, Sarah Leigh, used their new premises to entertain official state dignitaries. Sarah gave John one son, named Leigh.
After Sarah's death in 1791, John married, on March 9, 1798, Eliza Eagles Asaph Williams, by whom he had 12 children. When Haywood himself died in Raleigh in 1827, "a great procession was given in his honor and his funeral was conducted in the Presbyterian Church by Reverend Doctor McPheeters".
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