Hayward attended the village schools, and in 1801 entered Bridgewater Academy, where he learned English grammar and arithmetic for three months.
He traveled to England on one of his ships, the Belfast, in 1812, and returned to the U.S. in June of that year after hearing of the death of his partner and father-in-law Kingman.
[1] In the autumn of 1819, having studied law off and on for four and one half years, Hayward emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he opened an office.
[3][4] He only served a part of that year when he accepted an appointment from President Jackson as Commissioner of the United States General Land Office in Washington D.C.[5] Hayward resigned in 1835, after his wife died, and returned to Ohio and the practice of law.
[6] Judge Hayward was a dedicated genealogist, who would spend weeks at a time copying the records of Plymouth Colony and towns of Massachusetts.