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Robert Day

Male 1604 - 1648  (44 years)


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  • Name Robert Day  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 1604  [2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Gender Male 
    Death Between 20 May 1648 and 14 Oct 1648  Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5, 6, 7
    Person ID I3259  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2020 

    Family Editha Stebbing,   b. Between 1610 and 1617, Burrow-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1688, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1637  [5, 6, 8, 9
    Children 
    +1. Thomas Day,   b. Abt 1636, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1711, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years)
    +2. Sarah Day,   b. Abt 1638, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Sep 1677, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 39 years)
    +3. Mary Day,   b. Abt 1640, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Oct 1725, Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 85 years)
    +4. John Day,   b. Abt 1643, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 29 Apr 1730, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 87 years)
    Family ID F1540  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2020 

  • Notes 
    • Arrived in 1634 on the Elizabeth. First in Cambridge, then Hartford by 1639. His name is on the Founders Monument in downtown Hartford. He was among the "Adventurers Party", led by John Steel, that scouted the future site of Hartford in October 1635, prior to the departure from Cambridge of the Rev. Hooker's party in May 1636.

      He was clearly a close friend of Nathaniel Ely, whose son Samuel married his daughter Mary. They were made freemen of the Bay Colony on the same day, 6 May 1635; they removed to Hartford together, both as members of the Rev. Hooker's party; and in Hartford their lots adjoined. Ely only left Hartford for Norwalk after Day's death in 1648. As Day is known to have arrived on the Elizabeth in 1634, it seems plausible that Ely might have as well. John Insley Coddington ("Nathaniel1 Ely", citation details below) points out that most of the passengers on the Elizabeth were from Suffolk, and that according to Suffolk musters rolls from 1638, there was only one Suffolk parish, Bildeston, in which both Days and Elys lived.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1649] Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely by Heman Ely. Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, 1885.

    2. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954.

    3. [S4959] John Insley Coddington, "Nathaniel1 Ely of Springfield, Massachusetts Is Not (Alas!) the Man We Though He Was." The American Genealogist 30:78, 1954.

    4. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952.

    5. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.

    6. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    7. [S2050] John Insley Coddington, "The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing or Stebbins of New England." The American Genealogist 31:193, October 1955.

    8. [S4956] John Insley Coddington, "The Family of Frances (Tough) (Chester) (Smith) Stebbing, Wife of Edward Stebbing, of Hartford, Connecticut." The American Genealogist 30:193, Oct 1954., says "about 1637".

    9. [S2050] John Insley Coddington, "The Stebbing Family of Co. Essex, England, and Rowland, Martin, Edward and Editha Stebbing or Stebbins of New England." The American Genealogist 31:193, October 1955., says "about 1637".