General Notes

Two persons by the name of Robert Day took passage to New England, one in 1634 and the other in 1635; this has caused  confusion between the two. [Farmer, Banks and Pope]  # Robert Day, Number one: age 30, sailed on the "Hopewell" of London early in April 1635 and arrived at Boston in June. He was of Stanstead, Abbots, Hertfordshire, England. He made his first residence at Ipswich, Massachusetts where he apparently remained.
# Robert Day,Number two:  Came on the ship "Elizabeth," of Ipswich, Suffolkshire, England, William Andrews Master. Leaving the last of April and arriving at Boston in July 1634. According to the ships manifest, he was 30 years old and his 1st wife Mary  who came in the "Elizabeth" from Ipswich, co. Suffolk to Boston in Apr 1634 he was aged 30, Mary aged 28; freeman MA. 6 May 1635. An original proprietor at Hartford; his home lot in 1639 was on the road from Centinel Hill to the North Meadow near the juncion of the streets now Main and Village Streets. Viewer of chimneys and ladders 1643. His first wife is said to have died bef. his rem. to Hartford. m.2) Edith, sister of Dea. Edward Stebbins. Will dated 20 May; inv. 14 Oct 1648 142/13/06, His daughter Sarah was killed with her son Joseph by the Indians 19 Sep 1677

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"Planters of the Commonwealth" states Robert Day went to Ipswich, Massachusetts. Others who accompanied the Day's on the journey were: Edward Lewis and family - Thomas Scott and family - Isaac Mixer and family - and the family of Richard Kimball, who all settled at Ipswich or Cambridge after arriving. Within a month, on 4 August 1634, Robert was granted three acres of land in the West end of Cambridge, Massachusetts and, by May 6, 1635, he had been admitted into the Cambridge church and became a freeman.

During late 1635, Robert was one of the sixteen advanced people who had traveled into the wilderness looking for a suitable area to start a new plantation. Finding it, they spent the winter at what was to become Hartford, Connecticut. Here he became one of its original proprietors and has his name inscribed on the founders monument.

In the January 3, 1639 division of land at Hartford, Robert Day is recorded as receiving fourteen (14) acres. In 1643, Robert was chosen by the town to act as its chimney viewer. This was a necessary task that could prevent a house fire that may possibly spread throughout the whole town.

The will of Robert Day was dated on 20 May 1648, at Hartford, and by 14 Oct. l648 an inventory of his estate was taken and proved.
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" Result of some Researches among the British Archives for information relative to the Founders of New England, Made in the years 1858, 1859 and 1860. Drake. : P. 17:  " ....... names of those who embarked on the Hopewell and cert's:..... per. cert. from Stanstede Abbeyin Com. Hert's: .... Robert Day, aged 30......"
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"A Catalogue of the names of the first Puritan Settlers in Connecticut". p. 21 : Day, Robert, Hartford. He was a cleaner of chimneys and ladders in 1643. Died 1648 and left a comfortable estate for his widow and children. He was a good citizen in the colony and was the first ancester who came to Connecticut of President and Sec. Day.
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Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620- 1650, Banks. P. 70, Hertfordshire, Name of Emigrant: Day, Robert, Parish Name: Stanstead Abbot, Ship: Hopewell, New England town: Cambridge, Mass. to Hartford Conn. Referance: Hooton."
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" Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England families, 1620 - 1700., Holmes, P. LXVI, : Robert Day, of Welsh descent, b. 1604, came from Ipswich England to Cambrige Mass and removed to Hartford Conn, 1636."
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The American Genealogist;  Cited by Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston 1995;    Page: 31:193-201
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The English Ancestry of Edward Holyoke and of His Nephew, Thomas Morris of New Haven," New England Historical and Genealogical Register;  Author: Richardson, Douglas ; Publication: Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1993; Page: vol. 147, p. 21
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Hale, House and Related Families; Author: Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Waterman, Edgar Francis
Publication: Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952; Page: p. 644
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Ancient Families of Dee & Day of Wales, England; Title: Ancient Families of Dee & Day of Wales, England, and Ireland; Author: Leonard F. Day; Publication: 1972;
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Samuel Richardson and Josiah Ellsworth; Author: Ruth Ellsworth Richardson; Publication: Privately Published, 1974; Page: Page 280
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Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day; Author: George E. Day
Publication: J & L Metcalf, Northampton, MA ;  Robert migrated from England to America in April 1634 on the
"Elizabeth" with his first wife, Mary, aged twenty eight. They first settled at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman (allowed to vote) on 6 May 1635.
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The Vinton Memorial; Author: John Adams Vinton; Publication: Boston: Published For The Author, By S. K. Whipple And Company, 161 Washington Street. 1858
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A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of  Robert Day by George E. Day Connecticut Probate Records  Families of Early Hartford Connecticut John Ladwig New England  Families by William R. Cutter The Colonial History of Hartford; by William DeLoss Love; Copy of the Will and Inventory of Robert Day.--Colony Records, vol. 1. pp. 255, 6. May 20th, 1648.
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The will of Robert
      Day hee being sick and weake, yet in perfect memory : doth
      order and dispose of his estate to his wife and children, in
      the manner following: Impr'mis I give vnto my beloued wife
      Edatha Day my now dwelling howse and howsing thereto adjoyning,
      howse Lott, Allso all my Land whereof I stand possessed, or
      that of right doth belong vnto mee, lying in Hartford, during
      the tearme of her naturall life : And at the end of her life,
      my will is that the said howse and land shall bee deuided in an
      equall proportion : my will allso is that all my howsehold
      stuff, and Cattle and other moueable goods shall bee my wiues
      to bring vp my children : And in case my wife should bee
      married to another man, then my surviers of my will shall haue
      power if they thinke good to take security for the bringing vp
      of the children, and for so much estate as shall bee though
      meete by them, and to this my last Will and Testament I make
      my wife my Executrix, and I doe desire my Deare Brethren Mr.
      Tailecoate, Willerton, and Stebbing, to take care of and Assist
      my wife in the ordering her selfe and my children, and I give
      them power to doe what in their Judgements may bee for the
      best, to bring vp my Children and dispose of them, and that I
      leaue, for theire good : And to this my will I sett to my hand
      the day aboue written. EDWARD STEBBING, ROBERT DAY WALLTER
      GAYLERD. 14th October, 1648.
      An Inventory of the Goods of Robert Day deceased. s. d. In
      the Chamber. Impr. one Bedstead ; one fether bed, and fether
      Boulster and flock boulster : 2 pillowes, & bedcase &
      Curtaines. 07 00 00 Item : 2 blankitts, one red & yellow
      Couerlitt Item : 1 chest 10s : 1 Box 3s : 1 desck box 3s : 00
      16 00 Item : 1 table 5s : 1 Cubberd 5s and Chaiers 00 16 00
      Item : 3 paier of sheetes 02 00 00 Item : 6 table napkins 12s :
      1 table cloth 5s. 00 17 00 Item : 6 pillow beeres 01 10 00
      Item : the wearing Clothes with 3 skinns 05 00 00 Item : in
      Linnen yearne and Cotton wool yearne 01 10 00 Item : 2 Cushins
      6s : 1 paire of Bellowes 3s. 00 09 00 Item : 1 Little Baskitt
      12d : 1 warming pann 6s. 00 07 00 In the Hall. Item : 1 Brass
      Kettle 02 10 00 Item : 1 Little kettle 12s : 1 little brass
      kettle 00 15 00 Item : 1 brass possnett (€) 4s : 1 brass pott
      16s : 1 Iron 01 14 00 pott 14s. Item : 1 brass Chaffin dish 3s
      : one skimer 00 05 06 Item : 7 pewter dishes, and some broken
      pewter : 1 saser : 2 pewter potts : 1 Candlestick : 1 salte : 1
      small bottle : 01 10 00 6 ockum (€) spoons, 2 porringers and 4
      old spoones. Item : 1 Lattin (€) dripping pann : 1 spitt, 1
      pistoll : 1 00 10 00 smoothin Iron Item : in earthern ware, and
      wooden ware 00 10 00 Item : 1 muskitt Bandleers () and sword 01
      00 00 Item : 1 table and 2 Chaires 00 05 00 In the sellar, Item
      : in tubbs and Tables and formes 01 00 00 In ye little chamber
      : It : one flockbed, 2 blankitts : 1 couerlitt, 1 04 12 00
      feather houlster, 2 feather pillowes, 2 bedsteads Item : 3
      hogsheads, 2 Linnen wheeles, 1 woolen wheele, 00 19 00 one
      Barrill. Item : 1 table, 1 wheele, 1 hatchett 00 05 00 Item :
      in working tooles 01 08 00 Item : 1 Leather Bottle 2s : VId : 1
      paire tongs : 00 15 00 fier pann, grid Iron : frying pann, one
      trammell Item : in Bookes, and Sackes, and Ladders 01 00 00
      Item : one Cow : 1 3 yeare ould heifer : one 2 yeare 14 10 00
      old heifer, with some hay to winter them Item : 2 hoggs 3€. 03
      00 00 Item : in seuerall sortes of Corne with some hemp and
      flax 15 00 00 Item : the dwelling howse and out howsing, howse
      lott 45 00 00 and Garden. Item : about 6 Akers of meadow, in
      severall parcells 26 00 00 with vpland ________________ Summa :
      Totalis 142 : 13 : 06 JOHN TAILECOATE GREGORY WILLTERTON EDWARD
      STEBBING : _________________

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Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day, Hartford, Conn.
"It has been handed down in tradition that the family of Day originally came from Wales. This tradtion is undoubtedly correct. In a bood of Heraldy , containing the Arms of William Day, B.D. Proviost of Eton College and dean of Windsor, confirmed by William Flower, Norroy, on the 21st of October, 1582, in the twenty fourth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, he is said to be descended from the Dees of Wales, viz. being younger son of Richard Day, who was the son of Nicholas Day, the son of John Dee, called by the English Daye. He was the son of Morgan Dee, younger brother of Richard Dee, Welshman"

DEE, signifying, it is said, dark and dingy, is the name of a small river in Wales, and was probably applied to some ancestors of the family, dwelling upon its banks, inorder to distinguish him from others.... and in time, the word Dee came to be written, accpording to the apparent sound, Daye or Day. This name still prevails in Wales and there pronounced as in England and this country (America). Within the first thirty years after the settlement of New England eight persons of the thame of Day are found on the record, viz- 1.; Robert Day, first of Cambridge, then of Hartford,Conn.

Robert arrived in America in 1634 and settled first in Cambridge, then called Newton, Mass. He had a wife Mary who died soon after arriving. He was one of the 100 people who made their way through the woods with Rev. Thomas Hooker to found Hartford, Conn. Robert Day's name is on the monument as a founder of Hartford along with that of William Whiting. His second wife was Editha Stebbins (Stebbing) of Hartford.
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