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John DAY

John DAY

Male Abt 1750 - 1820  (70 years)

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  • Name John DAY 
    Birth Abt 1750  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • In the History of Monona County, John's birth is cited as 4 Mar 1751, which is not possible given that he was baptized in Feb. 1750.
    Baptism 24 Feb 1750  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
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    Gender Male 
    Land 29 Mar 1775  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    S. Lord to John Day Jr 
    • Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Lord Junior of Ipswich in the county of Essex, gentleman with the consent of Lucy my wife to yield of all her rights of Dower in the hereafter described premises in consideration of six pounds thirteen shillings and four pence lawful money paid me by John Day Jr of the same Ipswich aforesaid cordwainer the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give grant sell & convey unto the said John Day a certain lot of piece of land situate in Ipswich aforesaid and is bitted & bounded as followeth viz. beginning at these southwesterly corner of Jonathan Lummus’s Homestead from thence by a stone wall westerly & by the country road three rods & four feet to a stake from fence by my other land Northerly until it comes to the Burying ground then easterly by said burying ground until it comes to the afore named Lummus's land being exact three rods from thence southerly by said Lummus's land to the bounds first mentioned containing between nine & ten rods be the same more or less together with one half a well which stands westerly from the premises about one rod also liberty to pass and repassed from road to and from the well at all times as occasion may require to have & to hold the granted premises to the said John Day his heirs & their proper use & behoof and I said Samuel Lord for myself my heirs executors & administrators do Covenant with the said John Day and his heirs & assigns that I am lawfully seized in the fee of the premises that they are free of all encumbrances that I have good right to sell & convey the same to the said John Day to hold in manner as aforesaid and that I will warrant & defend same the said John Day & his heirs & assigns forever against the lawful claims & demands of all persons. In witness whereof we have hereto put our hands & seal this twenty ninth day of March A. D. one thousand seven hundred & seventy five in the fifteenth year of the reign of George the thrid King &c
      Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us Eben Kimball, John Manning Jr

      Samuel Lord & a seal
      Lucy Lord & a seal
    Military 1776  New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • John was paid 13s. 4d. for eight month’s service in New York in 1776.
    Tax Abt 1779  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Military 18 Oct 1779  Claverack, Columbia, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 8] 
    • John was listed as a soldier in Capt. Thomas Cummings’ Co., Col. Jacob Gerrish’s regiment, enlisting 14 Oct. 1779 and discharged 22 Nov. 1779. Although his enlistment was for a three-month period, his total service was one month and 20 days. This included travel to Claverack and a subsequent detachment from the Essex and Suffolk Co. militia to reinforce the army under Gen. Washington.
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    Tax Abt 1780  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
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    Census 1790  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    • Free white males, above 16 - 1
      Free white males, under 16 - 2
      Free white females - 4
    Land 8 Oct 1791  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Land 12 Mar 1796  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Land 1 Oct 1796  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    • Sale of land to James & Moses Day
    Land 24 Oct 1796  Winthrop, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    • Purchase of land from Benjamin Allen
    Tax 1798  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [15] 
    Census 1800  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    • Males:
      Under 10 - 1
      10-15- 1
      16-25- 0
      26-44- 1
      Females
      Under 10- 2
      10-15 - 1
      16-25- 1
      26-44- 1
    Census 1810  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [17] 
    • Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 3
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
      Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
      Number of Household Members: 6
    Misc 22 May 1811  Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    • John Day, Francis Day and Daniel Day sign petition for creation of town of Naples.
    Land 19 Jul 1813  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    • J. Day sale to N. Day, Grantee.
    Land Oct 1818  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [20] 
    • Division of land in Ipswich with Jeremiah, Nathaniel, John, Mary and Sarah Day
    Census 7 Aug 1820  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [21] 
    • Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 2
      Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
      Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 3
      Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
      Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 8
      Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
      Free White Persons - Over 25: 7
      Total Free White Persons: 8
    Death 12 Oct 1820  Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [22, 23, 24] 
    Obituary 4 Nov 1820  Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    • American Advocate, Died, In Winthrop, on the 12th ult. Mr. JOHN DAY, in the 70th year of his age, after a long and distressing sickness, which he bore with firmness and patients of a Christian. He has left a wife and numerous family and relatives to bemoan their loss. But every murmur should be suppress by that voice from the throne of the Majesty on High, saying "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord".
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    Obituary 8 Nov 1820  Hallowell, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [23] 
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    Obituary 9 Nov 1820  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [25] 
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    Occupation Cordwainer  [11, 12] 
    Religion Baptist 
    Burial Readfield, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [22] 
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    Person ID I1447  Stanwood Family
    Last Modified 2 Oct 2021 

    Father Jeremiah DAY,   b. Abt 1712/3, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1780 (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Mary CALDWELL,   b. 20DA 3MO 1717, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Oct 1802, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Marriage Aft 27 Jun 1741  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [26] 
    Family ID F209  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah DAY,   b. Abt Nov 1751, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Oct 1845, Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years) 
    Marriage 22 Dec 1774  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [27, 28, 29] 
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    Children 
     1. John DAY,   b. Abt Nov 1776, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Mar 1833, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
     2. Abigail DAY,   b. 11 Feb 1779, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1852, Manchester, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     3. Francis DAY,   b. 12 Feb 1781, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1856 (Age 75 years)
     4. Aaron DAY,   b. 2 Jul 1783, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1862 (Age 78 years)
     5. Sarah DAY,   b. 14 Oct 1785, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Feb 1877, Manchester, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)
     6. Lucy DAY,   b. Abt Jul 1788, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     7. Moses DAY,   b. 31 Dec 1790, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. Nathaniel DAY,   b. 16 Feb 1794, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Dec 1873, Manchester, Kennebec, Maine, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Family ID F644  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Dec 2024 

  • Photos
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    Documents
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  • Notes 
    • John Day is listed as an early settler of Manchester, and resided on part of lot 41 in Manchester at Augusta to Winthrop Road, Route 202, according to Manchester, Maine 1775-1975, transcribed portions published at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mecreadf/man1790.htm.

      John Day was a cordwainer, according to the deed in which he conveyed land to his son, Nathaniel, in 1813. The deed is apparently for the same property noted in the Manchester book above, and is described in the deed as “a certain tract of land it being the premises on which I now live, lying in Winthrop aforesaid, near the west line of Hallowell; it being part of lot Numbered Forty one…”

      In the History of Monona County, a biography of Franklin Augustus Day (grandson of John Day), we receive a wonderful overview of the Day lineage back to Robert of Ipswich, and confirmation of our line's migration to Maine. The author writes, "The latter had a son, Jeremiah, born in 1713, who died in 1788, and who was the father of John Day, born March 4, 1751. The latter married his cousin, Miss Sarah Day, and removed from Ipswich to Winthrop, Me., in 1795, with a family of five sons and three daughters. He died in Maine October 12, 1820."

      A Mr. John Day was listed in the tax lists in Ipswich for the years 1768 and 1770, and was residing south part of town. This is presumably the older John Day, husband of Eunice, who had his will probated 5 December 1780. The elder John was clearly was a man of means; the inventory of his estate at probate appraised his land holdings at £554, with a total estate valued at £658.

      In 1771, a John Day was taxed on a house with his real estate valued at £26 18s; he had £100 lent at interest. Animals taxed were 2 horses, 2 oxen, 5 cattle, 20 goats and sheep, and 4 swine. His land included 20 acres of pasture able to accommodate 150 cattle; his farm produced 150 bushels of grain annually, had 37 acres of salt marsh, produced 20 tons of salt marsh hay annually, had 4 acres of English and Upland mowing grass, and produced 4 tons of English and Upland hay annually. This latter tax also likely reflects the elder John, as our subject would have been a mere 21 years of age.

  • Sources 
    1. [S598] Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, 4 vols, 1:113.

    2. [S552] First Church of Ipswich (Ipswich, Massachusetts), “Records of First Church 1739-1805,”, p. 47, baptism of John Day (1750), IHS microfilm 4, Ipswich Archives, IHS microfilm no. 4.
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    3. [S1662] DB: Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, 3 June 2015; Essex County, Massachusetts deed 136:191, Samuel Lord to John Day Jr, 29 March 1775.
      DAY_John_b1750_deed_1775      		 DAY_John_b1750_deed_1775
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    4. [S753] entries for James Day, John Day, Jeremiah Day Jr, Thomas Day and Moses Day; War Records 1776-1779, F.
      DAY_John_b1750_military_pay_roll_002      		 DAY_John_b1750_military_pay_roll_002


    5. [S337] Ipswich Tax Records 1780-1850, unpaginated, tax valuation for “John Day,” about 1779; Microfilm M-11.
      DAY_John_b1750_tax_1780_Ipswich_001      		 DAY_John_b1750_tax_1780_Ipswich_001


    6. [S136] Ipswich Archives.
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    7. [S269] p. 43, John Day; Muster Rolls of the Revolutionary War, v. 18, roll 14, microfilm SC1/57X, Massachu.
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    8. [S1479] BOOK: Ipswich Antiquarian Papers 1879-1885, 31 October 2021; 4:210.
      DAY_John_RevWar_Antiquarian-Papers-of-Ipsich-Mass-page437      		 DAY_John_RevWar_Antiquarian-Papers-of-Ipsich-Mass-page437


    9. [S813] Ipswich Tax Records 1780-1850, unpaginated, tax valuation for “John Day”; Microfilm M-11, Ipswich Ar.
      DAY_John_b1750_tax_1781_Ipswich_001      		 DAY_John_b1750_tax_1781_Ipswich_001


    10. [S1169] CENSUS: U.S., 1790 Massachusetts, Essex, Ipswich; 299; John Day; 2014.
      Day_John_b1750_census_1790_Ipswich      		 Day_John_b1750_census_1790_Ipswich


    11. [S1662] DB: Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, 7 June 2015; Essex County, Massachusetts deed 159:166, Aaron Day, et. al. to Lucy Day, 8 October 1791.
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    12. [S1662] DB: Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, 3 June 2015; Essex County, Massachusetts, deeds 160:187, Elijah Foster to Moses Day and John Day Jr, 12 March 1796.
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    13. [S1662] DB: Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, 11 June 2015; Essex County, Massachusetts deed 209:91, John & Sarah Day to James & Moses Day, 1 October 1796.
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      Day_John_b1750_deed_1796_10_01_001      		 Day_John_b1750_deed_1796_10_01_001


    14. [S1582] Lincoln County [Maine] Deeds at Kennebec County, 4:529; Benjamin Allen to John Day; 24 October 1796.
      Day_John_b1750_deed_1796_10_24_001      		 Day_John_b1750_deed_1796_10_24_001


    15. [S882] New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Massachusetts and Maine: Direct Tax, 1798.", Original manuscript: Direct tax list of 1798 for Massachusetts and Maine, 1798. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA.
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    16. [S1173] CENSUS: U.S., 1800 Maine, Kennebec, Winthrop; p. 271; John Day; 24 March 2014.
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    17. [S1175] CENSUS: U.S., 1810 Maine, Kennebec, Winthrop; p. 897; John Day; 4 March 2014.
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    18. [S1462] BOOK: History of Augusta: First Settlements and Early Days as a Town, 31 March 2014; p. 188.

    19. [S993] Maine, Kennebec County, Deed books, 38:413, John Day, grantor, to Nathaniel Day, 4 June 1813.
      Kennebec Co, ME, Kennebec County Deeds, 38:413, John Day, grantor, to Nathaniel Day, 4 June 1813; Kennebec Co, Maine, Augusta.
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    20. [S1662] DB: Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986, 11 June 2015; Essex County, Massachusetts deed 221:113, division of property, Eunice Caldwell et. al., October 1818.
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    21. [S1180] CENSUS: U.S., 1820 Maine, Kennebec, Winthrop; p. 634; John Day; 24 March 2014.
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    22. [S191] Case Cemetery (Readfield, Maine), Grave Markers, Gravestone for “John Day ([-?-] - 1820)” reads “In memory of Mr. John Day who died Oct 12 1820 in the 70 year of his age,” photographed by Lauren Rogers Mahieu, 2014.
      Case Cemetery (Readfield, Maine). Gravestone for “John Day ([-?-] - 1820)” reads “In memory of Mr. John Day who died Oct 12 1820 in the 70 year of his age,” photographed by Lauren Rogers Mahieu, 2014.
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    23. [S1083] NEWS: Hallowell Gazette, Died; death announcement; 8 November 1820; John Day, 12th ult, p. 3; 25 March 2014.
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    24. [S1056] NEWS: American Advocate, Died; obituary; 4 November 1820; John Day, p. 3; 1 April 2014.
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    25. [S1430] NEWS: Providence Gazette, Died; mortuary notice; 9 November 1820; Mr. John Day, p. 3; 30 March 2014.
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    26. [S598] Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, 4 vols, 2:128.

    27. [S598] Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, 4 vols, 2:128 (Reliability: 2).

    28. [S101] Massachusetts, Essex, Ipswich, Town Records, marriage register, entry for John Day and Sarah Day, online images; FamilySearch (http://www.familysearch.org : 6 June 2015). (Reliability: 3).
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    29. [S1465] BOOK: History of Monona County, Iowa, 26 March 2014; pp. 517-518 (Reliability: 2).
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