James DAY

Abt 1717 - 1782  (65 years)

• Name	James DAY
  Birth	Abt 1717  [1, 2]
  	From the book, Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut (p. 356) we learn that James Day “owned some 3,300 acres of land in Killingly, and was the founder of the village of Dayville.”
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Dec 1782	Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, United States   [1, 2]
  Burial	Killingly, Windham, Connecticut, United States   [2]
  	Address: Day Cemetery
  Person ID	I2664	Stanwood Family
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert DAY,   b. 17 Jan 1684, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. Bef 29 Aug 1754 (Age < 70 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth DRESSER
  Marriage	4 Apr 1706	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F61	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

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• Sources

  [S1451] BOOK: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, 17 June 2016; pp. 1156-1166. Genealogical_and_Family_History_of_the_S [S1166] Find A Grave, 19 June 2016; memorial page for James Day ( - 1782), Find A Grave Memorial no. 38,961,858. Citing Day Cemetery, Killingly, Windham County, Massachusetts; two separate headstones photographed by Nate Bramlett mark the grave of James Day, with the older, original gravestone partially legible and the photobraph of the second, newer Revolutionary War gravestone provides a clearly legible image of the inscribed data. DAY_James_b1716_grave_001 DAY_James_b1716_grave_001-c DAY_James_b1716_grave_002 [S816] Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, (Salem: The Essex Institute, 192 (Reliability: 2). [S1451] BOOK: Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, 17 June 2016; pp. 1156-1166 (Reliability: 2). Genealogical_and_Family_History_of_the_S