History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . member at the same time. She died November,1874. HEMAN DAT. The family of Day in the Connecticut Valley originallycame from Wales. On a monument in the rear of the CentreCongregational Church in Hartford, erected in memory of theearly settlers of that town, is recorded, among others, the nameof Robert Day, the ancestor of the Days who liave lived inthe New England States. Of his history previous to leaving England nothing is known. Mention is first made o
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . member at the same time. She died November,1874. HEMAN DAT. The family of Day in the Connecticut Valley originallycame from Wales. On a monument in the rear of the CentreCongregational Church in Hartford, erected in memory of theearly settlers of that town, is recorded, among others, the nameof Robert Day, the ancestor of the Days who liave lived inthe New England States. Of his history previous to leaving England nothing is known. Mention is first made of him inthe colony records as admitted to the freedom of Newtown,now Cambridge, Mass., May 6, 1635. It is probable that heemigrated from England to this country some time in the year1634. lu June, 1636, he crossed the wilderness with Rev. and a hundred others to Hartford, and remained theretill his death, in 1648. His children were Thomas, John, Sarah(Mrs. Nathaniel Gunn, of Hartford), and Mary (Mrs. SamuelEly, of Springfield). The subject of this narrative is a de-scendant of Col. Benjamin Day, of West Springfield, who was. W^^fm^ Photo, hy Moffitt, Sprillgfleld. HEMAN DAY. a member of the fifth generation from the emigrant, whoseson Thomas, above mentioned, settled in Springfield, marriedSarah Cooper, daughter of Lieut. Cooper (killed when thetown was burned by the Indians), Oct. 27, 1659, and diedDec. 27, 1711. Heman Day was born Jan. 27, 1755, in West Springfield,and married Lois, daughter of Col. Benjamin Ely, of thesame place. Their children were Henry, Laura, Rodney,Robert, Sarah, Benjamin, Heman and Lydia (twins), Har-riet, and Frances, the youngest now living, and to whom weare indebted for the material for this sketch. Mr. Day was a farmer by occupation, although very muchof his life was spent as a public servant for his townsmen, oc-cupying for many years the office of justice of the peace, select-man, and was nuiny times selected as guardian, adminis-trato
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