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The Parents
of Willard Day The
following is the introduction to a genealogy of Giles Day and Hannah
Cutler Day compiled in 1940 by Adele Andrews, together with brief
summary tables for their ancestors. THE ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF GILES AND HANNAH CUTLER DAY Compiled by ADELE ANDREWS 1940 CONTENTS 1. Notes and.
explanations
4. Ancestry of Giles Day 92-108
5. Ancestry of Hannah Cutler 111-130
6. Index 131-147 NOTES
AND EXPLANATION
Work on the Day record was begun in 1932. Much of the data on Day descendants was secured during the first two or three years of work and brought up to date in 1939 or 1940. In several cases there has been no response to recent requests to bring information up to dote, and it has been impossible, as yet, to locate several families. Over six hundred descendants of Giles and Hannah Cutler Day have been listed. Undoubtedly the total would be nearer seven hundred if data on all these could be secured. The families located are scattered over about half of the forty-eight states as well as in Canada. The fact that both collection of data and mimeographing of material have extended over several years accounts for many of the irregularities and imperfections of the work. It was hoped that before the work was completed some of the missing records might be secured and inserted in their proper sequence, and in many cases this was done. The following
explanation of the number system may assist in the location and tracing
of individuals. All descendants of Giles and Hannah Day and the Day
and Cutler families are complete ly indexed. Each individual descendant
bears a number, and keeps the same number whenever he is listed. As
a child of a family this number appears in parentheses (_), as head
of a family without. Thus two number sequences run together, one at
the extreme left for heads of families, and the other indented and
in parentheses for children. By following these sequences either forward
or backward the descendants of any individual or the descent of that
person from Giles and Hannah Cutler Day may be determined. For example:
The index may list an individual on page 75; his number may be found
to be (546) and his father's number 315; follow indented number sequence
back until (315) is located on page 38, child of number 122; follow
back until (122) is located on page 16, child of 28, and so on back
to Giles Day, number 1.
Born Feb. 13, 1784 Marlborough, Vt. Died Dec. 1 5, 1872 Johnston, Ohio. Buried in Johnston. Married Mar. 10, 1808 Marlborough by Rev. Gershom Lyman HANNAH CUTLER. She was born Mar. 28, 1788 in Marlborough, or Bennington, Vt. (Marlborough Vital Records list her birth but her tombstone states Bennington.) She was daughter of Josiah and Betsey Allen Cutler of Marlborough and Woodford, Vt. She died Sept. 21, 1874 in Gustavus. Buried in Johnston. Giles Day took the freeman's oath in Marlborough Sept. 6, 1808. He inherited land in Marlborough from his father and later bought additional property, his name appearing frequently in the land records. He was probably a blacksmith as one deed refers to his blacksmith shop. The 1870 census lists him as a cooper and his death record as a mechanic. He and his family evidently lived in Springfield, Mass. for a time between 1819 and 1822. In a deed of 1821 He is called "of Springfield" but according to a deed of 1822 he is again back in Marlborough. In 1827 and 1828 he disposed of his property in Marlborough, probably preparatory to migrating westward. The births of the first eight children are listed in Marlborough, which suggests that they may have left before the birth of the ninth in 1828, yet in a deed of a later date in 1828 Giles Day sells "land I now live on". A history of Trumbull and Mahoning Counties Ohio states that he settled in Ohio in 1829, evidently an error, judging from other records. Flavia, the oldest daughter, married in Bainbridge, Chenango Co., N.Y. in 1829 and Lavina, the youngest child was born in Broome Co.,N.Y. in 1833. Apparently the family spent several years in New York state before moving on to Ohio, although his name does not appear in the land records of either county. The first record of the family in Trumbull Co., Ohio is a deed to Giles L. Day, the oldest son, on Feb. 22, 1840 for land in Johnston. Salmon and Flavia Day Bumiell are known to have come from Bainbridge, N.Y. to Johnston about 1835. Records of Leicester Day and Lavina Day Eastlick also place the move in about 1834 or 1835. Probably both families came at the same time. Giles Day evidently purchased no property in Trumbul Co. In 1843 Giles L. Day and Salmon Bunnell set aside to Giles Day one acre of land including a blacksmith shop in Johnston. He sold this land in 1856,at which time he is called of Mesopotamia. He left no will. Children of Giles and Hannah Cutler Day: (2).Flavia - born
Nov. 20, 1808 Marlborough, Vt.
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Paternal Ancestors of Giles Day (Junior), Father of Willard Day
Maternal
Ancestors of Giles Day (Junior), Father of Willard Day
Paternal Ancestors of Hannah Cutler, Mother of Willard Day
(Adele Andrews describes at length the reasons why she considers her research on this branch to have reached an impasse. She makes a reasonable case for Bestey Allen as the mother of Hannah Cutler, but concludes that this claim cannot really be established with the same level of certainty that pertains to the above branches.)
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