His daughter Sarah was killed with her son Joseph by the Indians 19 Sep 1677.
He and Mary came from Ipswich, England to Boston on the Elizabeth. He settled in Newtown, now Cambridge.
Robert was made a freeman on May 6, 1635. In 1639 he was one of the first settlers of Hartford, Connecticut.
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A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, 1635-1650:
Page 487: Robert Day, Hartford; inventory £142-13-06, taken 14 Oct 1648, by John Tailecoate, Gregory Wilterton and Edward Stebbing. Will dated 20 May 1648.
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:
I give unto my beloued wife, Edatha Day, my now dwelling house and Howsing thereto adjoyning, houselott. Also all my Land whereof I stand possessed, or that of Right doth belong to mee, lying in Hartford, during the tearme of her natural life; And at the end of her life, my Will is that the s'd house and Land shall bee for the vse of my Children that then shall bee liuing, to be divided in an equally proportion: my Will also is that all my howshold Stuff, and Cattle and other moueable goods, shall bee my wiue's, to bring vp my Children:
And in case my wife should be married to another man, then my survivors of my Will shall haue power, if they thinke good, to take security for the bringing vp of the Children, and for soe much Estate as shall be thought meete by them; and to this my last Will and Testament I make my wife Executrix, and I do desire my Deare Brethren Mr. Tailecoate, Wilterton and Stebbing to take Care of and Assist my wife in the ordering herselfe and my Children; and I give them power to doe what in their judgements may be for the Best, to bring vp my Children and dispose of them, and that I leave for their Good. And to this my Will I sett to my hand the day above written.
Robert Day
Witness: Edward Stebbing, Walter Gaylord.
Inventory Taken; 14 Oct 1648; Hartford, Hartford Co., CT 8. £142-13-06: 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 the little chamber :
It : one flockbed, 2 blankitts : 1 couerlitt, 1 04 12 00 feather boulster, 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
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Summa : Total is 142 : 13 : 06
John Tailecoate Gregory Willterton Edward Stebbing
The Great Migration Begins
ROBERT DAY
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1634 on the Elizabeth
FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge
REMOVES: Hartford by 1639
OCCUPATION: His inventory included "working tools" valued at £1 8s., but the work for which the tools were intended is not stated.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 6 May 1635 implied by freemanship.
FREEMAN: 6 May 1635 (sixth in a sequence of eight Cambridge men) [MBCR 1:370].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "books, and sacks, and ladders," valued at £1.
OFFICES: His inventory included "1 musket, bandoliers and sword" valued at £1.
ESTATE: On 4 August 1634, Robert Day was granted three acres in Westend Field, Cambridge [CaTR 9]. In the 20 August 1635 division of meadow land in Cambridge, "Rob[er]t Day" received a proportional share of « [CaTR 13].
In the Cambridge land inventory on 10 October 1635, "Robert Day" held two parcels: "in Westend one house with backside about two acres"; and "in Westend Field about three acres" [CaBOP 34]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of those "who have houses in the town," Robert Day was credited with one house in the Westend [CaTR 18].
In the Hartford land inventory of February 1639/40, "Rob[ert] Day" held ten parcels: "one parcel on which his dwelling house now standeth with outhouses, yards & gardens ... containing by estimation two acres"; one acre one rood in the Neck of Land; one rood three perches in the Little Meadow; one acre eight perches "on the east side of the Great River"; three roods eighteen perches in the North Meadow, of which two roods twenty-eight perches is meadow and thirty perches is swamp; five acres three roods and eight perches in the North Meadow, of which four acres four perches is meadow and one acre three roods is swamp; three acres three roods and twenty perches in the Cowpasture; seven acres three roods in the Little Oxpasture; one rood thirty-one perches in the Neck of Land; and two acres two roods nineteen perches in the Neck of Land [HaBOP 118-20].
(On an unknown date Edward Stebbins held two parcels, one in the Neck of Land and one on the east side of the Great River, "part whereof he bought of Mrs. Chester & part of William Rusco & another part of Rob[ert] Day" [HaBOP 105]. In 1645 John Holiway held "one parcel on which his house now standeth which he bought of Robbard Day & was parcel of his houselot containing by estimation three roods" [HaBOP 379]. In 1666 Nathaniel Goodwin held "one parcel of land which he bought of Edward Stebing (which was formerly Rob[ert] Daye's houselot)" [HaBOP 147].)
In his will, dated 20 May 1648 and proved on an unknown date, Robert Day bequeathed to "my beloved wife Edatha Day" the dwelling house and housing, houselot and land in Hartford for her lifetime, she to bring up the children, and should she remarry, if the supervisors think it good, to take security for the children's upbringing; wife executrix; "my dear brethren Mr. Tailecoate, Wilterton and Stebbing" to act as supervisors [CCCR 1:487-88].
The inventory of the estate of Robert Day, taken 14 October 1648, totalled £142 13s. 6d., of which £71 was real estate: "the dwelling house and out housing, house lot and garden," £45; and "about 6 acres of meadow, in several parcels with upland," £26 [CCCR 1:488-89].
In his will of 24 August 1663, Edward Stebbins included a bequest of 40s. apiece to "the 4 children of my dear sister Holyoke" [Hartford PD Case #5153].
In his will of 23 January 1657/8, "John Maynard of Hartford" bequeathed to "my wife Edetha my dwelling house with all my other houses, as also all other land lying and being in Hartford, during her life; and after her decease unto John Day, the youngest son of my wife, unto him and his heirs forever"; "Thomas Day, the eldest son, shall receive £20 sterling out of my estate provided he carry well and dutifully to his mother"; to "Sarah and Mary Day, my wife's daughters, £20 sterling to each of them"; to "the Rev. Mr. Stone, teacher of the Church of Hartford, 40s."; "my wife sole executrix"; "Mr. John Talcott Senior and my brother Mr. Edward Stebbing and Richard Goodman" overseers [Manwaring 1:137-38].
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ASSOCIATIONS: Robert Day migrated with and lived near NATHANIEL ELY , and so some relationship is possible [TAG 30:80-81].
COMMENTS: On 30 April 1634, "Robert Day," aged 30, and "Mary his wife," aged 28, were enrolled at Ipswich for passage to New England on the Elizabeth [Hotten 280].
Various authors have misallocated the early records for this immigrant and ROBERT DAY [Planters 120, 159; Topo Dict 70; Pope 135]. Savage got it right [Savage 2:26-27]; in 1953 Jacobus carefully set forth the arguments for the correct interpretation [Hale, House 509-10].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1848 there appeared A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day of Hartford, Conn., Who Died in the Year 1648 [Northampton 1848], a better than average production for its day. In 1957 Elizabeth Day McCormick and Robert Hall McCormick III published a brief account of Robert Day and of his son John [McCormick-Hamilton 319-24].
In 1953 Donald Lines Jacobus compiled an excellent account of Robert Day of Cambridge and Hartford [Hale, House 509-14]. In 1954 and 1955 John Insley Coddington published a group of articles on the Ely and Stebbins families which had important implications for the family of Robert Day [TAG 30:80-81, 197-99, 202-3, 31:193-201].
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