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Silence Burt Chart 2.0 -- Thomas Day

 

[------- Robert Day [GMD] , b. 1604 d. 1648

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[                   [------- Richard Day

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Thomas Day, b. 1635, 9th Great-grandfather

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[                   [------- William Stebbing, III of Black Notley (c. 1567-1624)

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[                   [                   [------- William Stebbing, 1538-1603

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[                   [                                      [------- William Stebbing, Sr., 1521-1561

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[                   [                                                         [------- John Stebbing, b. 1503

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[                   [                                                                            [------- Thomas Stebbing, b. 1480

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[------- Editha Stebbins Day, b. Abt 1613 Woodham, Essex, Eng., 10th Great-grandmother

 

Notes.

 

Robert Day's first wife was a woman named Mary, who came with him on the Elizabeth to Boston in 1634.  She is thought to have died before Day settled in Hartford in the late 1630's.  He then married Editha Stebbins.  Per A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692, on the Basis of Farmer’s Register by James Savage, Boston: Little Brown, 1860-62, Editha was the mother of Robert's children Thomas (b. Abt 1636), Mary (b. Abt 1640) and John (b. Abt 1643).

One of Edith's brothers was Deacon Edward Stebbins, a Founder of Hartford, CT., who is listed in Great Migration Directory.

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The Hatfield Attack

 

Robert and Editha also had a daughter Sarah (Thomas’ sister) who married Samuel Kellogg.  Sarah and her infant son Joseph were killed by Indians Sept. 19, 1677 in the attack on Hatfield.  Her son Samuel was taken prisoner by the Indians and carried to Canada; he eventually returned to Colchester, CT., bought land from his brother Nathaniel and married Hannah Dickinson.  

 

While men were out working in the fields, the Indians attacked, burning houses, killing 12 people and capturing 21.  It is likely that Samuel was returned from Canada by Benjamin Waite and Stephen Jennings, two Hatfield men whose wives and children were taken captive.  

 

Waite, an accomlished Indian scout, and Jennings got approved as agents to bargain for the captives, built a canoe and went up Lake George and Lake Champlain in the winter to Quebec City, Canada.  They may have been the first English colonists on Lake Champlain.  They were able to secure the release of 17 captives and returned to New England in May 1678.  A quarter century later, Waite was killed in the Deerfield Massacre that was part of Queen Anne’s War. 

 

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