Androscoggin County ME Archives History - Books .....Day Family 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/me/mefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 November 22, 2008, 1:28 am Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine DAY. The American progenitor of the Day family was Anthony Day of Gloucester, Mass. A branch of the family settled in Georgetown in the first half of the eighteenth century. Josiah Day m. 24 July 1770, Wealthy Blethen in Georgetown and settled in Royalsborough in 1773. He bought lot 21 of Job Blethen, 3 March 1777. He was Selectman and on the Committee of Safety. Died in 1837, aged about 95 yrs. JOSIAH JR. b. 11 Nov. 1774. See below. PHEBE b. 11 Dec. 1776; m. Joseph Hacker. ISAIAH b. 30 Sept. 1778; m. 1805 Deborah Philbrook; d. 20 Oct. 1819. His wife was born 19 July 1782 and died 2 April 1882. See below. CHARLOTTE b. 27 Aug. 1780; m. 1805, Caleb Estes; d. 12 Sept. 1821. WEALTHY b. 4 Nov. 1782; m. 2 Feb. 1806 Samuel Moulton; d. in Lee, Me., 17 Aug. 1849. LEVI b. 1784; m. Rebecca Spear; moved to Litchfield; d. 1829. For family see Hist, of Litchfield. SARAH b. ____; m. Joseph Philbrook. JEREMIAH, drowned in Sabattus Pond. Unm. JESSE b. 22 July 1788; m. Hannah Jones; lived in No. Brunswick; d. 1 July 1865. His wife was born 2 Nov. 1792 and died 12 Sept. 1893. See below. Josiah Day, Jr., born 11 Nov. 1774, married Jan. 1799, Mercy, dau. of Caleb and Peace (Goddard) Jones, and died 20 Oct. 1825. She was born in Brunswick 21 Jan. 1777 and died in Durham 15 Sept. 1861. THANKFUL b. 17 Nov. 1799; m. 6 April 1820 Reuben Blethen; d. 4 July 1880. ISAIAH b. 30 Oct. 1802. See below. SIMON b. 20 Oct. 1804; m. (1) Lucinda Graves, (2) Hannah Skolfield, (3) Kate Jordan. JEREMIAH B. b. 23 Feb. 1808; m. 4 April 1832 Mary Gerrish. Ch. Alonzo, Albert, Charles H., Harriet m. David Stackpole, Caroline m. Edward Crockett, and Wesley. PHOEBE b. 30 July 1810; m. Dec. 1830 Jeremiah Moulton. LORENZO b. 19 Dec. 1812. See below. JULIA A. b. 1817; m. 18 Dec. 1836 Isaac Hopkins. CHARLOTTE b. 1820; m. 17 Nov. 1847 Elisha Lunt; (2) 29 May 1869 Peter Swett. Family of Isaiah and Deborah (Philbrook) Day. CAROLINE b. 22 Dec. 1805; m. 30 May 1833 John Plummer; d. 26 Nov. 1882. WEALTHY b. 11 Aug. 1807; m. Elijah Jenkins of Rochester, N. H. JEREMIAH b. 12 Aug. 1809; m. (1) Caroline Gerrish; (2) Phebe Blake of Lisbon. LUCY b. 6 Jan. 1812; m. Nathan Douglas. GEORGE P. b. 27 June 1815; m. (1) Eunice Douglas; (2) Sarah P. Estes. Eunice d. 5 Nov. 1866. JANE b. 16 Feb. 1818; m. Waitstill W. Douglas; d. 28 Jan. 1892. SUSAN P. b. 17 June 1820; m. Joseph Cartland. Family of Jesse and Hannah (Jones) Day. LYDIA b. 8 May 1821; m. Charles B. Robinson of Brooks, Me. JAMES b. 1 April 1823. Unm. JOSIAH b. 14 July 1826; d. 18 Aug. 1850. Unm. LEVI b. 12 Sept. 1830. Unm. ELISHA b. 6 June 1832; m. Mercy E. Moulton; d. 4 May 1873. ALVAH b. 30 Mch. 1834; d. 12 Aug. i860. Unm. ALMIRA b. 4 Jan. 183-; m. Stephen Cartland. Family of Isaiah and Mary (Hanson) Day. JOSIAH b. 21 Oct. 1832. GEORGE b. 22 Dec. 1833. LOVISA b. 25 Mch. 1835. ISAAC b. 7 Jan. 1837; d. 2 July 1854. FRANCIS b. 17 Dec. 1838; d. 5 Jan. 1879 in Cal. AUGUSTUS b. 21 Oct. 1840. JULIA b. 24 May 1842. MARY J. b. 7 July 1844. LOUISA b. 26 July 1846; d. 15 Nov. 1854. ISAIAH b. 6 July 1848. Lorenzo Day, son of Josiah, Jr., and Mercy (Jones) Day, was born in Durham, 19 Dec. 1812. He married 14 Feb. 1837, Mar}/ Louise Hopkins of Brunswick, who was born 27 Oct. 1818, and died 8 April 1S97. Fie was a shoe manufacturer at North Brunswick until 1850, when he moved to Brunswick village, where he continued that business till 1859. He opened a retail shoe store, 1850, on the corner of Maine and Mason Sts., in Hinkley Block, which after its partial destruction in 1853 he rebuilt under the name of Day's Block. Here he did business till 1877. He also had retail stores in Racine, Beloit and Jonesville, Wisconsin, and for a short time in Topsham, Me. He died in Brunswick, 27 March 1880. FESSENDEN IRVING b. 26 Nov. 1837; m. 20 Dec. 1861 Mary Alma Holland. He is a shoe-merchant in Lewiston, Me. LIZZIE HOPKINS b. 22 Aug. 1839; m. 4 July 1869 Elisha M. Whitten, M. D. MARIA LOUISE b. 12 Aug. 1841; m. 25 Nov. 1863 John Furbish. LEANDER HOWARD b. 23 Jan. 1844; m. 21 Oct. 1869 Nellie Seymour Phelps. MARY ELLA b. 14 April 1849; d. 23 Feb. 1852. ELLEN CARO b. 1 Jan. 1851; m. 22 Oct. 1879 Fred Burns Valpey. Two ch. Harold Day b. 22 Aug. 1880, and Frederick Louis b. 21 July 1882. Children of Fessenden I. and Mary A. (Holland) Day. HERBERT IRVING b. 15 Feb. 1864; d. 29 July 1864. DANIEL HOLLAND b. 19 May 1865. FESSENDEN LORENZO b. 18 June 1868. MARY ALMA b. 2 June 1872. ANNIE HOLLAND b. 19 Oct. 1873; d. 2 April 1875. HELEN LOUISE b. 8 April 1877; d. 29 July 1880. ETHEL WILSON b. 21 Aug. 1884. Children of Leander H. and Nellie S. (Phelps) Day. RENA ELLS b. 29 Oct. 1870. IRVING SEYMOUR b. 22 Sept. 1873; d. 23 Oct. 1895. BESSIE FLORENCE b. 27 Oct. 1875. JESSE GOULD b. 2 June 1882. Children of John and Maria L. (Day) Furbish. EDWARD PAYSON b. 12 Oct. 1864; d. 10 Aug. 1878. BENJAMIN LINCOLN b. 10 Dec. 1866. MARY ALICE b. 20 Sept. 1869. CHARLES WESTON b. 5 March 1872; d. 20 July 1872. SAMUEL BENSON b. 1 Aug. 1874. JOHN ARTHUR b. 14 Oct. 1878. Additional Comments: Part of Chapter XII. GENEALOGICAL NOTES Extracted from: HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES. BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE. PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN. LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 1899. 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