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THE DAY FAMILY OF WINCHENDON is believed to have descended from an Englishman named Randolph Day, who in 1630 was a tenant or lessee of John Sedborough, who had in 1610 or about that time received a grant of the escheated lands in the north of Ireland. This grant was lo- cated in county Fermanagh, precinct of Clancally, in the northwest part of the island, near the coast and just south of Tyrone where so many of the Protestant immigrants to America in 1718-1750 came from. Day probably went to Ireland between the years 1620 and 1630 with neighbors in England who were encouraged by the government to settle in Ireland. Some of the other twelve lessees on this estate were : Hugh Stokes. Robert Allen, Stephen Allen, Joseph Dickinson, all of them being British as well as the landlord or "Undertaker." as the proprietors were called.
(I) Deacon Richard Day, the immigrant ances- tor. was born in Ireland, about 1720. He came to America when a young man and lived for a time in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Many efforts have been made, from the fact that he came from Ipswich to his home in Winchendon (Ipswich, Canada), to trace his ancestry to Robert Day. the progenitor of the Puritan family who settled in Ipswich about the time that Randolph Day settled in Ireland. It is possible that Richard Day knew that he had dis- tant relatives at Ipswich. Some account of Robert Day will be found elsewhere in this work.
Who Richard Day's father was is not known. But the records indicate that the ancestor of the Protestant family of Day in Ireland was Randolph Day. There was no other Day among the thousands of settlers from Scotland and England, when King James tried to suppress the Irish by introducing
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loyal Protestant subjects by the thousands in Irish homes, dispossessing the Catholic tenants from nearly four million acres of land.
Richard Day removed to Groton after living a short time in Lunenburg. He was married at Lunenburg by Rev. David Sterns to Ruth Pouchee or Pushey, as it was spelled later, December 8, 1748. Both were recorded as of Lunenburg, but their first child was born in Groton in the summer of 1749. They removed to Winchendon in 1752. Mrs. Day was the daughter of Gabriel Pouchee, an Ar- cadian French exile. Her mother lived to the ex- treme age of one hundred and four years. The Pushee or Pouchee family was in Winchendon be- fore Day, and Nathan Pushee, of Ipswich, Canada, sold Lot No. 2, First Division, originally Thomas Berry's lot or "draft" in 1752, and Thomas Berry, himself then of Ipswich, sold, December 15, 1752, his first division lot in Ipswich, Canada (Winchen- don), to Richard Day, of Groton. There is also a deed from Thomas Epes, of Ipswich, to Richard Day, of Ipswich, Canada, for one hundred acres of land in Winchendon, dated November 8, 1757.
On this extensive tract of land Deacon Day built in 1752 what was then the finest and largest and first frame house in the town, still standing in good repair. He also built first a log tavern, the location of which is south of the Isaac Cummings house, where he kept a hotel and the first white child was born. He was a cooper by trade.
Deacon Day was the foremost citizen of the town as long as he lived. He was moderator of the first town meeting, which was held at his house, town treasurer for several years, selectman in 1766-71-73. He was the first deacon of the church, and held many other offices of trust and honor. He was a man of great strength and endurance, of high char- acter and greatly respected. His death was caused by injuries received from a falling tree. He died intestate in the prime of life, May 3, 1774. Three of his sons fought in the revolution.
Children of Richard and Ruth Day were: John, see forward: Hannah, born at Groton, May 26, 1752, died April 22, 1774; Nathan, born at Lunenburg (recorded there), October 2, 1754, died in Somer- ville. August 12, 1775; Sarah, born at Winchendon, April II. 1757: Ruth, born October 27. 1759, at Winchendon (also all the rest were born in Winch- endon) ; Daniel, born July 27, 1762: Lydia, born October 17, 1764. died August 29, 1767; Elizabeth, born May 12, 1767; Lydia, born August 3, 1770; Susannah. born September 9, 1773.
(II) John Day, eldest child of Richard Day (I), was born in Groton, Massachusetts, August 31. 1749. In 1752 he removed with his parents to their new home in Ipswich, Canada, where he received a rather meagre schooling, and spent a large part of his boyhood working on the farm. He attended the first school in the town, established May 5. 1765. He was a soldier in the revolution and marched on the Lexington alarm under Deacon Moses Hale, who served without a commission. This company was notified that its services were not needed before it reached Boston. Day was in the battle of Bunker Hill in Captain Abel Wilder's company of minute men, in Colonel Doolittle's regiment, and returned with the company soon after the battle. His brother Nathan died in camp at Somerville.
In 1778 he was one of a committee to estimate cost of services of the soldiers, and March 20. 1780, was chosen on a committee to hire men for the Continental army. He was a shoemaker by trade and it is said made a pair of shoes for Moses Pot- ter, one of his recruits, with heels high enough to
make Moses meet the army regulations as to the stature of a soldier.
John Day was a member of the school com- mittee in 1778 and selectman in 1781. Besides the trade of shoemaker. John Day was a carpenter. He owned a saw mill and also a grist mill at what is now called New Boston. He was the chief miller of the vicinity for many years. He owned the greater part of what is now called Waterville vil- lage. He retired from active business several years before his death. In religion he was a Baptist.
He married, January 10, 1771, Elizabeth Joslyn, daughter of Peter and Sally Joslyn, of Winchen- don, and she died August 20, 1829. Children of John and Elizabeth were : Elizabeth, born Feb- ruary 20, 1771-72; John, March 14, 1773, died Au- gust 17, 1821 ; Joseph, March 27, 1775, died March 29, 1853; Lucy, June 14, 1777; Hannah, December 29, 1779; Richard, March 6, 1782, died August 8, 1802; Peter Joslyn, June 6, 1784; Daniel, see for- ward; Susanna. June 8, 1789: Sally, October 16, 1791; Silence, July 19, 1794, died August 26, 1795; Mason Spooner. December 7, 1798.
(III) Daniel Day, eighth child of John Day (2). was born in Winchendon, February 18, 1787, died May 23. 1875. He was educated there in the district schools, and when a young man helped his father on the farm and in the grist mill. He was a farmer all his life. Of a kindly disposition, he was everybody's friend. He was called "Uncle Daniel." During the last years of his life he re- sided on the place at New Boston, at that time owned by his son, Benjamin R. Day. He was a Baptist in religion and a Democrat in politics. He was in the militia in his youth. He married Cath- erine Rice, daughter of Lieutenant Benjamin and Ruth (Budge) Rice. She was born May 30, 1786, died January 4, 1869. Children of Daniel and Catherine were: Catherine Rice, born July 9, 1809; Harriet Pierce. October 11, 1812; Ruth, December 29. 1814: Benjamin Rice, see forward; Elam Clark, December 25, 1819; Daniel Reed, April 22, 1822; John Martin, see forward; Harriet Frances, Feb- ruary 8, 1830.
(IV) Benjamin Rice Day, fourth child of Daniel Day (3), was born October 19, 1816. He attended the district school and worked till twelve years of age on his father's farm. He then went to live with Amasa Whitney and served an apprenticeship in his woolen mill where he remained until he came of age. He was afterward employed by Colonel William Murdock in his spool and bobbin factory for five years, later was in the employ of George Brown, later in business with Joel M. Haywood, later with E. W. Weslyn in the palm leaf hat busi- ness and groceries, and was the first in the town to buy one hundred barrels of flour at one time, then quite an event.
He started later in business for himself as the proprietor of a general store at Winchendon in the town hall block, where he conducted a custom tailor- ing business, carrying it on for eight years, then ready-made clothing. In 1851. he entered into part- nership with Edwin Parks at Bullardsville in the manufacture of wooden ware, but in 1857 their plant was entirely destroyed by fire. He bought the real estate of his partner, but sold it before he had carried out his plans to rebuild. In Novem- ber. 1863. he became bookkeeper for Baxter D. Whitney (see sketch), manufacturer of wooden ware and wood working machinery, a position that Mr. Day held for twenty-five years. On account of his health he left this position and later en- gaged in the livery business, and for the past twen- ty years has conducted a successful business in
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Winchendon. Mr. Day is a member of the Church of the Unity (Unitarian), and was for twenty years collector of the parish and the treasurer. In poli- tics he is a Republican, was tax collector and town treasurer of Winchendon for eleven years, and con- stable in 1849-50.
He married, March 14, 1850, Frances A. Morse, born August 23, 1824, daughter of Isaac and Frances (Stevens) Morse, of Winchendon. Their only child is Harriet Frances, born October 23, 1852, who lives at home with her father.
(IV) John Martin Day, seventh child of Daniel Day (3), was born in Winchendon, May 15, 1826. He was educated there in the common schools and started in life on the farm with his father, with whom he remained until after he was of age. He then went to work for his brother, Benjamin Rice Day, mentioned above, in the pail factory at Bul- lardsville. In 1857, when the mill was burned, he took a trip to Pontiac, Michigan, to look up and buy land, and returned east and went back to the farm. Later he was employed by Phinehas Parks on his farm at Bullardsville and in the mill making spools and bobbins. During most of his life, however, he has been a prosperous farmer, re- siding on the Day homestead at Winchendon. He is a member of the Baptist church. In his youth he served in the militia.
He married at Winchendon, January 1, 1863, Eliza Frances Carter, born July 12, 1835, died April 1, 1895, and daughter and second child of Charles Carter, who was born October 26, 1806, and died September 24, 1860. He was a farmer, and resided in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Her mother was Eliza Ann (Robbins) Carter, of East Jaffrey, New Hamp- shire : she died January 5, 1849. Children of John Martin and Eliza Frances Day are: Charles Mar- tin, born July 19, 1864, see forward; Benjamin R. 2d, born May 21, 1872.
(V) Charles Martin Day, elder son of John Martin Day (4), was born at Winchendon, Massa- chusetts, July 19, 1864. He attended the public schools and high school, leaving the latter after two years to work for the firm of William Brown & Sons, manufacturers of pails, in the winter months and on his father's farm in . the summer season. Later he accepted a position with Oswald Hancock, inaker of metal press work, where he worked for about a year then becoming a traveling salesman for the same firm, remaining about sixteen months when he returned to the employ of William Brown & Sons, for whom he worked until 1887. In 1888 he made an extended trip through the west and south on a sight seeing tour. In the winter of that vear he entered into a partnership with T. E. Turner, of Baldwinville, under the firm name of Turner & Day, in the manufacture of a patented clothes pin. After a year of successful business they accepted a favorable offer and sold out the business. From 1890 to 1895 he was in the employ of C. F. Davis, clothier, at Winchendon. Mr. Davis removed to Antrim. New Hampshire, in 1895. and died June, 1896. and Mr. Day went to Antrim and settled his estate. In 1897 Mr. Day was engaged as a traveling salesman for Green Brothers, of Providence, Rhode Island, a jewelry concern, and continued till 1898, when he entered the employ of his brother, Benjamin R. Day 2d, druggist, of Winchendon, and remained two years.
In 1904 he established his present business as a dealer in men's clothing, etc., in a store in the Andrews block, Winchendon, and has built up a lucrative trade.
Mr. Day is a Democrat and has been honored with several nominations to important positions.
The district is strongly Republican, but in 1897, when he was a candidate for state senator, he ran ahead of his ticket, four hundred votes. In 1900 was a candidate for governor's council and ran twenty-eight hundred ahead of his ticket. He has been delegate to numerous important conventions of his party. He was elected overseer of the poor in 1891, served till 1894, elected selectman in 1905 to serve till 1908, and at present is chairman of the board.
He attends the Baptist church. He is a mem- ber of the Watatic Tribe of Red Men, the United Workmen of which he is past master, of Winchen- don Grange, Patrons of Husbandry ; the Avon Club, and was first secretary and charter member and one of the organizers of the Winchendon Cycle Club. He has always taken an active part in all affairs of the village and town, either socially or politically. He was formerly auditor of the Winchendon Co- operative Bank.
He married, July 11, 1894, Annie R. McConnell, born March 1, 1881. Her father is an overseer in the N. D. White cotton mill at Winchendon Springs.
(V) Benjamin Rice Day 2d, son of John Martin Day (4), was born at Winchendon, May 21, 1872. He attended the public schools and also the Mur- dock high school for two years. At the age of fifteen he entered the employ of the Winchester Box Company at Baldwinville, where he remained for three years. He then entered the employ of C. S. Dickinson, druggist, to learn the business. After a year and a half he went to Boston in the employ of the Metcalf Company drug store and there re- mained till 1894, when he returned to Winchendon and for a short time was manager of Fred R. Dur- gin's store. He and his former employer, Mr. Dickinson, then bought the Durgin Pharmacy and for three years conducted it under the firm name of B. R. Day & Company, when Mr. Day bought out his partner and has since carried on the business under his own name. His store is at 82 Central street. Mr. Day is a member of the Church of the Unity. In politics he is a Republican and has been delegate to party conventions. He is a member of the Watatic Tribe of Red Men; Naukeag Coun- cil, Royal Arcanum; the Avon Club of Winchen- don; the State Pharmaceutical Association, and the northwestern division of the National Association of Retail Druggists. He is unmarried.
NATHAN HENRY SEARS. Richard Sears (I) was the emigrant ancestor of Nathan Henry Sears, of Millbury, Massachusetts. He was a tax- payer in the Plymouth colony as early as 1632. He removed to Marblehead where he was a land owner in 1637, but returned to the Plymouth colony about 1638 and settled at Yarmouth. He took the free- man's oath June 7, 1653. Commissioners was ap- pointed to meet at his house on Indian affairs Oc- tober 26, 1647. He was one of the settlers and founders of Yarmouth. He was buried August 26, 1676; his widow Dorothy was buried March 19, 1678-9. Their children were: Paul, born probably at Marblehead. 1637-8, died at Yarmouth, February 20, 1707-8: Silas, died at Yarmouth, January 13, 1697-8; Deborah, born at Yarmouth, September, 1639. died at Yarmouth, August 17, 1732; married Zachary Paddock, son of Robert and Mary Pad- dock.
(II) Captain Paul Sears, son of Richard Sears (I), was born probably at Marblehead, Massachu- setts, 1637-8, after February 20, died at Yarmouth, February 20. 1707-8. Paul Sears took the oath of fidelity, as the freeman's oath was sometimes
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called, in 1657. He was captain of the militia company at Yarmouth and was in the Narragan- sett war. He was one of the original proprietors of Harwich, which was laid out between Bound Brook and Stony Brook as Wing's purchase. He married at Yarmouth, 1658, Deborah Willard, daughter of George Willard. She was baptized at Scituate in the Plymouth colony by Rev. William Witherall, September 14, 1645, died at Yarmouth, May 13, 1721. Her mother was probably Dorothy Dunster. Their children were: Mercy, born at Yarmouth, July 3, 1659; Bethia, born at Yarmouth, January 3, 1661-2, died at Chatham, Massachusetts, July 5, 1684; married John Crowell, Jr., of Nob- scusett : Samuel, born at Yarmouth last of Jan- uary, 1663-4; a daughter, born at Yarmouth, 1666, perhaps Lydia, who married Eleazer Hamblin; Paul, born June 15, 1669; - born at Yarmouth, Oc- tober 24, 1672, probably Mary, wife of Colonel John Knowles, of Eastham; Ann, born at Yarmouth, March 27, 1675, died November 14. 1745; married John Merrick, of Harwich, January 28, 1703: John, born at Yarmouth, 1677-8, died May 24, 1718; Dan- iel, born at Yarmouth, 1682-3, died August 10, 1756. (III) Captain John Sears, son of Captain Paul Sears (2), was born at Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1677-8. died April 9, 1738; married at Eastham, June 1, 1704, Priscilla Freeman, born ,October 27, 1686, died May 8, 1764, daughter of Captain Samuel and Elizabeth (Sparrow) Freeman. John Sears lived in the east precinct of Yarmouth, now East Dennis, Massachusetts. He joined the church June 23. 1728. He was prominent and wealthy. He served the town of Yarmouth as moderator, as- sessor and member of the prudential committee. He was highway surveyor in 1712, fence viewer in 1720. selectman 1734-35; ensign in the militia 1722. lieutenant 1726, captain in 1736. After his death his real estate was valued at 2380 pounds and his personal property at 593 pounds. Among the prop- erty scheduled was "an Indian girl valued at three pounds."
Their children were : Elisha, born at Yar- mouth about 1706; John, born at Yarmouth about 1712: Bathsheba, born at Yarmouth, 1712, died April 19, 1735; Willard, born at Yarmouth, 1714; Mary, born at Yarmouth, October 21, 1725, married Ebe- nezer Paddock. son of John and Priscilla (Hall) Paddock; Priscilla, styled Junior, admitted to the Second church, June 23, 1728, married at Yarmouth, March 6, 1728-0. John Howes; Betty, born about 1719. married at Yarmouth, August 23, 1739, John Webb: Nathaniel, born at Yarmouth about 1720; Herman, born at Yarmouth, January 28, 1724-5, died August I, 1726; Bethia, born at Yarmouth, October 15, 1726, died September 8, 1736.
(IV) Willard Sears, son of Captain John Sears (3), was born at Yarmouth, 1714. died August 19, 1765, at West Brewster. He married at Yarmouth, November 17, 1745. Susannah Howes. born October IO, 1720, died April 9. 1763, daughter of Captain Ebenezer and Lydia (Joyce) Howes. He mar- ried ( second ) at Yarmouth, January 3, 1765, Mar- gery Homer. daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth ( Crowell) Homer and granddaughter of John and Bethia (Sears) Crowell. She was born June 13, 1727, died August 1, 1795, at West Brewster, hay- ing married ( second) at Yarmouth, March 19. 1774, Benjamin Higgins, of Eastham. Willard Sears bought the house of Joshua Sears at Hardwich op- posite the old family burying ground at Bound Brook. It was built in 1719. It had the name of being bewitched at one time. His first wife Susan- nah was a descendant of several ancestors who came in the "Mayflower"-Elder William Brewster,
John Howland, Governor Thomas Prence and Elder John Chapman. His children, all born at Harwich, were: Edward, born October 22, 1746, baptized at East Yarmouth, February 17, 1748; Willard, No- vember 8, 1748; Mary, April 1, 1750, died Decem- ber I, 1774: married at Yarmouth, November 21, 1771, Joshua Howes; Willard, January 7, 1751-2, died July 4. 1752; Reuben, September 27, 1753; Ebenezer, October 11, 1755; Willard, May 26, 1759, baptized at East Yarmouth, February 17, 1765; Susannah, October 19, 1765, married at Yarmouth, January 20, 1789, Levi Crowell.
(V) Reuben Sears, son of Willard Sears (4), was born at Brewster, Massachusetts, September 25, 1753, died at Brewster, Massachusetts, November 4, 1844. He married at Harwich, December 13, 1781, Rhoda Mayo, who died April 16, 1784, in her twenty-eighth year at West Brewster. He married ( second) (published at Harwich, March 12, 1785), Abigail Vincent, who died April 24, 1828, aged sixty-nine years. Ife settled in that part of Har- wich now known as West Brewster. He was high- way surveyor in 1786. He was a carpenter and builder of salt works. He assisted his father in the invention of the salt pan and covers. The house in which he lived he built for another man who was unable to pay for it. The latch on the door bears the date of 1770. He reported at Ply- mouth for duty during the revolutionary war "walk- ing the distance, forty miles, in one day, carrying his gun and equipments and a bushel of corn in a sack." He was in Captain Perry's company. He served on the alarm at Bedford and Falmouth September 7. 1778. He was "orthodox" and left the church when Rev. Mr. Simpkins began to preach Uni- tarianism. He became a Baptist, later a Meth- odist. He was a very pious man, of good char- acter and pronounced by one of his brothers "a saint on earth." His death was sudden. His chil- dren were: Mary, born at Harwich, November 6, 1782, married at Brewster, November 5. 1805, Amos Kelley: Rhoda, born at Harwich, April 5, 1784, died at sea January 25, 1805; David, born at Har- wich, July 23, 1788, died September, 1806; Reuben, horn at Harwich, July 29, 1791; Abigail, born at Harwich, August 9,. 1793, married Heman Sears; Philander, born at Harwich. December 29, 1795 baptized February 16, 1796; Thomas, born at Har- wich, December 11, 1797; Joanna, born at Harwich, October 14, 1799, died November 16, 1800: Orin, born at Harwich, September 9, 1802; Rosanna, born at Brewster, May 15, 1805, baptized June 16, mar- ried. January 5. 1829, Dean Sears.
(VI) Orin Sears, son of Reuben Sears (5), was born at Brewster, Massachusetts, September 9, 1802. He removed to Hingham, Massachusetts, March, 1816. where he had a salt works. He lived part of his life at Brewster, where he was class leader and steward in the Methodist church. He was selectman, a man of much prominence in the town. He was a sailor for some years. He married at Brewster, December 10, 1829, Hannah M. Hopkins, who was born at Provincetown, September 18, 1808. He died at Hingham in IS92. Their children were: Nathan Henry, born at Brewster. November 28, 1830: Lorenzo Johnson, born at Brewster, Febru- ary 27. 1832: Hannah Maria, born at Brewster, March 29. 1836, married at Hingham, November 22, 1866, John Lincoln, Jr., who was born at Hing- ham. resided at Northbridge Center, Massachusetts; Louisa Dunham, born at Brewster, May 17, 1839, died November 26, 1867; Orrin Brewster, born at Brewster, March 8, 1845.
(VII) Nathan Henry Sears, son of Orin Sears (6), was born on the old homestead at Brewster,
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Massachusetts, November 28, 1830. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native town. He went to Derby Academy, Hingham, Massachusetts. He went to Worcester in 1848, and here he learned the trade of making leather goods. He went to Millbury in 1853 to make the same line of goods. He was foreman for the firm of Johnson, Brown & Co., until the financial panic in 1897, when the firm failed like a large percentage of the manu- facturers of the vicinity. Mr. Sears found a place in Boston in a rubber goods store, where he re- mained some two years, until he entered the service, when he returned to Millbury, which had always been his home.
His first enlistment was in the Tenth unattached company of infantry for ninety days as sergeant. He enlisted in 1863 in Company F. First Battallion, Ileavy Artillery, and remained in the service for one year, as quartermaster's sergeant. In August, 1865, upon his discharge from the army, he re- turned to Millbury and opened a drug store. He conducted this business successfully until he be- came postmaster of Millbury in 1898. He sold his store to Mr. Appel in 1900, who still owns it. Mr. Sears is still serving as postmaster.
Mr. Sears is a leader in the Republican party. He represented the town of Millbury in the legis- lature in 1890. He has a wide acquaintance in the Masonic order, having taken all the degrees in- cluding the thirty-second. He has been on the cemetery committee of the town of Millbury thirty- four years and town treasurer for two years. He is chairman of the parish committee of the Uni- tarian church. No man in Millbury is better known by his townsmen, and no one is respected more, liked more, honored more and trusted more.
His first wife was Anna E. Moore, daughter of Dr. William B. and Sarah Moore, of Millbury. She was born in Millbury, September 3, 1836, died 1860. He married (second) at Petersham, Massa- chusetts, May 28, 1868, Luthera B. Wright, daugh- ter of Deacon Wright. She was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, January 12, 1839, died 1888. The children by first wife were: an infant and Nathan Walter, by second wife, born at Millbury, Decem- ber 6, 1870, died March 24, 1887. Child by second wife is Anna Moore, born at Millbury, July 27, 1875, educated at high school of Millbury and State Normal at Worcester, and now teaches in the pub- Jic schools at Brahamville, Millbury, and lives at home.
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