A genealogical register of the descendants in the ... - Stephen Haynes

GENEALOGY.
The first knowledge we possess of our ancestor, RollCl't
Day, commences with his emigration to America, in April, 1634.
He was at that time thirty years of age, and was accompanied by
his wife Mary, aged twenty eight, as is gathered from the list of
passengers of the bark Elizabeth, in which he took passage from
Ipswich in England to Boston in New England. He was born
therefore about the year 1604. The efforts to trace him beyond
this have been unsuccessful, and it is now probable that his parentage
and the place of his birth must be to his descendants forever
unknown.
On his arrival in this country, he first settled in Newtown, now
Cambridge. His wife Mary probably died soon after. He was
made freeman May 6, 1635, which shows him to have belonged to
some church in the jurisdiction. In 1639, we find him a resident
of Hartford, Conn, of which place he was one of the first settlers.
As such his name is found on the monument erected to
their memory in that city. He was probably in the company of
one hundred persons who, with their pastor, Rev. Mr. Hooker,
penetrated through the wilderness in 1636.
For his second wife, he married Editha Stehbins, sister of Dea.
Edward Stebbins (or Stebbing) of Hartford, and had four children,
two sons and two daughters, viz :
1. * Thomas: the ancestor of the Springfield branch.
2. *John : the ancestor of the Hartford branch.
3. *Sarah: who married Nathaniel Gunn of Hartford, Sept.
1658 ; 2d husband, Samuel Kellogg of Hatfield, Nov. 24, 1664.
She was slain with her son Joseph, by the Indians, Sept. 19, 1677.
4. *Mary: who married Samuel Ely of Springfield, Oct. 28,
1659 : 2d husband, Thomas Stebbins, April 12, 1694 : 3d husband,
Dea. John Coleman of Hatfield, Dec. 11, 1696. She died at Hatfield,
in 1725, quite aged.