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

108 SUMMARY.
In respect to the rate of increase, the family has doubled its
numbers, the last two centuries, on an average, once in somewhat
less than every twenty five years. If the increase should continue
at the same rate, tlie next hundred years, the descendants of
Robert Day, in the male line, would amount in the year 1948, to
from thirty to fifty thousand souls.
Of the nearly twenty five hundred whose names are recorded in
this register, four hundred and eighty one have become heads of
families. Very few of the family have been in any way distinguished.
To a great extent they have beea farmers. So far as is
known, they have generally been useful and respectable members
of society. In some of the branches, nearly every member has
been a professor of religion. From the best information the compiler
has been able to obtain, he has been led to the conclusion that
the continuance of families in the same place from generation to
generation is not usually favorable to enterprize and the highest
success in life. Nineteen have been graduated at Yale College,
one at Dartmouth, one at Williams, one at Amherst and one at
Brown University. Eleven have been ministers of the Gospel, all
of whom, with only one exception, are still living. Seven of these
are connected with the Congregational, and the remaining three
with the Baptist denomination.
The average age of those who have become heads of families
appears to have been about 68 years. The oldest person of the
name was Col. Benjamin Day, who died in the year 1808, in his
98th year. His daughter Lydia, (b. Nov. 1, 1759,) the widow of
Henry D wight, Esq., is supposed to be the oldest member of the
family now living.
CORRECTIONS.
754. Rev, Isaac G. Bliss, Missionary to the Armenians in Turkey,
and resides in Erzeroom.
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5592. S. Sherwood Day, Esq. was graduated at Yale College in
1827.