This is going to be the start page for my Day family. What I know so far is that there was a Comfort Day who married Betsy Albee, the daughter of Zuriel Albee. I know Comfort was the son of Comfort Day and Velonia Esther Paine, who were married in, I believe, March 1, 1775 in Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts. There was most likely more than just one child born to them but I have not found that data yet.
Comfort and Betsy had a son named Erasmus. Erasmus was married first to Philena Mason. Now the Masons have a large genealogy database that helped a lot in my searching.
Here is a family group record from my genealogy program. The first group sheet is with Erasmus and his first wife, he was married twice and his second wife was Maria K. Rowland. I have seen her name spelled another way, but this is the spelling I have chosen to use unless I find actual documentation showing it otherwise. Now I have listed William Harrison Day as a child of this marriage until also proven otherwise. I have not been able to locate his birth record as during the time he was born there are no documented records. . . at least they returned my money. Most places don't, it is called a search fee.
Family Group Sheet #1
Name: Erasmus DAY
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Birth: 10 Dec 1796 New Hampshire
Death: 24 Feb 1843 Fever River, Iowa Co., Wisconsin Territory
Father: Comfort DAY
Mother: Betsy Albee (1779-)
Other Spouses: Maria Rowland
Marriage: 25 Dec 1817 Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire
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Spouse: Philena Mason
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Birth: 21 Mar 1799 Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire
Death: 21 Dec 1835 Illinois/Wisconsin Territory
Father: Perez Mason (1747-1825)
Mother: Martha Barney (1754-)
Children:
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1 F: Eliza DAY
Birth: 29 Jul 1818
Spouse: William F. GEAR
Marriage: 29 Dec 1836 Jo Daviess Co., Illinois
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2 M: James M. DAY
Birth: 9 Sep 1819
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3 M: Holland Boone DAY
Birth: 19 Nov 1821
Spouse: Catherine Ross
Marriage: 9 Aug 1842 Wisconsin
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4 F: Experience Anne DAY
Birth: 30 Oct 1823
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5 M: Erasmus A. DAY
Birth: 21 Jul 1827
Family Group Sheet #2
(Second Wife)
Name: Erasmus DAY
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Birth: 10 Dec 1796 New Hampshire
Death: 24 Feb 1843 Fever River, Iowa Co., Wisconsin Territory
Father: Comfort DAY
Mother: Betsy Albee (1779-)
Other Spouses: Philena Mason
Marriage: 24 Nov 1836 Iowa County, Wisconsin
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Spouse: Maria K. Rowland
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Birth: Kentucky
Children:
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1 M: William Harrison DAY
Birth: 23 Sep 1843 Illinois
Death: 24 Jan 1916 Whitten, Hardin County, Iowa
Spouse: Sarah Mariah Raine
Marriage: 25 Nov 1865 Hazlegreen, Grant Co., Wisconsin
I show that William was born in 1843 and Philena Mason died in 1835. Erasmus remarried in 1836 to Maria Rowland and that he died before William was born. I have learned too, that he worked in the lead mines and also homesteaded land in Wisconsin or the Wisconsin Territory. I have located three documents showing homesteads or land purchases for Erasmus Day in Wisconsin.