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    Benjamin Day

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    • 4th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 7th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 108 
    • Birth Date:
    • 7 Feb 1704 
    • Birth Location:
    • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
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    • 22 Dec 1777 
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    • 6 Mar 1729 
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    • Margaret Day

      Aaron Day (Ahnentafel No:54 )

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  • Sources for Benjamin Day

    • 3 Carr, Janet Jones, Thomas Jones of Guilford, Connecticut and Some of His Descendants, Decorah, Iowa: The Anundsen Publishing Company (2000), 58.
    • 4 Day, George Edward, A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day, of Hartford . . ., 2nd Ed., Northampton: Printed by J. and L. Metcalf (1848), 62-64.
    • 5 Foote, Abram W., Foote Family Comprising the Genealogy and History of Nathaniel Foote of Wethersfield, Conn. and his Descendants, Vol. 1, Rutland, Vermont: Marble City Press - The Tuttle Company (1907), 34.
    • 6 Goodwin, Nathaniel, Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, Hartford: F. A. Brown (1856), 202.
    • 7 Goodwin, Nathaniel, The Foote Family: or the Descendants of Nathaniel Foote, One of the First Settlers of Wethersfield, Conn., with . . ., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1849), 60.

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