Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Aaron Day

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 54 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Day 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Foote   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Sep 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Colchester, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Cahoon
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 21 Jun 1776 
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  • Child:

  Ruth Day (Ahnentafel No:27 )

  • Notes: 

  • There is some question as to whether Aaron Day had a second wife named Mary, let alone that she was the mother of all his children. More evidence is needed to help resolve the issue.

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• Sources for Aaron Day

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Colchester, p. 52, Birth record for Aaron Day.
  • ² New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1903, Vol. 34, p. 20.
  • ³ 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), 64, 68.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 490.

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