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James Taylor

Singer-Songwriter

Bathsheba Day

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of James Taylor — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 211 
  • Father:
  • Ebenezer Day 
  • Mother:
  • Bathsheba Hall   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Mar 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jun 1820 
  • Death Location:
  • Chelsea, Orange, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathan Blake Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 May 1777 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Bathsheba Blake (Ahnentafel No:105 )

  • Notes: 

  • The following story is told by a grandchild of Bathsheba Day about when she was just a baby in 1755:

    “Upon an alarm of Indians coming, Mr. Day (her father) hastened home, saddled his horse and told his wife to quickly make ready to ride to the Fort. Mr. Day taking little Ruth in his arms, Mrs. Day on the pillion behind, tightly grasped a meal sack, into which they had thrust the one year old baby Bathsheba, rode four miles at great speed to the Fort; the meal sack dangling from the saddle; reaching the Fort in safety, upon opening the sack the baby was found to be head downwards,” but fortunately my grandmother suffered no serious injury from this perilous escapade.

• Sources for Bathsheba Day

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A010977.
  • ² New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Births B to 1901, p. 22136, Birth record for daughter Bathsheba Blake.
  • ³ Fenno-Gendrot, Almira Torrey Blake, The Ancestry and Allied Families of Nathan Blake 3rd and Susan (Torrey) Blake, Early Residents of East Corinth, Vermont, Boston, Massachusetts: Published by the Author, at the Stanhope Press (1916), 53-55.