The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

Day · ◉ direct ancestor

♂Thomas G. Day

Born 1772, New York, British Colonial America (unconfirmed). Died 1849, Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States.

Thomas G. Day (1 January 1772 – 17 June 1849) was a Vermont-born settler of Chenango County, New York, who lived in the towns of Plymouth and Norwich for some forty years and died there of consumption at the age of 77. He was the third great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his daughter Thirza Day (born 1802).

Early life

His parents are not known. The family tree formerly named them as Samuel Day and Eunice Fay (1751–1808); this has been corrected because no record names them as his parents and their son Thomas was a different man (see Notes). The tree records his birth on 1 January 1772 and gives his birthplace as New York, but the federal mortality schedule entered after his death records it as Vermont, and his wife was also recorded as a native of Vermont. By 1800 he was living at Sherburne, in Chenango County.

Marriage and family

About 1796 he married Catherine, called “Caty” in the records, whose maiden name is not known; she was born about 1773 and died after 1850. Where the marriage took place is not known. By 1802, when their daughter Thirza was born, the couple were living in Chenango County, New York. Three children are recorded for them, born between 1802 and 1806. The census of 1810 finds Thomas at Plymouth, in Chenango County, and those of 1820, 1830 and 1840 at the neighboring town of Norwich. Thirza married Waterman Curtis in 1822, and her eldest son, born in 1824, was named Thomas Day Curtis, carrying his grandfather’s name as well as his mother’s maiden name.

Death

Thomas G. Day died on 17 June 1849, aged 77. The county’s mortality schedule for the year ending 1 June 1850 lists him as married, born in Vermont, and dead in June of consumption after an illness of two weeks. His gravestone stands in the Woods Corners burying ground in the town of Norwich, on the east side of an obelisk known as the Randall Monument. His widow outlived him: in the summer of 1850 “Caty Dey”, aged 77, was living in the household of their daughter Thirza at Smyrna. No will or administration for him has been found; the county’s index of wills and estate proceedings, which begins in 1798, lists no one named Day before 1875.

Notes

The gravestone reads 17 June 1849, in agreement with the mortality schedule, which covers only deaths between June 1849 and June 1850; the year 1848 seen online is a Find a Grave caption on a blank photo, not the stone. The mortality schedule’s page is headed Guilford, another Chenango County town, while the family tree gives Norwich as the place of death; the margin of that page lists other towns as well, and the records do not settle which is correct.

The Samuel Day and Eunice Fay formerly given as his parents were married at Stafford, Connecticut, in 1772. The town register of Stafford gives them one son Thomas, born 30 May 1776, and that Thomas is very likely the Thomas Day of the deeds at Jericho, Vermont, of 1798 to 1814, who dealt with Samuel, Edward and Benjamin Day; the deeds never call these men brothers. A family tree on FamilySearch has him dying in Indiana in 1844. The couple’s child born in 1772 was a son, Samuel, born at Tolland on 15 July 1772. Thomas G. Day, born about 1772 in Vermont and living at Sherburne, Chenango County, New York, by 1800, is therefore a different man. Searches of the Chenango, Delaware and Schoharie County censuses from 1790 to 1840, the Delaware County deeds and the county histories found no record naming his parents; the link to Samuel and Eunice came from online family trees. His birth date of 1 January 1772 has no source behind it, and the age of 77 at his death points to a birth in 1771 or 1772.

The placing of his children other than Thirza rests on a compiled family tree and has not been confirmed by a record that names them together. An 1849 administration of the estate of a Thomas Day of New York City, whose widow was named Ann, concerns a different man.

Family time line

◉ Thomas G. Day 1772–1849
◉ Catherine Dey abt 1773–1850/1855 ▦
Married abt 1796
◉ Thirza Day 1802–
○ Jahaziel J. Day 1803–1875
○ Orrena Day 1806–1885
○ Calvin Day 1810–1891
○ Charlotte Day 1813–1875

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Birth 1 Jan 1772 New York, British Colonial America not yet documented
Living at 1810 Plymouth, Chenango, New York, United States not yet documented
Living at 1820 Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States not yet documented
Living at 1830 Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States not yet documented
Living at 1840 Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States on record
Death 17 Jun 1849 Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States from a compiled source
Burial Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States from a compiled source
17721849 1780179018001810182018301840

Sources

  • 1840 United States Federal Census — Living at, name
  • U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current — Death, Burial, name
  • Thomas Day, "Find a Grave Index" — about this person
  • Thomas G Day, "United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880" — about this person
  • Thomas G Day in the 1810 United States Federal Census — about this person
  • Thomas G Day, "United States, Census, 1840" — about this person
  • Thomas G Day in the U.S., Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850 — about this person
  • Thomas G Day, "United States, Census, 1830" — about this person
  • Thomas G Day, "United States, Census, 1820" — about this person
  • Thomas G Day, "United States, Census, 1810" — about this person
  • New York, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999 — name

Borders as they stood about 1763 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Thirza Day 1802–
    1. Thomas Day Curtis 1824–1896 ☘⚭
      1. Alphonse Curtis 1849–1851 ✧
      2. Alfred Curtis 1849–1850 ✧
      3. Mary Ada Curtis abt 1850–1934
        1. Ada Cone Williams abt 1877– ⚭
      4. George Day Curtis 1852–1922
        1. George Albert Curtis 1878–1925
      5. Frank Lionel Curtis abt 1855–1934 ⚭
        1. Edward Day Curtis 1880–1966
        2. Kenneth W. Curtis 1884–1885 ✧
      6. Salenia Curtis 1858–1862 ✧
      7. Cristabel Curtis 1859–1862 ✧
      8. Albert Waterman Curtis 1860–1930
      9. Florabel Curtis abt 1863–1885
      10. Bertha E. Curtis 1863–1917
      11. Orcus Allen Curtis 1865– ⚭
        1. Lionel Allen Curtis 1895–1962 ⚔⚓⚭
      12. Arthur Lee Curtis 1867–1955
        1. William Wheaton Curtis 1897–1983 ⚔
        2. Hubert A. Curtis 1898–
        3. Helen Margaret Curtis 1901–1999
      13. Hubert Orestes Curtis 1868–1922 ⚔
        1. Bessie Wheaton Curtis 1901–1980
        2. Frederic Arthur Curtis 1903–1990
      14. Thomas Curtis 1872–1872 ✧
    2. Almira Curtis abt 1826–
    3. Jerusha Curtis 1828–1900
      1. Silas Harvey Chapman 1846–1864 ⚔
      2. Adis E. Young abt 1854–
      3. Alonzo Young 1857–
      4. Frank D. Young
    4. Maria Curtis abt 1831–
      1. Lewis Nash abt 1862–
    5. Jeremiah Curtis 1833–1856
    6. Lauren Curtis 1835–1865
    7. Alfred Curtis 1839–
    8. Junia Curtis abt 1841–1912 ☘
    9. John Samuel Day
  2. Jahaziel J. Day 1803–1875
    1. George R. Day 1831–1874 ☘
      1. Frank G. Day 1857–1925 ☘
    2. Betsey A. Day
      1. Alice M Brown 1848–1889
      2. Celestia Calista M Brown 1851–1869
      3. Frances E. Brown 1853–1939
      4. Ida A Brown 1859–
      5. Harvey J Brown 1861–1929
        1. Lovell Harvey Brown 1887–1950
        2. Bessie Alice Brown 1889–1929
        3. Vera P Brown 1892–1964
        4. Gladie M Brown 1898–1982
      6. Joseph E Brown 1864–1923
      7. Frederick A Brown 1866–1880 ✧
      8. Lillie M Brown 1869–1870 ✧
    3. Emily R. Day
    4. Laura J. Day
    5. Electa A. Day
    6. Allen E. Day
  3. Orrena Day 1806–1885
    1. James C. Jr. Orr 1827–1910
      1. Elmer Nathaniel Orr 1856–1931 ⚭
        1. Gertrude A Orr 1880–
      2. Gertrude Amelia Orr 1863–1938
      3. Melvin Weston Orr 1867–1934
        1. Jim J Orr 1902–1987
        2. Melvin Edward Orr 1903–1958
        3. Katharine Louise Orr 1909–1981
      4. Sabrin Orr 1868–1879 ✧
    2. Calvin Day Orr 1829–1909
      1. Andrew Orr 1853–1854 ✧
      2. Orrenia L. Orr 1855–1875
      3. Herbert E Orr 1858–1895
        1. G. Ethyl Orr 1890–1891 ✧
        2. Charles B. Orr 1892–1966
      4. Frederick Bion Orr 1860–1896
        1. Merton Eugene Orr 1881–1938
        2. Mason Frederick Orr 1883–1962
        3. Clarabelle Orr 1886–1965
        4. Arthur Calvin Orr 1888–1956
        5. Edith May Orr 1893–1976
    3. Nelson Orr 1830–
    4. Sarah C. Orr 1831–1908
      1. Albert Smith 1851–
      2. Elbert Smith 1852–
      3. Roderick C Smith 1854–1926
        1. Elmer L. Smith 1881–
        2. Albert T. Smith 1883–
        3. Carlton Rex Smith 1889–1956
        4. Rosellen Smith 1891–
      4. Adelia Smith 1860–1929
        1. Ethel S Dinninny 1883–
        2. George L Dinninny 1887–
        3. Philip E Dinninny 1891–1938
      5. Nancy Smith 1860–
      6. George B Smith 1865–
    5. Joseph J. Orr 1835–1910
      1. Edna Orr 1855– ⚭
        1. Sarah Elizabeth Sears 1875–1910
        2. Raymond Joseph Sears 1876–1977
        3. Bertha F Sears 1878–1968
        4. Effie Sears 1880–
        5. Ethel L Sears 1881–1942
        6. Edna Orr Robinson 1896–1984
      2. Celia Orr 1859–1915
      3. Luna M. Orr 1864–1934
        1. Edith R. Hill 1888–1963
        2. Guy Carlton Hill 1890–1970
        3. Celia E Hill 1894–1976
        4. Marjorie Hill 1897–1981
        5. Esther M. Hill 1901–1904 ✧
        6. Asa E. Hill 1902–1904 ✧
        7. Basil Seward Hill 1907–1958
      4. Edwin S. Orr 1866–1924
        1. Kathryn M Orr 1892–1984
        2. Joseph Lorenzo Orr 1902–1980
        3. Beatrice E Orr 1905–
      5. Clara B. Orr 1870–1954
        1. Orra E Meade 1894–1975
        2. Helen G Meade 1895–1966
        3. Horace Joseph Meade 1897–
    6. Oliver J. Orr 1845–1924
      1. Wallace E. Orr 1866–1869 ✧
  4. Calvin Day 1810–1891
    1. Calvin Day 1830–
    2. John Day 1833–
    3. James Day 1835–
    4. Jane Day 1836–
    5. Lewis Day 1840–1904
      1. Frederick L Day 1882–1950
        1. Mary Charlotte Day 1920–2021
      2. Sarah L Day 1883–1949
        1. Ward Day Stone 1908–1977
        2. Eleanor Jane Stone 1910–1996
      3. Curtis Day 1886–1939
    6. Albert Day 1843–
    7. Frederick Day 1844–
    8. Harriet F Day 1847–
  5. Charlotte Day 1813–1875
    1. Catherine Jones 1842–
    2. Sophia Polly Jones 1845–1888
      1. Charlotte C Duvall 1863–1891
      2. William E Jones 1864–1931
        1. Esther Jones 1899–1940
        2. Mary Ann Jones 1900–1995
        3. Bertha M Jones 1908–2000
        4. John E Jones 1910–
        5. Helen Louise Jones 1915–1999
      3. Nettie A. Duvall 1867–1913
        1. John M Stapleton 1887–1963
      4. Morgan R. Duvall 1869–1932 ⚭
        1. Florence Mae Duvall 1894–
      5. Mary J. Duvall 1872–1960
        1. Etta Almeda Sweeney 1892–1977
        2. James Ray Sweeney 1895–1931
        3. Charles Henry Sweeney 1903–1974
        4. William M. Sweeney 1905–1968
        5. Clara Belle Sweeney 1908–1959
        6. Bernice Sweeney 1910–2000
        7. Nettie Arlen Sweeney 1913–1995
        8. Ernest Earl Sweeney 1917–1986
    3. Hellen L Jones 1849–1899
      1. Augustus Morgan Aldrich 1870–1940
        1. Josephine C Aldrich 1896–2000
        2. Helen Elizabeth Aldrich 1900–1931
        3. Richard Henry Aldrich 1901–1990
        4. Gech R Aldrich 1903–1904 ✧
        5. Flossie Mae Aldrich 1905–1973
        6. Gertrude E Aldrich 1907–
        7. Glenn E Aldrich 1909–1980
        8. Edna Viola Aldrich 1911–1991
        9. Ernest L Aldrich 1913–1990
        10. Harley Howard Aldrich 1916–1998
        11. Florence Aldrich 1918–2004
        12. Arloween Aldrich 1922–2000
        13. Donald Leroy Aldrich 1929–2000