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Birth: 12 Aug 1761 Colchester / New London / CT Death: 08 Oct 1841 Colchester / New London / CT
Qualifying Service Description:
DAR cited: Private in the company of Captain John Williams, commanded by Colonel Obadiah Johnson - Connecticut troops
Additional References:
Johnston, Henry PhelpsRecord of Service of Connecticut Men in the Military and Naval Services During the War of the Revolution 1775-1783, Connecticut. Harford: Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co, 1889, pg 526
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Rev War. Micropublication M881, roll 369. Washington: National Archives
DAR Patriot Index, Centennial Edition, Part I
Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 161 : 1920, pg 307
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 09, pg 158
Spouse: Anna Marvin; Children: Stephan/Stephen Brainard; Elihu M;
From Westchester, go east on Middletown Road to Cemetery Road (left or north).
Author: Donald Allison Day
Asa Day was born on 12 August 1761 in Colchester, Connecticut, the son of Joseph II and Susanna (Brainard) Day. Joseph and Asa were direct descendants of Robert Day, who sailed on the Bark Elizabeth in 1634 from Ipswich, England, to Boston, New England.
Asa's father, Joseph II, has also been NSSAR proven as a patriot for the Sons of the American Revolution. He took the Oath of Fidelity and served on several town committees in East Hampton, Connecticut. One committee he served on voted "that soldiers enlisted in the Continental army should be provided with necessary's" (15 December 1777).
One can imagine Asa's duties and increasing responsibilities growing up in a busy patriotic farm family. Asa was the fifth of eleven children. Subsistence farming was the norm in Colchester, Connecticut, in the 1760s, with the bulk of the farm produce used to support family needs. Asa likely spent much time gardening, sowing and harvesting crops and hay, tending farm animals, and sawing and splitting wood for cooking and winter heat.
On 8 January 1778, at 16, Asa Day entered Revolutionary War service as a private in Captain John Williams Company, Colonel Obediah Johnson's Regiment, serving in Rhode Island. At that time, a British attack was expected along the coast, but it did not materialize until July 1779
After the Revolutionary War, Asa lived a full life marrying Anna Marvin in April 1790 and raising ten children. Asa's father-in-law, Elihu Marvin, is also an NSSAR-proven patriot and served on several committees in the town of Hebron, Connecticut. Asa died at the age of 80 in Colchester and is buried in the same cemetery as his father in the Westchester section of Colchester nearby Day Pond, a State Park in Connecticut.
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