Author: Day, Thomas
Biography:
DAY, Thomas (1777-1855: ancestry.com)
One of the sons of Jeremiah and Abigail Day; his father was pastor of the Congregational Church in New Preston, where Thomas was born on 6 July 1777. Jeremiah Day, later President of Yale, was his brother and Martha Day (q.v.) his niece. He graduated from Yale in 1797, tutored briefly at Williams College, and was called to the bar in 1799. He established a practice in Hartford, where he led a busy professional life as Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1810-35) and as a judge in both the county court and the city court. He married Sarah Coit at Norwich CT on 18 Mar. 1813, and they went on to have a large family.. From 1839 until his death, he was President of the Connecticut Historical Society. He died at Hartford on 1 Mar. 1855. Not to be confused with the British writer Thomas Day (1748-89). (Appleton; ancestry.com 12 July 2018, 24 Aug. 2025) HJ