Family:Robert Day and Hannah Unknown (1)

No First Wife Mary

"Because these two men (Robert Day of Cambridge/Hartford and Robert Day of Ipswich) are often confused, Robert Day of Ipswich is sometimes assigned a first wife Mary, but it was Robert of Cambridge who had a wife of this name."^[1]

Wife Hannah was not Hannah Pengry.

"Some secondary sources state that the wife of the Robert Day who came to Ipswich was Hannah Pengry [i.e., Pillsbury Anc 971]. This seems to derive from the documents surrounding the marriage agreement between John Day and Sarah Pengry. In his deposition of 18 December 1684, Moses Pengry, father of Hannah Pengry, speaks of "brethren Robert Day & is wife," and on the same day John Pengry, son of Moses, says that when he was "in company with my uncle Robert Daye, eh told me how good an inheritance he had given to my brother Jno. Daye his son," and mentioned "the articles my father & said Robert made before his son's marriage to my sister" [ELR 7:13]. These sources must be interpreting the reference to brother by Moses and of uncle John in the standard manner, which in the simplest version would imply that Robert had married the sister of Moses, or that Moses had married the sister of Robert, or that the two men had married sister. But we do know that in this period two men whose children married one another could refer to each other as brother, and it is an extension of only one degree for John Pengry to call Robert Day his uncle on the basis of the marriage in the second generation. Furthermore, note that Robert Day apparently came to New England without a wife, that he was married by about 1638, and that Moses Pengry and his brother apparently came to New England about 1640, suggesting that Robert Day had married a woman from an Ipswich family other than Pengry. In the absence of further evidence, we remain agnostic on the identity of the wife of Robert Day."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Robert Day, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   II:331.