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The MITCHELLS and DAYS of PHILADELPHIA With Their Kin= Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Helena Mary Langdon (Mitchell) and Kenneth Mackenzie Day George Valentine Massey II Copyright 1968 by George Valentine Massey II Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 68-58728 Published by Irene A. Hermann Litho Co. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, N. Y. Printed in the U.S.A. Table of UJntents Chapter I Page Day Family ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Chapter II Miles Family ____ ---------------------------------------------- ___________________________ _ 19 Chapter III Kyn-Keen Family __________________________________ ------------------------------------ 29 Chapter IV Blakiston Family -------------------------------------------------------------------- 41 ' Chapter V Mitchell Family _______________ ,__ :_____________________________________________________ _ 53 Chapter VI Elwyn Family----------------------------------------------------------·-------··--·--- 83 Chapter VII Langdon-Dudley - Hall - Sherburne Families·····---·-·-···-·-·· 91 Chap_ter VIII Mease Family--------------·-·-···-·-·---·-·-···-·---·-·-·---------···-··------···-·--· 109 Chapter IX Butler Family--·--·--------··-·--···-____________________________________________________ 121 Chapter X Middleton and Bull Families ----·------------------------------------------- 139 Chapter XI Amory Family ------------·-----------------------------------------------------··-··--- 155 Chapter XII Lea and Robeson Families ---··-··--·-·-·····-----·-··-------·-------·-------- 169 Chapter XIII Lea, Tatnall and Pennock Families ------------------------------------ 193 Chapter XIV Massey, Valentine, Ashbridge and Kimber Families __________ 205 ADDENDA ........................................................................................ 225 Ancestry of Robert Crull Burroughs .................................... 227 Burroughs Family ............................................................ 231 Matson Family ......... .,....................................................... 239 Willey Family.................................................................... 24 7 Crull Family ...................................................................... 257 Ancestry of Doris Anne Weyl Day........................................ 259 Stern Family ...................................................................... 267 Weyl Family ...................................................................... 271 Gittelson Family .............................................................. 283 Franklin Family ................................................................ 283 11 Charts Page Day Chart I .................................................................................... 3 Day Chart II .................................................................. .................. 5 Miles Chart ............ .............................. .............. .................. .......... .. 21 Kyn-Keen Chart ............................................................................ .. 31 Blakiston Chart.............................................................................. 43 Mitchell Chart .............................................................................. 55, 57 Family of John Kearsley Mitchell ................................................ 59 Kearsley Chart .. .............................................................................. 61 Henry-Snowden Chart ...................................... .............................. 63 Elwyn Chart...................................................................................... 85 Langdon Chart................................................................................ 93 Dudley-Hall Chart ............................................................ ·.............. 95 Sherburne Chart I .......................................................................... 97 Sherburne Chart II .......................................................................... 99 Mease Chart...................................................................................... 111 Butler Chart .................................................................................... 123 Middleton Chart ________________________________________ 141 Bull Chart ........................................................................................ 143 Amory Chart .................................................................................... 157 Lea Chart I ...................................................................................... 171 Robeson Chart ................................................................................ 173 Lea Chart II .................................................................................... 195 Tatnall Chart.................................................................................... 197 Massey Chart .................................................................................. 207 Valentine Chart .............................................................................. 209 Burroughs Chart .............................................................................. 229 Matson Chart .................................................................................... 235 Ely Chart-------------------------------------------- 237 Willey Chart .................................................................................... 243 Richardson Chart ............................................................................ 245 Coveney Chart---------------------------------------- 253 Crull Chart ........................................................................................ 255 ·Stern Chart ...................................................................................... 261 Wey I Chart ...... .................. .............................................................. 263 Stein Chart...................................................................................... 265 Gittelson-Franklin Chart .................. .............................................. 281 iii Chapter I Day Family Day Chart 1 T':;:ty I Elizabeth Hopper b. 1 792 R~'.h:;:ry T d, 1852 Anna Rebecca Miles b. 1821 c~~~mry r d. 1909 Frank Miles Day 1896 Anna Blanchard Blakis ton b. 1868 :: :::: T d. 1952 Kenneth MacI k enz1e. Day 1 92 3 He.lena Mary Langdon Mitchell b. 1902 b. 1901 d. 1958 r- I Frank Miles Langdon Mitchell Anna Lea b. 1924 b, 1927 b. 1930 m. Doris Anne Weyl Robert Crull Burroughs m. 1948 m. 1958 b. 1926 b. 1932 Jean Elinor JJennifer Day b. 1950 b. 1960 Kenneth Mackenzie Joanna Lea b. 1951 b, 1963 Susanna Blakiston Amanda Massey b, 1953 b. 1966 Marianna Mitchell b. 1961 3 Day Chart 11 Frank Miles Day 1896 Anna Blanchard Blakiston 1861-1918 T 1868-1952 Kenneth Mackenzie Day Frances Blakiston Day b. 1901 b. 1897 d. 1958 d. May 10, 1961 m. Helena Mary Langdon Mitchell m. Edward Clark Lukens b. 1902 d. Tm '"" 1'· rnoe ( See Day Chart I) Alan Wood Lukens III Anne Blakiston Lukens Frances Day Lukens b. 1924 b. 1925 b. 1926 m. Stuart Mill Saunders m. James Griffith Hays m. 1952 Col., U.S.A. b. 1924 m. 1949 b. 1920 Elizabeth Lewis Alan Douglas Stuart Frances Blakiston b. 1955 b. 1963 b. 1953 b. 1950 d. May 10, 1961 Edward Clark Francis Day Anne Mackenzie James Griffith Hays N b. 1956 b. 1965 b. 1956 b. 1952 d. May 10, 1961 Alan Wood Susan Atkinson Peter Grant Edward Lukens b. 1958 b. 1965 b. 1960 b. 1952 d. May 10, 1961 Charles Campbell b, 1959 Richard Day Third Generation Richard Day (1753-1837/1) was probably the grandson of Peter Day (d. 1760), the first known lessee of Standen, a farm near Bid denden in the "Weald of Kent," England. This 1 70 acre farm, with its attractive, half-timbered sixteenth-century house, was to be the seat of the Day family for nearly a hundred and fifty years, until the death of Charles Day (1835-1873), a nephew of Charles Day of Philadelphia. The family record traces the pedigree of the Days from Peter, the third great-uncle of Charles Day of Philadelphia, and tells that Peter's son Charles (1717-1795) was a great-great uncle of Charles Day. It is unlikely that one is a nephew of both father and son so Peter was doubtless the direct ancestor of this family. The family record starts with an agreement between Thomas Knight, owner of Standen, and Peter Day for the sale of growing wood there in 1727. How much earlier the Day family lived at Stan den is not indicated in the Day book. The rent book, and other fami- 1y papers, show that Peter Day continued to lease the farm until his death in 1760. His son Charles then took up the lease and at his death in 1795 his nephew Richard Day, of this line, became the lessee. In 1824 he retired when his sons Peter and Solomon renewed the lease. The annual rents for Standen ranged from £68 to £84 between 1739/40 and 1764, and were paid quarterly. During this time Standen was owned by the Knight family. Then Catherine Knight, widow of Thomas, II, willed it to her adopted son Edwin Austin, a brother of novelist Jane Austin. 7 Members of the Day family were called yeomen in the records, a degree below the gentry and denoting "one having free land ... qualified to serve on juries, vote for knights of the shire, and other privileges." Richard Day (1753-1837), with whom this line defintely begins and whose wife is not named, had ten children. The seventh being Richard, of this line. Richard Day, Jr., Farmer Fourth Generation Richard Day, Jr. (1789-Dec. 11, 1834)(2) was married in 1810 to Elizabeth