December 28, 1712; married, January 25, 1732-33, Stephen Hook.

(IV) Offin (2), son of Offin (1) Boardman, was born at Ipswich, December 16, 1698, and lived at Newbury. Administration was granted on his estate October 20, 1735. He had much land and some cattle at North Yarmouth, Maine. He married, January 17, 1722-23, Sarah Woodman, of Newbury, who married (second) November 17, 1737, Stephen Wyatt. Children, born in Newbury: I. Offin, September 6, 1723. 2. Thomas, March 7, 1726. 3. Elizabeth (twin), March 7, 1726; married May 5, 1748, John Pearson (3). 4. Jacob, December 29, 1727. 5. John, October 1, 1730. 6. Jonathan, mentioned below.

(VI) Captain Jonathan, son of Offin (2) Boardman, was born in Newbury, and lived in that part of Newbury which became Newburyport. He was a ship carpenter and mariner. His will was dated August 26, 1808, and proved June 10, 1813. He married, March 12, 1761, Rebecca Moody, who died in 1814. Children: 1. William, born March 31, 1762; mentioned below. 2. Rebecca, born September 30, 1764; married May 21, 1785, Benjamin Shute. 3. Jonathan. 4. Sarah, married July 6, 1789, Moses Goodrich. 5. Mary, born October 9, 1772; married October 1, 1790, Samuel Chase. 6. Betsey, born February 14, 1776. 7. Judith, unmarried in 1814.

(VII) William, son of Captain Jonathan Boardman, was born in Newbury, March 31, 1762 (family has the date April 9). He was not mentioned in his father's will in 1808, but possibly had received his portion. He lived in the part set off as Newburyport, and died there October 22, 1821. He was an active, useful and prominent citizen, and acquired a considerable estate. He married Rachel Wiggin, born April 9, 1762, and died, according to family records, June 14, 1861. Their daughter Elmira married Simeon Barker. (See Barker). Sarah H. Barker, daughter of Simeon and Elmora (Boardman) Barker married Luther S. Moore. (See Moore.)

James Barker, immigrant anBARKER cestor, and his brother Thomas, were among those twenty Puritan heads of families who came from England under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, and who were described by him as "Godly men and most of them of good estate." They arrived in Salem in December, 1638. In April of the following year they established the town of Rowley. James Barker was admitted a freeman October 7, 1640.

He was a native of Stragewell, county Suffolk, England, and brought with him to Salem his wife Grace. He shared in the first and later divisions of land in Rowley, and his home was on Weathersfield street, on land granted to him in 1643. His wife Grace died in February, 1655-58, and he married (second) May 22, 1666, Mary, widow of John Wyatte, an early settler of Ipswich. James Barker was a tailor by trade, a successful farmer, and active in town affairs. He was for several years a judge of delinquents under the law which fined those who refused to attend town meetings, served frequently as juryman, and in November, 1677, was one of the first tythingmen of the town. Children: 1. Barzilla, born 1640; mentioned below. 2. James, born 1641, married, May 10, 1677, Mary Stickney. 3. Eunice, born June 2, 1642; died May, 1645. 4. Nathaniel, born October 15, 1644; married Mary ; died November 10, 1722. 5. Eunice, born February 11, 1645-46; married John Watson. 6. Grace, born April 1, 1650; married, November 3, 1680, James Cannady; died February 19, 1723-24. 7. Tamar, born December 13, 1652; died young. 8. Steven, born September 10, 1658; died young.

(II) Barzillai, son of James Barker, was born at Rowley, in 1640, and died intestate, November 16, 1694. He was a farmer and an active church man. His orthodoxy was illustrated when he became one of the thirty-three who formally protested against the settling of Jeremiah Shepard as preacher in 1674, because he had not been regularly ordained. He married, in Rowley, December 5, 1666, Anna Jewett, born February 26, 1644, died May 12, 1727, daughter of Maximilian Jewett. Children: 1. Jonathan, born November 5, 1667, died May, 1689. 2. Ebenezer, born December 16, 1669, died April 10, 1711. 3. Hannah, born January 5, 1671-72; married, June 30, 1693, Joseph Johnson Jr. 4. Lydia, born May 13, 1674, died December, 1675. 5. Ezra, born January 1, 1675-76, died unmarried, November 6, 1697. 6. Esther, born May 31, 1679. 7. Ruth, born November 1, 1681. 8. Enoch, born October 21, 1684; married, October 20, 1709, Bridget Cate. 9. Bethia, born March 8, 1686, died September, 1688. 10. Noah, mentioned below.

(III) Noah, son of Barzillai Barker, was born in Rowley, August 23, 1689. He was admitted to the church there January 15, 1709. He was a weaver by trade. On April 29, 1712, his mother Anna deeded to him all her real estate in consideration of support during her life. Very soon after he removed to Ipswich,

and married there, in May or June, 1715, Martha Figgett (or Fickett), born August 23, 1696, died December 10, 1772, daughter of Peter and Mary (Bondfield) Fickett, of Marblehead. In 1719 they moved to Stratham, New Hampshire, and settled near the centre of the town, on land purchased from Jonathan Wiggin in 1718, in which year he was also granted the privilege of building a pew in the new meeting house. He died there January 3, 1749. He was a prosperous farmer, and a leader in the church and town. In 1743 he was one of a committee of three who reported adversely upon the petition of residents in the north part of Brentwood to be made into a separate parish. In 1731 he was chosen one of the two tythingmen for that year. He was elected constable in 1737, but was allowed to procure a substitute. In 1739 he was one of those protesting against a union of the province with Massachusetts. In 1743, influenced by the preaching of Whitefield, he began with a few others an agitation which resulted in the establishment of a new church at Stratham. He continued his interest in this society until his death, and left it one hundred pounds in his will. He was selectman in 1735-36-38-4243-44-45. He was one of the original proprietors of the township of Bow, under a royal patent, and later acquired the rights of certain others. At the time of his death he owned lands in the towns of Stratham, Epping, Bow and Exeter, and a fulling mill on Little River, in Exeter. Children: 1. Ebenezer, born in Ipswich, May 4, 1716; mentioned below. 2. Susannah, born in Ipswich, December 25, 1718. 3. John, born in Stratham, May 14, 1720; settled in Epping. 4. Ezra, born July 20, 1722; married (second) Abigail Murdough. 5. Elizabeth, born November 10, 1724. 6. Josiah, born March 30, 1727; married Mary Heard. 7. Benjamin, born November 3, 1729; died August 14, 1801; married Deborah Pottle; in the revolution. 8. Nathaniel, born February 18, 1732; died young. 9. Ephraim, born April 30, 1734; married, February, 1760, Mrs. Mary Manning; died 1800. 10. Nathan, born February 10. Nathan, born February 7. 1741 married Anna Wiggin; died February 11, 1820.

(IV) Ebenezer, son of Noah Barker, was born at Ipswich, May 4, 1716, and died at Stratham, New Hampshire. He married Mary Rundlett. Children: I. Nathan. 2. Noah, born 1743. 3. Simon, mentioned below. 4. Ebenezer, born 1758; settled at Cornish, Maine; married Widow Bradbury. 5. Sarah.

6. Hannah, married Thomas A. Johnson, of Cornish, Maine.

(V) Simeon, son of Ebenezer Barker, was born at Stratham, New Hampshire, 1745-55He settled in Limerick, Maine, and must have died before 1790, as his name does not appear in the census of that year. Daniel Barker, son of Josiah Barker (4), was of Limerick, while Noah and Ebenezer, brothers of Simeon, were of Cornish, Maine.

(VI) Simeon (2), son of Simeon (1) Barker, was born probably before 1790, in Limerick, Maine. He married Elmira, daughter of William and Rachel (Wiggin) Boardman (see Boardman). Simeon was a well-to-do merchant at Limerick, Maine. Children, born at Limerick: 1. Mary, married H. P. Storer (see Storer family). 2. Eliza, resides in Boston. 3. Sarah H., born 1826; married Luther S. Moore. 4. Almira, married C. W. Williams; lives at 21 Blagden street, Boston. 5. Frances. 6. Caroline, resides at 21 Blagden street, Boston. 7. Captain William B., served in Twenty-seventh Maine Regiment, and was an officer of the Thirty-second Maine in the civil war; died soon after the war.

Tradition says that the family of DAY Day originally came from Wales, where the name was written Dee, but pronounced Day, which in time became the English spelling. The genesis of the name is exactly opposite what might be supposed. Instead of being associated with light, Day in its primal form of Dee means dark or dingy. As such, the name was applied to a small river in Wales, and in time was transferred to the people living along its banks. William Day was provost of Eaton College and dean of Windsor during Queen Elizabeth's time; and in a document dated 1582 it is stated that he is descended from the Welsh Dees. The name in England was often spelled Daye.

The family ranks among the oldest on this side the water. No less than eight Days are found to have settled in New England before 1650, and some of them were of more than ordinary prominence. Robert Day, born in England in 1604, migrated to this country in 1634, settling first at Cambridge or Newton, Massachusetts, but moving in 1639 to Hartford, Connecticut. He died there in 1648, and his descendants became numerous in the Connecticut valley, many of them moving up the river to Springfield and South Hadley. From this line comes Dr. Jeremiah Day, president of Yale College, 1817-46, who was born in