Ralph Day was an early settler and selectman in

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. Day emigrated from England to the

Massachusetts Bay Colony The Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628–1691), more formally the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around Massachusetts Bay, one of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of M ...

in 1630. Until a bell was hung in 1652, Day beat the drum to call worshipers to the

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. Day married Susan Fairbanks, the daughter of

Jonathan Fairbanks Jonathan Fairbanks (1594 – December 5, 1668) was an English colonist born in Heptonstall, Halifax, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He immigrated to New England in 1633. Around 1641, Fairbanks built the Fairbanks House in Dedham, ...

on October 12, 1647. He was also the ancestor of

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