Tag Archives: East Hampton

What Are Haplogroups?

Posted on October 25, 2023 by Steve Dayton

In the last post, we discussed the identification of Ralph Dayton’s haplogroup. In this post, Dr. Deane Dayton delves a little deeper into the understanding of haplogroups. I find the last line especially interesting: Male humans inherit exact copies of … Continue reading →

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February 2023 Ralph Dayton Y-DNA Update

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Steve Dayton

The process is slow, but progress is being made toward determining Ralph Dayton’s Haplogroup. We now have matching Y-DNA results of at least four of Ralph’s descendants. Two are descended through Ralph’s son Samuel and one is descended through Ralph’s son … Continue reading →

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Not “very well fitted”

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Steve Dayton

Perhaps someone can help me with your interpretation of  what is happening in the record below? In Book 2, page 133 of the Records: Town of East-Hampton (1887), there is a deposition from September 25, 1665 that confounds me. There … Continue reading →

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Mary Haines (last of four parts)

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Steve Dayton

Mary Knight Haines (Haynes/Hindes) and Ralph Dayton had been married a little over two years when Ralph died. The couple was still residing at North Sea (then called Northampton) when Mary was left in September of 1658. Ralph’s health had … Continue reading →

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Earliest Dayton Marker in America

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Steve Dayton

Of the original six members of the immigrant Ralph Dayton family, the location of only one original gravesite can be confirmed, that of Alice Baker.

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Is Ralph Dayton entry the earliest East Hampton town record?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Steve Dayton

(Written yesterday) This is the third post I’ve written for this week, but the first two were discarded as the content turned out to be false. So here we are on March 7, and it wasn’t until I was almost … Continue reading →

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An arrangement between Ralph Dayton and Thomas Baker?

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Steve Dayton

In January of 1654/55, East Hampton landowners Ralph Dayton and Thomas Baker were listed in the Charge of the Meetinge House, among all those with taxable acreage. The names were arranged in tabular form with columns for prepaid tax, acreage, … Continue reading →

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