This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: WizenedWizard Surnames: Day Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.newyork.counties.dutchess/9706.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My knowledge of the post-Revolution migration has all come from gradually being able uncover the trail of one set of ancestors. I found land petition records in Queen's Co., New Brunswick; and church records of St. John's Anglican Church, Gagetown, Queens, New Brunswick. My gggrandmother was born in 1807 in N.B., but married, lived and died in Northumberland Co., Ontario. My first reaction to discovering that she was born in New Brunswick was, "What on earth was she doing there???" She was a Quaker, and like many others, her parents had been exiled to New Brunswick after the war (research the Spring Fleet of 1783 from Huntington Bay, Long Island, to Gagetown). There's a wonderful short diary written by Sarah Frost, a passenger on one of those ships - worth purchasing on line if your ancestor made that journey. By the early 1800s, as decent farmland around N.B. became scarcer and the hostilities of the war were more or less forgotten, that grandmother's generation moved on. Some (like her and her brothers and father) went west up the St. Lawrence and settled in Ontario. Others returned to Long Island or the Hudson River valley. I've done a bit of transcribing of Quaker records from Ontario, and it was amazing to see the way folks traveled back and forth over fairly long distances. The difficulties of transportation and the time it took apparently were simply a part of life to be endured rather than not undertaken. If I were you, I would start by searching for church records on the surname of your ancestor: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nbqueens/gageangbapt-ce.htm There are a number of Day references there. If you know the parents of John Henry Day - and if I were a betting person, I'd guess his parents might be Henry and Catherine from Long Island..., then search land records (petitions for land). These are on line, and you can order copies of them for a small fee. In them may be some clue as to where John Henry Day's parents came from. (They most probably got to N.B. in 1783 on the Spring Fleet from N.Y.) Why did he end up in the Hudson Valley? Possibly that's where his parents started out. During the hostilities of the Revolution, many loyal to the crown fled the Hudson Valley for the protection of New York, which was held by the British. When the war ended, they had no place to go (their farms up the river had been confiscated), and they were exiled to New Brunswick (actually part of Nova Scotia at the time). The name Day doesn't sound familiar to me in Quaker terms, but you might check Quaker records up and down the Hudson just in case. Good luck to you in solving this puzzle! Judy Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.