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Excerpt from A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day, of Hartford, Conn., Who Died in the Year 1648: With a Supplement Giving Descendants of Captain John Day, Number 194, Who Moved to Sheffield, Ohio, in 1816 Dee, signifying, it is said, dark or dingy, is the name of a small river in Wales, and was probably applied to some ancestor of the family, dwelling upon its banks, in order to distinguish him from others - just as Wicklifi'e took his name from the village in which he was born - and in time, the word Dee came to be written, according to its apparent sound, Daye or Day. This name, more over, still prevails in Wales, and is there pronounced as in England and this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.