Westward Days

Nathaniel Day was the fifth child of English immigrants Anthony Day and Susanna Ring Matchett who lived on the Annisquam River in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where I drew last summer. Nathaniel was born on December 9, 1665, and he’s my 6x great-grandfather. His family moved around Cape Ann—north of Boston—quite a bit, before settling by Pole’s

North of Plymouth Rock

It’s about 78 miles from Plymouth Rock to this other rock in Gloucester, Massachusetts, by car—but shorter by sea. I’ve read that Anthony Day, my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather probably sailed from one rock to the other around 1642. He was one of the earliest white settlers of the area, and not surprisingly, he was from Gloucester, England.