Marylandwas established with religious freedom for Catholics. The colonial economy was based on tobacco cultivated by Africans who had been enslaved.
Baltimore County, Maryland was founded in 1659 and included most of northeastern Maryland. The original county included parts of Cecil, Frederick, Harford, Carroll, and Baltimore Counties.
Phillisyanna Maxwell Day was born on March 3, 1723 in the part of Baltimore County that is now Harford County, Maryland. Her birth was recorded at St. James Parish, Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents were James Maxwell, the elder and Mary Marsh.
She married John Day on July 20, 1742 at St. James Parish. John was born on April 25, 1723 in Baltimore County, Maryland. He was the son of Edward and Avarilla Day. In March, 1733/4, John was bound to Joshua Starkey when he was 16 until he became 21.
Days Point is in Harford County and projects into the Gunpowder River.
Their children included: Mary Day Matthews (1743, married Levin Matthews and Nicholas Gassaway),
James Maxwell Day (1746),
Avarilla Day Cruikshanks (1749, married Robert Cruikshanks), John Day, Jr. (1755, married Mary Gouldsmith Presbury),
Phillisyanna Day (1759, died at birth).
Phillisyanna died in childbirth in 1759 and her baby died the next day. The sad events were recorded at St. James Parish.
Philliszana Day, wife of John day son of Edward, and daughter of
James Maxwell and Mary, died May 21, 1759 about 11 o'clock in the forenoon
Philliszana Day, daughter of John Day and Philliszana born May 21,
1759 and dieds May 22, 1759 about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
After her death John married Sarah Horner York. She had been married before to John York.
Sarah and Edward's children included:
Sarah Day Weatherall (1768, married James Weatherall),
Charlotte Elizabeth Day Weatherall (1771, married Henry Weatherall),
Nicholas Day (1773, married Margaret Denniston and Juliet McPherrin), and Edward Day (1776, married Hannah Wilmer).
Sarah died in childbirth on July 22, 1780.
John's will, was written December 15, 1782 and probated February, 1784. It named Maxwell's Conclusion, Day's Double Purchase, Holmwood, and Gay's Meadows..."
In the 1783 assessment of Harford County in the Gunpowder Upper and Gunpowder Lower Hundred
John Day, Jr. owned
Days Privilidge, 10 acres and
Maxwells Conclusion, 200 acres.
Bound children were indentured servants whose master provided training in a craft, board, lodging, and clothes for seven years or until the child came of age.
Childbirth was was perilous. Around 1.5 percent of births ended in the mother's death. Since women gave birth to many children, chances of dying in childbirth were quite high.
