RALPH DAYTON, the immigrant of this family, was born in 1587 in Ashford, Kent, England, and died in 1658 in East Hampton, Long Island, New York. He married Alice (widow Tritton) Goldhatch, daughter of Robert Goldhatch. He signed the covenant at New Haven in June, 1639. He was a shoemaker (and possibly a seversmith-silversmith?) by trade. In 1656 he sold his business at New Haven and came to East Hampton, Long Island, where his possessions were numerous and respectable. He is listed among early settlers, and in 1646, there is found a reference to "good man's Dayton's seat in church".
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