Captain Luke Day II - West Springfield, MA - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

A grave marker for Captain Luke Day was placed and dedicated by the Ramapogue Historical Society in 1987. Because of his notorious past and fear of desecration, he was interred in an unmarked grave next to his mother. His red-brown grave marker is inscribed:

2nd Lieutenant Luke Day II, was a member of Captain Enoch Chapin's company of minutemen at the start of the Revolutionary War. He answered the Lexington Alarm and marched to Boston on April 20, 1775 and remained throughout 1775 during the Siege of Boston.

On January 1, 1777 he was commissioned a captain in the 7th Massachusetts Regiment. He participated in key battles of the American Revolutionary War, including the Siege of Boston, Quebec Expedition, Battles of Saratoga, Cherry Valley massacre, Sullivan Expedition and Siege of Yorktown. He was discharged on June 20, 1783.

Following the American Revolution, Luke Day II gained great notoriety as the most zealous leader of Shays' Rebellion. In fact he was so zealous that he was passed over as the leader of the rebellion in favor of the more moderate Daniel Shays. After the failure of the rebellion Day was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. However, he was pardoned by Governor John Hancock and returned to his home in West Springfield where he died in 1801 at age 57.

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I have allowed one entry for a grave of British solders, but it was an exception. Please only list graves for Colonial soldiers.

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