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William Day (sea captain)
William Day (October 23, 1715 in Springfield, Massachusetts – March 22, 1797 in Sheffield) was a Springfield, Massachusetts (United States), sea captain who acted against America's enemies in both the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War. In 1777 he received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port.
==Life before 1776==
Little is known of the life of William Day, beyond what was learned by those he captured in 1777. During the French and Indian War (the long American conflict which spread to Europe as the Seven Years' War) he reportedly served as a privateer on behalf of the British American colonists against French shipping. At the start of the American Revolution he seems to have been a successful merchant captain, with a home in the historic port of Charlestown, Massachusetts. In June 1775, during the "Battle of Bunker Hill", much of Charlestown was destroyed, including Day's home, as he discovered when he returned from a voyage to the West Indies; the fate of his family is unclear.〔(Cumberland Chronicle newspaper, 12-19 July 1777 ), via pastpresented.info- accessed 2007-12-07〕
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