• Ralfe Daiton (Ralph Dayton ...de Deighton, de Dyghton):  Paternal Lineage is traced back to Sir Walter de Dyghton, Crusader/Knights Templar.  He and his family emigrated from England to Boston in 1632.  A Puritan, he was a Founding Father of New Haven, Connecticut, as Signatory of The Original Compact Of Civil Combination which was designed within the construct of Biblical Law (The Ten Commandments and The Golden Rule) and serves forever as the Constitutional foundation of the United States of America (Article VII:  "...the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven" [1,787 years after the purported birth of Christ]).  He, later, moved to Southampton and founded Easthampton.  His family was firmly established in Boston, New Haven, Southampton, Easthampton, and Newport, Rhode Island. 
• General Michael Dayton (1722-1776), Great Great Grandson of Ralfe Daiton, Michael died during the Revolutionary War having born 13 children.  Maternal Lineage of this son of Samuel Dayton, by his mother Elizabeth Todd, is officially traced to Paris [according to Clovis], Clovis, Pippin, Charlemagne, King Charles the Great of France and first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Judith of France, daughter of Charlemagne and first Queen of France, a fine and diplomatic Queen [who established the high standard of haute couture], the political philosophy of whom is the best of France and beautifully embodied by the Statue of Liberty, the first eight Kings of England, including the first two Kings Charles I and II, Queen Matilda, rightful heir to the throne, and her husband, the Duke of Normandy William the Conqueror, King Henri I of France and England and his beloved wife, Eleanor of Aquitane, their eldest son, Richarde, C'ouer de Lion [Richard the Lion-Hearted], and several other European Kings and Queens.  Jane Smith, President of News America, is a descendant of Michael's eldest son, Charles. 
• Robert Daiton (Robert Dayton ...de Deighton, de Dyghton), brother and partner of Ralfe Daiton.
• General Elias Dayton (1737-1807), Great Grandson of Ralfe's brother, Robert, took an active and patriotic role in the measures which led to the Declaration of Independence and commanded the building of Fort Dayton in the Mohawk Valley in 1776.  In 1779 he was chosen to be a member of Congress and declined, yet, was a delegate in 1787-88.  For several years, he served as a member of the New Jersey Legislature.  He would have been appointed to the United States Constitutional Convention in 1787, yet, declined in favor of his son, Jonathan.
• Captain Jonathan Dayton (1760-1824) in the Militia (9th Company 2nd Regiment Alarm), called upon during an attack by the British in New Haven, July 1779.  Youngest Signatory of the Constitution of the United States of America, Representative, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and United States Senator.  Husband of Mary Yale.
• Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, famed for the Battle of Lake Erie duing the War of 1812, proclaiming "We have met the enemy and they are ours!"  Britain had determined to reclaim America as it's own.  America was at the cusp of losing the war against Britain, until Admiral Perry led us to victory, saving the United States of America ...for all time!
• Daniel Dayton, Minnesota State Representative 9th District, 1859-60
• A. H. H. Dayton, Minnesota State Representative
• Alston G. Dayton, United States Representative from West Virginia
• Charles H. Dayton, New York State Constitutional Convention 1894, 14th District Delegate
• Charles W. Dayton, New York Justice of New York Supreme Court and Member of New York State Assembly, New York County 23rd District
• Daniel Lacy Dayton, Member New York State Assembly, Queens County 4th District, 1924-25
• James Dayton, Nuclear Engineer of New Haven, Connecticut, who designed the Ethan Allen, the first American nuclear submarine, launched in 1959, first cousin of the President of News America and the last of the Dayton line descended from General Michael Dayton, who died during the Revolutionary War, in 1776.
• John C. Dayton, Mayor of Flint, Michigan
• Mark Dayton (b. 1947), United States Senator from Minnesota, The Dayton Agreement, or Dayton Peace Accord (ending the Bosnian War in 1995)

Select Honorariums of the Daytons:

Canada:  Dayton, Nova Scotia

United States:

• Dayton, Alabama
• Dayton, Idaho
• Dayton, Indiana
• Dayton, Iowa
• Dayton, Kentucky
• Dayton, Maine
• Dayton, Maryland
• Dayton, Michigan
• Dayton, Minnesota
• Dayton, Montana
• Dayton, Nevada
• Dayton, Newark, New Jersey ...a neighborhood in Newark
• Dayton, New Jersey
• Dayton, New York
• Dayton, Ohio
• Dayton, Oregon
• Dayton, Pennsylvania
• Dayton, Tennessee
• Dayton, Texas
• Dayton, Virginia
• Dayton, Washington
• Dayton, Wisconsin
• Dayton, Richland County, Wisconsin
• Dayton, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
• Dayton, Wyoming
• Dayton Township, Michigan
• Daytona Beach, Florida
• East Hampton, Long Island, New York
• Fort Dayton, New York
• New Haven, Connecticut

• USS Dayton (CL-105) 
• USS Dayton (CL-78) ...later USS Monterey (CVL-26)
• The University of Dayton
• Dayton's  ...the famous Minneapolis department store