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Davis Families DAVIS FAMILIES of EARLY ROXBURY and BOSTON By SAMUEL FORBES RocKWELL NORTH ANDOVER • MASSACHUSETTS • 1932 PRINTED BY THE ANDOVER PRESS ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS COPYRIGHT, 1932 BY SAMUEL F. ROCKWELL PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.. CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE V11 BIBLIOGRAPHY lX CHAPTER I. A FEw FACTS ABOUT RoxBuR Y AND !Ts VICINITY 3 CHAPTER II. WILLIAM1 DAVIS OF ROXBURY 11 CHAPTER III. SOME DESCENDANTS OF THE CHILDREN OF WILLIAM1 DAVIS OF ROXBURY 41 CHAPTER IV. OTHER ROXBURY DAVISES 147 CHAPTER V. WILLIAM DAVIS OF BosToN 177 CHAPTER VI. OTHER DAVIS FAMILIES OF EARLY BosTON 241 INDEX 295 PREFACE In the "Genealogy of Samuel Davis of Oxford," published in 1884, Mr. George L. 7 Davis, then treasurer of the Davis & Furber Machine Company of North Andover, Massachusetts, gathered together some of the interesting history of the descendants of Samuel Davis of the third generation of this country. However, his in­ formation about William1 andJohn2 , Samuel3's progeni­ tors, was quite limited and Mr. George Gilbert 8 Davis, Mr. George L. Davis's son, suggested to me that further study of the earlier Davises might be very interesting. Therefore, he and I started to inquire more completely into their lives but we had not progressed very far when Mr. Davis died in 1920. Since then I have started anew. The facts to be gathered are almost innumerable and the time required for a thorough work is far beyond that permitted by my comparatively small amount of leisure; therefore, the records here presented deal principally with men named Davis who were in Boston and Roxbury between 1630 and 1700. One or two lines have been carried down to the present time, but as a rule I have limited myself to the early generations. In spite of the greatest care in collecting, arranging and printing this mass of records, there are probably some errors. I shall be glad to have these called to my attention, and I plan later to send out a list of such cor­ rections for insertion. In the course of collecting material, extracts from many sources have been made, only a small portion of Vlll DAVIS FAMILIES which appear in the book. These extracts have been typewritten and bound and may be of value to some fu­ ture investigator of the Davis family. Eventually I hope to place these bound extracts in the hands of some organ­ ization interested in preserving them. This book is not so complete as I would wish to have it, but, being in print, it may stimulate others to further investigation. SAMUEL F. RocKWELL North Andover, Mass. 1932 BIBLIOGRAPHY BANKS, CHARLES E. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times ... 1620-1640 ... Boston: Hough­ ton Mifilin Co., 1930. BosToN. CEMETERY DEPARTMENT. Annual Report of the Cemetery Department of the City of Boston for the Fiscal Year 1903-1904, Including . the Historical Sketch of the First Burying Ground in Roxbury. Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1904. BosTON. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT*-CITY DocuMENT No. 46.) Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Records, 1634-1660, and the Book of Posses­ sions (of Suffolk County, Mass.) Second Edition (with Appendix, etc.) Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881. BosTON. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT-CITY DocuMENT No. 9) Fourth Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston. 1880. Dorchester Town Records. Second Edition, 1883. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883. BosToN. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT-CITY DocuMENT No. 114.) A Report (i.e. no. 6) of the Record Commissioners, Containing the Roxbury Land and Church Records. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill 1881. BosToN. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT-CITY DocuMENT No. 50.) A Report (i.e. no. 7) of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing the Boston Records from 1660 to 1701. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1881. *NoTB-'"(Reports, no,) 1-22, 1876-1890, issued as 'Report of the Record commis• sioners'. In 1892 the Record Commissioners' department ... was consolidated with the Registry department, which continued the publication under the same title, 'Report of the record commissioners', until 1900; with (Report no.) 29, the title was changed to (Records relating to the early history of Boston.)"-Library of Congress. X DAVIS FAMILIES BosTON. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT-CITY DocuMENT No. 130.) A Report (i.e. no. 9) of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Containing Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883. BosTON. (REGISTRY DEPARTMENT-CITY DocuMENT No. 93.) Thirty-fourth Report. See Drake, Francis S. The Town of Roxbury. BOWEN, CLARENCE WINTHROP. The History of Woodstock, Connecticut, Genealogies of Wood­ stock Families, Volume Four. Norwood, Mass.: The Plimpton Press 1932. DANIELS, GEORGE F. History of the Town of Oxford, Massachusetts with Genealogies and Notes on Persons and Estates. Oxford, Mass.: published by the Author with the co-operation of the Town. 1892. DAVIS, FELLOWES. Genealogical Statistics and Notes. Arranged and Written by Fellowes Davis of New York. (Privately Printed.) 1915. DAVIS, GEORGE L., COMPILER. Samuel Davis, of Oxford, Mass., and Joseph Davis, of Dudley, Mass., and Their Descendants. North Andover, Mass.: George L. Davis, Compiler and Publisher, 1884. (Often referred to as "The Davis Genealogy.") DORCHESTER ANTIQUARIAN AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. By a Commit­ tee of the Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society . Bos­ ton: E. Clapp, Jr., 1859 (cop. 1851.) DRAKE, FRANCIS s. The Town of Roxbury; Its Memorable Persons and Places: Its History and Antiquities ... Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1905 ( cop. 1878). (Boston. Registry Department. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston no. 34.) (This is City Document No. 93.) BIBLIOGRAPHY Xl EDES, HENRY H. Note on Benjamin Davis, the Loyalist. (In Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Publications. v. 6, p. 124-127.) GAY, FREDERICK L. Notes on William Davis of Boston. Bound MS. in the Library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston. (A letter of comment on the article by H. H. Edes in the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, v. 6.) See also entry under Edes. HILL, HAMILTON A. History of the Old South Church (Third Church), Boston, 1669- 1884 ... 2 v. Boston and New York: Houghton Miffiin and Co. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1890 (cop. 1889). POPE, CHARLES H. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and Other Con­ temporaneous Documents. Boston: Published by Charles H. Pope, 1900. ROBERTS, OLIVER A. History of the Military Company of the Massachusetts, Now Called the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachu­ setts. 1637-1888 ... 3 v. Boston: A. Mudge & Son. 1895-1898. ROCKWELL, FRANCIS WILLIAMS. The Rockwell Family in One Line of Descent. Pittsfield, Massa­ setts 1924. (Printed by the Andover Press, Andover, Mass.) ROXBURY RECORDS-BOSTON REGISTRY DEPARTMENT. A Booke of Records of all Birthes, Deathes, and Marriages of the Inhabitance of Rocksbury-1630-1785. A manuscript copy in the office of the City Registrar in Boston. (Not to be confused with the Roxbury Vital Records which is a much later work.) SAVAGE, JAMES. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came before May, 1692 ... 4 v. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1860-1862. Xll DA VIS FAMILIES SUFFOLK (CouNTY, MAss. CouRTs.) PROBATE CouRT RECORD. SuFFOLK (CouNTY, MAss. REGISTER OF) DEEDS. Suffolk Deeds. Early volumes printed. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1880-1906. THWING, ANNIE H. The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1630-1822 ... Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1920. THWING, ANNIE H. '"Inhabitants and Estates of the Town of Boston, 1630-1900' now in the Massachusetts Historical Society, a work consisting of up­ wards of 125,000 cards giving details of the lives of the principal inhabitants.'' From the preface to her The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston, 1920. VITAL RECORDS* W1LLIAMs, GEORGE H. (See our article on Ebenezer2 Davis m Chapter III.) WINSOR, JusTIN, EDITOR. The Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. 1630-1880 ... 4 v. Boston; James R. Osgood & Co., 1880. WYMAN, THOMAS B. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818 ... 2 v. Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879. *The State of Massachusetts, acting under Chapter 199, Acts of 1922, buys and distributes to public libraries, etc. any books of vital statistics that may be approved as reliable. The Essex Institute at Salem has taken up most of the towns of the State in this way. Over one hundred and sixty towns have been so treated. These are arranged by Towns and by Births, Marriages, and Deaths separately, and are arranged in alphabetical order, that is to say, all the Davises are listed together, making page references unnecessary. Davis Families of Early Roxbury and Boston CHAPTER I A Few Facts About Roxbury and Its Vicinity EARLY SETTLEMENT The most satisfactory contemporary account that we have found of the early settlements is contained in "Greene's Historical Narrative" compiled in the year 1664 by John Greene. The first part (not quoted) refers to the settlement of Charlestown. The following quota­ tion from that narrative is taken from page 34 of Henry H. Sprague' s ''Founding of Charlestown by the Spragues'' published in 1910 at Boston by the William B. Clarke Company. In ye months of June and July 1629 arrived at this Towne* John Winthrop, Esq Governor Sr Richd Saltonstall Knt, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Dudly, Mr. Ludlow, Mr. Nowell, Mr. Pinch (on), Mr. Broadstreete who brought allong with them ye Charter, or Pattent for this Jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay with whome also arrived Mr. John Wilson & Mr.
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