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Family History BAflTFT LAVTS

DAFTFL I kv7°, torn Oxford, Mass.; Lieutenant faniel Cavi? was deputy for Fill ins1 ly in general Asperrtly. °erved as Capt . of a Corrrary in Massachusetts militia with Fufus putnair. "crn, Oct. 12,3742, Tri 111 r.e ly , Conn. Parents, raniel and ^arrer (Town) Davis. Married, Elizabeth '"'bitterrore, Tec. 2, 1762 (1740-1606). Children: 1. Fillard 2. Terrer 3. waiter 4. Elizabeth 5. William 6. lar.iel 7. Fezekiah 8. Jesse 9. Asa 10. Luer.a Tied 1607, ?'aterfcrc, ; buiier1 near watei-ford, erave irarked by Marietta Chapter IAP with Rev. rrarker. Pe wog stationed ai Poston for a tire collecting fw.O? ^cr the poor arr for fanilT^s of polriers. rate to Marietta with Futnarr, 1768.

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Mgrr3e "'illipins Ma thews, b. i'leasart, Ohio, wife of Vil ] i air ,T. Vathews, dauehter of Serera r.avis, (182f-1896) m. 1655, Fathariel n-. "'illiarr-s Serena ravis, dau., of "alter lavis, 1E06-1658 ir. 162?, Carclire v. Otis (1610-1863) V'slter Tavi?, scr of vil li am I avi s , 1772-3643 rr. 1794, frusilla Olney (1771-1624) ri]]ian- Tavis, son of Dar'el Eavis, 1742-1607 m. Elizabeth Thitterrore

(from IAF Library, fsrpus K'aritus '"upeuin, Marietta, Ohio Davis Families in Washington County, Ohio Before 1800

Over the years my late husband Delmer Leroy (Roy) Cottle and I have accumulated information about the Davis families of Washington County, Ohio and especially those who like his mother were descended from Dudley Davis. As we know so well Marietta was founded on April 7, 1788 as the first organized settlement of the when a group of 48 pioneers arrived at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. Of the two Davises who came at this time, Jonas Davis was a single man who settled in Belpre but was slain by the Indians in February 1795. By June of that year his land had passed to his sister and brother-in-law, Sarah and Jonas Walker of Durnerstown in Windham County, Vermont. *• The other pioneer Captain Daniel Davis was born 1742 at Oxford, Massachusetts and like most of the party had served in the Revolution. He first settled in Killlngly, Connecticut where eleven children2. were born to his wife Elizabeth Whlttemore Davis, namely Willard, Tamar, Walter, Elizabeth, William, Daniel Jr., Hezekiah, Jesse, Asa, Lucena and a second Elizabeth. The first four either remained in the East or died young so that William was the oldest of the children when the family came to Ohio in 1789. Captain Davis wife and five children are said to have stayed at Campus Martius stockade in Marietta during the Indian war (1792-1795) but Captain Davis with sons William and Daniel was also in the group at Fort Frye, just below the present Beverly in 1791. Daniel Davis Sr. settled in Waterford Township where he died in 1807. •*• In 1795 the sons of Captain Daniel Davis, William and Daniel Jr. helped make the first settlement in Adams Township, a group of four small garrisoned cabins on the Kinney farm opposite the present Lowell. William Davis and his bride Drusilla occupied one of the cabins and Daniel lived with them. Both brothers owned land in the Bear Creek allotment and cleared a portion the first summer; William made Adams Township his permanent home and is listed there in the census of 1803 and after. In 1803 there were four Davises in Waterford Township, Daniel, Hezekiah, Jesse and Asa, although a second Daniel would be expected. Of these Daniel Davis Jr., Hezekiah Davis and their sister Lucena were all married on the same day February 14, 1799, to Sally Olney, Elizabeth Coleman and James Mann respectively, the residences of the three Davises being given as Waterford. Asa was married to Joanna Olney March 25, 1802 and Jesse to Mary Blackmer August 15, 1804. '• All raised families so there are many descendants. William (1772-1843) had married Drusilla Olney (1770-1824) on Nov. 18, 1794 before he settled in Adams township and late in 1824 married Mrs. Sarah (Wright) Ransom (1789-1877). 5. All three are buried in the old section of Greenlawn Cemetery near Lowell. William's grave is marked Colonel William Davis a title from his position in the Militia. One of the nearby graves says Betsey, a daughter of Captain William Davis which was his earlier rank. Children mentioned in his 1843 will were Asa, Jesse, Sarah and Sophia but Seaver also gives him sons James, William Jr., Willard, Walter and John. A Drusilla Davis who married Hugh Allison in 1827 may be another daughter. A descendant of this family J. D. Snyder was living in Lowell in 1968 who traced his ancestry through his mother Elizabeth Davis Snyder and grandfather Willard Davis to William Davis and Captain Daniel Davis. In the two written accounts of this family there is no Dudley Davis so there is no known connection to our Davis family which settled first in Salem Township and later in Adams. c Listed with the emigrants of 1789 are William Davis, undoubtedly the son of Captain Daniel Davis, and a Samuel Davis of whom nothing more is known. Perhaps it should have been Daniel (Jr.) on the list although he was only 15 at the time. Another early arrival not noted was a Nathaniel Davis of Marietta whose estate was probated on Sept. 6, 1790 with letters of administration to Esquire. 6. I believe our Dudley Davis who reached Washington County in 1792 was the next to arrive and that the only other Davises to settle here before 1800 were a pair of brothers, Reverend Nehemiah Davis and Reuben Davis who came from Maine in 1797. ?• Elder Nehemiah Davis as he is usually called organized the first Baptist Church at Rainbow on the Muskingum River. Both he and his brother were widowers with several children two of whom soon reached voting age. In the 1800 census of Adams Township thus are listed Nehemiah Davis and his son Elisha and Reuben Davis and his son Nehemiah (2nd). In 1805 Elisha married Nancy Allison while Nehemiah 2nd married Polly Allison. Most of these Davis families moved to Dover Twp. in Athens County but Elisha stayed on in Adams until after 1820. He is said to have moved to Marion County, Ohio and to corroborate this there is indeed an Elisha Davis there in Grand Twp. in the 1840 census Index of Ohio. Our chief interest of course is our own Dudley Davis and it is fortunate that his oldest son Frederick wrote down in his account book for 1852 8. a statement about their arrival in Ohio, sixty years earlier. "December the 2, 1792 Dudley Davis and Mercy Davis my father and mother with 3 children myself F. C. Davis, Hildreth Davis, Dudley Davis, Jr. moved from the state of Vermont Tunbrige Township and landed at Belpre opisit Blanihasetts Island at the lower point in Garison and was three years in the Indian war and in the spring of 95 moved on to Duck Creek knotte as the Allen Mill now stands" The details of his land transactions have been documented in our article on Dudley Davis in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly for March 1968. It Is enough to say here tEat hVfTrst 3rew~Lot #62of tTuTBonation Lands in what is now Salem Twp. and returned to Salem in 1813 when he bought the farm enclosed by the loop of the little oxbow of Duck Creek where he died in 1825. According to the Revolutionary Rolls Dudley Davis was born at Nottingham about 1763. It was some time before we discovered that in the early days New Hampshire had two towns of that name. The one where Dudley was born was Nottingham West now Hudson which is close to the Massachusetts border and next to the towns of Dracut and Methuen where he lived during the Revolutionary war. From these towns he enlisted for two terms of service as private and corporal in Massachusetts regiments totalling about three and a half years. He was in skirmishes at Kings Bridge and Valentines Hill and later in Ohio received a pension for his service. In the fall of 1967 after our article had been sent to the publishers we did visit the three Merrimac River towns of Hudson N.H., Dracut, Mass, and Methuen, Mass, but did not find a record of his birth or parentage. However Roy remember- ed that his grandfather had once told him they were Welch. We did find Intentions of marriage for Dudley Davis to Mercy Wood filed March 5, 1785 in Dracut, Mass. 9. and the marriage of Dudley Davis to Mary Wood (undoubtedly the same person) on Aug. II, 1785 in Hudson N.H. 10. Although we are not sure of Mercy's parentage either, Wood is certainly an English name.

C After the war Dudley Davis returned to Massachusetts where his oldest son Frederick was born March 3, 1786. According to Mrs. Sloan's records at the Marietta College library, Dudley worked on the Hildreth farm in Methue It is likely that his second son Hildreth was named for the farms' owner. j5r°. Samuel Prescott Hildreth who later settled in Marietta. About 1790 the Dudley Davis family moved to Tunbridge, Vermont where a deed ll« of purchase from Thomas Wood dated March 31, 1790 suggests that a relative of Mercys may have been responsible for that move. The second and third sons probably died while they were living in the garrison at Belpre, Ohio known as Farmers Castle where infectious diseases could quickly spread. Here Marvel was born in 1794 while the rest of the children were born on Duck Creek in Salem Twp. The ten children of Dudley and Mercy Davis were Frederick C, Hildreth, Dudley Jr., Marvel, the twins Daniel and Dudley W., Martha Mercy (Clay), John, Sarah (Chapman), and Betsey (Campbell). Dudley Davis was a Justice of the Peace and married several of his children. It may be of interest to note that the Davis Chapman who married Sarah was the half brother of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. One of the twins, Daniel Davis who married Polly Dutton on February 15, 1819 was my husband's great grandfather. After Dudley's death in 1825, Daniel lived on the oxbow land until Jan. 9, 1827 when this land was transferred to his brother in law Daniel Clay. Daniel Davis also lived for a while in Union Twp. and even went west to Indiana for the year 1835-36, l^. before settling on the Cats Creek farm 3/4 mile from Lowell which became his permanent home. This was purchased l3» July 23, 1839 from Enoch and Mindwell Rector of Wood Co., Va. but Daniel is said to have built the house which stands on a high bank with its back to the creek. The township road now passes between the house and barn and crosses a bridge over the creek but earlier there was only a foot bridge. Roy's mother used to tell of using the foot bridge to get to the school on the other side of the creek. Daniel Davis' wife Polly Dutton had been born in Loudoun County, Virginia and had come as a child to Washington County about 1805. Her father, Joseph Dutton was a native of Pennsylvania and her grandfather who also came to Ohio was James Dutton, a Revolutionary soldier who took part in the Battle of Brandywine l4# near his first home in Chester County, Pa. Both James Dutton and Dudley Davis were buried in places now unknown but in Mound Cemetery, Marietta there is a bronze marker for each of them in the group placed by the DAR to honor Washington County men who served in the Revolution. The Duttons 15. were Quakers who came from the vicinity of Chester, England to this county In 1682, the same year William Penn arrived. The Emigrant John Dutton was an original owner of land in Chester County, Pa. A8 time went on, some married out of the faith including James Dutton who married Lydia Kimler at the Episcopal Christs' Church of Philadelphia on Sept. 23, 1775 while their son Joseph Dutton and grandaughter Polly Dutton Davis were Baptists in Ohio. It was Pollys' brother another James Dutton who brought in the first oil well near Macksburg in I860. The page of the Daniel Davis Bible which records the births is missing so it is from the death record and other sources that we list the ten children of Daniel and Polly (Dutton) Davis namely Olive, Sarah^T^fiSley, Sylvester, Marvil, Anna, Daniel Jr., Mary Ann and George Buell Davis. Of these Anna died aged about four years while Olive, Joseph, Sylvester and Marvil all died as young adults without issue. Olive died in the first year of her marriage to Samuel Fleck, Joseph made it back home but died of a sickness he got in New Orleans; Sylvester was supposed drowned near Blennerhassets Island and Marvil /" died at Lake Providence, Louisiana. Their deaths illustrate the hazards of life in a river town in the 1840's and 1850's. This means that all descend- ants come from five children, Sarah (McHugh), Dudley who served in the Civil War, Daniel Jr., Mary Ann (Gilbert) and George Buell Davis. A great great grandaughter of Sarah Davis McHugh is Helen Clark Biedel who has kept excellent family records and helped us a great deal although she now lives far away in Zenith, Washington. Roy's own grandfather was the youngest child of Daniel and Polly (or Mary) Davis, George Buell Davis. His grandmother, Elizabeth Reinhart was born *&• In Klrchlein an der Eck, now Griinstadt, in the Rheinpfalz section of Germany. Her mother whose maiden name was Henrietta Heck died at sea in 1847 while coming to this country leaving three children of whom six year old Elizabeth was the oldest . The father Johann Philipp Reinhart married twice more and died Feb. 27, 1877 in Marietta. He is buried in Mound Cemetery to the left of the walk from the front gate and about half way to the Mound. George Buell and Elizabeth Davis who married Nov. 15, 1870 lived first at Cow Run, Lawrence township which was then experiencing an oil boom. Here the first two children were born. After the death of George's father March 3, 1874 George returned to Adams township and took charge of the Cats Creek farm for his mother who lived to 1890. Here eight more children were born making ten In all. The ten were Clark S., Riley Gilbert, Netta May (died young), Delia Eura (Henniger), Fannie Ida (Cottle), Charlotte E. (Wilson), Sarah A. (Miracle), Emma Henrietta (Reed), Harry Clifton and Etta Orlinda (Longley) all now deceased. Clark S. Davis had 6 children, Riley Gilbert 4, and Harry Clifton 8 children to bear the Davis name while six daughters added 30 more to make a total of 48 ,— grandchildren for the above couple. ^ Daniel and Mary Davis, George Buell and Elizabeth Davis also many of their descendents and cousins now lie in Greenlawn Cemetery near Lowell and the Cats Creek farm of the Davises. With succeeding generations the numbers increase so that the task of keeping family records becomes almost too big for one person, but I hope each of our "Davis" cousins will keep a careful account of his own branch of the family and will share with his children and grandchildren this story of earlier generations who helped settle Ohio. Roys' grandfather put it differently. When first asked where the Davises came from, his answer was "My boy, we've always been here."

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General References

Andrews, Martin. History of Marietta and Washington County, Ohio Chicago BTograpHrcaTPub. Co., (1902) Williams H. Z. History of Washington County, Ohio ClevelandT™7"^""""7"™7^

Footnotes 1. Washington County Ohio Deeds v2, p3l2 2. Sam uel_ Davis of Oxford^Mae^s. and Joseph Davis 6TT>ud*Tey"MILB S . an5""tTiieir Des'cendanta 5y"5eorge~Ly . 3. DaviD s FamilF y History, pamphlet by J. Montgomery 5eaver7"TPhiladelpEia, American Historical Genealogical Society undated pp 33-37 ** Washington County, Ojiio marriages 1789-1840 comp. "by GraEam and CotFle. Marietta (1975) 5. Andrews History , p 1435 6. Washington County Ohio Probate Record vl, p5 and 8. 7. Pioneers Families of the Midwest by Blanche L. WaldenT Athens,"Ohio (1941), v3, pl38-l45 ®' 51: C. Davis Account Book for 1852, in possession ofTToy "Davis, Marietta fireman Fn"l932 but he moved later to Arizona. 9. Dracut, Mass. Vital Records pl68 10. Hudson N.H. Town Records - Vital Statistics p382 11. Tunbrldge, Vt. Land Records vl, p270 12• Tallow Light v4. No.4, 197 0, pl48, Cats Creek Baptist Church Index says: "Davis, Daniel 1832, charter member; 1836 reinstated after return from the west." 13. Washington Co., Ohio Deeds v30, p383 14. Correspondence from George L. Dutton of Philadelphia about 1932 and in the 1960's from Helen Clark Biedel of Zenith, Washington 15. G.e.n.galogy of the Dutton Family by Gilbert Cope. "Wes"t Cheste"r, PaTTl87l); Welcome Society Claimants by George McCracken, Baltimore Genealogical Society (1970). 16. German birth certificate for Elizabeth Reinhart secured 1972. Name of Compllar_£ii.j..aSa

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