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Davis,Daniel Family History Davis,Daniel 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, Ohio; 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. (Fef.: 0-. w-. Cole, Adi. ^er. state of Conr.) (Fat '1 #102659 <Z^) Lire ape, ^Tol . 102, rape 196) 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 Northwest Territory 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 Benjamin Tupper 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.
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