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(II) John, second son and child of James and Cicely Davis, was born about 1623, probably in Eng- land, and settled on Oyster river, in the town of Dover, about 1652. He was admitted a freeman there in 1666. His death occurred between April I, 1685, and May 25, 1686, the respective dates of mak- ing and proving his will. He was married (first), December 10, 1646, in Haverhill, to Jane Peaslee, daughter of Joseph and Mary Peaslee, of Amesbury. She died January 12, 1684. The surname of his second wife, Mary, has not been preserved. Their children were: Mary, Sarah, John, Hannah, Jane (died young), Moses, Joseplı, James, Jane, Jemima and Judith. (James and descendants receive notice in this article).
(III) Moses, second son and sixth child of John and Jane (Peaslee) Davis, was born December 30, 1657, in Dover, and lived in Haverhill previous to 1686, about which time he removed to Dover. He took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in Haverhill in 1667, and was killed by Indians in Dover, June IO, 1724. He was married in Haverhill, January 16, 168I, to Ruhama Dow, daughter of Stephen and Ann (Storey) Dow, of Haverhill. (See Dow, II). She was born January 24, 1664. in Haverhill, and was still living in 1717. Their children were: John, Moses, Jabez and Ebenezer.
(IV) John, eldest child of Moses and Ruhama (Dow) Davis, was born September 4, 1682, in Haverhill, and resided in that part of Oyster River which is now Durham, New Hampshire. He died before 1749. He was married about 1703-06 to Abi- gail, daughter of John Meader. She was baptized November 15, 1719, at Oyster River, and died about 1736. Their children were: John, Joseph, Nathan- iel, Hannah, Elizabeth, Abigail and Judith.
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(V) Nathaniel, third son and child of John and Abagail (Meader) Davis, was born about 1710, and was baptized at the same time that all his brothers and sisters were, January 28, 1721, at Oyster River. He belonged to the second foot company of Dover in 1740, and he and his wife owned the covenant at the Dover First Parish Church, December 30, 1741. He married Hannah Davis, who was baptized June 25, 1726, at Oyster River, daughter of Samuel and Martha Davis, of Madbury, and granddaughter of James Davis. The last named was a brother of Moses Davis, lier husband's grandfather. Nathan- iel Davis resided in what is now Madbury, where land was laid out to him in November, 1749. His children were: Anna, John, Eleazer, Elijalı, Solo- mon, George and Lemuel.
(VI) Eleazer, second son and third child of Nathaniel and Hannah (Davis) Davis, was born about 1743, in Dover, and there baptized, May 22, 1746. He resided in Madbury and subsequently in Alton. In 1799 he bought the Island in Lake Win- nipiseogee, once owned by Governor Wentworth and subsequently known as Davis' Island. He was married April II, 1771, to Saralı Cook, and their children were : Mercy, Hannah, Hezekiah, Nathaniel. Sally, Eleazer, Benaiah, Jolın and Charlotte.
(VII) Nathaniel, second son and fourth child of Eleazer and Sarah (Cook) Davis, was born Sep- tember 22, 1777, in Alton, New Hampshire, and settled in that part of Gilmanton (now Belmont), which is known by the distinguishing name of Ladd's hill. Nathaniel Davis married and it is said that he had a large family of children.
(VIII) Josiah, son of Nathaniel Davis, was born in the year ISor. His wife was Mehitable Smith, who was a daughter of Edward Smith, of James- town, New Hampshire, and who bore her husband eight children: Mary, married (first), John Bar- ker, (second), George Hunkins, (third), David Brown. Josiah, who married twice, his second wife being Lois Jewett. Edward S., who died young. John Page, now living in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire. Charles O., who married Mary Jewett. Nathaniel S., who married Frances Graves, and is a farmer now living in Sanbornton, New Hamp- shire. James M., married Clara Sargeant, and lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Frank, who died at the age of about forty years.
(IX) John Page, fourth child and third son of Josiah and Mehitable (Smith) Davis, was born in Epping, New Hampshire, February 15, 1831. At the age of sixteen years he was apprenticed to learn the trade of blacksmith, served three years and after- ward worked as a journeyman until the beginning of the Civil war. On August 12, 1862, he enlisted as sergeant in Company H, of the Twelfth New Hampshire Infantry, and followed the fortunes of a soldier's life without serious mishap until at the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 1, 1863, he received a severe wound in the right arm. At the time he was third sergeant of his company and when wounded was acting orderly. His wound was of a character that unfitted him for further service, and in October of the same year lie was discharged for disabilities. On returning home Mr. Davis again took up work at his trade and managed to earn a comfortable living until an accident, whichi was itself the result of the weakened condition of his arm, caused total blindness and since 1867 Com- rade Davis has not once seen the light of day. But notwithstanding this second misfortune lie has turned himself to various kinds of employment, such as sawing wood, collecting physician's bills and raising swine for the market, for he comes of an industrious family and carly was taught to
depend upon himself and to make his own way in life. "Mr. Davis is a member of John L. Perley Post, No. 37, Grand Army of the Republic, and attends the Methodist Church. He married (first), in 1851, Mary C. Maloon, who was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, daughter of John B. Maloon. She died November 3, 1876, leaving two children. He married (second), Ellen M. Aldrich, a native of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and who died September 6, 1893. His children, bothı by his first marriage: Jolin R., born February 2, 1852, married Etta Page, of Laconia, and has three children : Frank R., born 1872; Clarence R., August 22, 1876, and Josephine, August, 1882. Josephine R., born Au- gust, 1855, married William Wilkinson. The grand- father of John Page Davis, whose name was Edward, served for five years in the Revolutionary war. Na- thaniel S. Page served in Company I, Twelfth New Hampshire Infantry, in the Civil war, and was wounded in the hip at Chancellorsville. Charles O. Page served in Company G, Twelfth New Hamp- shire Infantry, making three brothers serving in the same regiment.
(III) James (2), fourth son and eighth child of John and Jane ( Pcaslee) Davis, was born May 23, 1662, at Oyster river and received his father's home- stead by will. He conveyed his garrison success- fully in 1694, and was a magistrate. With his wife he was admitted to the first Church of Dover, November 24, 1723. His death occurred about 1749. His will was made October 18, 1748, and proved September 27, 1749, and in it he mentioned five sons and four daughters. His wife's christian name was Elizabeth and she was baptized at Oyster River, November 1, 1719. Their children were: James, Samuel, Thomas, Daniel, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Ephraim and Phœbe.
(IV) James (3), eldest child of James (2) and Elizabeth Davis, was born July 10, 1689, in Dover, , and was baptized at the same time with his mother, November 1, 1719, at Oyster river. He was ad- mitted to the First Church of Dover, May 21, 1727, and continued to reside in that town. He was mar- ried (first), November 5, 1728, to Ruth Ayer, of Haverhill, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Johnson) Ayer, of Hampton. She was born March 21, 1699, and died April 28, 1730. James Davis was married (second), April 14, 1743, to Elizabeth Pane, of York. His first wife was admitted to the Dover Church by letter from the First Haverhill Church, May 13, 1729. She left one child, Rutli. The children of the second wife were: James, Mary, Daniel, Thomas and John.
(V) Thomas, third son and fourth child of James (3) and Elizabeth (Panc) Davis, was born September 7, 1750, in Dover, and was baptized two months later. He probably settled in Farmington, New Hampshire, where the births of his children are recorded. His wife was Joanna Keating, and their children were: Daniel, Jolin, Elizabeth, Mary, James, Anna, Moses and Ephraim.
(VI) Ephraim, youngest child of Thomas and Joanna (Keating) Davis, was born May 18, 1787, in Farmington, and when a young man resided for a time in Epsom. After his marriage lie removed to Wendell, now Sunapee, with an ox team, through what was mainly a wilderness. He purchased two lots of land, which he cleared and made into a farm, on which he and his wife were buried. He married, in Epsom, Lydia Locke, of Epsom, by whom he had children: Abraham, Theodore, Ira Sanborn, Francis, Jeremiah, Drusilla, Michael M. and Josiah Conant.
(VII) Theodore, second son and child of Ephraim and Lydia (Locke) Davis, was born in Ep-
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som, March 27, 1808, and died in Sunapee, March 3, 1878, aged seventy. Ile obtained what education he could in the common schools, and was by occupa- tion a farmer. He married Hannah Richardson, of Weare, New Hampshire, who was born April 29, 1806, and died in Croydon, July, 1869, aged sixty- three years. Their children were: James Wallace and David, who grew up and married, and three others, who died young.
(VIII) James Wallace, son of Theodore and Hannalı (Richardson) Davis, was born on his father's farm in Wendell, April 29. 1833. He lived on the homestead until 1867, when he moved to Croydon, where he bought a farm of one hundred and forty acres, which he much improved. Mr. Davis was a man of practical business, and served two years as selectman and one term ( 1894-95) in the legislature. He married, in Croydon. August 10, 1860, Melvina Clark, who was born in Croydon, June 7, 1838, daughter of Hiram and Adeline ( Fisher) Clark, of Franklin, Massachusetts. Hiram Clark was the son of Nathan and Sophronia (Met- calf) Clark. James W. and Melvina (Clark) Davis have one son, Edgar Wallace. Mrs. Davis died Oc- tober 16, 1906.
(III) David, son of Theodore and Hannah (Richardson) Davis, was born in Wendell, 1835, died 1876, aged about forty-one years. He was always a farmer by occupation, living in Wendell, now Sunapee, all his life; he died there 1876. He married, February 14. 1861, Francenia Davis (not a relative), daughter of Jesse Davis, of Springfield. The children of this union are: Willie, who married Nettie Rowell, and lives at Sanford, Maine. Nettie, who married Ellsworth Cummings, of Croydon. Della, who married Henry Sawyer, a lumberman of Croydon.
(1V) Edgar Wallace, only child of James and Melvina (Clark) Davis, was born in Sunapee, Au- gust 19, 1863. He has always resided on the home- stead. He was educated in the public schools and at Kimball Union Academy, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1884. After leav- ing school he taught about ten terms of school in New Hampshire and Vermont, and also carried on farining. In addition to his cultivable land, he owns four hundred acres of timber. He has taken a lead- ing part in the public affairs of Croydon, and has been a member of the school board, and since 1901 lias been chairman of the board of selectmen. He is a member of Blue Mountain Grange, No. 232, Patrons of Husbandry, of Grantham. He married, in Newport, October 10, 1899, Jennie L. Armstrong Fitzgerald, who was born in Hopkinton, New York, May 13, 1867. daughter of Francis and Elizabeth L. (Greg or Grey) Fitzgerald.
(II) Samuel, fourth son and fifth child of James and Cicely Davis, was born probably in New- bury, and resided in Amesbury and Haverhill. He subscribed to the oath of allegiance and fidelity in Amesbury, December 7, 1667, and appears of record in Haverhill in October, 1672. He died in Haverhill, September 10, 1696. His will was made in Ames- bury, September 7, and proved September 29. 1696. He was married December 17. 1663, to Deborah Barnes, daughter of William and Rachel Barnes, of Amesbury. She was born April 1, 1646, and survived him more than twenty years, dying January 14, 1719. Their children were: Samuel, Deborah, Rachael, Joseph, William, Rebecca, Ephraim, Sarah, Amos and Mary.
(III) Joseph, second son and fourth child of Samuel and Deborah (Barnes) Davis, was born May 3, 1673. in Haverhill, and resided in Amesbury. His will was made March 2. 1744. and proved April
II of the following year. lle was married June 14, 1689, to Jemima Eastman, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Hudson) Eastman, and granddaugh- ter of Roger Eastman, the patriarch of the East- man family. (See Eastman). She was born Au- gust 25, 1677, in Salisbury, and survived her hus- band. "Their children Nathaniel, Joseph, Jemima, Rebecca, Elizabeth and Samuel.
(IV) Samuel (2), youngest child of Joseph and Jemima (Eastman) Davis, was born April 27, 1714, in Amesbury, and resided in West Amesbury, where he was probably a farmer. He was married, January 23, 1750, to Miriam Gardner, and both were living in 1758. No record of their death appears. Their children were: Jemima, Samuel and Elizabeth, as appears by the Amesbury records.
(V) Samuel (3), only son of Samuel (2) and Miriam (Gardner) Davis, was born January 31, 1753, in Amesbury, and baptized on the second of September following. He settled in Pelham, New Hampshire, where he engaged in agriculture. He was married, January 5, 1775, to Sarah Wyman, and their children were: Jonathan Gardner, Sam- uel, Sarah, Miriam, Rebecca, Hannah, John, Wil- liam, Amos, Deborah and Grosvenor.
(VI) Samuel (4), second son and child of Sam- uel (3) and Sarah (Wyman) Davis, was born Feb- ruary 20, 1777, in Pelham, New Hampshire, and was an early settler in what is now Hudson, then known as Nottingham West, where he passed his life.
( VII) Moses, son of Samuel Davis, was born in Nottingham West, September 20, 1816. For many years he was engaged in the marble and granite business at Nashua. At one time he held the office of coroner. In his religious belief he was a Baptist. He married Bethana W. Allen, daughter of Samuel Allen, of Northfield, Vermont. She bore him three children : Albert A., a resident of Nashua. Anna E., wife of John N. Hannon, of Nashua. Henry H., see forward. Moses Davis (father) died in Nashua, January 3, 1888.
(VIII) Henry Hamilton, youngest son and child of Moses (5) and Bethana W. (Allen) Davis, was born in Nashua, February 3, 1851. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and began the activities of life at an early age, acquiring his initial business training in the office of R. P. Hall & Company of Nashua. He readily familiarized himself with the keeping of mercantile accounts, and for the past thirty-six years has been employed as a bookkeeper in his native city. In 1891 he helped to organize the People's Building & Loan Association and is now (1907) its president. In March, 1893, the Edgewood cemetery was incorporated. Mr. Davis being one of the original trustees, and for several years has been president of the board. In politics Mr. Davis is a Democrat, but is absolutely free from party pre- judice, a fact which was sometime since substanti- ally emphasized by his election to the board of aldermen in a strongly Republican ward. He is now a member of the board of park commissioners, and for more than thirty years has served in the capacity of notary public and justice of the peace. He is a Sir Knight Mason, and a inember of the Guards Club. Mr. Davis married Angie R. Batchelder, daugliter of William A. Batchelder, of Hudson, New Hampshire. The children of this union are: Lula F., wife of Herman D. Parrish. Nira B., resides with her parents.
DAVIS (Third Family.) Descendants of John Davis continue to live in the town of Ipswich or those adjoining for generations, taking an active part in military as well as civic affairs, which
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fact, together with the close proximity of those towns to the New Hampshire line, associated them more or less with the early history of New Hampshire, par- ticularly in the Colonial and Revolutionary wars.
(I) John Davis, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, shoemaker, herdsman, was before the General Court, April 10, 1638, evidently for the purpose of taking the freeman's oath. His name appears in the town records of Ipswich among those "That have right to comonage there the last day of the last month, 1641." On April 15, 1642, he entered into an agree- ment with the town of Ipswich to keep the cow herd on the north side of the river, this herd to consist of "two parts (2-3) of the cows." Then follow the conditions of the agreement. If the owner of any cow failed to pay the keeper according to agreement, he was to "forfeit one pound of butter upon a cow." The payment was to be made in "corne" at three shillings a bushel, and a quarter of a pound of hemp was to be given in part pay- ment. The following item appears under date of 1642: "It is ordered that Mr. Firman and Thos. Scott, the late constables, shall forthwith pay to John Davis iiii s. for going with the Deputy Gover'r to Cape Ann O-4-0." On March 25, 1643, John Davis and William Symonds made a second agree- ment with the town of Ipswich to keep the cow herd on the north side of the river, the herd to con- sist of two parts (2-3) of the cows, as in the previous year. Under date of October, 1643, appears the following record: "Mr. Browne his note of such as have forfeited for not returning their powder according to an order of the Towne." Twenty-five names are down for forfeits, ranging from £12 to £2. John Davis's forfeit was fi. On December 19, 1648, John Davis with other citizens subscribed as his share two shillings toward the pay of Major Dennison, their military leader. Davis sold land at Jabaque (Chebacco), Ipswich, in 1648, and on October 26, 1651, he was granted half an acre of ground adjoining his own land in consideration of the highway leading to Chebacco being laid out through his land.
In a work entitled "Ipswich," by Thomas Frank- Iin Waters, (page 22) appears an interesting item from the note-book of Thomas Lechford concerning a contract made by John Davis, joiner, to build a house for William Rix in 1640. It was to be sixteen feet long and fourteen feet wide "with a chamber floare finisht summet and joysts, a cellar floare with joysts finisht, the roof and walls elap- boarded on the outsyde, the chimneys framed with- out daubing, to be done with hewan timber, price to be £21." In 1656 John Davis bought of Richard Windon his house, barn, orchard and land in Glou- cester, Massachusetts. He removed his family there although he himself appears to have retained prop- erty in Ipswich and lived there at different times as late as 1687. In a deed he calls his wife's name Alice. They had two sons : James and Jacob.
James Davis, the elder, was appointed by the general court ensign of the trainband in 1681, and in 1689 received his commission as captain. No means now exist for ascertaining what active service he performed in these offices, but we find that in 1693 he was "very sickly" in consequence of sickness he received in the country's service in Sir Edmund Andros's time, and that he received in 1699 from the general court a grant of Straitsmouth Island for the charge and expense he had been at and the time he had spent in the late wars with the French and Indian enemy. He was repeatedly elected to the office of selectman, and for eight years served the town as its representative. llis death took place
May 1, 1715. A granddaughter of Captain James Davis married the Rev. Moses Parsons, and had among their children Theophilus Parsons, the dis- tinguished chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts.
(II) Jacob (1), youngest son of John Davis, lived at Gloucester, Massachusetts. In 1662 he had a grant of land at the head of Long Cove, and in 1682 he with others had a grant of the stream at the head of Little River on which to set up a saw mill. On January 20, 1661, he married Elizabeth Bennett. They had nine children, of whom two were sons, Jacob and Aaron. Jacob Davis ( father) died September 2, 1685, leaving an estate consisting of house, upland and meadow, half of a sloop and four canoes, cattle, sheep and swine, farming tools. saddle and pillion. gun, cutlass and belt, etc.
(III) Jacob (2), son of Jacob (I) and Elizabeth (Bennett) Davis, lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He carried on the inill built by his father, and also had a fulling mill. In 1708 he had a grant of land near his mill at the head of Little River (West Gloucester), on which he was "to erect a bigger house." This house is undoubtedly the venerable dwelling we still see there (1907), one of the few left in town, illustrating the architecture of that period. On September 14, 1687, he married Mary Haskell, and had eight children: Moses, William, Aaron, Joseph Mary, Elizabeth, Jacob and Jacob again, the first Jacob having died in infancy. Joseph, lived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1753 to 1760. Jacob Davis (III) died February 1, 1716, aged fifty-five years.
(IV) Aaron, third son of Jacob and Mary (Has- kell) Davis, lived in Attleboro, Massachusetts. O11 November 3, 1725, lie married Phebe Day, and their children were: Zebulon, Aaron, Elizabeth, Phebe, Eliphalet and Timothy. A great-grandson of Tim- othy, also Timothy by name, was representative in congress for two terms from the Sixth Massachus- etts District.
(V) Zebulon (I), son of Aaron and Phebe (Day) Davis, came to Gloucester from Attleboro in his minority, about 1745. About 1770 he and his family, with the exception of his son Eliphalet ( who remained in Gloucester, engaging in foreign com- merce; he was treasurer of the town, and attained the rank of general in the militia), removed to Bakertown, now Poland, Maine. Zebulon Davis was a member of the first board of selectmen after the town was incorporated. He was a patriot of the Revolutionary war. While a seaman he was captured by the British and held prisoner at Halifax for two and a half years, during which time he suf- fered great hardships. He married, March 12, 1752, Mary Bray, and their children were : Zebulon, Moses, Eliphalet, a daughter (name unknown) and William. Zebulon Davis, the father, died at Poland, Maine, in 1820, aged about ninety years.
(VI) Zebulon (2), eldest child of Zebulon and Mary (Bray) Davis, was born July 14, 1753, in Gloucester. He settled in Center Minot, Maine, having, in common with the other early settlers, much trouble in securing the title to his farm. On August 31, 1776, he married Tryphosa Herrick, at Gloucester, and their children were: Polly, Phebe, Zebulon, Samuel, William and Benjamin. He died August 8, 1838.
(VII) Benjamin, youngest son of Zebulon and Tryphosa ( Ilerrick) Davis, was born March 14, 1796. He also settled in Center Minot, Maine, near the home of his father. He was a soldier of the War of 1812. He married, May 29, 1823, Sarah Chandler, and their children were: Richmond, Irene C., Sarah E., Benjamin F., Clarissa A., Luther E., Charles H.
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and Ellen M. Benjamin Davis died November 2, 1874.
(VIII) Richmond, eldest son of Benjamin and Saralı (Chandler) Davis, was born September 29, 1824, at Minot, Maine. In his early life he was en- gaged in manufacturing shoes, but for the greater part of his life followed the occupations of farming and lumbering. He lived at various times in Me- chanie Falls, Oxford, Greenwood, Bethel and Graf- ton, Maine. He was selectman of the latter town for many years. He died there August 21, 1893, and was buried at Middle Intervale, Bethel, Maine. He married, November 17, 1851, Sarah M. True, of Mechanic Falls, Maine (see True 8), and their children were: Ella E., Edward A., Charles H., Sumner P., John True and Gerald B.
Sarah Maria (True) Davis, wife of Richmond Davis, and daughter of Captain John True, of Me- chanic Falls, Maine, was a descendant of Henry True (1), who married Israel Pike, about 1642, and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The children of Henry and Israel (Pike) True were: Henry, John, Mary, Lydia, Joseph, Benjamin and Jemima. The proposed match of Jemima True and Jolin Carr was broken off by his father because, in 1692, an aged woman, Mrs. Bradbury, was convicted of be- witching the said John Carr, whereupon he became melancholy and at times insane, dying prematurely.
(2) Henry, eldest son of Henry and Israel (Pike) True, was born March 8, 1644. He was a house carpenter. He took freeman's oath, 1675; was a member of Salisbury Church, 1677; bought common rights of Francis Dove in 1677 ; signed peti- tion of 1680; was representative in 1689; commis- sioned captain, October 29, 1696; elected deacon of Salisbury Church, July 25, 1700. The following order issued by Captain Henry True for the relief of the distressed garrison at Exeter, New Hamp- shire, is peculiarly interesting : "To Sergut Tho. Bradbury of Salisbury, this is to desire & Impower you to take the care & conduct of ye men above named (Referring to one half of the company of militia of Salisbury) & forthwith according to order to marchi them to Exeter to reli the distressed who are at this time in danger by ye Enemy, & be very kerfull of yourself & men in your march. Given under my hand in Salisbury this fifth day of July in ye Eight yere of her maiesstes reign Annoque Domini 1710. Signed, HENRY TRUE Cap."
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