Mary Warfield

Mary Warfield||p74.htm#i731|John Warfield|b. 1673/74\nd. 1717/18|p61.htm#i603|Ruth Gaither|b. 8 Sep 1679|p61.htm#i604|Captain Richard Warfield|b. b 27 Aug 1646\nd. c 11 Feb 1703/4|p72.htm#i716|Elinor Browne|b. 1649\nd. 13 Feb 1718/19|p72.htm#i717|John Gaither|b. c 1645/46|p73.htm#i724|Ruth Morley||p74.htm#i733|

6th great-grandaunt of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Mary Warfield was the daughter of John Warfield and Ruth Gaither. Mary Warfield married Augustine Marriot.

Augustine Marriot

Augustine Marriot married Mary Warfield, daughter of John Warfield and Ruth Gaither.

Ruth Morley


8th great-grandmother of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
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Ruth Morley married John Gaither.

Child of Ruth Morley and John Gaither

James Davis

b. 1641/42, d. after 1687/88
James Davis|b. 1641/42\nd. a 1687/88|p74.htm#i734|Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Elizabeth Davis||p75.htm#i741|Captain James Davis|b. bt 1575 - 1580\nd. c 1633/34|p75.htm#i749|Rachell Keyes|b. bt 1580 - 1590\nd. b 1633/34|p75.htm#i750|||||||

Grandson of Captain James Davis.
8th great-grandfather of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
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Descent from Captain James Davis
James Davis was born in 1641/42 in Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Virginia.1 He was the son of Major Thomas Davis and Elizabeth Davis. James Davis married Margaret Jordan, daughter of Thomas Jordan, circa 1660 in Warrasquicke, Nansemond County, Virginia.2,3 James Davis died after 1687/88.4

After the marriage of James and Margaret and the birth of their child, Sarah, they moved from Chuckatuck, Virginia to Somerset County, Maryland where on 10 July 1665 James entered rights for himself, Margaret Davis and Sarah Davis, and on 10 May 1666, he patented 600 acres of "Davises Choice," between two branches of the upper fork at the head of Manesquean (Manokin) River. The rest of their children were born in Manokin, in Somerset County between 1666 and 1673.5,6

James was sworn in as foreman of the first grand jury summoned for Somerset County on 27 November 1666.7

The 30th of March 1669, James purchased 200 acres of "Davis's Change," part of a 300-acre tract called "Poole's Hope" and adjoining land of Richard Davis at the head of Back Creek on the Manokin River from Thomas Poole. The same day with wife Margaret, they sold 100 acres to William Thompson of Virginia. And, also on the same date, they sold all of "Davis's Choice" to John Smith and Henry Smith, Jr., sons of Henry Smith of Accomack County.8

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.9

On 30 May 1678 "James Davis, planter of Somerset County, and his wife Margaret" sold the remaining 100 acres of "Davis's Change," to Gideon Tillman.10

James "apparently resided in Nansemond County when he repatented the land he inherited"...141 acres in Nansemond County "beginning upon Chuckatuck Creeke...by or nigh a great marked white oak, the dividing tree betwixt him and his brother Thomas Davis...the said land being one-third part of the land which his father Major Thomas Davis dyed seized of and by his last will and testament devised to son James in fee...11"

James and Margaret were witnesses on 9 December 1688 to the marriage of John Jordan, son of Thomas Jordan of Nansemond, and Margaret Burgh, and they signed the Quaker Register as "Uncle" and "Aunt." In the Quaker Registers it is shown in 1687-88 they also signed as witnesses ("Aunt Margaret Davis" and "Uncle James Davis") at the marriages of two other nephews, Robert Jordan and James Jordan, brothers of John and sons of Thomas Jordan, Jr. They may not have been Quakers themselves, but Margaret's brother Thomas had become a member of the Society of Friends in the year 1660.12,13

Children of James Davis and Margaret Jordan

Citations

  1. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), p. 38 place and year of birth.
  2. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 38 - no marriage date. Based on birth of daughter Sarah in 1662 and possibly son Richard before that, would guess marriage was circa 1660.
  3. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 448 of Boddie, in Quaker Registers and So. Historical Association Transactions, Vol. 6, pp. 226-27-28).
  4. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 38.
  5. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 807: Maryland Land Office Bk. 7, p. 309, Bk. 9, pp. 428-29.
  6. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 39.
  7. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Clayton Torrence, "Old Somerset on the Eastern Shore of Maryland" (Richmond, 1935), p. 72.
  8. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Somerset County, Maryland, Deed Bk. B-1/2, nos. 6, 7, and 5.
  9. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).
  10. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Somerset County, Maryland, Deed Bk. WW, pp. 323-26.
  11. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p.806, Patent Bk. 7, p. 310.
  12. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers (Richmond, 1927), 4 v., ed. by William Clayton Torrence, II, p. 737.
  13. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 448 of Boddie, and So. Historical Association Transactions, Vol. 6, pp. 226-27-28).
  14. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 39 shows son Richard but no other data.
  15. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Sarah's birthday as 5 Apr 1662. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  16. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists the birth and death location as Manoakin, Somerset Co., Maryland.
  17. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists Mary's place of birth.
  18. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists Rachel name and birthplace.

Margaret Jordan

b. circa 1644/45, d. 1693/94
Margaret Jordan|b. c 1644/45\nd. 1693/94|p74.htm#i735|Thomas Jordan|b. c 1600|p225.htm#i2246||||||||||||||||

8th great-grandmother of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
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Descent from Captain James Davis
Margaret Jordan was born circa 1644/45 in Warrasquicke, Nansemond County, Virginia. She was the daughter of Thomas Jordan.1 Margaret Jordan married James Davis, son of Major Thomas Davis and Elizabeth Davis, circa 1660 in Warrasquicke, Nansemond County, Virginia.2,3 Margaret Jordan died in 1693/94.

**Researcher's Note:

It is often shown that Thomas Jordan married a Lucy Corker and she was the mother of Margaret Jordan Davis. There most probably was a Lucy Corker, one or even more, and it's said she married a Thomas Jordan, but there were probably two or more of them too -- at least, for example, one in Nansemond and one in Surry. It's just not clear at all but I suspect maybe she married the Thomas Jordan in Surry who was not connected to this family of Jordans residing in Nansemond, Isle of Wight.

The Corker family is mentioned in Boddie's book and it appears that William Corker, Burgess for James City 1655-56 and Captain of the militia, married Lucy White, a sister of Captain John White, and in his Will in Surry, September 4th 1677, William Corker named his children: Susanna, wife of George Branch of Surry; Judith wife of William Clay; and Lucy, wife of Thomas Jordan.

Further information states that Captain John White (brother of Lucy White Corker) was a Burgess in 1641 and had a lot in Jamestown in 1644. He was probably a son of William White, a haberdasher of London. His will was proven in Surry in 1679 and he left his property to his two sisters Lucy Corker and Mary White.

All sources found to date for Thomas Jordan b. 1600 show that his wife was unknown.
*****.4

After the marriage of James and Margaret and the birth of their child, Sarah, they moved from Chuckatuck, Virginia to Somerset County, Maryland where on 10 July 1665 James entered rights for himself, Margaret Davis and Sarah Davis, and on 10 May 1666, he patented 600 acres of "Davises Choice," between two branches of the upper fork at the head of Manesquean (Manokin) River. The rest of their children were born in Manokin, in Somerset County between 1666 and 1673.5,1

The 30th of March 1669, James purchased 200 acres of "Davis's Change," part of a 300-acre tract called "Poole's Hope" and adjoining land of Richard Davis at the head of Back Creek on the Manokin River from Thomas Poole. The same day with wife Margaret, they sold 100 acres to William Thompson of Virginia. And, also on the same date, they sold all of "Davis's Choice" to John Smith and Henry Smith, Jr., sons of Henry Smith of Accomack County.6

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.7

On 30 May 1678 "James Davis, planter of Somerset County, and his wife Margaret" sold the remaining 100 acres of "Davis's Change," to Gideon Tillman.8

James and Margaret were witnesses on 9 December 1688 to the marriage of John Jordan, son of Thomas Jordan of Nansemond, and Margaret Burgh, and they signed the Quaker Register as "Uncle" and "Aunt." In the Quaker Registers it is shown in 1687-88 they also signed as witnesses ("Aunt Margaret Davis" and "Uncle James Davis") at the marriages of two other nephews, Robert Jordan and James Jordan, brothers of John and sons of Thomas Jordan, Jr. They may not have been Quakers themselves, but Margaret's brother Thomas had become a member of the Society of Friends in the year 1660.9,10

Children of Margaret Jordan and James Davis

Citations

  1. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), p. 39.
  2. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 38 - no marriage date. Based on birth of daughter Sarah in 1662 and possibly son Richard before that, would guess marriage was circa 1660.
  3. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 448 of Boddie, in Quaker Registers and So. Historical Association Transactions, Vol. 6, pp. 226-27-28).
  4. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 213-214.
  5. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 807: Maryland Land Office Bk. 7, p. 309, Bk. 9, pp. 428-29.
  6. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Somerset County, Maryland, Deed Bk. B-1/2, nos. 6, 7, and 5.
  7. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).
  8. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Somerset County, Maryland, Deed Bk. WW, pp. 323-26.
  9. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: The Edward Pleasants Valentine Papers (Richmond, 1927), 4 v., ed. by William Clayton Torrence, II, p. 737.
  10. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 448 of Boddie, and So. Historical Association Transactions, Vol. 6, pp. 226-27-28).
  11. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 39 shows son Richard but no other data.
  12. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Sarah's birthday as 5 Apr 1662. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  13. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists the birth and death location as Manoakin, Somerset Co., Maryland.
  14. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists Mary's place of birth.
  15. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family, lists Rachel name and birthplace.

Sarah Davis

b. 5 April 1662, d. circa 13 April 1727
Sarah Davis|b. 5 Apr 1662\nd. c 13 Apr 1727|p74.htm#i736|James Davis|b. 1641/42\nd. a 1687/88|p74.htm#i734|Margaret Jordan|b. c 1644/45\nd. 1693/94|p74.htm#i735|Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Elizabeth Davis||p75.htm#i741|Thomas Jordan|b. c 1600|p225.htm#i2246||||

Great-granddaughter of Captain James Davis.
7th great-grandaunt of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Sarah Davis was born on 5 April 1662 in Chuckatuck, Isle of Wight, Virginia.2,1,3 She was the daughter of James Davis and Margaret Jordan.1 Sarah Davis died circa 13 April 1727 in Somerset County, Maryland. Purse and Person says "it has been suggested that she is the Sarah Davis of Somerset Co., Md., who left a will, 13 April 1727-9 May 1727, naming her sister Mary Wallstone and giving the residue of her estate to George, son of George Bozman."4

After the marriage of James and Margaret and the birth of their child, Sarah, they moved from Chuckatuck, Virginia to Somerset County, Maryland where on 10 July 1665 James entered rights for himself, Margaret Davis and Sarah Davis, and on 10 May 1666, he patented 600 acres of "Davises Choice," between two branches of the upper fork at the head of Manesquean (Manokin) River. The rest of their children were born in Manokin, in Somerset County between 1666 and 1673.5,6

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.7

Citations

  1. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Sarah's birthday as 5 Apr 1662. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  2. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 808, Somerset Co., Md., Deed Bk. IKL, pp. 50, 52-53 (for Issue of James Davis).
  3. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), p. 39, states she was born April 5, 1662.
  4. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Prerogative Court Wills 19, p. 204.
  5. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 807: Maryland Land Office Bk. 7, p. 309, Bk. 9, pp. 428-29.
  6. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 39.
  7. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).

Thomas Davis

b. 8 July 1666, d. 1 January 1667
Thomas Davis|b. 8 Jul 1666\nd. 1 Jan 1667|p74.htm#i737|James Davis|b. 1641/42\nd. a 1687/88|p74.htm#i734|Margaret Jordan|b. c 1644/45\nd. 1693/94|p74.htm#i735|Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Elizabeth Davis||p75.htm#i741|Thomas Jordan|b. c 1600|p225.htm#i2246||||

Great-grandson of Captain James Davis.
7th great-granduncle of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Thomas Davis was born on 8 July 1666 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland.2,1,3 He was the son of James Davis and Margaret Jordan.1 Thomas Davis died on 1 January 1667 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland.4,5 He was buried on 1 January 1668/69.2,3

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.6

Citations

  1. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists the birth and death location as Manoakin, Somerset Co., Maryland. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  2. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 808, Somerset Co., Md., Deed Bk. IKL, pp. 50, 52-53 (for Issue of James Davis).
  3. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), p. 39.
  4. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland, p. 39, states death date January 1, 1667.
  5. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808, Somerset Co., Md., Deed Bk. IKL, pp. 50, 52-53 (for Issue of James Davis) - states "buried 1 Jan. 1668/9" so death could possibly have been in December of preceeding year. Hurley states death was Janaury 1, 1667.
  6. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).

Rachel Davis

b. 2 January 1673/74
Rachel Davis|b. 2 Jan 1673/74|p74.htm#i738|James Davis|b. 1641/42\nd. a 1687/88|p74.htm#i734|Margaret Jordan|b. c 1644/45\nd. 1693/94|p74.htm#i735|Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Elizabeth Davis||p75.htm#i741|Thomas Jordan|b. c 1600|p225.htm#i2246||||

Great-granddaughter of Captain James Davis.
7th great-grandaunt of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Rachel Davis was born on 2 January 1673/74 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland.2,1 She was the daughter of James Davis and Margaret Jordan.1

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.3

Citations

  1. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Rachel name and birthplace. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  2. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 809, Somerset Co., Md., Deed Bk. IKL, pp. 50, 52-53 (for Issue of James Davis) - birthdate and place.
  3. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).

Mary Davis

b. between 16 March 1673 and 1675
Mary Davis|b. bt 16 Mar 1673 - 1675|p74.htm#i739|James Davis|b. 1641/42\nd. a 1687/88|p74.htm#i734|Margaret Jordan|b. c 1644/45\nd. 1693/94|p74.htm#i735|Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Elizabeth Davis||p75.htm#i741|Thomas Jordan|b. c 1600|p225.htm#i2246||||

Great-granddaughter of Captain James Davis.
7th great-grandaunt of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Mary Davis was born between 16 March 1673 and 1675 in Manokin, Somerset County, Maryland.2,1,3 She was the daughter of James Davis and Margaret Jordan.1

James Davis moved his family back and forth from Virginia to Maryland which can be seen since he proved rights for transporting his two sons, both named Thomas (first Thomas b. 1666, d. 1669; second Thomas b. 1669), from Virginia to Maryland on August 10, 1671, and on 23 September 1675 he proved rights for transporting his daughter Rachell from Virginia to Maryland.4

It is thought Mary married someone named Wallstone since her sister Sarah named her sister "Mary Wallstone" in her will of 1727.5

Researcher's Note: In the hopes that I can help stop incorrect information from being replicated over and over I need to comment on data I've run across about Mary Davis. I have found many family trees on places like Ancestry.com, with sources being mainly that they've copied data from each other's family trees, that have inaccurately stated that this Mary Davis married James Wright, a Quaker minister, in Pennsylvania. This lineage from James Davis and Margaret Jordan was disproven by Stewart Baldwin in "The American Genealogist" issue of July/October 1997. A Mary Bowater (daughter of John Bowater and Mary Maunder) b. 3 February 1689 in England married James Wright 2 Feb 1707 in East Nottingham, Chester County, PA. they had twelve children. She was buried before 6 March 1764 in Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick, Virginia. Sources for this can be found in Records of the Society of Friends, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 1908 and numerous other places such as William Wade Henshaw's The Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 1750-1930, Vol. VI, Fairfax Monthly Meeting, pp. 532, 585. For more information and sources, here are a couple of the many links out there: www.drwilliams.org/genealogy/9850.htm, www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/browse.cfm/Mary-Bowater/p88109/recent, www.ancestrees.com/pedigree/1394.htm.6

Citations

  1. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Mary's place of birth. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  2. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), p. 809, Somerset Co., Md., Deed Bk. IKL, pp. 50, 52-53 (for Issue of James Davis) - birthdate and place.
  3. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), Mary's b. date March 16, 1673 and place of birth, p. 39.
  4. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Land Office Bk. 16, p. 303, Bk. 15, p. 319 (426).
  5. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 808: Maryland Prerogative Court Wills 19, p. 204.
  6. [S246] Kerry Davis Research Note(s): I did extensive research in books and documents I have, plus on the Internet when I started seeing this data out there linking Mary Davis to James Wright (2011).

Major Thomas Davis1

b. 1612/13, d. before 20 September 1683
Major Thomas Davis|b. 1612/13\nd. b 20 Sep 1683|p74.htm#i740|Captain James Davis|b. bt 1575 - 1580\nd. c 1633/34|p75.htm#i749|Rachell Keyes|b. bt 1580 - 1590\nd. b 1633/34|p75.htm#i750|Sir Thomas Davis||p76.htm#i753||||||||||

Son of Captain James Davis.
9th great-grandfather of Kerry Suzanne Davis.
Charts
Pedigree Chart for Kenneth Davis
Descent from Captain James Davis
Major Thomas Davis was born in 1612/13 in Jamestown (Chuckatuck), Nansemond County, Virginia. He was the son of Captain James Davis and Rachell Keyes. Major Thomas Davis married Elizabeth Davis circa 1639/40.2,3 Major Thomas Davis died before 20 September 1683 in Nansemond County, Virginia.

The Davis family, James, Rachell and young Thomas who must have been about 4 at the time, appear to have made a trip to England and are shown on Passenger and Immigration Lists returning to Virginia in 1617 on the "George." This appears to be when they brought with them and paid transport for George Cooke and Alice Mulleines.4,5

Thomas was shown to be the son of Captain James Davis based on the following grant to him of land in Isle of Wight:
Granted by the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, Sir John Harvey, Kt., to "Thomas Davis, Planter, of Warwicksqueick, sonn & heir apparant to James Davis, Gent., late of Henerico in Va., dec'd., 300 acs. abutting Ely. on Warwicksqueicke Cr. about 2 mi. from the mouth, beg. at a point of land called the redd point, extending Wly. up the Cr. &c. 6 Mar. 1633, p. 128. In right of his father, an Ancient Planter for his per. devdt; 100 acs. for trans. of 2 servts.: Georg Cooke, Alice Mulleines whoe came in the George 1617 & 100 acs. in right or Rachell Davis, Mother to sd. Thomas, for her per. devdt., whoe was an Ancient Planter." (Nugent)


The Virginia Asssembly had decreed that planters who came at their own cost before the coming away of Sir Thomas Dale, that is prior to April 1616, should have on the first division of land, 100 acres for their own personal adventure and also the same for every single share, amounting to the sum of 12-10-0 paid into the London Company of Virginia. This was the reason that Captain Thomas Davis received this grant of land, as the heir of his father. His mother Rachell Davis was probably dead long before 1633.6,7,8

Purse & Person further states that Thomas sold 50 acres of this tract on 13 July 1636 to Ambrose Meador and John White and on 23 Sept. 1648 sold 200 acres of the same to John Moone, the consideration for the latter being 2000 pounds of tobacco and the deed reciting that Thomas Davis was "of Nansemond." (Isle of Wight Wills & Patent Bk.) Thomas Davis had many other land grants, deeds and patents which can be viewed by clicking here.9

In 1637, Thomas appears to have settled in the area which became the Upper County of New Norfolk in 1637 and Nansemond in 1642, as evidenced by two patents, one of May 22nd and the other dated November 23rd of 1637 in which he was given 400 acres. And 7 years later, on August 10th 1644, he was granted 300 acres which adjoined the land of Thomas Jordan, deceased. "The latter grant included his original 100 acres in the Upper County of New Norfolk assigned to him 22 May 1637."10

An affidavit in the Admiralty Court in London in 1639 was made by Thomas Davis, born 1613, son of Captain James Davis, in which he stated he was "A Merchant of Chuckatuck in Virginia, aged 26 years" (Bodie).11,12

In 1654 he was a Justice of Nansemond but "at his request on October 11, 1660 he was dismissed from the county commision by the General Assembly."13

According to Purse & Person, this Major Thomas Davis should not be confused with another Thomas Davis or Captain Thomas Davis of Warwick River "who in the muster of 1624/5 gave his age as 40 years, stating he came in the John & Francis in 1623. This Capt. Thomas Davis of the muster owned land in Elizabeth City, 1624, in that part which became Warwick River County. He was Burgess for Warwick in 1655-56 and sheriff, 1663-64, and died by 2 Nov. 1671 when land formerly owned by him was regranted" (See MCGC, Leonard & Bodie). There seems to have been a question of whether this Captain Thomas Davis of Warwick and Major Thomas Davis of Nansemond are one and the same and it seems they are not.14,15

In 1662, Warfield notes that Thomas acquired lands in Somerset County, Maryland and probably resided in Maryland for several years thereafter but returned to Virginia prior to his death.1

In 1674, Major Thomas Davis and Mr. Barneby Kearney were summonded to the grand jury and paid 200 pounds of tobacco as a fine for not appearing.16

Children of Major Thomas Davis and Elizabeth Davis

Citations

  1. [S19] J. D. Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland, published by Kohn & Pollock, Baltimore, MD, 1905, hereafter shown as Founders of Anne Arundel & Howard Counties, Maryland.
  2. [S145] Davis Families of Montgomery County, Maryland by William Neal Hurley, Jr., Heritage Books, Inc., Maryland, 2001 (Our Maryland Heritage, Book 22), "married Elizabeth, whose surname is lost in time," p. 37.
  3. [S13] Conclusions Drawn: Since we seem to have a birthdate for their son James of 1642, I would assume Thomas and Elizabeth probably married circa 1640.
  4. [S70] Nell Marion Nugent, compiler, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents, Vol I 1623-1666 (Richmond, VA: Dietz Printing Co., 1934), Vol. 1, p. 17: this references the land patent in 1633 of Thomas and the fact they transported two people with them on the George in 1617.. Hereinafter cited as Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts.
  5. [S171] Ancestry.com, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Record, source 6220, citing Nugent and Research Passenger and Imigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Filby, P. William, editor, Passenger and Immigration Lsits Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research 2003.
  6. [S70] Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts, p. 17 (with reference to Virginia Land Patents & Grants, p. 128).
  7. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Fourth Edition, Volume One, Families A-F (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD (2004)), pp. 805-806.
  8. [S63] Alexander Brown, The First Republic in America (Boston & New York, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1898), pp. 128, 318.
  9. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, pp. 806.
  10. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, pp. 806, referencing Patent Bk. 1, p. 128.
  11. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, this helps to confirm his birth year of 1613, p. 805.
  12. [S64] 17th Century Isle of Wight County, VA, by John Bennett Boddie, 1938, p. 445; Peter Wilson Coldham, English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660 (Baltimore, 1984), p. 85.
  13. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, pp. 806, see Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776 (Richmond, 1905-15), 13 v., ed. by H. R. McIlwaine, p. 9.
  14. [S72] MCGC: Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 2nd ed. (Richmond 1979), ed. by H. R. McIlwaine, p. 508.
  15. [S161] Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619 - January 11, 1978, A Bicentennial Register of Members, Richmond, 1978, p. 33.
  16. [S71] Burgess Journals, Vol. II, 1659-95, p. 9.
  17. [S22] Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5, Vol. One, p. 242.
  18. [S20] Fenton Garnett Davis Avant, The Davis-Wood Family of Gadsden County, Florida and Their Forebears (Box 738, Easley, South Carolina 29640: Southern Historical Press, 1979), lists Richard born in Virginia. Hereinafter cited as The Davis-Wood Family.
  19. [S26] Jane Baldwin, The Maryland Calender of Wills, Volume II. Hereinafter cited as The Maryland Calender of Wills.
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