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Decendants of William Davis, (1) Elisabeth, (2) Alice Thorpe, (3) Jane Adams




Generation No. 1


1. WILLIAM1 DAVIS1 was born Abt. 1617 in Wales, United Kingdom1, and died December 09, 1683 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA1. He married (1) ELISABETH ? Abt. 1642. She was born Unknown, and died May 1658 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?). He married (2) ALICE THORPE1 October 21, 1658 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA1. She died February 1666/67 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?). He married (3) JANE ADAMS1 1668 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA1. She died May 12, 1714 in Watertown, MA2.

Notes for WILLIAM DAVIS:
Subject:
WILL OF WILLIAM DAVIS 1617 - Dec 9, 1683
Date:
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 23:33:38 EST
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Source: "SAMUEL DAVIS of Oxford, Mass. and JOSEPH DAVIS of Dudley, Mass. AND
THEIR DESCENDANTS" North Andover, Mass.: GEORGE L. DAVIS Compiler and
Publisher, 1884

"THE WILL OF WILLIAM-1 DAVIS"

"The last Will and Testament of William Daves of Roxbury in the County of
Suffolk in New England the 6th of December in the year of our Lord One
thousand six hundred Eighty three, now having my per fect memory &
understanding by the blessing of my mercifull Father, into whose hands I
commit my Soule:

Unto my daughter Elizabeth I consigne over a bill of twelve pounds and a
trunck that was her mothers together with all the things in it. And unto my
son Mathew and Jonathon when they come to age they shall have the two Orchards
lying neer my son Joseph's and if they are not worth Forty pounds then the
Overseers of the Estate shall sell some Land for to make it up, their portion
twenty pounds apiece.

And then for my beloved wife I do make her sole Executrix of all y rest of my
Estate of Lands and movables and give her full power for to dispose of it for
her wants as shee see cause, with that full power and Authority over it as I
my selfe might have if I had continued For my three eldest son's John and
Samuel and Joseph, they have received their portions already, notwith standing
I give unto my son John, the eldest of my Children five shilling, and to
Samuel and Joseph five and sixpence to buy them some good bookes to remember
me with: And Further my desire is that there should bee two Over Seers chose
who my wife see good:

This is my last will and Testament.

In Witness whereof I have set to my hand the day and yeare above written

William Davis a
mark

In presence of us, Jabez Tolman, John Searle

At an adjournment of y County Court in Boston 17th December 1685 pursuant to
y direction of y Will, Jane Davis Exec made choice of Edward Morris and Jabez
Tolman to be overseers for y end proposed in y will, wch, persons y Court
approved of Attest Is Addington Cl"


Subject:
DAVIS ROCKET CONNECTION
Date:
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Page 3 of the "Samuel & Joseph Davis book" footnotes to will of William Davis

"Ichabod* Davis m: Bethiah --------; was deacon of Congregatopma; cjircj at
Roxbury, and by trade a tailor; bought in 1733 of Clement Corbin fifty-one
acres of land in Dudley, and in 1737 of William Dudley one hundred acres
"adjoining the Indian meadow," also in Dudley. In 1750 he sold to Benjamin
his son one-half of one hundred and seven acres in Dudleing the land on which
the said son dwelt. He d. 16 March, 1754, and the balance of the farm was
given to the son in his will. This Benjamin was known as "retailer Ben,"
from which it is inferred he was a trader. He had a son Benjamin, b. 1710,
who in 1731 went to Oxford and m: Sibyl dau. of Joseph Rocket - the first
female ch. b. in Oxford - sett. in the easterly part of the town. He served
in the French War and after his return sett. just outside the town limits on
the south-east near Nipmuck pond. He was the progenitor of the family of the
name which lived in the southerly part of Oxford, known as the Benjamin Davis
family"

There you are! We need to read all the footnotes to everything. Wish I
could find a copy of this book and could afford it. All I have are some
copied pages.

Lois



The Davis Family of Oxford, MA & Woodstock, CT

Extracted from Historic Homes & Institutions and Personal Memoirs of Worcester, County, Massachusetts. Prepared under the Editorial
Supervision of Ellery Bicknell Crane, and Published by the Lewis Publishing Company, 1907. Vol # 3, pages 69-70

William Davis, (I) ancestor of Dyer Davis, of Dudley, was in Roxbury, MA, in 1642. A tradition held extensively in the family is that he came
from Wales about 1635. He was born in 1617 and married (first) Elizabeth___. She was buried May 4, 1658. He married (second), Oct. 21,
1658, Alice Thorpe. She was buried Feb. 24, 1667. He married (third) Jane ___. He was admitted to full communion Apr. 20, 1673. He died
Dec. 9, 1683. Widow Jane died May 12, 1714, at Watertown, at the residence of Josiah Goddard, who married her daughter Rachel. He had
three children by his first wife, four by the second and three by the third. Six other children are believed to have bee the children of Jane. The
children were born at Roxbury and baptized in the church there. They were: John, b. Oct 1, 1643; Samuel, b. Feb. 21, 1645; Joseph, b. Oct.
12, 1647; William and Elizabeth (twins), bapt. Jun. 14, 1663, buried Dec. 18, 1678; Mathew, bapt. Jan. 24, 1664, settled at Woodstock, CT;
Jonathan, b. Feb. 2, 1665, settled at Woodstock; Mary, b. Mar. 28, 1669; Jane, b. Dec. 24, 1670; Rachel, b. Aug. 26, 1672, married Jan. 28,
1696, Josiah Goddard, of Watertown, and had nine children; Benjamin, bapt. Jan. 7, 1674; Ichabod, bapt. Apr. 1, 1676; Ebenezer, bapt. Apr. 9,
1678; William, bapt. Jan. 3, 1680; Sarah, bapt. Jul. 20, 1681; Isaac, bapt. Apr. 18, 1683.

(II) Joseph Davis, son of William Davis (I), was born Oct. 12, 1647, at Roxbury, MA. He married Sarah Chamberlain, who owned the covenant
Feb. 8, 1673. Their children, born at Roxbury, were: Joseph, bapt. Feb. 22, 1673; Sarah, bapt. Feb. 22, 1673; Mary, bapt. Dec. 12, 1675;
Hannah, bapt. Mar. 21, 1680; Benjamin, bapt. Feb. 22, 1684; Mehitable, bapt. Feb. 22, 1684; Abigail, bapt. Apr. 15, 1688.

(III) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph (II), was born at Roxbury, MA, probably 1671. He married (first) Sarah ___; he married (second), Dec. 8,
1715, Elizabeth Lane. Of his seven children the first six were by his wife Sarah. He was a cordwainer at Roxbury; in 1710 he bought of his
father a house and fifteen acres of land. He sold this place in 1717 to Joseph Scott. He died soon after intestate. Most of his children, if not all
settled in Woodstock, CT. His children were: Joseph, born at Roxbury, Jul. 26, 1697; John, b. Oct. 30, 1699, at Roxbury, resided at
Woodstock, married Jun. 8, 1721, Martha Griggs; Sarah, b. at Roxbury, May, 1702, married Jan. 21, 1722, Joshua Healy; Samuel, b. Jun.
27, 1704, married, Aug. 1, 1728, Hannah Bacon, settled at Woodstock; Joshua, b. Nov. 20, 1706, resided at Woodstock, married Dec. 15,
1731, Sarah Pierpont; Benjamin, b. Mar. 4, 1710, at Brookline, resided at Woodstock; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 11, 1717, at Brookline.

(IV) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph (III) was born at Roxbury, MA, Jul. 26, 1697, married, Jan. 31, 1723, at Roxbury, Sarah Curtiss. She died
Mar. 5, 1727. He married (second) Ruth Griggs, probably daughter of James Griggs. He lived and died on the homestead bought in 1743 near
the southeast corner of Oxford. All of his children were born in Woodstock, the first three by Sarah, the others by Ruth. The children were:
Sarah, b. Nov. 23, 1723; Joseph, b. Mar. 7, 1725, married Sarah, daughter of Deacon Samuel Davis, of Oxford; Rachel, b. Feb. 11, 1727;
James, b. Oct. 8, 1734; Ruth, b. Oct. 6, 1735; Jemima, b. Nov. 25, 1736, married, Mar. 28, 1780, Joseph, son of Benjamin Davis, of Oxford;
Abigail, bapt. Feb. 11, 1739, married John Learned, of Oxford; William, bapt. Oct. 19, 1740; William, bapt. Mar. 6, 1743, married Sibyl
Davis, of Oxford.

(V) Joseph Davis, son of Joseph Davis (IV), was born at Woodstock, CT, Mar. 7, 1725; he married, Jul. 6, 1758, Sarah Davis, daughter of
Samuel and Mary Davis. She was born at Oxford, MA, Dec. 31, 1734.

(VI) Joshua Davis, son of Joseph Davis (V), was born Jul. 25, 1774; married Mar. 13, 1793, Susannah Dodge, of Dudley, MA. He settled at
Dudley, where he died Apr. 19, 1829. Their children, all born at Dudley were: Chester, b. Apr. 29, 1799; Dyer, b. Jan. 19, 1801; Rhoda, b.
Jan. 2, 1803; Ziba, b. Dec. 3, 1805; Joshua, b. Mar. 15, 1807; Susannah, b. Sept. 9, 1814; Fredrick, b. Jan. 22, 1816; Prince, b. Feb. 24, 1823


More About WILLIAM DAVIS:
Communion: April 20, 16732
Emigration: About 16352

More About ELISABETH ?:
Burial: May 04, 1658, probably Roxbury, MA3

More About ALICE THORPE:
Burial: February 24, 1666/674

Notes for JANE ADAMS:
Widow Jane died May 12, 1714, at Watertown, at the residence of Josiah Goddard, who married her daughter Rachel.
     
Children of WILLIAM DAVIS and ELISABETH ? are:
2. i.   JOHN2 DAVIS, b. October 01, 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; d. March 16, 1704/05, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.
3. ii.   SAMUEL DAVIS, b. February 21, 1643/44, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; d. July 26, 1690, Northampton, Hampshire, MA.
4. iii.   JOSEPH DAVIS, b. October 12, 1647, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; d. December 25, 1717, Brookline, Norfolk, MA.
     
Children of WILLIAM DAVIS and ALICE THORPE are:
  iv.   WILLIAM2 DAVIS5, b. Abt. June 1663, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA5; d. December 18, 1678, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.
  More About WILLIAM DAVIS:
Baptism: June 14, 1663, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?)6
Christening: June 14, 1663, Christined with twin sister
  v.   ELISABETH DAVIS7, b. Abt. June 1663, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?)7; d. Unknown.
  More About ELISABETH DAVIS:
Baptism: June 14, 1663, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?)8
Christening: June 14, 1663, Christined with twin brother
  vi.   MATHEW DAVIS9, b. Abt. January 1663/64, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA9; d. February 04, 1728/29, Pomfret, Conn; m. MARGARET CORBIN9, February 27, 1690/91, Woodstock9; d. Unknown.
  More About MATHEW DAVIS:
Baptism: January 24, 1663/64, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA (?)10
  vii.   JONATHAN DAVIS11, b. Abt. February 02, 1664/65, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA12; d. Unknown; m. ANN (OR ANNA)13, Unknown, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA13; d. Unknown.
     
Children of WILLIAM DAVIS and JANE ADAMS are:
  viii.   BENJAMIN2 DAVIS13, b. May 31, 1662, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA13; d. November 20, 1675, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA13.
  More About BENJAMIN DAVIS:
Baptism: January 07, 1673/7414
  ix.   MARY DAVIS15, b. March 28, 1669, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA15; d. Unknown.
  x.   JANE DAVIS15, b. December 21, 1670, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA16; d. Unknown.
  xi.   RACHEL DAVIS17, b. August 26, 1672, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA17; d. April 23, 1740, Watertown, Middlesex, MA; m. JOSIAH GODDARD, January 28, 1695/96, ?; d. Unknown.
  Notes for RACHEL DAVIS:
Had nine children with husb. Josiah (Samuel Davis book, pg 2)

  Notes for JOSIAH GODDARD:
Had nine children with wife Rachael (Samuel Davis book, pg 2)

  Marriage Notes for RACHEL DAVIS and JOSIAH GODDARD:
5. xii.   ICABOD DAVIS, b. April 01, 1676, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; d. March 16, 1754, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA.
  xiii.   EBANIZER DAVIS17, b. April 09, 1678, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA17; d. May 14, 1712, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA17; m. HANNAH WHITE17, April 18, 1700, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA17; d. Unknown.
  More About EBANIZER DAVIS:
Baptism: April 09, 167818
  xiv.   WILLIAM DAVIS19, b. January 03, 1679/80, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA19; d. Unknown; m. DOROTHY MIXER19, January 12, 1709/10, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA19; d. Unknown.
  More About WILLIAM DAVIS:
Baptism: January 03, 1679/8020
  xv.   SARAH DAVIS21, b. July 20, 1681, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA21; d. Unknown; m. JOSEPH SCOTT21, February 08, 1704/05, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA; d. Unknown.
  More About SARAH DAVIS:
Baptism: July 20, 168122
  xvi.   ISAAC DAVIS23, b. April 18, 1683, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA23; d. Unknown; m. DEBORA JOHNSON23, December 19, 1705, Roxbury, Suffolk, MA23; d. Unknown.
  More About ISAAC DAVIS:
Baptism: April 18, 168324.


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