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Descendants of Robert Davis

Generation No. 1

1. ROBERT¹ DAVIS was born 1757 in Kershaw Co. South Carolina, and died October 15, 1846 in Clarke Co. Mississippi. He married MILDREDGE "AMELIA" ? Abt. 1798 in Kershaw Co. South Carolina. She was born Bet. 1765 - 1775 in South Carolina.

Notes for ROBERT DAVIS:
Records of Kershaw Co. South Carolina
Deed Book D pg. 7
1801 Winnifred Davis to daughter Rachel Davis a heifer now in the posession of Robert Davis.

Deed Book D pg. 149
1803 Robert Davis and wife Mildredge of Lynches Creek to Jeremiah Parish Sr. 100 acres granted to Josiah Cantey July, 15, 1768 on Great Lynches Creek.

Wills of Kershaw Co. S.C.
Robert Davis paid from the estate of Mason Davis, Mar. 2, 1802. Mason died 1797.
Estate of Rachel Davis 1804... Robert Davis bought one heifer and one lot of old copper's ware and one table.

State of Mississippi
Clarke County
Probate court held in and for said county on the 4th day of December A D 1843 now at this time of the said court on the application of Robert Davis for a pension the following interogatories were put to the said applicantin open court and answers as follows :

1st) Where and in what year were you born ?
Answer: I was born in South Carolina in Cashaw District (Kershaw) on Lynches Creek near Camden in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven as I was told by my parents.

2nd) Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it ?
Answer : I have no record of my age.

3rd) Where were you living when called into service; Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you know live ?
Answer : I was living in South Carolina in Cashaw District near Camden when called into service and lived there after the Revolutionary War near the place where I was born until about twenty years ago when I moved to Mississippi and settled in Wayne County near Winchester and after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit with the Choctaw Indians I moved and settled in Clarke County, Mississippi near Quitman where I now live near this place.

4th) How were you called into service; were you draughted, did you volunteer, or were you substitute and if a substitute, for whom ?
Answer : I was a volunteer in the malitia(militia).

5th) State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and malitia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer : I knew General Sumter, General Green, and Genreral Gates where I served. I entered the service as a volunteer soldier under Captain Kemble and Colonel Ling(?) and General Sumter. I served three years as a common soldier under my officers at the end of one term of service I volunteered for another and at the end of three years from the time I entered the service I raised a volunteer company of my own and served one year as captain of a volunteer company.

6th) Did you ever receive a commision and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it ?
Answer : I received a commision which I believe was signed by General Sumter but have long since lost or mislaid it so that I can not now find it.

7th) State the name of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.
Answer : All these bystanders know me in my neighborhood. Your honor knows me, the Clerk here Mr. Williford knows me. Esq. Clark, Esq. Towner, Wm. H. Quitman, the postmaster here and any of you, and all the people around Quitman know me.
--- Robert Davis
I Isham Moody Judge of the Probate Court of Clarke County hereby certify that the foregoing interrogatories were put to Robert Davis an applicant for a pension and answered as above stated.
Isham Moody, Judge of the Probate Court.

Robert Davis File # R2761 South Carolina
State of Mississippi
County of Clarke
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me John N. McRee the Judge of the Probate Court of said county and state being a court of record which evidence is herewith annexed that Robert Davis who as reported was a revolutionary soldier of the United States, died on the fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six and that he was a widower at the time of his death, his wife having died many years before him, and that Rosier Davis and Joseph Davis his sons are the only surviving children of the aforesaid deceased at the time of his death and that they are legitimate children by his lawful wife.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 6th day of
February A.D. 1854.
John N. McRee
Probate Judge C.C.

Children of ROBERT DAVIS and MILDREDGE ? are:

2.	i.		ROSIER² DAVIS, b. 1798, Kershaw Co. South Carolina; d. 1865.
	ii.		JOSEPH DAVIS, b. Abt. 1800.

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