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James Davis (abt. 1675 - 1757)

James Davis
Born about [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
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Died at about age 82 in Summerville, New Jerseymap
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Biography

According to a family genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family, Van_Meter-5|Sarah Van Metre]], daughter-in-law of this James Davis, "married circa 1725 James Davis (probably of the family of James Davis of Pilesgrove, Salem Co., N.J.--Pilesgrove Church Record). [Additionally] a James Davis was killed by the Indians on one of their raids along the upper Potomac valley in 1757 (Kercheval's History of the Valley)."[1]

A blog maintained by the Upper Pittsgrove Historian, Bonny Beth Elwell, speaks of the David Davis house of 1731, a patterned brick house in Pilesgrove Township "still lived in by descendants of the Davis family today," and that "the Davis family helped found the Pilesgrove Friends Meeting in Woodstown and they descended from a worthy Quaker heritage."[2]Geographical note: "Pittsgrove township was formed from Pilesgrove, and named after Sir William Pitt. It is sixteen miles from Salem. In this township are the small villages of Pittstown (now called Elmer) and Centreville."[3]

Elsewhere on this website is related the origin of this Davis family who migrated as Quakers from England to Oyster Bay, Long Island, one of them being Dorothea Gotherson who married a fellow Quaker named John Davis on August 5, 1680. It is related that John and Dorothea raised seven children, and that they then migrated to Pilesgrove Township in West Jersey where their grandchildren and great-grandchildren were born.[4]It is not known if this James Davis is part of this family, but it seems likely. Quaker records for this Meeting house should be consulted if these can be located.

Sources

  1. Ancestry.com. A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Original data:Smyth, Samuel Gordon,. A genealogy of the Duke-Shepherd-Van Metre family : from civil, military, church, and family records and documents. Lancaster, Pa.: New Era Print Co., 1909.
  2. "David Davis House 1731" viewed online at http:upperpittsgrovehistory.wordpress.com
  3. Raum, John O. The History of New Jersey: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume 1, p. 255, J. E. Potter and company, 1877.
  4. Upper Pittsgrove History blog, op cit, with mention that "this article originally ran as an Ancestors' Attic article in the Elmer Times in February 2012."

Acknowledgments

  • Davis-22951 was created by Christa Vassillière through the import of Christa Vassillière family tre.ged on May 28, 2014.
  • WikiTree profile Davis-11865 created through the import of davisfamilytree-1.ged on Sep 1, 2012 by Rich Davis. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Rich and others.




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Addendum to my previous comment. I forgot to mention that one of the confusions was also that an additional child, James, had been added on various Ancestry trees to Joris Davits and Johanna Lopers, in addition to Jacobus. But in reality, they did not have a separate child James. Jacobus is the Latin version of James, so their only child Jacobus/James was the one born in 1675, who was the "marriner" who married Elizabeth Sandford.
posted by Sharon Olson
I attempted to remove this James Davis, father of James De Mitt Davis, Edward Davis, John Davis and Robert Davis from being the husband of Elizabeth Sandford (which I think I accomplished), but am having difficulty removing him as son of Joris Davits and Johanna Lopers. Perhaps there is a time lapse, but I am commenting here to document my attempts. The confusion came from various Ancestry trees that confused the mariner Captain James Davis, son of Joris Davits and Johanna Lopers, husband of Elizabeth Sandford, and ANOTHER James Davis who settled in Salem County, NJ and had with an unknown wife at least 4 children. The James Davis who married Elizabeth Sandford had no known children with her. He lived mostly in New York and later, possibly, in Essex County New Jersey (formerly Bergen) on property near the other Sandford descendants, presumably on his wife's property.
posted by Sharon Olson
Davis-22951 and Davis-11865 appear to represent the same person because: The Husbands should be merged also, I believe they are the same. It will clean up profiles Thank you
posted by Linda (Lisher) James

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