Born about in Glamorganshire, Wales
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of Unknown Davis
and [mother unknown]
Brother of
Jonathan Davis
Husband of
Unknown (Unknown) Davis
— married
1639 (to 1659) in Suffolk, County, New York
Husband of
Mary (Unknown) Davis
— married
11 Mar 1660 in Southhampton, New York
Descendants 
Father of
Sarah (Davis) Salyer, Benjamin Davis, Susannah (Davis) Skidmore, Joseph Davis, Samuel Davis, Jonathan Davis and John Davis
Died
at about age 72
in Long Island, New York [uncertain]
[uncertain]
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Biography
Fulke (Davy) Davis immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Long Island
Very little is known about Fulke Davy, who was early in Hartford, Connecticut, while he was in Connecticut. A wife and/or children, if they existed, have gone unnoted. His name is not listed in the Connecticut Colony Records.[1] His early presence in Hartford makes him a Founder of Hartford. His name is on the north side of the monument in the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford.
"Fulke Davy sold his house and lot to Nathaniel Ward before Jan., 1639-40, and probably removed from Hartford; he witnessed a grant from Jas. Fassett to Lion Gardner, of Isle of Wight, March 10, 1639-40; signed the petition from Jamaica, Middleborough, and Hempsted, L. I., to be taken under Conn, government." [2][3][4]
He sold his house and lot to Nathaniel Ward before Jan., 1639-40[5][6] The description is for lot 144 on the map, although the map says from Philip Davis.
James Farrett/Fassett was Deputy to the Earl of Sterling and in that capacity he granted to Lion Gardiner the land that Gardiner had purchased from the Indians and was already in the possesion of Gardiner. This island is known as Gardiner's Island and was called by the Indians Manchonack.[7]
He signed the petition from Jamaica, Middleborough, and Hempsted, L. I., to be taken under Conn. government. The text of the petition can be found in Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (Dodd & Mead, 1873) p. 262, although the names of the signatories were not added. This petition took place 8 Oct 1663, and would indicate that Fulke moved to one of the settlements on Long Island.
Easthampton was settled 1649. Fulke Davis was one of the first 24 settlers.[8][9]
Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y.: With Other Ancient Documents of Historic Value, Volume 1. Sag-Harbor: J.H. Hunt, printer, 1887.
- Book 2, p. 159 --The records of the Meadow at Norwest July 5th 1653. #16 ffulke Davis three ackers and an halfe and sixeteene poole more or lese bownded with Richard Straton on the one side and William ffithian on the other (p. 38)
- Book 2 p. 162 -- The Records of the Meadow at Accabanock Easthampton 5 Jul 1653 #16 ffulke Davis on acker three quarters and eight poole be it more of lesse bownded with Richard Straton on the one side and William ffithian on the other (p. 41)
- Book 2 p. 24 -- the Lotts ffor the Meadow #16 ffulke Davis (p. 43)
- Book 2, pp75-77. "Daniel Fairfield a servant of Joshua Garlick, Fulke Davis, John Davis and John Hand, Jr., were brought before the three townsmen - John Mulford, Thomas Baker and John Hand - on a charge of masturbation, and, after extended examination and serious debate and consultation with their Saybrook neighbors, the townsmen, not deeming the offense worthy of loss of life or limb, determine that Fulke Davis shall be placed in the pillory and receive corporal punishment, and John DAavis and Daniel Fairfield shall be publicly whipped, which was done, and was witnessed by the three townsmen. The above bears the date June 8, 9, 10, 12 and 26, 1654." (p. 57)
- Book 2 p. 34 11 Nov 1654. A committee was appointed to "apoynt the place whear" ffulke Davis shall have a 1653 grant. (p. 61)
- Book 2 p. 10 ffulke Davis b f o h a x: [Crossed in original.] in a long list of persons p85
- Book 2 p. 42. East Hampton 1 April 1656. A dispute between ffulke Davis and John Hand Senior over the share of a whale, finds for ffulke (p. 95)
- Book 2, p 63 Joshua Garlick on befalf of his wife entered and action of Defamation against the wife of fulk Davis. (p.14)
- Book 2 p. 11 Another list with a strange code (p. 142)
- "oath of goody Davis...Davis afirmeth that the sowe pigg that she sould to this Indian _____ no other spot but one black one on the necke and when he feched a pigg about 14 Days since hee said that that was the pigg that hee bought of mee this later clause Goodman Davis afirmeth and John Davis (p.142)
- Book 2 p. 144 March 11 1660. Robert Dayton plt entered account of trespass against Mary Davis wife of ffulke Davis of Northampton ... (p 182)
- Book 2 p. 144 21 March 1660. Know all men by these prsence yt whereas there hath beene a difference between Mr. Thomas Baker and Robert Dayton the one party and Mary Davis the wife of ffulke Davis the other party about an estate that was left by James Haynes the former husband or Ralph Dayton her second husband doe by these prsence remise release and for ever quit claime each other of and from all and all manner of suits" etc. binding themselves and their heirs ..."never to molest of trouble each other for in or about any matter or thinge that is past past from the begininge of the world to this prsent date." Mary says also her husband and son John Haynes will sign also. 20 March 1660. signed by Tho:Backer, Robert "R.D" Daytons marke, Mary "I" Davis marke (p. 183)
- Book 2 p. 143 4 July 1661 (pp 183/4) An agreement between ffulke Davis and Nathan Birdsall giving ffulke title to a house and parcel of land.
Ffulke Davis was one of the founding fathers of East Hampton but was convicted of public indecency and molesting men and chased out of town. His 2nd wife, (her 3rd husband) Mary was also evicted for witchcraft.
"Fulk Davis was a Tenant Farmer, who could neither read nor write. He originally served as a gardener for Lion Gardiner on Gardiners' Island, New York. He was married twice, first in 1639. She died around 1660. He wed his second wife, Mary, on March 11, 1660. She died before May 4, 1699. He was granted two (2) acres of land on October 9, 1642 (originally described as "Old Land Upon the Playne") in Southhampton, N.Y. He is said to be a native of Wales. Before 1674 he moved to Jamacia, N.Y.
" The Town WEAVER was a very important person in each colonial town and the Davis family was instrumental in meeting this need... Goody Davis, the first wife of Foulk Davis of Southampton, Long Island, New York, had used her home as a place of business to prepare materials such as combed flax for the weaver and teach others the trade...she had a good taste for fine linen....she made a work place in her home for her neighbors and family members to comb flax and weave on a loom both at Gardiner's Island, East Hampton and South Hampton townships. She taught her children the trade as well, as later shown in the Brookhaven Town Records, where Joseph Davis in (1668) became the Town Weaver and his brother Jonathan Davis worked at the loom..(1671).Charles Salyer the grand son of Goody Davis worked as a weaver in Woodbridge, New Jersey in the year of (1695)......by: Gerald Dee Salyer m[10]
From: History of Suffolk County, New York, with Illustrations, Portraits, & Sketches of Prominent Families and Individuals. New York : W.W. Munsell & Co., 1882 Link at Archive --Caution each town chapter begins with page 1. --
- p.4 East Hampton. Fulk Davis one of the earliest settlers in Southampton, had land laid out 1642. Afterward moved to North Sea, lived on the shore of the bay at the village of Towd
- p. 25 East Hampton. 10 Mar 1639 He witnessed a document between Lion Gardiner and James Farrett (agent for the Earl of Stirling) confirming Gardiner's Island to Lion and his heirs.
- p. 5 Southampton Fulk Davis at Southampton during the first year.
- *p. 6 Brookhaven."Foulk Davis, of Jamaica, appears as the owner of a house and accommodation, bought of Daniel lane--the former property of Samuel Akerly--and he sells the same to William Salyer October 25th 1671. That probably closes his residence here."
- p. 9 Brookhaven, "William Salyer was a son-in-law of Foulk Davis from whom he received a home lot and accommodation, October 25th 1671." Salyer had been a resident of Southampton in 1668.
After his move to Jamaica, his name appears frequently in those records on deeds, land grants, and other matters.[11]
According to William Church Davis "The ancestry and posterity of Joseph Davis (1773-1865) ..." 1927.:
Foulk Davis is born in Wales probably c.1615. He died in Jamaica, New York, probably c.1687. He married 1st probably c.1639; wife unknown. He married 2nd Mary Dayton, widow, c.1660. She died at Jamaica, New York before 1699.
Added 5/30/19: A Sarah Davis is suggested as a wife of Fulke, but is probably a typo and should have said she was William's mother: "WILLIAM SALYER III (Sallier) b. about 1723, of Newtown, a great grandson of FOULK and SARAH DAVIS of Queens Co., Long Island, New York on Monday 21st day of January 1754 was frozen to death in a canoe or periauger while claming in Jamaica Bay, when an unusually piercing cold temperature weather change took place." citing "Annals of Newtown"[1]
William Church Davis further suggests Foulk's children (all by his first wife) are:
- Benjamin b.1640, d. 20 Dec 1692 at Southhampton; m. Rebecca __, b.1644, d. before 1692. (Information sourced by W.C. Davis from "Early L.I. Wills").
- Joseph b. probably ~1645 at Southampton; d. 1691 at Brookhaven; m. Elizabeth __ ?. Joseph's DoB derived from Southampton records in 1668, noted below.
- Samuel, b. probably aftger 1642 at Southampton; d.1692 at Jamaica, New York. m. Mary ____, who survived him ("Jamaica Town Records")
- Jonathan, b. ?, place unknown; d.1674 at Jamaica, New York. ("Abstract early N.Y. Wills"); m. Sarah ___, who survived him. (ditto)
- Sarah, b. ?, place unknown; d. ?; m. William Salyer ("Early Brookhaven Records")
- John, b. ?; place unknown; d. ?; (John's name appears "Small Book of Deeds", Southampton, transfers land to brother Benjamin 1678)
- This ends citation of WC Davis for this brief Biography.
[Davis.GED] p 5 ff: "...She married third, by 1661, Fulk Davis." Ralph's will, dtd 25 Jul 1658, gave his wife, Mary, D60 sterling as by agreement, mentioning the "land at Southold which was her owne" and "this house at Northampton." His son, Samuel, received the Northampton house.
, p. 17, cites a lawsuit on March 11, 1660, naming Ffulke's wife, Mary with Ffulke as a co-defendant, by Robert Dayton, (son of Ralph Dayton, deceased, Mary's former husband). This shows that they had been married before that date.
p. 19;. Deed of William Creed indicates that Mary died before May 4, 1699
Timeline
Fulke Davis Timeline from known records
- 1636 One of Original founders of Hartford, CT
- 1639 Witnesses a deed to Lion Gardiner (settled 1635)
- 1642 Receives 2 acres land Southampton "old ground"
- 1644 Assigned to remove beached whales East Hampton
- 1644 Mar 7, Oct 22 land records Southampton
- 1649 One of Original founders of Easthampton.
- 1653 Land records East Hampton
- 1654 Convicted of public lewdness, also his son John
- 1656 Land records East Hampton
- 1656 East Hampton whale carcass share dispute w/John Hand Senior
- 1657 East Hampton "Goody Davis" witchcraft trial
- 1660 Wed his 2nd wife Mary 11 March (she died before May 4 1699)
- 1660 Sued for trespass with his 2nd wife Mary (Haynes, Dayton)
- 1661 Land record with Nathan Birdsall
- 1663 Signs Petition for Jamaica to be taken under CT gov.
- 1670 Mt. Sinai ("Old Man's") land records
- 1671 Mt. Sinai land records, he is living in Jamaica
- 1671 Oct 25 land records, of "north Rieding of yourshire"
- 1686 Dies Feb 9 at Jamaica
- It is assumed that Fulke came to Hartford directly from Glamorganshire, Wales, according to family lore. From there he removed to Southampton, East Hampton, Mt. Sinai, and Jamaica.
- There is a Dolar Davis, also assumed to be from Wales, who appears in records contemporaneous to Fulke. Relationship not known. Above information from Daniel W. Davis, from the Portrait and Biographical Record; Grace Davis autobiography 1932; Minnie Irene Davis autobiography 1932. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665
- ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884. Boston: Edward L. Osgood Publisher, 1886. p. 236
- ↑ Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford. has used Trumbull's information with a typo in the name Hempsted ie Hempated.
- ↑ Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. Genealogical Publishing Com, 1977. Also uses Trumbull's information p. 208 under the heading Daniel Davidson.
- ↑ Hartford Town Votes Vol. 1 1635-1716. Vol. 6 of Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928) p. 15
- ↑ Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639. Vol. 14 of Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928)p. 297
- ↑ Collections of the New York Historical Society for the year 1869. New York: New York Historical Society, 1869. p. 272
- ↑ Rattray, Jeannette Edwards. East Hampton History: Including Genealogies of Early Families. East Hampton (N.Y.): 1953
- ↑ Hedges, Henry Parsons. A history of the town of East-Hampton, N.Y. Sag-Harbor, J.H. Hunt, printer, 1897. p. 6
- ↑ The Davis Family of Long Island
- ↑ Records of the town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1656-1751 by Jamaica (New York, N.Y.); Frost, Josephine C; Brooklyn, NY: Long Island Historical Society, 1914. [https://archive.org/details/recordsoftownofj01jama_0 at Archive.org
- Scudamore/Skidmore Genealogy - WESTBKUI.PDF, Warren and William F. Skidmore, Sue Cox, 44-690 Monticello Avenue, La Quinta, CA, 92253, (760) 345-1969, Page number: pg 24
- Long Island Surnames
- Davis, William Church, 1866 - The Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Davis (1773-1865) of Norway, New York, and his wife, Elizabeth Hallock Davis. [3] Added 11/17/2017 Norm Davis
- The Problem of Jonathan and Elnathan Davis [4] an excellent analysis of the Davis lines in Colonial America.
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The names of the immediate descendants of Fulke Davis as detailed in the William Church Davis book (cited by nearly every genealogist) is incomplete.
The land records at Jamaica are incontrovertible:
1675: Sarah Davis, widow and relict of Jonathan Davis "lattly deseased" in Jamaica, sells land to Nathaniel Denton Jr.
1680/81: Fulke and his son Benjamin paid land taxes
1684: John Denman sells land "formorly Ffulk Davises...and afterwards became his sones Jonathan Davises..."
1685: Samuel Davis sells land he received "off my ffather Ffulk Davis" to Wait Smith; signed by Samuell Davis, witnessed by Elizabeth Davis and Mary Davis.
1688: Mary Davis sells land to Abigail Miles; deed is witnessed by Jonathan Davis
1696: William Creed sells land he bought "of Mary Davis widow and relickt of Sam'll Davis late of Jamaica"
1700: on 12 December, William Creed records the satisfaction of a mortgage he made to "Jonathan Davis, Samuell Davis, and Ellnathan Davis... of a deed formorly given... by Marry Davis latte of Jamaica beinge the widow and relict of Sameull Davis deseast... ". The document further releases Jonathan Davis, Samuell Davis and Mary Davis of all claims. The mortgage was made 7 Nov 1692. Creed then goes on to state that he releases from further obligation "the thre brothers" mentioned above.
So there is an entire Davis line missing from William Church's genealogy - as well as a possible brother "Jonathan" to Fulke:
Fulke Davis's son Samuel married Mary ___ (that much was known by Church). But Church did not mention children and it is now documented that they had three sons: Jonathan, Samuel, and Elnathan. This is clear from the land records.
Jonathan and Elnathan are known to be in Trenton, NJ, having arrived there from Long Island. Jonathan is preaching at Trenton in 1695, (he was born 15 May 1675, and his wife Elizabeth born 1 May 1675) But their parents were not clear. Putting the dates together with the land records above, there appears to a line of Davis descendants who may lead to the mystery "Ffulke Davis" in Virginia in 1694; he could be the son of any of the three brothers.
But the records also provide strong evidence that Fulke had a brother Jonathan (as well as a son Jonathan): In 1681"Jonathan Davis son of Foulk Davis, and John Skidmore, all of Jamaica, Long Island, were employed by Foulk Davis to use his teams of six oxen, with Iron and wood tacklin, cart, wheels, and yokes, and one plow to work either plowing or carting in season for the present year, (1681) to use as their own and to use for inployment as they shall meet, and only Foulk Davis was to supply hay this spring."
But the 1675 land records at Jamaica clearly state that Sarah Davis, widow of Jonathan "lately deceased", sells land. The Jonathan Davis who died at Jamaica c. 1674, can only be Fulke's son. No other explanation fits; there are no other land owners named Davis. And that is certainly a line of research that may lead to another Fulke Davis in Virginia, as well.
So I have some work to do, apparently.
edited by Norm Davis III
See Fulke (Fooke) Davis in Accomack County, 1693-94 here:
Other option is to merge into Davis and put Davy into "other last names" but I think that downgrades the name Davy to an alternate spelling. Comments?
"Daniel Fairfield a servant of Joshua GARLICK, Fulke DAVIS, John DAVIS and John Hand, Jr., were brought before the three townsmen - John Mulford, Thomas Baker and John Hand - on a charge of masturbation, and, after extended examination and serious debate and consultation with their Saybrook neighbors, the townsmen, not deeming the offense worthy of loss of life or limb, determine that Fulke DAVIS shall be placed in the pillory and receive corporal punishment, and John DAVIS and Daniel Fairfield shall be publicly whipped, which was done, and was witnessed by the three townsmen." It is of interest to note that no punishment is recorded for John Hand, Jr., son of John Hand, a member of the governing body.
Nothing about being a molester of men.
The first settlers of East Hampton were: John Hand, Thomas Talmage, Jr., Daniel Howe, Thomas Thomson, John Stretton, Sr., Robert Bond, Robert Rose, Joshua Barnes, and John Mulford. Other early settlers included: Thomas Osborn, William Hedges, Ralph Dayton, Thomas Chatfield, Thomas Osborn Jr., Nathaniel Bishop, William Barnes, Lion Gardiner, John Osborne, Jeremiah Veale, William Fithian, Richard Brookes, William Simonds, Samuel Belknap, Samuel Parsons, Joshua Garlicke, Fulke Davis, John Miller, Charles Barnes, Stephen Hand, Thomas Baker, Ananias Conklin, Richard Shaw and Jeremiah Meacham.
Henry P. Hedges, A History of the Town of East-Hampton, N.Y., J. H. Hunt, printer, Sag-Harbor, 1897.
The Davis Family of Long Island Descendants of Ffulke (Foulk) Davis
NOTE: Additional file available on this site for this family - The DAVIS Family of Easthampton LI by Albert H Davis
Much of this file can be credited to Stuart Hotchkiss. Stu would like me to remind everyone that this file is a work in progress.
Additional thanks to Gerald Davis for sending the information on his line which goes to down through the Milford CT area and Long Island Davis line back to Ffulke.
Ffulke again appears in the East Hampton town records in 1654 where Ffulke, his son, John, and two others were convicted of masturbation. Southampton records of October 9, 1642 indicate that that town was prepared to survey and provide "Ffulk Daues 2 acres.