David
Vail
Born about in Green Brook, New Jersey
Ancestors 
Son of John Vail I
and Margaret (Laing) Vail
Husband of
Phoebe (Jackson) Vail
— married
24 Jul 1766 in Woodridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Descendants 
Father of
William Vail, Prudence Shotwell Vail, David Vail Jr, Rebecca (Vail) Webster, Smith Vail, Phoebe (Vail) Line, Mary (Vail) Pound and Margaret (Vail) Webster
Died about
at about age 83
in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 23 Aug 2011
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Biography
David Vail was born in New Jersey.
David Vail was born in Green Brook, New Jersey in 1740, a son of John Vail and Margaret Laing. David married Phoebe Jackson in 1766.
- David and Phoebe had 13 children:
- William
- John
- Prudence
- James
- Daniel
- David
- Rebecca
- Margaret
- Smith
- Phebe
- Mary
- Joseph (c.1788-1858)[1]
- Margaret
David was a disabled veteran. He was also a slave owner, but freed his slaves when others in New Jersey started doing the same.
He died in 1823 and was buried at the Friends Meeting House Cemetery in Plainfield, New Jersey.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZGW-L5P : 19 January 2020), David Vail in entry for Joseph Vail, 1858.
- ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch: 6 March 2021, David Vail, Burial, Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, United States of America, Friends Meeting House Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #69229302.
- Annals of Our Colonial Ancestors and Their Descendants, Or, Our Quaker Forefathers and Their Posterity: Embracing a Genealogical and Biographical Register of Nine Generations of the Shotwell Family in America, Together with the Pedigree and Near Kindred of the Author's Parents, Nathan and Phebe B. (Gardner) Shotwell (Google eBook) Written by Ambrose Milton Shotwell in 1895. Published by University of Wisconsin-Madison. 299pgs. See page 247.
- Genealogy Report: Descendants of Thomas Vail and Page on David Vail--see number 74. Website written by Robert Simon Vail III. Last updated January 18, 2012. See number 74 at the bottom of the page.
- "The Descendants of Edward Fitz Randolph and Elizabeth Blossom, 1630-1950" by Louise Aymar Christian and Howard Stelle Fitz Randolph, 1950.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with David by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with David:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with David by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with David:
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~1.56%
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June (Wardell) Mason
David Mark Cordell
June (Wardell) Mason
Kenneth Kinman
I created a wikitree profile for daughter Phoebe Vail, and attached her profile here.
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by Kenneth Kinman
June (Wardell) Mason
I believe that those are the same---dates , spouse, parents
posted
by June (Wardell) Mason
David Mark Cordell
I don't know what you want me to do. If you are talking about Vail-916, I can't find him, and the email from Wikitree did not include a link to compare 232 and 916. Maybe the merge already happened.
posted
by David Mark Cordell
June (Wardell) Mason
I'm new to wikitree----and not sure what happened!? I guess---do nothing! thanks!
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by June (Wardell) Mason
Marcia Tyler
Vail-232 and Vail-916 appear to represent the same person because: Same birth and death dates and locations, same daughter, Prudence Vail (pending merge), same father, John Vail (pending merge).
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by Marcia Tyler
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