No extant birth record has been located. The marriage record from Sutton, MA has "Davidson" as the last name w/ a note that the Church Record spelling was "Davis."
Married Mary Whittemore in Sutton, 1751.
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Benjamin Sr. died in Spencer, 1813
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and was buried in Leicester.
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Research Notes
Please refer to Wiki Profile Unknown Davis for a history of the original Benjamin Davidson. This an attempt to restore Mary Whittemore as Benjamin's wife.
Refer to Benjamin Jr. for Rev. War. records. Its' possible some apply here instead.
File M102. File: Z:\Family Tree Maker\FLINT Media\Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 16201988(4)(1).jpg. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988.
File M103. File: Z:\Family Tree Maker\FLINT Media\Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 16201988(5)(1).jpg. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 07 January 2021), memorial page for Benjamin Davidson (1727–29 Mar 1813), Find A Grave: Memorial #152148568, citing Greenville Baptist Cemetery, Leicester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Sharon Martin (contributor 47461215) .
"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHWD-92S : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Davidson, 29 Apr 1750; citing Marriage, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009440.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FR-3ZT : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Davidson in entry for John Davidson, 1 Jan 1752; citing Birth, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009440.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FR-3Z1 : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Davidson in entry for Anne Davidson, 18 Sep 1753; citing Birth, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009440.
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4FR-38S : 10 November 2020), Benjamin Davidson in entry for Benjamin Davidson, 21 Sep 1756; citing Birth, Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009440.
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Source: S57 Ancestry.com Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data - Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).Original data: Town and C; Repository: #R1
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Benjamin 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 Benjamin:
"Unknown Davis," per the Sutton, Mass. birth records was not the father of John Davis (aka Davidson) . . . Benjamin Davidson was. Change the name on this profile and complete the merge? It would achieve one of the stated goals of this site.
Davis-41392 and Davidson-12053 appear to represent the same person because: Not sure why this wasn't merged before. Some confusion regarding death dates 1813/1815? One was the father and one the son. Some argument about person profiles representing "data"? Sources do that, not person profiles. That said, more research is probably warrented, but there should at least be an unmerged match.
Kind of a puzzler. Unknown Davis was initially a more robust profile. PM appears not to have reacted in a kinetic way to profile activity. Had Mary Whittemore as spouse. Certainly Mary's spouse was a Benjamin Davidson (Davis, Davison). The snag seems to be the last name . . . son John went w/ Davis. Appears to be no reason not to merge them? Person profile data derives from source data?
Why was a profile w/ a known first and last name [Davidson-6663] merged w/ this more narrow profile? Why not maintain the format of son Davis-41393 [Davis aka Davidson or vice versa]. The birth record for this Davis-41393 [aka Davidson] is Benjamin Davidson and wife Mary (Whttemore). The last name is as Davidson, not Davis. The Biography of this profile [Unknown-Davis] reflect it that way, but the data portion does not. It would probably be more informative to expand out the data portion to whom they actually represent.
edited by Dave Jenkins