Robert Davis (abt. 1756 - 1816)

Born about 1756 in Virginia

Ancestors

Died 1816 at about age 60 in Madison County, Virginia, USA

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Biography

"Research shows James Davis almost certainly had a son Robert Davis who lived near him in Madison County. Robert died July 1816, apparently rather suddenly at about age 60. Six months later James wrote the above will ―revoking all others, just as Robert’s widow and all his children with their spouses were selling off land and preparing to move to Kentucky in the coming weeks and months. As was a common practice, James probably gave gifts of inheritance to his grandchildren before their departure from the state, then wrote this revised will distributing his assets among his other family. Although James was obviously aware that his sister Mary and brother Benjamin had already died, he does not seem to know for certain that his brother John also was deceased in Pittsylvania County. (There are good reasons for this, which shall be left to other more pertinent research reports.) However, the effect was the same, in that John’s portion would then be divided equally among his children, as with the children of James’ siblings Benjamin Davis and Mary."^[1]

"The inventory and appraisal of James Jarrell ―Sr.‘s‖ estate was recorded 19 June 1786 by neighbors Thomas Graves and Reuben Clark as well as Joseph Eddins, all of whose families also lived near and are on records with Mary Jarrell's Davis family. Thomas Graves, owner of Graves Mill, married Thomas Stanton Sr.‘s granddaughter Sarah Dulaney, and their daughter Susannah Graves is said to be the second wife of Ephraim Rucker‘s son Angus. When Mary Jarrell‘s brother Benjamin Davis (II) moved to Georgia the end of 1790, he sold his Wolftown land to Joel Graves who was Thomas Graves‘ son and Susannah Graves Rucker‘s brother. [CDBP:500] Mary Jarrell‘s and Benjamin Davis‘ nephew Robert Davis (son of their brother James Davis) was named in the estate accounts of James Jarrell ―Sr.‖ who died 1786 in Culpeper, and when Robert Davis died in then-Madison County in 1816, an executor of his estate was Reuben Clark‘s son James Clark. [MadWB3:238]"^[2]

"Three months later, on 19 June 1786, Daniel and Mary sold 50 acres of this land to Benjamin Quinn, grandson of Darby Quinn (a bound on Cave‘s 1737 adjacent patent). [CDBN:245] Benjamin Quinn‘s wife was Frances Vernon, an older sister of Richard Vernon, Jr. who in 1800 married Elizabeth Davis, Mary Jarrell‘s great-niece (Elizabeth being a daughter of Robert Davis, son of Mary Jarrell‘s brother James Davis). [Vogt, Madison Marriages, p. 103]"^[3]

"Jeremiah Jarrell Sr. had land near James Davis (and two other of Mary Davis Jarrell‘s siblings) around today‘s Wolftown, and in 1816 sold land close to them to James‘ son Robert Davis who died at about age 60 later that year. [MadDB6:13]"^[4]

"John Jackson‘s son William Jackson was a witness to James Davis‘ Madison County will in 1817 and a witness to a codicil of the will of James‘ son Robert Davis the year before. John Jackson‘s son John Jackson Jr. married Mary ―Polly‖ Herndon [Vogt, Madison Marriages, p. 43], sister of Elizabeth Herndon who married Richard Jarrell Jr."^[5]

" (Also, in 1809 a Fanny Taylor married a son of Robert Davis, nephew of Daniel and Mary Davis Jarrell, and in the 1789 Culpeper personal property tax lists Robert had an Edmund Taylor living in his household. This same Robert Davis, son of Mary Jarrell‘s brother James Davis, was also on the estate accounts of James Jarrell Sr. in 1791.)"^[6]

"George Harrison was the father of Sarah Harrison, who married Robert Davis‘ son James Davis, grandson of Mary Jarrell‘s brother James Davis. [Vogt, Madison Marriages, p. 115]"^[7]

Sources

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRM8-TTN

1. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 87-88.
2. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 10.
3. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 16.
4. ↑ http://www.joanhorsley.org/reports/Jarrell_Report_print.pdf The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia], by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 16.
5. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 38.
6. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 38.
7. ↑ The Jarrell Family of Early Virginia, by Joan Horsley (2009), p. 46.