Born in Albemarle Parish, Surry, Virginia
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Rosser III
and Elizabeth (Unknown) Rosser
Sister of
Rebecca (Rosser) Tomlinson, James Glendening Rosser, David Rosser, Sarah (Rosser) Dancey, Thomas Rosser and John Rosser
Wife of
William Davis
— married
before 25 Feb 1775 [location unknown]
Wife of
Eade Smith
— married
22 May 1780 in Brunswick, Virginia, United States
[children unknown]
Died after
after age 37
in Virginia
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Nov 2018
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Biography
Mary was born in 1744. She was the daughter of John Rosser and Elizabeth Leftwich. She passed away after 1781.
25 Feb 1775, Brunswick Co., VA - The will of John Rosser names "my daughter Mary Davis." [1]
22 May 1780, Brunswick Co., VA - "Eads Smith and Mary Davis, May 22, 1780. (She consents in writing.)" [2]
1 Sep 1781, Greensville Co., VA - The will of "Ead" Smith says, “I give to my beloved wife Mary Smith the negroes she is entitled to as relict of William Davis deceased...” [3]
Sources
- ↑ Will of John Rosser of the County of Brunswick and Parish of Meherrin. Brunswick Co., VA, WB 4, Part 2, pp. 471-473, written 25 Feb 1775, proved 23 Oct 1775. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62347/images/007644011_00249?pId=1470366
- ↑ Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Bentley, Elizabeth Petty, indexer. Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. Baltimore, MD: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1984, p. 101.
- ↑ Will of Ead Smith. Greensville co., VA, WB 1, pp. 11-12, written 1 Sep 1781, proved 24 Jan 1782. Digital image at Ancestry.com - https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62347/images/007645042_00079?pId=808567
- Gertrude R. B. Richards, PhD, "Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Susex Counties [Virginia], 1739-1778," The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, VA 1958; reprinted, Southern Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1984.
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/family/MC5L-X81
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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