James Davis, (1)

James Davis, (1)[1]

Male 1585 - 1679  (94 years)

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  • Name James Davis 
    Suffix (1) 
    Born 1585  Marlborough, Wilshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 29 Jan 1679  Haverhill Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I22386  Complete
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2015 

    Father Father of James and Thomas Davis,   b. England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sissilla,   b. England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. James Davis, (2),   b. 1608, Marlborough, Wilshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2015 
    Family ID F8534  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Histories
    John W. Davis and Davis Family Founders of New England
    John W. Davis and Davis Family Founders of New England

  • Sources 
    1. [S223] Rhode Island Reading Room, Various, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/article.
      (I) James Davis, immigrant ancestor and founder, was born in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in 1585-1586. With his wife and children he came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1630, settling first at Newberry, where he was admitted a freeman, November 14, 1634. In 1640, James Davis, Sr., with several others from Newberry and four from Ipswich, desiring more land and timber, went up and across the Merrimac river at a point of land called Pentucket, and there located. Later, with the consent of the General Court, they settled the town of Haverhill. In 1641 he brought his family to his new home and was joined by his brother, Thomas Davis, and subsequently was appointed by the commission to take a deed of the township lands from Passaquo and Saggahew, agents of Passaconaway, chief of the aboriginal owners of the country. Upon the political organizations of the town in 1643, both James Davis, Sr., and Thomas Davis were of the five chosen to constitute the first Board of Selectmen, and in the same year they were both assessed upon estates valued at two hundred pounds. They, with James Davis, Jr., who was assessed upon one hundred and fifty pounds, were the three largest individual tax payers in the town. They were extensively engaged in farming and lumbering, and were the principal contributors to the property of the settlement. They are called in contemporary records planters and sawyers. James Davis, Sr., died in Haverhill, January 29, 1679.