Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

288 GENRALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES.
Elijah married Pbebe Hopkins April 8, 1780; Prudence
married Josiah Jenkins June 15, 1776, and died 1836; Alice
married Enoch Frost April 22, 1779, and died 1802 ; Temperance
married Da\'id Harding June 23, 1781, and died 1810 Isaac did
;
not marry, died in 1738; David married Martha Watson March
17,1788; Rebecca married Geo. Knight March 14, 1789, died
June 18, 1836'; Thomas did not marry Jonathan married Mary
;
April 10, 1796.*
(51-3) Isaac Davis, son of Stephen, Jr., born Sept. 14,
1729, married Hannah Davis, daughter of James. His house
was on the north-easterly part of Thomas Lumbert's great lot, on
the south side of the road, opposite his grand-father's house. He
had a son, and a daughter Rebecca baptized' Aug. 3, 1755, and
another daughter of the same name baptized Jan. 15, 1768, and a
son Isaac born Dec. 3, 1764. The latter married Abigail Gorham,
and had Stephen G., Cashier of the Shawmut Bank, Boston,
Frederick of Falmouth, and others. The widow Hannah, of the
first Isaac, married, June 17, 1783, Col. David .Gorham, she died
Oct. 3, 1810, aged 79 yrs. and 3 mos.
(58-10) Jonathan Davis, son of Stephen, Jr., born in Barnstable,
baptized Oct. 1, 1749, married Susannah Lewis, born the
same day, Sept. 27, 1749, or rather within a few hours of each
other.
farmer.
He went to sea in early
He had sons Stephen,
life, and was
Solomon, and
in after
George,
life
and
a
a
daughter Susannah yet living. Stephenwas a carpenter, removed
to Falmouth, and lived to be aged, and has descendants there.
Solomon was a carpenter, died a young man, and has descendants
in Dennis. George was a shoemaker, and resided on the paternal
estete, and died Nov. 6, 1847, aged 68, leaving one son, the present
Mr. Isaac Davis. He being now the sole representative on
the voting list of Barnstable, of the many Davis families of that
town. Mr. Jonathan Davis died Sept. 22, 1840, aged 90. She
died Sept. 25, 1841, aged 91 years.
(61-3) Joseph Davis, son of James, born Aug. 16, 1733, was
a tanner and currier and resided in a house that stood near where
the first Robert's stood. He married first Lucretia Thatcher Nov.
17, 1763, and bad Phebe, Rebecca, who married Job Gorham,
Elisha Thatcher, Mary, Lucretia, Joseph and Benjamin. By his
second wife, Mary Bacon, John, Lucretia and Abner.
John, (father of Joseph and Barnabas of Boston) built a
house near where the first Josiah Davis house stood. Abner
(father of Adolphus and James W., of Boston,) inherited the
paternal mansion. He was a lawyer, and Clerk of the Courts.
Elisha Thacher was a tanner and shoe maker, died a young man,
* Manuscript letter of .Josiah Pierce, Esq., author of her history, of Gorham, Maine.
The climate of Maine seems to agree with the Davis fanjily. Prince has more descendants
than his nine brothers and sisters.