Davis, Aquila (1760-1835)

Name:

Davis, Aquila (1760-1835)

Title:

3rd NH Regiment, Continental Army (1777-1781)
Commander, 30th State Militia Regiment (1799-1807)
Brigadier-General, 4th Brigade (1807-1809)
Colonel, 1st NH Volunteers (1812)
Lieutenant Colonel, 45th Regiment US Infantry (1812-1815)
Member, New Hampshire House of Representative (1794)

Other Names:

Aquilla

Born:

06/27/1760

Birthplace:

Amesbury, MA

Died:

02/27/1835

Death Location:

Warner, NH

Residence:

Amesbury, MA
Warner, NH

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Military

Father:

Davis, Francis (1723-1784)

Mother:

Farrin, Elizabeth (1724-1793)

Relations:

Father, Francis Davis, served in the American Revolution.
Siblings:
Davis, Zebulon (1748-1795; b. Amesbury, MA; m. Hannah or Harriet Currier 1770 Warner, NH; children)
Davis, Wells
Davis, Francis
Davis, Paine (-1784; m. Betsey Eastman 1783 Warner, NH)
Davis, Nathan

Spouse:

Stevens, Abigail (1766-1862), August 10, 1785

Children:

Davis, Paine (1786-1832; b., res. Warner, NH; m. Mary Dow; children)
Davis, Abigail Watts (1790-1869; b., res. Warner, NH; m. cousin Alpheus Davis; children)
Davis, Theodore S. (1792-1835; b. Warner, NH)
Davis, Nathaniel Ambrose (1794-1866) b., res. Warner, NH; m. Mary Clough; children)
Davis, Nathan (1799-1841; m. Judith Buswell 1828; 2 children)
Davis, Charles (c.1803-; b.,res. Warner, NH; not married in 1850; resided at family homestead, with his mother)
Davis, Aquilla A. (1803 or 06-; b., res. Warner, NH; m. Rhoda C. Straw 1828, Webster, NH)
Davis, Sarah W.
Davis, Peris H.
Davis, James

Notes:

Francis Y. Davis, Compiler. Genealogy of the Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Francis Davis. (Dayton, Ohio: The Otterbein Press, 1910), 122-132.

Walter Harriman, The History of Warner, New Hampshire, for One Hundred and Forty-Four Years, From 1735-1879. (Concord, NH: The Republican Press Association, 1879), 279, 280, 281, 282.

Davisville Cemetery, Warner, NH

SEE ALSO (father): Davis, Francis
SEE ALSO (wife): Stevens, Abigail / Davis, Abigail
SEE ALSO (son): Davis, Nathaniel Ambrose (1)
SEE ALSO (grandson): Davis, George Hilliard
SEE ALSO (granddaughter): Chase, Augusta Davis
SEE ALSO (great-granddaughter): Preston, Mary A. Davis