Davis, Francis (1723-1784)

Name:

Davis, Francis (1723-1784)

Title:

Proprietor, Town of Warner (1763)
Moderator, Town of Warner (1771)
Captain, 22nd Company Foot, 9th Regiment of Militia (1773)
Tythingman, Town of Warner, (1774)
Member, New Hampshire House of Representative, Warner (1776)
Member, New Hampshire State Constitutional Convention (1781)
Selectman, Town of Warneer, (1781)

Born:

10/26/1723

Birthplace:

Amesbury, MA

Died:

11/26/1784

Death Location:

Derry, NH

Residence:

Amesbury, MA 1723-1765
Warner, NH -- one of first families to settle Warner.

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Farmer
Miller

Father:

Davis, Francis

Mother:

Ordway, Joanna

Spouse:

Ferrin, Elizabeth (1724-1794), September 3, 1745, Amesbury, MA

Children:

Davis, Gartrett (1746-1831)
Davis, Zebulon (1748-1795); b. Amesbury, MA; m. Hannah or Harriet Currier 1770 Warner, NH
Davis, Sarah (1750-1838)
Davis, Joanna (1751-1839)
Davis, Wells (1753-1841)
Davis, Francis (1757-1840)
Davis, Ichabod (1755-1764)
Davis, Elizabeth (1759-1764)
Davis, Aquila (1760-1835; b. Amesbury, MA; m. Abigial Stevens 1785; res. Warner, NH; Military Captain; 10 children)
Davis, Paine (1762-1784; m. Betsey Eastman 1783 Warner
Davis, Nathan (1765-1843)

Notes:

Francis Y. Davis, Compiler. Genealogy of the Ancestry and Descendants of Captain Francis Davis... (Dayton, OH: The Otterbein Press, 1910), 18.

Walter Harriman, The History of Warner, New Hampshire, For One Hundred and Forty-Four Years, From 1735 to 1879. (Concord, NH: The Republican Press Association, 1879), 171, 228, 237, 535.

SEE ALSO (son): Davis, Aquila
SEE ALSO (daughter-in-law): Davis, Abigail / Stevens, Abigail
SEE ALSO (grandson): Davis, Nathaniel Ambrose (1)
SEE ALSO (great-grandson): Davis, George Hilliard
SEE ALSO (great-granddaughter): Chase, Augusta Davis
SEE ALSO (great-great-granddaughter): Preston, Mary A. Davis