An American Family History

"[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported.
We have a right to it, derived from our Maker.
But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us,
at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."

Jacob Davis was born on October 12, 1757 in Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. He was the son of Captain Isaac Davis and his first wife, Lucy Osborn.

He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

He married Lucy Hastings about 1778. Lucy was born on April 19, 1758 in Littleton, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Josiah Hastings and Mary Hartwell. She was born on April 19, 1758. Josiah and Andrew Hastings signed the Association Test in Chesterfield.

Jacob and Lucy's children included:
Eli Davis (1779) and
Abigail Davis (1780).

Lucy died before April 25, 1781. Jacob died in 1781. They were 21 and 23 years old.

The Association Test “We, the subscribers do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our powers, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies."

Greenwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts was incorporated in 1749 and dissolved in 1938. It was renamed from Quabbin in 1754 .