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An American Family History

Jacob Davis
 

"[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."

-- John Adams, 1765

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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 was incorporated in 1749 and dissolved in 1938. It was renamed from Quabbin in 1754 and was also called Quaker Plain and Narragansett. Quabbin is now under the Quabbin reservoir.

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 were Eli Davis (1779) and Abigail Davis (1780).

Lucy died before April 25, 1781. Jacob died in 1781
Children of Isaac Davis
and Lucy Osborn
  • Jonathan Davis
  • Lucy Davis
  • Jemima Davis McMichel
  • Jacob Davis
  • Samuel Davis
  • Isaac Davis
    • of Isaac Davis and
    Elizabeth Powers
  • Susannah Davis
  • Elizabeth Davis
  • Olive Davis
  • Joel Davis
  • Susannah Davis Shattuck
  • Eunice Davis Dwinnell
  • Lydia Davis
  • Hannah Davis
  • Abigail Davis Stephens
    • of Stephen Griswold
    and Elizabeth Powers
  • Mary Griswold
  • Clara Griswold Rockwood
  • Flavia Griswold Hendrix
  • Esther Griswold Bliss
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    Genealogical and Personal Memoirs edited by William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams

    Josiah Hastings, ...settled in Chesterfield as early as 1770, and lived near the river in the southwest quarter of the town, on what has long been known as the Hastings farm. He was a soldier of the revolution and was in service in 1775 and 1777. He died December 14, 1810. His wife was Mary Hartwell.

    		 

     

         

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