Fulk Davis (Davy) - William Church Davis(1927)

I have read at least 4 published accounts of Foulk Davis claiming some of his children were from the Widow Dayton. But the dates just don't match up and I believe based on court records that it is incorrect. Mary Dayton did not become widowed until 1658/59 and married Foulk sometime between 1659 and 1660 when she and Foulk appeared as defendants in court for trespassing on her late husband's property. By this point Foulk and Goody's children were fully grown and on their own.

I believe that because of the incorrectly published material, many others have followed along and are erroneously mixing up Mary Haynes Dayton with Goody Davis. Haines and Haynes both appear in court records as spellings for Mary Haynes Dayton.

The family name and reference of Haines appears most often, as does pertain to Fulk Davis and certain published findings, as recorded since circa `1980's, to mean therat the Adolph Sutro Library in San Francisco California, the same repository that was later moved to, the campus of San Francisco State College.

Fulk's first wife, supposedly HAINES, when Dr. Oscar Doane Lambert went to interview living descendants on that, they stated because of the unscrupulous dealings of Fulk, and his wife, that they wanted absolutely no part of it. Dr. O.D. Lambert, Author, Writer, History Professor, Genealogy History Expert kept all possible descendants names out of his notes that could be obtained by the public. There are private genealogy lineages that, sometimes are shared with public. Sometimes...

Yes, Stephen, I recall seeing something about them moving that repository, in a Genealogy magazine and other published accounts of genealogy researchers who have had to go and search the paper records.