Barnabas Davis, of Charlestown

Barnabas Davis came over on ship "Blessing", 1635 sailing from London. He was a Puritan and landed near Charlestown, Massachusetts.

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36859591/barnabas-davis
• http://ancestryisland.blogspot.com/2015/07/working-on-wednesday-bar...
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mroman/genealogy/davis.htm

Children of Barnabas Davis and Patience James

• Samuel Davis
• Patience Davis Ridland
• Barnabus Davis
• Nathaniel Davis
• Hopewell Davis
• James Davis

Notes

From: https://www.nativenortheastportal.com/bio/bibliography/davis-barnab...
Davis, Barnabas, 1599 - 1685

Barnabas Davis was the son of John Davis of Tewksbury, Gloucestershire, England, who immigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635 as an agent of John and William Woodcock. Davis was impressed into service in the Pequot War and was among those soldiers who took the Pequot fort at Mystic. He subsequently returned to England but was back in New England by 1639, where he worked as a tallow chandler. Davis had several children, among them was a son, Samuel. Henry Reed Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Vol. 1 (Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1891), 58-59. William R. Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. 4 (New York: Lewis Genealogical Publishing Company, 1910), 22233. For Davis’ service in the Pequot War, see Mason and Underhill’s accounts (Charles Orr, History of the Pequot War: The Contemporary Accounts of Mason, Underhill, Vincent, and Gardener (Cleveland: The Helman-Taylor Company, 1897).
Born: 1599
Died: November 28, 1685

From: https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/davis/13195/

Barnabas wrote letters to his "father James" and "brother Reade". "Father James" obviously refers to his father-in-law Mr. James. We know that Barnabas Davis married Patience James in Tewkesbury on July 1, 1625.[2/1] She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth James, baptised on Oct. 20, 1603.[2/2] "Brother Reade" most likely refers to the husband of the sister of Patience or Barnabas.

From http://www.anamericanfamilyhistory.com/Davis%20Family/DavisBarnabas...

Barnabas Davis was born about 1599 in England. He mentioned his father James D. (this may be his wife’s father) and a brother Reade (1602) in England. 

He married Patience James in 1625. Their children and life together are described in detail in the section on Barnabas and Patience Davis. He was a tallow chandler by trade which is a maker of and dealer of tallow candles.

He first came from England in July, 1635 on the ship Blessing.  He came with a Susan Davis, age 16, who may have been his sister. The fee for passage was five pounds. He gave his age then as thirty-six years.

He landed in Boston and then walked to Connecticut to check on  his employers, John and William Woodcock’s, business. When he arrived in Connecticut, he found that their employee, Francis Stiles, had built a house, but had had not laid out 400 acres for a farm as he should have. The Reverend Thomas Hooker advised him to return to England with letters describing their estate. So Barnabas sailed back to England, landed at Portsmouth and then rode to London to deliver the letters.

He was again sent to the colonies to check up on Francis Stiles. He landed in Boston in the “yeare of the Pequid warres." The Pequot War was in 1634–1638 and was between the Pequot tribe and the colonists along with some Native American allies. Barnabas went to Connecticut by sea. He found that Stiles had not acquired the land he should have and he was forced to become a soldier for about a year. Eventually he went back to England with more letters where he had to walk to London.

He was sent to Connecticut a third time to recover the Woodcock’s estate from Stiles. He landed in Boston in June, 1639. This time he brought his family.

The Woodcocks never paid him and he brought suit against them for wages in 1640-41. He won the suit.

He became a large landowner himself. He owned Lovells Island in Boston Harbor and considerable other real estate in Charlestown. On March 1, 1657/58 when land was divided in Charlestown, Barnabas received lot 50 of 27 acres of woodland and 4.5 acres on the side of common land. On March 20, 1665 he bought ¾ of a acre of land from John Cutler on the side of Bunker hill.

He died at Charlestown, November  28, 1685. 

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Charlestown was first settled in 1628 and was the Massachusetts Bay Colony's initial seat of government. Charlestown became part of Boston in 1874. This is where the first Barnabus settled and raised his family. A number of his sons moved to Groton Samuel and Barnabus and Nathaniel I think went to Groton. Samuel had a son named Barnabus and Barnabus , Samuels brother probably had a son name Barnabus also.

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Born about 1599 (aged 36 in 1635 [Hotten 108]; deposed about 4 April 1660 "aged sixty years;" deposed 25 June 1661 "60 years or thereabouts;" d. 27 November 1685 aged "about 86"). Died in Charlestown 27 November 1685 "about 86" or 28 November 1685 (from inventory). (By 4 November 1685, Barnabas Davis could no longer sign his name, or even make his mark, and wife Patience made her mark rather than sign, although they must have been deemed mentally competent to alienate land on that date.)
Married in Tewksbury, Gloucester, 1 July 1628 Patience James. She was baptized at Tewksbury 20 October 1603, daughter of John and Elizabeth James, and died at Charlestown 15 November 1690, aged 87 years.
On 13 July 1635, "Barnabie Davies," aged 36, was enrolled at London for passage to New England on the Blessing. (Immediately following his name was that of "Suzan Daves" or "Danes," aged 16. It has been suggested that she was a relative, for which see her sketch.)
Barnabas Davis made several Atlantic crossings between 1635 and 1640 in the employ of the brothers William and John Woodcock. This business arrangement resulted in a lengthy legal entanglement, which provides us what information we have on this period of the life of Barnabas Davis.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

References
Family Search [ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/L13T-V6W/barnabas-davis-1599-1685]