Benjamin Davis

Benjamin Davis

• Birth: 1648 - Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
• Death: Oct 13 1679 - Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• Parents: George Davis, Sarah Clark
• Siblings: Joseph Davis, Hannah Davis, Sarah Davis, Elizabeth Davis, Mary Davis, John Davis, George Davis, Samuel Davis, Susannah Davis, Joseph Davis

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George Davis and Sarah Clarke had eight children, the last six recorded at Reading:

i. Benjamin, d. at Reading in October 1679 (probably on 31 Oct. rather than on 13 Oct. as shown in the printed vital records of Reading). During King Philip's War he Was a soldier in Capt. Poole's Company (George M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, 1906, 420). The will of Benjamim Davis, dated the 29th of Oct. 1679, proved 6, 8, 1682, gave his whole estateTo his mother Sarah Rice (or Rist), except two acres to his sister Mary Grover to help her bring up her children while she remains a widow. Executors: Goodwife Rice and John Damon, who was also a witness. Inventory of the estate of Benjamin Davis who departed this life the last of October 1679 taken 5, 9th, 1679, by Jeremiah Swayn and Benjamin Fitch, totaled 158.01.00 Including housing, lands, orchard, neadow, swamp and divident, oxen, cows, steer, horse, bridles, saddle, pistols, cutlash and other acooutemts, guns, one pair Sandiliers, joiner's tools and household equipment very evidently the same coproperty enumerated in their father's estate (Middlesex Co. Prod. 5:171.).

Notes

Mrs Edmund Audley [NO GIVEN NAME MENTIONED] married 2nd George Davis (confirmed in Salem Court Records of 1632 [when Mrs Audley brings charges against George Davis 'for unseemly conduct against her daughter, Mary Audley' and in the Will of Sarah Clark Davis Rist. who mentions property left to her by[1st husband, George Davis, and Benjamin Davis [prob son]

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Benjam Davice, b. 1666 at Reading, Massachusetts, American Colonies.

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