Davis Meredith, Sr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for DELAWARE with the rank of CORPORAL. DAR Ancestor # A077566

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Davis Merideth (ancestry board posting) who died in 1825 in Monongalia Co., Va. was born in Delaware the son of Job Meredith and Rebecca Davis. His mother's last name is the source of Davis's given name. Check the three land records I posted at the following url. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs DEFUNCT can nor be accessed

Davis Meredith, Sr - family treemaker (son of Job Meredith and Rebecca Davis) was born 1750 in Murderkill Hundred, Kent Co, DE, and died May 24, 1825 in Morgantown, Monangalia, VA. He married (2) Nancy Anne Pritchard on September 11, 1800 in Allegheny Co, MD, daughter of Thomas Pritchard, Sr and Rachel Davis.

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A Seventh Day Baptist and the great-grandfather of Addie Lawson, was born about 1757 in Delaware and fought during the Revolutionary War in the Virginia infantry. His parents were Job Meredith Sr. and Rebecca Davis. His ancestor Robert Meredith sailed from Wales as a member of the crew before 1680, and died in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1727. Davis received 34 pounds of military back pay on Nov. 27, 1784. His first wife, Amelia Knott, was the mother of Absalom and Hannah Meredith. After the end of the war, he moved to Loudoun County, VA, where he married again. His second wife, Elizabeth, left him with two children at her death after 1798.

Davis and his third wife, Ann (Nancy) Pritchard (77), were married on Nov. 8, 1800 in Allegheny County, MD by Rev. William Shaw. She was the daughter of Thomas Pritchard Sr. and Rachel Davis. Ten years later, along with four other of Nancy's siblings, the couple had settled in Monongalia, WV. After his stepmother Lydia's death in 1807, Davis conveyed her land in Delaware to his younger brother Job, who had remained back east. Nancy gave birth to seven children, including Job and Davis Jr. who became a Methodist lay preacher. David and Nancy lived first near Cumberland, MD, then went back to Nancy's home in Monongalia County. There they settled on a 37-acre farm on Little Paw Paw Creek. His family was part of the Seventh Day Baptist congregation which had settled in Marion County, WV, when it was still under Indian threat, by May 13, 1792, after having moved as a group from Shrewsbury, NJ in September 1789. Davis bequeathed money to the Baptist Missionary Society in his will dated May 24, 1825 in Monongalia County, VA. At her death in the 1850s, Nancy was living with her daughter Rachel Arnett in Monongalia County, WV.