Major Benjamin Franklin Davis, I

brief biography

As set forth in the minutes of a Brunswick Co. Court held on 23 Apr 1783, Benjamin DAVIS gave aid to the American Revolution by furnishing supplies. In an account of the DAVIS family, he is referred to as “Major Benjamin DAVIS who lived in Brunswick Co., VA, and was an Officer in the Revolution”. His name is also included in a list of Revolutionary War officers published in Vol. VI of the Alabama Historical Quarterly. No confirmation of this service has been found in the VA records but teh family tradition is strong and it is probably that Benj. DAVIS was an officer of the GA Militia during the early years of the war. It must certainly be more than mere coincidence that after selling the only land he is known to have ownd in 1777, he is not mentioned again in the Brunswick records until 1780; that he had a brother, Randolph, and that men named Benjamin and Randolph DAVIS appear in the Georgia Certified List of Revolutionary Soldiers; that a Benjamin DAVIS applied for by proxy and was granted land in Georgia in 1784 as a refugee soldier entitled to a bounty; and that in 1809 Benjamin DAVIS, Jr., son of Benjamin DAVIS of Brunswick, sold a portion of what seems to have been the same tract of land.

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relative of his wife through the Rose family

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Date and place of birth have also been (erroneously?) reported to be 1745 in Surry County, Virginia.

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Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, Compiled by J. Orton Buck, and Timothy Beard, 1978, published by the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, page 311.

Boddie, Virginia Historical Genealogies, page 257. The NSDAR has recognized Benjamin Franklin Davis as a Patriot in the American Revolution.

Benjamin Franklin: b 1735 VA d 1817 VA m (1) Tabiatha X Pvt VA

(NSDAR Patriot Index, Millennium Edition, 2003, Vol. I, page 702.)