Nathaniel Davis, Jr.

Nathaniel Davis, Jr. DAR Ancestor #: A030571

• Birth: 15 Mar 1754 - Massachusetts 
• Death: 10 Jun 1835 - Rockingham, Windham, Vermont 
• Parents: Nathaniel Davis, Sr., Susanna Lane
• Married: Lydia Harwood

NATHANIEL2 (ArathanieP), b. 1754; when he came to manhood he came into possession of the farm now known as the " Weeden farm " just north of the R. railroad station and it remained in the family until 1855, his son, John Harwood Davis, owning and occupying it, and the father living with him until death ; Nathaniel, in 1796, joined the Universalist society, was of a determined, stern character and a successful farmer; he m. Aug. 14, 1780, Lydia, dau. of John and Mary (Pulsipher) Harwood of R., b. 1761, d. Mar. 10, 1836 (or 1838); he d. June 10, 1835; she had some fame as a local poet and was of a quick wit. They had fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters, twelve of whom came to maturity, reared on the home place. Later years find their descendants scattered throughout the length and breadth of the United States. (2)

14 Children include

1. Mary Davis (1787-) Married John Moor (1785-1811)

sources

1. Davis family data from Harwood, Watson Herbert, A Genealogical History of the Harwood Families (Chasm Falls New York: Harwood, 1911.), 1:48, Los Angeles Public Library, 929.2 H343
2. Hayes, Lyman Simpson, History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont . . .1754-1907 with Family Genealogies, Bellows Falls, Vermont: Published by the Town (1907), 641, Google Books
3. The American Genealogist, (New Haven, Connecticut: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-), 1977, Vol. 53, Page 67, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Online Database
4.  U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, SAR #41153, Application for Thomas Hart deCoudres, Ancestry.com, Online Databases, Provo, UT.

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