Philip Davis

Biographical Summary:

Philip Davis, tailor, held land here in 1639-40, on the south side of the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow. Chosen chimney-viewer, 1653; freeman, 1656; constable, 1660; townsman, 1667, 1671, 1675, 1680, 1684; fence-viewer, 1668, 1669, 1673. He married Esther, daughter of Thomas Coleman, of Wethersfield; died in 1689; inventory October 22, £375.13. 2.

Children:

i. Lydia.married Nov., 1676, Nathaniel Cole, of Hartford; died Jan. 25, 1683-4.

ii. Hannah, married John Grave, of Hartford, 1690, as his second wife.

SOURCE: James Hammond Trumbull, editor, The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Volume 1 (Boston, Massachusetts: Edward L. Osgood, 1886), page 236. Retrieved: 3 May 2011 from Google Books