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Robert Davis

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Province of Virginia
Death: May 1780 (35-44)
Kentucky County, Virginia, United States (Killed by Indians)
Place of Burial: Casey County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Robert ‘the Black’ Davis and Abadieh Davis
Husband of Jane Davis
Father of Olander Davis; John Davis; Hannah Smith; Thomas Davis; Abediah Davis and 8 others
Brother of James Davis; Susanna Susannah Cox; Evan Davis; Elizabeth Sexton; Isham Davis and 7 others
Half brother of Abadiah Floyd; Mary Davis; John Davis; Martha Hannah Davis; Absolom Davis and 3 others

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Immediate Family

About Robert Davis

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA. DAR Ancestor # A211010


References

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/lewis/8009/

Robert Davis (called The Black Davis) who married Abadiah Lewis who was his first wife and had children: Susannah who married David Cox; Martha (sometimes seen as Hannah) married Abraham B. Venable- some books have Martha as the daughter of Nathaniel Davis and Elizabeth Hughes); Isham(Isom); James married Jane Black; Robert married Jane Jopling; John; Abadiah (Abby) married William Floyd (some books have Abadiah as daughter of Nathaniel Davis and Elizabeth Hughes); Elizabeth married Unknown Sexton; Nathaniel married Elizabeth Atkins (who is the sister of his stepmother Anna Atkins); Evan married Mary E. Williams.

Second wife was Anna Atkins - they had a son Absolom - she may have died in childbirth or shortly thereafter.

His third wife was Grace Unknown - they had children Lewis, Landon, and Hugh.

Robert Davis died in Natchez, Georgia which is now Mississippi.I have his will in my notes.

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Robert Davis's Timeline

1740
1740
Province of Virginia
1759
1759
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States
1760
1760
1763
1763
Virginia, United States
1764
January 1, 1764
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States
1765
1765
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States
1766
1766
Lincoln County, Kentucky, United States
1767
1767
Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia, United States
1770
1770
Virginia, United States