Samuel Davis

From http://www.disnorge.no/slektsforum/viewtopic.php?t=40485

Besides the Essex Co. deed above which attests to the marriage of Rev. Knowles and Elizabeth Willis, there is also a late addition to the 1619 Warwickshire Visitation which shows that Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Tomlins) Willis, married John Knowles "of Lincolnshire [sic ]

But to recur to one of Savage's statements about Rev. John Knowles ... "He was not probably a settled minister before coming over to us in Aug. 1638; he joined with the church at Boston 15 Aug. of next year having married probably in England the widow of Ephraim Davis."

I believe this statement is probably correct, even though on the surface it seems at odds with other evidence. Note the following records found in the extracted IGI:

Saint Nicholas Acons, London

• --Epharim Davis, son of Epharim, 5 February 1632
• --Elizabeth Davis, dau. of Ephraim and Elizabeth, 25 Jan. 1633
• --Samuell and William Davis, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth, 16 February 1634
• --John Knoles to Elizabeth Davis, 11 Feb. 1637 As Rev. John Knowles had a biographical sketch in the _DNB_ (and is probably in the new _ODNB_), possibly this could be a correction.