Notes

Timothy joined the society of Friends and removed to Rochester, MA and is the ancestor of the Davis's in New Bedford and Rochester. Until the discovery of Samuel Davis's will this family was unable to trace their descent from Dolar.

The first child was born in Sandwich, MA. Though the birth dates of all his children are taken from the records of the Friends' Monthly Meeting of Sandwich, the births of the last two, Peace and Dorcas appear on the Rochester Vital Records, but probably all but the first child were born in Rochester.

"Among the early settlers of the new town of Rochester were some families - Hiller, Wing, Davis, Ellis and others —which had relatives involved in the Quaker movement in Sandwich, on Cape Cod.Those people were probably the originators of the Quaker religious Meetings in Rochester. The date of the first Meeting is unknown, but an early reference in the records of the Dartmouth Monthly Meeting shows that Meetings were 5 underway in Rochester by 1702." ~• from "Disowned Without a Cause"

Links

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=margareth...

This information comes from Dolor Davis A Sketch of his life with a record of his Earlier Descendants Written by Horace Davis Printed for private distribution 1881 page 34. Item 11.

• *11. Timothy Davis, Married March 7, 1690, to Sarah Daughter of Edward Perry; he was living 1718; 6 children; lived in Rochester, Mass.
• https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2383&con...

Disowned without A Cause
QUAKERS IN ROCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY A Dissertation Presented by Carol Hagglund

Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY February 19 8 0