Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Richard Davis

Male Bef 1642 - 1697  (> 55 years)


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  • Name Richard Davis 
    Birth Bef 1642 
    Gender Male 
    Death 20 Feb 1697  Dorchester County, Maryland - probate Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I72975  Tree1
    Last Modified 29 Apr 2024 

    Father Maryland Davis 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F6727  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
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      Davis, Richard, Somerset Co., 15th Nov., 1696 ; 20th Feb., 1696.
      To dau. Martha, personalty.
      T son Richard, ex., and hrs., plantation.
      To 3 sons, viz., Richard, William, and John, and hrs., equally, 250 A., bet. Fishing and Broad Cks.
      Test: Wm. Coulbourne, Ephraim Wilson, Nath'l Horsey. 7. 282.
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      Richard Davis 17.132 A SO E121.1.2 £121.1.2 Oct 9 1698
      These accounts appear on the upper half of folios 132 and 133.
      Payments to: Maj. Whittington, William Foxon, John Davis.
      Legatees: mother-in-law (unnamed) and 2 children (unnamed) living with her, brother Charles Hall and his wife (executor's sister, unnamed) and 2 children living with him, executor, 2 children (unnamed).
      Distribution to: widow (unnamed), 8 children (unnamed).
      Executor: Richard Davis (son).
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      1689-1695 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 8; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 361
      WILLIAM FLEMING, 600 acs., Gloster Co., in Pettsoe Par., 28 Apr. 1691, p. 144. Beg, over against Capt. Lightfoot's plantation; adj. land of Wm. Cooke & William Prechett, both dec'd; Joseph Cooleman; & land of Francis Iremonger; along W. side of path to Purton, & on land of Mr. Pryor, decd., &c. 200 acs. granted to Edward Williams, viz: 100 acs., 20 July 1642, & 100 acs. in 1651; & by Edward Williams, lawfull son & heir to sd. Edward, dec'd., & Abigail Davis, relict of sd. Edward, & now wife of Richard Davis, of Dorssettsheire in the province of Maryland sold, to sd. Fleming, 4 Sept. 1685; 200 acs. granted to Francis Iremonger, 21 Aug. 1665, who sold to Mathew Miller, Marriner, who sold to sd. Fleming, 21 Mar. 1685; 200 acs. now taken, for trans. of 4 pers: Wm. Butcher, Jeffery Phillips, Eliza. Standley, Jno. Rosse.

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