Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES. 279
died 14th Jan. 1722, aged 99 years, and his wife Deborah in 1736,
aged 91.
find.
2. Mary, married a Dexter, whose Christian name 1 cannot
3. Andrew, to whom £is father gave five shillings in his will,
removed from Barnstable, perhaps to I^ew London, Conn.
4. John Davis is not named in his father's will and probably
died young.
5. Robert Davis, 2d, removed from Barnstable. Mr.
Deane, in his history of Scituate, says that "Tristram Davis, son
of Robert of Yarmouth, born in 1654, was in Scituate in 1695.
He married Sarah Archer of Braintree 1694." Mr. Savage copies
the mistake of Deane. Robert Davis, Senior, had no son Tristram.
It was probably Robert that Deane intended to name.
6. Josiah Davis' house is named in the laying out of the
County road, in 1686, as next east of Samuel Cobb's, on the north
side of the way. It stood a few feet east of the present dwelling
bouse of Lot Easterbrooks, and was taken down not many years
ago. In his will, dated 21st April, 1709, and proved the 5th of
October following, he names his nine children, all of whom were
then living. To his sons John, Josiah, and Seth, he gave his
dwelling house, the land he bought of James Gorham, the Common
Field land, given him by his father, and one-half of the
orchard lying before his door, on the south side of the road. To
his sons Jonathan and Stephen, the other half of the orchard,
&c. He names his daughters Hannah Cobb, and Ruth, Sarah and
Anna unmarried. The legacies to his daughters he ordered to be
paid out of the £53 he ventured in trading at sea, £30 in the
hands of his son John, and £23 in the hands of Gersham Cobb.
His estate was apprised at over £500, corn being then worth 10
shillings a bushel, showing that there had been some depreciation
in the currency since the death of his father. In the division of
the common he was entitled to 43 1-2 shares, a number above the
average. He was a soldier in Capt. John Gorham's company in
King Phillip's war in 1675, and one of the proprietors of Gorhamtown.
7. Hannah Davis married a Dexter whose Christian name
does not appear on the record. She had a daughter Sarah.
8. Sarah Davis married, 28th Oct. 1679, Joseph Young ,of
Eastham, son of the first John and had a family.
9. Joseph Davis resided in Barnstable. His family was
one of the most respectable in town. He died, say the Church
Records, Aug. 10, 1735, aged about 70 years, and his widow
Hannah May 2, 1739, aged 68.
10. Mercy Davis married first Nathaniel Young, brother of