This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/FNR.2ACEB/2287.1.1 Message Board Post: The Wm. I know of was son of John and Mary Davidson. He and his twin, Samuel were b.in PA in 1736 and family moved to S.C. in 1748. Wife: Margaret McConnell 1748-1806. Was Lt. in Capt. James Houston's Co. of N.C. Militia. Promoted to Maj. after Battle of Rumson's Mill. Children: Mary, John, George and Hugh Lawson (twins), Jane, Sarah, Eliz., Ruth, Wm. Mitchell, and Samuel Winslow. Gabriel Ragsdale and Wm. Whitson were first Representatives to House of Commons while Wm. Davidson was the first Senator. He d. in Buncombe Co. The date is 1809 according to D.A.R.Lineage Books. This comes from a Davidson document prepared in 1958 by Sarah Ragsdale Casey and passed on to me by my aunt, Helen Davidson Taylor, dtr. of James Solomon and Laura Frances Davidson of Oklahoma. I do not know if my info is totally accurate but I also don't know that it is not;.Wm. Lee Davidson was son of George Davidson and became a General. Lots of N.C. places and things were named after him, I unde! rstand. I know no more about him. Am willing to be enlightened.