This couple is my DNA cousins line and I am now trying to research ANY and ALL Davison/Davidson's that were in Rockbridge Co., VA or Wythe Co., VA prior to 1810...I would also like to learn more about his brother John mentioned below in the note. Hope to hear from others that belong to this line! --Sandymento Ancestry.com Virginia Marriages,1740-1850 Groom Name: JOSEPH DAVIDSON Bride Name: JINNY WILSON Marriage Date: 5 Nov 1805 County: Rockbridge State: Virginia Source Information: Ancestry.com. Virginia Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: Dodd, Jordan R., et al.. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. Bountiful, UT, USA: Precision Indexing Publishers. Copy obtained Sept. 2008 & transcribed by Sandymento Bressler Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Davison & James Wilson are held and firmly bound to John Page Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia or his successors in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs executors & jointly & severally firmly by these presents witness our hands and seals this 2nd day of Novem. 1805 The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage shortly intended to be solmennized between the above bound Joseph Davison and Jinny Wilson, Daughter of the above bond James Wilson, all of Rockbridge County. If therefore there shall be no lawful cause to obstruct the same then this obligation to be void otherwise to remain in full force. Teste William Anderson (signatures) Joseph Davison, James Wilson (Note: this following small note was attached to the marriage certificate) Rockbg. County to Wit. John Davidson came before me in the Office & made Oath that his brother Joseph from the information of his parents & from his own knowledge he is now above the age of Twenty one years - given under my hand this 2nd Day of Novem. 1805. (signed) A. Reid lat.?

Sandy, Since the John Davidson mentioned in association with the marriage bond of Joseph Davidson and Jinny Wilson in 1805 was the BROTHER of Joseph (I did not know that before your post), then that means that this John Davidson was the John Davidson who had married Sally McRea in Rockbridge Co., VA on 8 Jan 1801. Sally McCrea was a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth McCrea (who some say also had the maiden name of "Wilson"), via Elizabeth's first husband Joseph McCrea. As you know, the widow Elizabeth McCrea married second William Davidson, the father of the above Joseph and John Davidson, on 2 Feb 1792 in Rockbridge. William Davidson's first wife (who he married up in PA) had apparently died, and William married second to Mrs. McCrea, after William migrated from PA to VA. Since it was Joseph's brother John who was mentioned above, that means that the older John Davi(d)son who married Mary Allison, and who died in his old age in Rockbridge around 1802, MAY not have been associated with/related to your family after all. That older John Davidson/Davison had a son named Robert, so MAYBE it is more likely that he represented a branch of the older Robert Davidson/Ann Dunlap (supposedly Ann's maiden name) family in Augusta Co., VA. A living male descendant of this older Robert Davidson (Robert died in Augusta in 1751, as I recall) is part of "DNA Family 12" on the DNA website, versus your "DNA Family 16." My Davidson family ("DNA Family 10") intermarried on two occasions with the above John Davidson/Mary Allison family, so I remain quite interested as to which family this older John Davidson truly belonged. Maybe a living male Davidson from this family will eventually join the DNA testing project. Augusta Co., VA had at least FIVE "unrelated" Davidson/Davison/Davisson families at various times in the 1700s. "Conventional documentation research" always seemed to indicate that these five families were PROBABLY not related, and sure enough, DNA testing has now proven that they were not related. I don't know if the John Davidson who married Mary Allison was a part of Family 12 versus Family 16, versus a part of yet some sixth Davidson/Davison/Davisson family in Augusta Co., VA. Bill Davidson