This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1751.1 Message Board Post: French's Historical Gazetteer of NY c 1860 lists a Davis as one of the early families from CT in Town of Chatham 1758. Federal Census is indexed by Head of Household if you can obtain .Found in large well equipped libraries like Steele at Elmira,Olin at Cornell,Onondaga at Syracuse,prob Erie at Buffalo.