Georgia (and List)- The following biographical sketch is information collected from different >sources: The Isaac DAVIS bible copied 1 March, 1927 (LDS Film# 163741, >compiled by W. Guy Tetrick, labeled COGAR-COOKMAN) last in the possession >of an Olandus WEST, of Clarksburg, West Virginia; "THE HISTORY OF TONOLOWAY >BAPTIST CHURCH" by Harry Stuart Holman, M.A., 1980; the Messech JAMES Deed >from Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed Book# 3, Page 169; and the Harry E. >Foreman collection, "HISTORY OF LITTLE COVE Volume IV (1967)" and "FORT >LOUDON SIDELIGHTS, FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (1970)"; as well as >"AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS OF FRANKLIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA" by >Fendrick... > >Owen DAVIS was born 5 December, 1725, and died 7 July, 1810, at Ruble's >Mill, Georges Creek, Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Will of Owen DAVIS, >Georges township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Vol.1, Page 390, dated 12 >January, 1803, and proven 3 August, 1810). He was the son of Philip and >Jane DAVIS. Owen DAVIS has a sister listed in the bible record, Mary DAVIS, >born 29 December, 1727. Nothing more on her. Owen DAVIS' first wife was >Sarah OWENS, the daughter of Samuel and Sarah OWENS. Sarah OWENS, Owen >DAVIS' first wife, was born 20 April, 1735, and died in 1762. Their >children were: > > 1. Philip DAVIS, born 18 October, 1751, and died 25 September, 1837, in >Smithfield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He married Hannah JENKINS, a >daughter of John and Elizabeth JENKINS (Will of John JENKINS, Georges >township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, dated 10 February, 1793, and proven >6 April, 1795). Their children were: Sarah, Owen, Elizabeth, Ruth, and John >DAVIS. Fayette County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1784-1811, Minute Book >Of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, of Georges township (Smithfield) lists a >Hannah DAVIS who died 1 April, 1848, aged 87 years...Also a Philip DAVIS >who died 25 September, 1837, aged 85 years, 11 months, and 6 days. > > 2. Samuel DAVIS, born 15 May, 1753, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, >and died 6 April, 1826, in Smithfield, Springhill Township, Fayette County, >Pennsylvania (Will of Samuel DAVIS, dated 4 April, 1826, and proven 19 >April, 1826). Samuel married Elizabeth STANCZ (STENTZ) about 1794. >Elizabeth was the daughter of Philip STANCZ (STENTZ)(Will of Philip STENTZ, >Fayette County, Pennsylvania, dated 3 February, 1807, and proven 2 >September, 1807). Elizabeth was born 8 December, 1765, and died 3 February, >1851, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Their children were: Philip born 24 >August, 1791; Catherine born 18 July, 1794; Owen born 16 October, 1799; >Samuel born 24 March, 1796; and Daniel DAVIS born 3 June, 1801. Fayette >County, Pennsylvania Church Records, 1784-1811, Minute Book Of Mt. Moriah >Baptist Church, of Georges township (Smithfield) lists the death of one >Samuel DAVIS who died 6 April, 1826, aged 72 years, 10 months, and 8 >days...Elizabeth DAVIS, died 3 February, 1851, aged 85 years. Owen DAVIS >died 17 April, 1849, aged 49 years, 6 months. > > 3. Mary Elizabeth DAVIS, born 10 April, 1755. She married in 1773 to >Morgan JONES, the son of Morgan JONES and Eleanor EVANS. > > 4. Sarah DAVIS, born 7 May, 1757, died before 1803. She married Jonathan >MORRIS. > > 5. Jane DAVIS, born 28 October, 1760, died before 1803. > >After Sarah (OWENS) DAVIS' death in 1762, Owen DAVIS remarried to Hannah >JAMES possibly in late 1763 or early 1764. Hannah JAMES was born 24 March, >1745, to Messech and Mary JAMES. Owen DAVIS was a wagon driver for General >BRADDOCK during the 1750's and is believed to have known the JAMES family >while in that southwestern part of what was then Cumberland County, >Pennsylvania. Messech JAMES lived about one mile up the Conococheague Creek >from Thomas BARR'S place on what is now the site for the village of Fort >Loudon, in present day Franklin County, Pennsylvania. This section, known >as the "Conococheague Settlement" was doubtless among the earliest of the >country to be settled. The patent for the tract of land on which the town >of Fort Loudon is situated bears the date of 1 March, 1737. It was surveyed >and laid out on 6 May, 1738, unto William WILSON in Heidelberg township, >the county of Lancaster (Peter's township was not organized until about >1750, and Franklin County not until 1784). William WILSON found another >parcel of land that he liked better, abandoned this one and Messech JAMES >got a warrant for it on 4 October, 1745. For the 370 acre tract, Messech >JAMES paid 57 pounds, seven shillings to the colony which included quit >rent for a clear title back to 1 March, 1737. The JAMES patent bears the >date of 30 September, 1748. The land upon which the fort was afterwards >built was settled by one Matthew PATTON dated 18 April, 1744. Mr. Patton >was another of Messech JAMES' neighbors. > >>From Maryland sources, Quote: "Shingas came to the Conolloways and the Big >Cove, killed and took about thirty persons and drove the remainder from >their homes shortly after BRADDOCK'S Defeat when BRADDOCK was only thirty >miles from Fort Cumberland." In like vein we read "the Indians were >massacreing dozens of settlers on the Conolloways and in the Big and Little >Coves while BRADDOCK was marching on Fort Duquesne a slight thirty miles to >the west." > >Saturday, 1 November, 1755, about one hundred Indians, Shawnees and >Delawares, among them Shingas, the Delaware King, entered the Great Cove >and began murdering the defenseless inhabitants and destroying their >property. The savages divided into two parties, one of which attacked the >inhabitants of the Cove and the other swept down on the Conolloways. >Sheriff POTTER reported on 14 November, 1755, "that of 93 families which >were settled in the Coves and the Conolloways forty seven were either >killed ot taken and the rest deserted." The Messech JAMES homeplace was one >of those burned in that particular Indian attack on 1 November, 1755. >Sheriff POTTER stated that forty men went with him to Matthew PATTON'S (one >of Messech JAMES' neighbors) one of whom was the Reverend STEELE. POTTER >said that the old officers hid themselves to save their scalps. The men >found no Indians at PATTON'S but saw the building on fire at the Messech >JAMES home. When they reached the JAMES place they again found no Indians >but the cattle had been shot and the horses were standing, bleeding, with >Indian arrows sticking in them...In the FORT LOUDON SIDELIGHTS (Foreman), >on page 148, there is a picture of the site of the Messech JAMES place. The >Thomas BARR place was between the homes of Messech JAMES and Matthew PATTON. > >Messech JAMES died prior to 1771, intestate...His heirs are mentioned in a >deed (Franklin County, Pennsylvania Deed Book# 3, Page 169) as: > > a. William JAMES, carried off by Indians and never seen again. > b. Isaac JAMES, carried off by Indians and never seen again. > c. Enoch JAMES who married to Sarah BOWEN, a daughter of David BOWEN and >Hannah DAVIS. Enoch JAMES is listed in REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS FROM FRANKLIN >COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. > d. Jean (Jane) JAMES who married to John ROSS/ROSE. Jean, or Jane, was >received by letter to the Tonoloway Baptist Church, with her sister Sarah >(BOWEN) JAMES, in November, 1766. > e. Sarah JAMES who married to David Bowen, the son of David BOWEN and >Hannah DAVIS. > f. Hannah JAMES who became the wife of Owen DAVIS, the son of Philip and >Jane DAVIS. > g. Mary JAMES who married to Samuel OWENS. > >>From "THE HISTORY OF TONOLOWAY BAPTIST CHURCH" by Harry Stuart Holman, >M.A., 1980, page 63, we find that Owen DAVIS and his wife, Hannah JAMES, >were baptized in August, 1766. They were transferred to the Great Bethel >Church in Springhill township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in >September, 1771. In August of 1760, Owen DAVIS had moved from Frederick >County, Maryland, to land he had purchased on Lick Run, a tributary of the >Conococheague Creek in Franklin County. As late as 1783, the DAVISES were >living in Westmoreland County. Owen DAVIS and his wife, Hannah JAMES, would >have the following issue together: > > 6. Elizabeth DAVIS, born 15 February, 1764, died before 1803. She >married to Daniel FERROL. Hannah FERROL, a daughter of Daniel FERROL and >Elizabeth DAVIS, born 9 October, 1784. > > 7. Meshach DAVIS, born 4 September, 1765, died in Franklin County, >Indiana, near Bath or Colter's Corner, 11 October, 1845. He married to >Nancy Ann LEWIS, a daughter of Margaret LEWIS, about 1786.(Margaret LEWIS >remarried to a John GRIFFITHS, of Georges Creek township, Fayette County, >Pennsylvania. John GRIFFITHS Will dated 17 November, 1789, and proven on 24 >January, 1791). Nancy Ann LEWIS was born about 1769, and died 2 March, >1832, in Butler County, Ohio, near Dry Fork, in Morgan township. Meshach >DAVIS, after his wife's death, probably went to live with either his son, >Isaac DAVIS and his wife Martha FOSTER, or, his daughter's family, Hannah >(DAVIS) DAVIS. Hannah was the wife of Zachariah DAVIS, son of James DAVIS >and Keziah PHILLIPS of Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Meshach DAVIS and his >wife's graves are in the George Cemetery one mile west of Okeana, Butler >County, Ohio. This is just across the state line from Franklin County, >Indiana. Meshach and Nancy Ann's other childrn were: Polly born 3 march, >1791; Isaac born 9 April, 1804; Owen; Thomas; James; Samuel; and Margaret >DAVIS. > > 8. Evan DAVIS, born 11 July, 1767, died before 1803. He married to >Elizabeth JOLLIFF, a daughter of James and Hannah JOLLIFF, on 7 July, 1786. >Their children were: Owen DAVIS born 20 May, 1787; James DAVIS born 24 >November, 1788; Enoch DAVIS born 11 September, 1790; Squire DAVIS born 11 >September, 1790; Hannah DAVIS born 19 February, 1792; Martha DAVIS; Sarah >DAVIS; and Susanna DAVIS born 19 July, 1803, died 7 November, 1804. > > 9. Ruth DAVIS, born 23 August, 1769, and married to a _______ BROWN. > > 10. Enoch DAVIS, born in February, 1772. He married to Catherine >SHACHLET, a daughter of John and Barberry SHACHLET. Catherine SHACHLET was >born 18 August, 1778. Their children were: Shachlet; Owen; Barbara; John; >and Otto DAVIS. > > 11. Hannah DAVIS, born in September, 1774. She married to Budd GASKILL. >Budd was a gunsmith. The family moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania. > > 12. Susanna DAVIS, born 17 July, 1776. > > 13. John DAVIS, born 16 March, 1779, died 6 January, 1820. John married >to Elizabeth ARCHEY (ARCHER), a daughter of John and Hannahm ARCHEY >(ARCHER), on 25 February, 1802. > > 14. Lewis DAVIS, born 8 July, 1782, died 12 November, 1782. > > 15. Isaac DAVIS, born 25 August, 1783, died 2 August, 1854, in Crawford >County, Pennsylvania. He married to Frances WEST, a daughter of Job WEST >and Mary GASTON, on 29 December, 1804. Isaac DAVIS apprenticed himself to >Jacob WEBB of Luzerne township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, on 1 >November, 1798, to learn the potter's trade, which he followed many years. >Their children were: Marcellus J. DAVIS born 23 June, 1828 (never married); >Owen VanBuren DAVIS born 23 November, 1836 (never married); and Hannah >Almeda DAVIS born 5 January, 1839. Hannah Almeda DAVIS married to William >W. WEST, a son of Eli WEST and Belinda KING. The following is a notation in >the back of Isaac DAVIS' bible, "Susanna CASSADAY, daughter of Felix and >Susanna CASSADAY, born 20 February, 1789, the intended wife of Isaac DAVIS." > > 16. James DAVIS, born 19 September, 1785. He married to Susan FITZGARLE >(FITZGERALD), a daughter of John FITZGARLE (FITZGERALD), on 26 January, >1806. Susan was born 17 December, 1785. > > 17. Anna DAVIS, born 5 March, 1790. Anna married to David COLE. After >Owen DAVIS died on 7 July, 1810, Hannah (JAMES) DAVIS went to live with the >David COLE family in Redstone township, near Brownsville, Fayette County, >Pennsylvania. She was living in this family later in 1810. About 1820, >David COLE moved his family to Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Hannah >(JAMES) DAVIS is no longer with the family and is thought to have died, >with burial in or around Redstone township. Anna and David COLE had these >children: Isaac COLE born 18 June, 1808; Daniel COLE born 24 February, >1810, and died 5 November, 1810; Owen COLE; Owen DAVIS COLE born 19 July, >1811; Elizabeth COLE born 14 April, 1813; Hannah COLE born 20 August, 1815; >Mary COLE born 18 May, 1817; Daniel B. COLE born 19 April, 1819; and Samuel >COLE born 10 March, 1821. > >Anthony Keefer, on 16 June, 1999, informed me that Owen DAVIS' Millseat >property appears to have been put up for auction for a $328.25 bill owed to >Charles BROWNFIELD. With interest the court awarded BROWNFIELD $50.00 since >the executors had not sold in on their own to settle debts. It was put up >for sheriff's sale and bought by Jesse EVANS, of Phildaelphia, for >$1500.00...Venditioni exponas is the legal term used...Book O, Page 28, 21 >January, 1814. The property was sold back to Philip DAVIS, Jr. on 30 July, >1831...Deed Book S, Page 126, Georges township. >Anyone interested in these families, please contact: > >Sam D. Lawson >1929 Hiker Trace >Columbus, Indiana 47203-3541 > >bulldog2429@voyager.net