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References
- Davis, Horace. Ancestry of John Davis, governor and U.S. Senator, and Eliza Bancroft, his wife, both of Worcester, Massachusetts. (San Francisco [California]: H. Davis, 1897)
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Lt. Simon Davis m. 1713 Dorothy, d/o Israel Heald, of Stow.
[There is no marriage record in VR Stow, nor is there a birth record for Dorothy either. Others give her name as Dorothy Hale. What children of Israel and Martha that are recorded in Stow, are recorded under the name "Heale", which is somewhat ambiguous, but the compiler annotated it with "See Heald".]
- Source:Davis, Horace. Ancestry of John Davis, Governor and U.S. Senator, and Eliza Bancroft, His Wife, Both of Worcester, Massachusetts, p. 22, adds a son "Elizur" and a daughter "Dolly", but does not include Mary, when compared to Rutland records.
As Dolly is listed after Oliver by Davis, and the record birth of Mary in 1735 is after Oliver in 1732, it is quite possible they are the same individual. One wonders if Dolly is a misread of Polly, a common alternate for Mary? But we cannot know until we figure out the Davis' source for including Dolly in this family.
VR Rutland does list the birth of a son Eleazer to an Eleazer Davis in 1751. The father in this record is about the right age to possibly be the missing Eleazer, born bef. 1730. Perhaps some other evidence will turn up to confirm this.
Since Simon Davis "about 1720 removed to Rutland, Mass., among the first settlers" (per Ancestry of John Davis, cited above), it is quite possible children born soon after the relocation might not have been recorded. In fact, given the gap between Joseph in 1720 and Martha in 1729, it seems likely that there would have been even more children than just the alleged Eleazer.
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