Person:Azariah Davis (2)

Will Abstract

Will of Azariah Davis of Mercer County and State of Kentucky.

Names children of my brother Hannaniah Davis; children of "my beloved sister Rebecca Price"; brothers Philip & William Davis; "children of my friend Abraham Chapline To wit, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, William, Fanny & Malinday Chapline".

Names "Trusty Friends William Starling Senr., Willis Green & Abraham Chapline" Executors.

Dated 29th January 1805

[Signed] Azariah Davis

Teste: Abrm. Chapline, Amasa Delorio [?], Saml. R. Demarie

Proven August Court 1808

Attest: Tho. Allen C.C.

Records in Kentucky

May 1774: Capt James Harrod's company of 31 men came down Monongahela and Ohio rivers to the mouth of the Kentucky River, which they ascended to the mouth of a creek they called Landing run (later Oregon), in the lower end of present (1878) Mercer Co.; thence across to Salt river near McAfee's station, and up the Salt river to Fountain Blue, and to the place where Harrodsburg now stands. The names of only 21 of the 31 are known, these include Thomas & James Harrod, James Brown, and Azariah Davis. Merceronline.com

1775: Azariah Davis, James Davis, Abraham Chapline, and Daniel Boone were among those assembled at the first legislature of the "State of Transylvania" at Fort Boonesborough, Madison Co., KY, as related in a biographical sketch of Richard Henderson (1735-1785).

Oct 1779; Azariah Davis claimed a preemption on Salt River, one mile from Harrodsburg, due to making corn crop in 1775. [1]

1779; Azariah Davis was an Ensign. [2]

31 October 1780; Azariah Davis, Land Grant in Kentucky County, Virginia, 1,400 acres on Salt River, Book 1, pg. 181. [Willard Rouse Jillson. 1925. The Kentucky Land Grants. 2 vols. Filson Club Publ., Louisville, KY]

23 MAY 1790; George Scott sold to Samuel Demaree for 100 pounds 207 1/2 acres in Mercer County, on waters of Azariah Run, a branch of Salt River. This was part of 1'000 acres patented to Azariah Davis in 1782. [3]

29 AUG 1791; Book 1 page 375 Mercer County, George Scott paid Azariah Davis of Mercer 100 pounds current money of Virginia for 700 acres on waters of Azariah Run a branch of Salt River. [4]

1795 Census of Kentucky, Azariah Davis, Mercer County, Kentucky. [The 1795 Census of Kentucky [as constructed from tax lists]. T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL., 1991]

5 July 1800; Azariah Davis listed as an Early Landholder on the Sault River, Mercer County, Kentucky, 370 acres, Book 3, Page 9. [James F. Sutherland. 1986. Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore (Broderbund CD-650)].

19 May 1801; Azariah Davis listed as an Early Landholder on the Salt River, Mercer County, Kentucky, 233 acres, Book 3, Page 9. [James F. Sutherland. 1986. Early Kentucky Landholders, 1787-1811. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore (Broderbund CD-650)].

1. ↑ .

   I have had Azariah Davis's tombstone examined he died 11th July 1808 and was 75 years of age. He was an intimate friend of Capt. Chaplain, never married he was a small man and left his estate to Capt. Chaplin's family.
   
   http://dgmweb.net/FGS/Davis/DavisAzariah.html

2. ↑ Draper, Lyman Copeland. Life of Boone, Draper manuscript collection. (Chicago [Illinois]: University of Chicago, 1951)
   pg. 569.

   AZARIAH DAVIS
   Azariah Davis, a native of Pennsylvania, first visited Kentucky in 1774 and [was] among the followers of James Harrod and, returning in 1775, was chosen to a seal in the Transylvania Convention, was among the heroic defenders of Logan's Station when attacked in 1777, and often served against the Indians. He never married and was much of a misanthrope on account of an early love disappointment and died in Mercer County, Kentucky, July 11th, 1808, at the age of seventy-five years. He was a man of small size, worthy, honest and unambitious.