Person:Daniel Davisson (3)

Records in Virginia

• 1785 - Harrison county - George Jackson list of tithables 18th. July, 1785, on the waters of Elk Creek.²
• additional info here

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Daniel Davisson, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
   371.

   Daniel Davisson.
   Daniel Davisson was born in 1748 and died in 1819. He married Prudence Izard.
   His settlement right made in 1773 included the principal part of Clarksburg between Elk Creek and the West Fork River and contained 400 acres. His cabin it is supposed was located on Chestnut Street between Pike and Main.
   He afterwards built a large stone building on the North West corner of Second and Main Streets where he lived for many years. He for a long time kept an ordinary or tavern.
   He was a major of Militia and Sheriff of the County.
   From being the first settler he was known as the Proprietor of Clarksburg.
   He donated the Davisson Grave Yard to the Hopewell Baptist congregation in 1790, upon which the first church was built in Clarksburg, and was buried in it in 1819.
   In 1782 his family numbered seven. Many of his descendants live in this portion of the State.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Daniel Davisson, in Haymond, Henry. History of Harrison County, West Virginia: from earliest days of northwestern Virginia to the present. (Morgantown, West Virginia: Acme Publishing, 1910)
   275.

   George Jackson list of tithables 18th. July, 1785, on the waters of Elk Creek.
   
   Samuel Beard, Christopher Nutter, Benjamin Shinn, Mathew Nutter, Daniel Fink, John Davisson, Henry Russ, John Wade Lovberry, Lewis Duvall, Hezekiah Davisson, David Murphy, John Gregory, Major Powers, Joseph Gregory, Wm. Murphy, Obadiah Davisson, David Murphy, Benjamin Coplin, George Drake, Benjamin Cutter, Andrew Davisson, Levi Douglass, John Radcliff, James Shreve, John Murphy, Bazel Williams, Wm. Haymond, Jonathan Lambert, Daniel Davisson, Gilbert Hustead, Notley Duvall, John Duvall, Joseph Hasting, Wm. Carder, Geo. Jackson, Sotha Hickman, John Wolfe, Thomas Nutter, Jacob Wolfe, Francis McCann, John Prunty, Wm. Davis, Amaziah Davisson.
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3. ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lzrslong/b1221.htm.

   Daniel DAVISSON was born in 1748 in Devils Brook, New Jersey. He died in 1818 in Harrison County, West Virginia
   Daniel Davisson, a son of Obadiah and Elizabeth Davisson, was born
   about 1747 and died in Harrison County VA (WV) in 1818. He married
   Prudence Izzard.
   In 1773, Daniel and Prudence built a log cabin on Elk Creek in Harrison County VA on the present day site of Clarksburg, WV. Their claim on 400 acres of land was recognized when the land commissioners sat in Clarksburg in 1781.
   By 1778, Davisson had permitted a number of settlers to build cabins adjacent to his. One cabin joined another to form a wall that made the little village a fort. In that time of Indian raids, a fort was a necessary consideration.
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   [cos1776 note: Last accessed 20130711. Looks like there was a source for the birth/death dates at one time, but the link is now broken. There is a lot more info on this page.]