Person:Humphrey Davie (1)

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Humphrey Davie
chr.24 Aug 1625 Sandford, Devon, England
m. Bef 1612
  1. Humphrey Davie1625 - 1688/89
  • HHumphrey Davie1625 - 1688/89
  • WMary White1633 -
m.
  1. Sir John Davie1660/61 - 1727
  • HHumphrey Davie1625 - 1688/89
  • WSarah Gibbons1645 - 1713/14
m. Aft 1680
Facts and Events
Name[1] Humphrey Davie
Gender Male
Christening[3][4] 24 Aug 1625 Sandford, Devon, England
Emigration[1] 1662
Marriage to Mary White
Marriage Aft 1680 to Sarah Gibbons
Death[3] 18 Feb 1688/89 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Humphrey Davie, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:14-15.

    "Humphrey (Davie), Boston, merch. s. of Sir John, wh. had been creat. a baronet 9 Sept. 1641, came from London 1662, possib. to encourage Rev. James Allen, freem. 1665, ar. co. 1665, rep. for Billerica, bec. he had est. there 1665-9, for Woburn 1678, prob. on equal reason, an Assist. 1679-86; m. as sec. or third w. Sarah, wid. of James Richards of Hartford, wh. had left large est. that caus. his rem. thither; had by her Humphrey, and William, and d. 18 Feb. 1689. By former w. he had John, H. C. 1681, but whether she came with him from London, I find not. His wid. m. Hon. Jonathan Tyng."

  2.   Sibley, John Langdon, and Clifford K. (Clifford Kenyon) Shipton. Biographical sketches of those who attended Harvard College. (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: Harvard University Press, 1933-1975)
    3:231.

    Humphrey Davie came from London to Boston in 1662 and married as his "second or third wife", Sarah, d/o William Gibbons, widow of James Richards, the latter's large estate in Hartford probably causing his removal there, where he died 18 Feb 1688-9.

  3. 3.0 3.1 Bradley, Hal. Additions to the Family of Humphrey1 Davie of Boston and Hartford. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul, Oct 2012)
    86:133.

    citing Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, 2:144 for baptism, and TAG 23:208 for death

  4. Burke's peerage and baronetage
    76th edition (1914), p. 579.

    Humphrey, s/o Sir John Davie, bp. 24 Aug 1625, a merchant in London in 1662, m. [first] Mary White.