Person:John Davie (6)

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Sir John Davie
b.5 Feb 1660/61
m.
  1. Sir John Davie1660/61 - 1727
m. Abt 1692
Facts and Events
Name[2] Sir John Davie
Gender Male
Birth[4] 5 Feb 1660/61
Christening[4] 8 Mar 1660/61 St. Leonard Eastcheap, City of London, Middlesex, England
Marriage Abt 1692 to Elizabeth Richards
Residence[5] Bef 1707 Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States
Death[1] 1727 Sandford, Devon, EnglandLower Creedy Manor
Burial[3][4] 29 Dec 1727 Sandford, Devon, England
References
  1. Trumbull, James Hammond. The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884. (Boston: E.L. Osgood, 1886)
    1:239.

    Elizabeth Richards m. John Davie, Harvard College 1681, upon death of a cousin took possession of baronetcy in 1707 and moved to Creedy, Devon, England where he d. 1727.

  2. Caulkins, Frances Manwaring. History of New London, Connecticut: from the first survey of the coast in 1612 to 1852. (New London Conn.: F.M. Caulkins, 1852)
    415.

    Deed in New London, dated 3 Jul 1699: "Sarah Davie, relict widow of Humphrey Davie sometime of Boston in New England and late of Hartford" to "John Davie of New London in New England aforesaid, yeoman, son of the said Humphrey Davie, deceased".

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

    Sir John Davie, 5th Baronet, merchant of London who emigrated in 1662 [this fact appears to apply to his father Humphrey] to New England. He m. Elizabeth, d/o J. Gibbons and widow of James Richards [sic, clear mixup of wife's family]. He was bur. 29 Dec 1727, leaving issue. Son, John, became 6th Baronet.

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Additions to the Family of Humphrey Davie of Boston and Hartford, in The American Genealogist (TAG). (Donald Lines Jacobus, et.al.)
    86:134.

    citing parish registers of St. Leonard Eastcheap (London), 1538-1812 (FHL #535720) for the birth and baptism, and Cokayne Complete Baronetage, 2:144 for the burial

  5. See Reference 1 for Elizabeth Richards, his wife.