Person:John Davis (601)

About John Davis

John Davis was born abt. 1755 in Virginia [parents currently not known]. He married 1778 in Virginia [some say in Botetourt County] to Eizabeth Milam. Pvt. John Davis received a Revolutionary War Land Warrant in 1784 in Washington County, Tennessee, which was later re-issued to his heirs in 1796 after he died. John Davis died prior to July 1794 in Washington County, Tennessee

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   Name John DAVIS
   Gender Male
   Emigration Abt 1775 Wales to Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
   _UID 5370EEC9D86C9244A359CD78C65C4391CBC5
   Died Jul 1794
   Person ID I9625 Branch 019 John Miles Stafford 1782 VA
   Last Modified 25 Jun 2006
   
   Family Elizabeth MILAM, d. Yes, date unknown
   Married 1778 Botetourt Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
   Children
   1. Abigail Lewis DAVIS, b. 1787, Giles Co.,Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 1822, Paintsville, Johnson Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 35 years)
   2. Mary DAVIS, b. 8 Sep 1787, Montgomery Co. (later Giles Co.), Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location, d. 25 Aug 1877, White House, Johnson Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
   3. Milam DAVIS, b. 2 Apr 1794, d. Yes, date unknown
   Last Modified 30 May 2023
   Family ID F3635 Group Sheet | Family Chart
   
   Notes
   "My great mother Elizabeth (Milam) married John Davis who came to this country from Wales about 1775 and was married in Botetourt County, Virginia in 1778. >From this union there were seven children. Four daughters and three sons, to wit: William, Abigail, Mary, Nancy, John, Catherine, and Milam. Milam was born 4-2-1794 and his father died in July 1794. My great father Davis was a soldier in the war for Independence - served under General Marion Arid and was at the Battle of Kings Mountain and on the day of that battle his oldest son William was born. At the close of the war he was granted 640 acres of land in Washington County (now Tennessee) for his military service. On this he lived at the time of his death and here my father was born. After my great father's death great mother moved back to Virginia and her family was brought up there. William married a Miss Davis, but no kin of his and always lived in Giles County, Virginia. Abigail married James Stafford and lived in Paintsville, Kentucky. Mary married John Stafford and lived at Paintsville, Kentucky. Nancy married Francis Grant of Newport, Kentucky. John married a Miss Baldwin in Va. and moved to this
   county where he died leaving only one child a daughter who married Dr. Richard Mitchell and always lived in this county. Catherine married Leonard Alkires at Covington, Kentucky and they moved about 1830 to Sagamon County, Illinois, now Menard. They had four sons: Milam, David, Leonard and John D. Milam and Leonard were well off. Some of them you might say rich."
   
   https://staffordsociety.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I9625&tree=019Branch&sitever=standard

2.   North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843.

   Name: John Davis
   Warrant or Survey Date: 9 Mar 1784
   Warrant or Survey Number: 478
   Record Type: Survey Order
   Number of Acres: 640

3.   North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843.

   Name John Davis
   [The Heirs of John Davis]
   Warrant or Survey Date 16 Dec 1796
   Warrant or Survey Number 4339
   Record Type Survey Order
   Note: This Land Warrant Survey Orders appears to have been re-issued to the Heirs of Pvt. John Davis after he died in July 1794 in Washington County, Tennessee.

4. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: [database online] (not considered a reliable primary source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004).

   Name John Davis
   Gender Male
   Birth Place Wl
   Birth Year 1755
   Spouse Name Elizabeth Milam
   Spouse Birth Place VA
   Spouse Birth Year 1760
   Marriage Year 1778
   Marriage State VA
   Number Pages 1

5.   Geneanet Community Trees Index.

   Name John W Davis
   Gender M (Male)
   Birth Date 1755
   Birth Place Indiana, Indiana, USA [Note: obviously in error]
   Marriage Date 1778
   Marriage Place Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
   Death Date juil. 1794 (Jul 1794)
   Death Place Washington County, Tennessee, USA
   Spouse Elizabeth Milam
   Child[ren]
   Abigail Davis
   Catherine Davis
   John Davis
   Mary Davis
   Milam Davis
   Nancy Davis
   William Davis

6.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/19921958/person/422050207673/facts