Person:Nicholas Davies (3)

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Nicholas ("Old Nick") Davies married the widow Judith Fleming in Goochland Co, Virginia, 24 December 1733. She was the daughter of Charles Fleming and Susanna Tarlton of New Kent County. Nicholas signed a marriage contract with Judith Fleming in Goochland Co, Virginia, 19 December 1733. A copy of a marriage settlement, dealing with the fate of her extensive pre-marital property holdings, 24 Dec 1733 may be seen in Am.Pub.U., No.1, vol.7, p.99 The surety was Middleton Shaw and the witness was H. Wood. The actual marriage bond, recorded in Goochland County, Virginia, confirms that her maiden name was Judith Fleming, that she was widow of Thomas Randolph, and the sureties on the marriage bond were her two brothers, Tarleton and John Fleming Randolph. She had first married Col. Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe in 1712, but he died in 1730, leaving her with 3 children. Col. Randolph, of the powerful Randolph family, had befriended young Nicholas, making him his business assistant and giving him a start in the mercantile business. When Judith and Nicholas married, he was barely 20 while Judith was about 44, a May-December marriage. They did not have children. She died sometime before 1743, before she was 54.

By 1744, he married Catherine Whiting Clayton, born in Ware Parish Gloucester about 1724, the daughter of Dr. John Clayton, the Founder of American Botany and of Elizabeth Whiting. They were to have only one child, Henry Landon Davies, born about 1745 in Goochland Co, Virginia.

Nicholas died 28 September 1794 at "Pebbleton" in Bedford Co, Virginia, at 85 years of age. His estate is said to have been worth £40,000. Henry L. Davies signed the newspaper death notice on 30 September 1794.

[Source: http://daviesofpebbleton.org/bios/oldnick.htm].