Person:Phillip Davis (1)

Philip Davis, tailor, held land here in 1639-40, on the south side of the road from George Steele's to the South Meadow. Chosen chimney-viewer, 1653 ; freeman, 1656; constable, 1660; townsman, 1667, 1671, 1675, 1680, 1684; fence-viewer, 1668, 1669, 1673. He m. Esther, dau. of Thomas Coleman, of Wethersfield; d. in 1689; inv. Oct. 22, £375. 13.2.- Ch.: i. Lydia, In. Nov., 1676, Nathaniel Cole, of Hartford; d. Jan. 25, 1683-4. ii. Hannah, m. John Grave, of Hartford, 1690, as his second wife.[1]