[Note from PatMcD: Snyder E. Roberts research papers indicate Bazzell Davis was on the 1799 unsuccessful petition to form Roane County, as well as William Davis, George G. Davis, Britton Davis, Edward Davis, and Nathan Eldridge who mar Rebecca Davis, and John Freeman who mar Susannah Davis.
By Cheryl Coverly My Basil Davis was born in Prince George Co. MD about 1755. His father was Henry. He married Francis? He had Alfred, Henry, Susannah Ann, Rebecca, William, Littleton, Britton and Nancy. They lived in Roane County TN in early 1800. The info comes from a book about the Poplar Creek Davis'. Briton is our line as far as we know. We cannot document it to this point.
