Davis & Eastman - A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire : historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899
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It says that Josiah Davis and Obediah Davis were brothers, yet that they were the sons of James and Hannah (Wiggin) Davis, which I don't believe to be correct. This is an older book, from 1899, so it is possible a few things may have been mixed up.
It also says that they came to live by Otho Stevens with their families in 1734. This is most likely a mix up of 1743, and Josiah Davis would not have been married to Dorothy yet in 1743, considering she was only eleven at the time.
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Not far from the eastern shores of the Wash pond were the
early homes of several pioneer families. Ensign Otho Ste-
vens and his wife, Abigail Kent, and four children from Glou-
cester, Mass., bought a tract of land of Jonathan and Peter
Eastman, in 1734, on what is now the Bailey wood lot. Jo-
siah Davis and his wife, Dorothy Colby, and their nine children,
and his brother Obediah Davis and wife, Sarah Colby, with
their nine children, came to their locations near Otho Stevens,
in 1734. The Davis's were sons of James and Hannah (Wig-
gin) Davis of Haverhill.
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Davis. — The family of Davis were early in Haverhill,
Mass. Thomas Davis, one of the signers of the Indian deed
of the territory of Haverhill, in 1640, came from Marlboro',
England, in the ship " James and William," and settled in the
West Parish of Haverhill, near the old Corliss homestead.
His brother James was one of the first selectmen of Ha-
verhill in 1642.
The Davises of Hampstead sprang from this family, of
whom there were nineteen families in Haverhill before 1700.
Josiah and Dorothy (Colby) Davis was an early settler
here, having (it is supposed) followed the " twelve rod way "
tract from the Davis land at East Haverhill to the land near
the eastern shore of the Wash pond. They had nine chil-
dren, of whom the youngest, Jesse, born July 8, 1767, mar-
ried Lois Worthen, and their oldest child, Ezra, born Sept.
6, 1793, married Mary Garland, and had children.
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Josiah (d. 3, 3, 1790), and Dorothy (Colby) Davis. Children:
James Johnson, b. 10, 14, 1747. Anna, b. 1, 26, 1760.
Hannah, b. 11, 3, 1749. Dolly, b. 3, 10, 1763.
Mary, b. 3, 21, 1752. Louisa, b. 12, 6, 1765.
Edmund, b. 5, 3, 1756. Jesse, b. 7, 8, 1767.
Josiah, b. 5, 1, 1758.
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Josiah Davis, d. 1796, aged 72.
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Josiah Davis and Dorotha Colby, Dec. 2, 1746.
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Not sure if this our Josiah Davis, specifically, but:
The family name of Sawyer appears early in town, as
Jacob Sawyer lived on the place now owned by Anson B.
Kimball, Joshua Sawyer on the place known as the Josiah
Davis place, Edmund Sawyer where the Moultons afterwards
lived, but about 1820 the first of our present family came
from Atkinson, N. H.
For Eastman:
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Edmund Eastman, born May 21, 1715, son of Benjamin,
and grandson of Roger the Emigrant, came to Hampstead
early in the settlement of the town. He married, in 1745, the
widow Hannah Hill, mother of Governor Isaac Hill of New
Hampshire. They resided at the old Eastman home at West
Hampstead, now in a good state of preservation. They had
children, of whom the third was Joshua, born August 31, 1754,
married Sarah Tucker, who were the parents of four children,
one of whom, Joshua, born October 24, 1787, was the father of
the late Edmund Tucker Eastman, of whom a tribute is given in
this book, also of Judith and Hamilton C. Eastman, whose sons
John H. and Henry L. Eastman are residents of Hampstead.
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