♂ Josiah Davis

1722 - 1796

Josiah Davis
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Parents
John Davis
John Davis
1692 - 1757
Hannah Heath
Hannah Heath
1695 - 1756
Spouse
Dorothy Colby
Dorothy Colby
1731 - 1826
Children
Mary Davis
Mary Davis
1752 - 1836
 

Timeline

1647


Nov 6
Mary Davis - Find a Grave

birth of child


Mary Davis
Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ⇓
On Mary's birth record her parents are Josiah Davis and Dorothy Colby. This record matches up exactly with her age at her death date (84 years 4 months). In 1797, her and her siblings granted land to their brother Jesse from their father "Josiah Davis, late of Hampstead". Her and her husband are described as "Edward Eastman and Molly Eastman of Corinth Vt."
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1647 • The New Model Army marches to London.

1743


Jan
Age: 20y

residence


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
Josiah Davis and Obediah Davis signed a petition for a parish together, along with Otho Stevens. The two brothers lived near the eastern shores of Wash Pond, which was home to several pioneer families. It's described that Josiah Davis "(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."
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1743 Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.

1746


Dec 2
Age: 24y
Josiah Davis - Find a Grave

marriage


Dorothy Colby
Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
They had nine children: James Johnson in 1747, Hannah in 1749, Mary in 1752, Edmund in 1756, Josiah in 1758, Anna in 1760, Dolly in 1763, Louis in 1765, and lastly Jesse, in 1767, all in New Hampshire.
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1746 Catherine of Ricci (b. 1522) is canonized.
about

1770


Age: 47y
Josiah Davis - Miscellaneous Revolutionary Documents of New Hampshire

military


New Hampshire, USA ⇓
A Josiah Davis was a private in the American Revolution - possibly him. His brother Samuel also possibly enrolled.
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1770 • First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook determines that New Holland (Australia) is not contiguous with New Guinea and claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.

1790


Age: 67y
1790 • A newly passed U.S. tariff act creates the system of cutters for revenue enforcement (later named the United States Revenue Cutter Service), the forerunner of the Coast Guard.

1790


Age: 67y
Josiah Davis - 1790 United States Federal Census

residence


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
Two pages away, on page 17, Joseph Kimball is living with wife Martha Colby. She is likely the Martha that is the sister of Dorothy.
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1790 Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be "strenuous" in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.

1790


Age: 67y
Josiah Davis - 1790 United States Federal Census

residence


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
Two pages away, on page 17, Joseph Kimball is living with wife Martha Colby. She is likely the Martha that is the sister of Dorothy. There are also Eastmans living on the same page, and Heaths.
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1790 • The Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars begins in New South Wales, Australia as a result of deterioration in relations and increasing colonization.

1796


Age: 73y

will


Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA ⇓
His estate was administered October 20 1796, by his widow Dolly (Dorothy) Davis, with a bond of $3,000.00. William Marshall and Thomas Cotton are sureties.
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1796 • The last mock Garrat Elections are held in Surrey, England.

1796


Apr 3
Age: 74y
1796 • War of the First CoalitionBattle of Montenotte: Napoleon Bonaparte gains his first victory as an army commander.

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