♂ 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 • King Charles of England promises a church reform. This agreement leads to the Second English Civil War.

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 • Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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 • Publication of Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the fine arts".
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 Georgian king Erekle II defeats Persians in battle of Aspindza, though Russian General Totleben betrays him.

1790


Age: 67y
1790 France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces, in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.

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 • Royal assent is given to establishment of the port of Milford Haven in Wales.

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 signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia, the capital district of the United States.

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 French Revolutionary WarsBattle of Bassano: French forces defeat Austrian troops in the Veneto.

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