James Davis^{[1, 2]}

Est 1719 - 1765  (~ 46 years)

• Name	James Davis
  Born	Est 1719	Spotsylvania Co., Virginia Colony
  Gender	Male
  Died	1765	Spotsylvania Co., Virginia Colony
  Person ID	I10915	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Thomas Carter of Barford
  Last Modified	22 May 2018

  
  

  Family	Mary Elizabeth Carter,   b. Est 1721, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. 1787, Broadfield, Spotsylvania, Virginia  (Age ~ 66 years)
  Married	25 Dec 1738	Lancaster Co., Virginia
  Children	1. Private   2. James Carter of Spotsylvania Davis,   b. 5 Mar 1741, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. 1792, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia  (Age 50 years)   3. Benjamin Davis,   b. 10 Jan 1743, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. 1791, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia  (Age 47 years)   4. William Dale Davis,   b. 28 Aug 1750, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia + 5. Thomas Hyatt to Kentucky Davis,   b. 30 Nov 1761, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia ,   d. 8 Nov 1839, Woodford County, Kentucky  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	14 May 2017
  Family ID	F5485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Spotsylvania Co., VA Deed 1739 Joseph Carter Gives his Daughter, Mary Elizabeth, and her husband James Davis, slaves, to him and his heirs or assigns forever. JosephCarterJamesDavisMaryECarter.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  Ancestry reports James Conway Davis 1719-1771 with children, Elizabeth, William Dale Davis 1750-1825; and Thomas W. Davis 1761-1839. Mary Elizabeth Carter, d/o Joseph and Catherine Stevens Carter shows a death date of 1787 in Broadfield, Spotsylvania, Virginia [not verified]

  
  

• Sources

  [S73] Deeds, Spotsylvania Co., Virginia Joseph Carter to his Daughter and Son-in-law. [S80] Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=bigjAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=rawley+williamson+carter&source=bl&ots=UJeD84iqTA&sig=eteRGcFl9_4_jFbH0VQQR_nPkIc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCloLZpLvMAhVDGx4KHbQVBpIQ6AEIQjAJ#v=onepage&q=rawley%20williamson%20carter&f=false. Mary Elizabeth Carter (Joseph, Thomas2, Thomas1) born 2 Dec 1721 married James Davis of Broadfield, Spottsylvania County, 25 Dec 1738. James Davis, b. 3 Nov 1719, was the 2nd son of Thomas Davis and Susannah Wyatt (?) Davis, of Stafford), and his wife Sarah Fielding (b. 12 May 1695, daughter of Edward and Hannah Fielding, or Northumberland County.) Since the publication of my Fielding and Davis notes in the Virginia Magazine, Vols. XI and XII, I have gathered a great deal more data from county parrish, and family records, and other sources, so will include herewith a connected sketch of the Fieldings. In my former notes, I omitted one entire generation, and made some incorrect deductions. James Davis owned a plantation of 600 acres of land on "Plentiful Run", Spotsylvania County, which he called 'Broadfield'. In 1740 he built a story and a half brick house with dormer windows and great inside chimneys. This house was burned in Oct 1789, mentioned in a letter written shortly afterward to Thomas Davis by his Sister, Polly, but a quaint old pen and ink drawing made in 1788 by James Davis' son, Thomas, who removed to Kentucky later that year. Thomas, the younger son of James and Mary Davis, taught school after he settled in Kentucky, and his advertisement in the Kentucky Gazette of 31 May 1788 states that he was qualified to teach 'Reading, writing and Arithmetic, surveying and navigation, geography or the use of the globes, etc... He made his will 16 Feb 1765, probated 1 Oct 1765.