Brief Life History of Abigail
When Abigail Davis was born on 16 May 1721, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Eleazer Davis, was 40 and her mother, Eunice Potter, was 32. She married Ezekiel Brown on 14 May 1741, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 13 October 1815, in Clinton, Kennebec, Maine, United States, at the age of 94.
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- Abigail in entry for Hephzibah Brown, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Abigail Davis, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Abigail Davis, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
Spouse and Children
1720–1804 Male
1721–1815 Female
Children (5)
1742–1829 Female
1743–1824 Male
1746–1749 Male
1749–1814 Female
1753–1832 Female
Parents and Siblings
1680–1721 Male
1688–1760 Female
Siblings (8)
1706–1748 Male
1707–1744 Female
1709–1798 Male
1711–1799 Female
1714– Male
+3 More Children
World Events (4)
1775
Age 54
1776
Age 55
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
Age 73
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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