When Ezra David Davis was born on 4 July 1801, in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, Levi Davis, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Betsy Clark, was 26. He married Sally Sarah Frances Fannie Scott on 1 January 1824, in Morgan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Windsor Township, Morgan, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Bois Brule Township, Perry, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died in 1872, in Chester Township, Logan, Illinois, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Stockport, Morgan, Ohio, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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