Brief Life History of Isaac
Captain Isaac Davis was born on 23 February 1745, in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America as the son of Ezekiel (husband Of #4116) Davis Of Acton, MA and Mary Gibson. He married Hannah Brown on 24 October 1764, in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 19 April 1775, in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 30, and was buried in Acton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Isaac Davis, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Isaac Davis, "United States Marriages, 1733-1990"
- Isaac Davis, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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Isaac Davis’ death April 1775
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