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This Revolutionary soldier's service appears logged within "one of the Well tried patriots of the revolution"; died Oct 12, 1804, and was buried at the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park adjacent to the roadway (Old Battleground Road) leading to the military park battlefield, according to the NSSAR Graves Registry form submitted on Apr 14, 1967, by Turpin Phillips a resident of Richmond, VA
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Author: Gary Owen Green
John Daves was born in 1748 in Essex. He married Mary Haynes and they had four children together. He then had one son with Sally Bryan. He died on October 12, 1804, in New Bern, North Carolina, at the age of 56, and was buried there.
Originally buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery, New Bern, Craven County, NC. Monument survives on site. GPS Coordinates: 35° 6'44.79"N; 77° 2'37.87"W, Elevation 12 ft.) Grave removed to Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, Guilford County. Park is located at 2332 New Garden Road. Directions: From Interstate #85, take Exit 6 (Lee Street) to Morrow Boulevard, north to Fisher Street, turn right on New Garden Road. From Interstate #85 North, take Exit 1212 left on Benjamin Parkway; go one block and turn left on Battleground Avenue. Go two miles and turn right on New Garden Road,. From Interstate # 40 East, take Exit 213 (Guilford College-Jamestown Road); turn left on College Road. Go north two miles; turn right on New Garden Road, and go four miles to park.
Flat slab tombstone in First Line Area. Inscription: “One of the well tried patriots of our Revolutionary War.” Inscribe epitaph: “Beneath this monumental stone repos’d/In shrouded gloom, the relics of the dead/Await th’archangel’s renovation trump,/Add the dread sentence of the Judge Supreme./But GOD’s the Judge! In truth and justice robed;/Impartial to reward the friend sincere./The virtues of the patriot, parent, spouse;/And these, O Major! These were surely thine./Yes these were thine—and more still conjorn’d/t’endear thee to thy family and friends,/To leave a lasting memory behind,/And seal thy passports to the realms of bliss.” Also bronze DAR plaque inscribe: “Grandfather of Mrs. May Daves Nash, First State D.A. R., Regent of North Carolina.” Reported by Guilford Battle Chapter.
Service: Quartermaster, 2nd NC Regime: Captain, Brevet Major. Served at Germantown, Charleston, and Eutaw Springs, wounded in battle.
Sources: (State Regent’s Project Report; NSDAR 1955-56 Report; DAR Magazine, 1970, p. 156) [Carteret] Davis, Benjamin (b. 1750, Davis Shore, Carteret County, NC; d. 1814, Davis Shore, Carteret County, NC) Married about 1773 to Sabra Williston (b. 1755, Williston, Carteret County, NC; d. about 1830, Carteret County, NC). Service: Enlisted 2 May 1777 as a Private in Sheppard’s Company, 10th Regiment, NC Troops, for a period of three years. (NSSAR Membership # 64310 and 73260,NSSAR Patriot & Grave Index Number P 141347)
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