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State of Service: NJ
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1720 Westerly / Washington / RI Death: 26 Jun 1778 Brandywine / Chester / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Served 26 Aug to 03 Sep 1777, pay 6 pounds 6 shillings
James Moore Company, 2nd Regiment, Somerset County, New Jersey Militia
Additional References:
Seventh Day Baptist Church, Salem, West Virginia
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
New Jersey Pension Papers - reply dated June 1, 1938 - William Davis - S. 16097 - NJ
Nicholson, Susie Davis, Davis: The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia"-(Their Ancestors and Some of Their Descendents) (Bicentennial Edition), Salem, 1992
Skardon, Mary(Editor), Soldiers of the American Revolution in Clark County, Ohio (Part 1), Clark County Historical Society, Whitlock Printing Company, 1976
Nicholson, Susie Davis, Davis: The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia"-(Their Ancestors and Some of Their Descendents) (Revised & Enlarged), Strasburg:Ohio, Gordon Printing Inc, 1979
The attached Find-A-Grave record does not provide an image of a grave or burial stone, nor does it identify a burial location - April 2022
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Jerry Ray Sayre
James Davis was born in 1720 on the family Farm near Westerly, RI. He was the son and 5th child of Rev. William and Elizabeth (Pavior) Davis. Rev. William Davis was a noted man of God and an early author, and outspoken advocate in the Seventh Day Baptist Church, helping to found that church in Westerly, and later in Shrewsbury, NJ.
James grew to manhood in Westerly and there met and married Judith Maxson, the daughter of Joseph Jr. and Bethia Maxson. The family moved to New Jersey sometime in the early 1750’s.
James Davis owned a shipyard at the beginning of the Revolution and was a loyalist, but after the British burned it, he became a supporter of the Patriot Cause. James Davis was a Private in Capt. James Moore's Co., Col. Abraham Quick's 2nd Regiment Somerset County, NJ Militia. (Adjunct Gen. Office, Trenton, NJ).
James Davis had two sons who also served in the Revolution, William (P-145138) and Rev Jacob (P-144574).
Family tradition states that while out observing the Battle of Monmouth, James was hit by a stay musket ball and killed 28 Jun 1778. He was buried at Shrewsbury, NJ in the Seventh Day Baptist Church Cemetery. No marker or headstone has been found.
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