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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Soldier / Patriotic Service
Birth: 1730 / / England Death: 03 Mar 1817 / Wilkes / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Member of Orange County, VA
Contributed supplies to Orange County
Soldier - VA Militia
Capt Francis Taylor's Company joined the 2nd VA Regiment in Continental Service on 8 May 1776 at Williamsburg. Jno. Davis Listed on Payroll of 2nd VA Rgmt for period beginning 1 Apr. 1779. Listed as John Davis in Pay Role of Capt James Burtons Comp’y. in the Reg’t. of Guards at Albemarle Barracks Comm’d. by Col Fra. Taylor for the months of Jan’y., Feb’y. 1780
"Jonathan Davis of Orange County, Virgina and Wilkes County", pg 9
Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783; Microfilm Publication M246, 138 rolls; NAID:602384; War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, Record Group 93; The National Archives in Washington, D.C.; Payroll for the Western Battlion,1781-1782 Folder 341-various organizations Folder 365
Reverend Jonathan Davis b. 1730 d. 3/1818 WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served in the Virginia Line.
See: (1) Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County, v. 1, p. 194.
(2) Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County, v. 2, p. 165.
(3) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, p. 59.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
Printed in the United States of America
New Papyrus Co., Inc.
548 Cedar Creek Drive
Athens, GA 30605-3408
Author: Thomas R. Davis
Jonathan Davis was born 1730. There are three accounts of his early life. 1. Jonathan’s father died with he was quite young and left him, a younger brother, maybe one or two sisters, and his mother who remarried. The stepfather treated the boys’ badly, and Jonathan ran away from home at the age of 12 and made his way to America.
2. …he was captured off the coast of Wales and brought to New York [in the 1700’s York County in Virginia was known as New York], possibly aboard a piratic tramp trading vessel and disposed of upon some terms to a New York merchant. Who afterwards assisted him in making a start in life in this new land.
3. Another account is that he was the son of John Davis born 1680 and died 1734 in St. Marks VA (We are working on DNA projects to clarify this) There are two books, “A Genealogy of the Davis and Goss Family, by Henry William Clark, 1905, Harrisburg Publishing Company, and “Jonathan Davis of Orange County, Virginia and Wilkes County, Georgia and Some of His Descendants” by Mildred Davis Davidson, Family History Publishers, Bountiful, Utah. Both books are very informative and interesting to read. Jonathan was a Captain in the Francis Taylor’s company of foot in Regiment Of Volunteer. Guards at the Barracks in Albermarle County, Virginia, between 29 Jan and 17 March 1776. He was also a contributor to the cause with 63 3/5 Gallons of Brandy on 23 Sept 1780; 117 lbs pork on 19 May 1781; 6 bushels wheat on 9 June 1781; 350 lbs of beef on 9 Sept 1781 and 500 lbs of beef on 18 Oct 1781. Jonathan married Lucy Gibbs, the daughter of a Prominent VA family, about 1756. They bought lands and settled in Orange Co., VA where all 10 of his children grew up and were married before he left VA and settled in Wilkes County, GA about 1803. Jonathan Davis died in Wilkes County Feb 1817.
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