Display Patriot - P-145173 - Peter DAVISON/DAVIDSON
Peter DAVISON/DAVIDSON
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P-145173
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Author: Eugene Lawrence Tenney Jr.
Ensign Peter Davison, Connecticut Militia
Third Great Grandfather of Compatriot Eugene L. Tenney, Jr
John Paul Jones Chapter, Bremerton, Washington
Ensign Peter Davison was the fifth of eleven children born to Joseph and Mary (Warner) Davison. He was born in Pomfret, Connecticut on 15 May 1739. His father Joseph is descended from Nicholas Davison who emigrated to America about 1650 as an agent for Massachusets Governor Craddock. The Davisons may be descended from the Clan McDarmid or McDavid, who were prominent in the Highlands of Scotland around 1520.
Ensign Davison served in the Revolutionary War in Capt. William Smith’s Company, Col. John Douglas’s 21st regiment of the Connecticut Militia. He reportedly received a commission from Johnathan Trumbill the Colonial Governor of Connecticut in 1776.
Peter married Abigail Woodward on 28 April 1768 and they went on to raise seven children, their son Alpheus, born in 1786 was my great great grandfather. Abigail died 28 March 1791. Peter later married the widow Susannah Weaver and they had one daughter.
Peter Davison died 4 May 1800 and was buried on his farm known as “Ram’s Head” in Brooklyn, Connecticut. The inscription on his tombstone reads:
“On the dear bosom of his God, the dying saint relies;
There lays his feeble flesh, to rest and every care resigns”
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