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John Henry Davis
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John Henry Davis
1725 - 5/30/1793
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John Henry Davis was born about 1725 somewhere in North Carolina and died on May 30, 1793 in Effingham Co., Georgia. Actual date of birth is unknown. He lived to be about 68 years old.
Most likely born before 1725.
John Henry owned the Elizabeth, a sailing ship. He sailed the East Coast and even around to Pensacola. He sailed to ports in New York, Baltimore, Charleston and St Augustine.
John Davis moved his family to Effingham Co. GA. sometime after 1774 when his youngest child was born. He lived there until his death. His will was also probated in the same county.
Elizabeth, his wife, died just a few days after his death. Cause of death is not known. | 
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| Census | 1/1/1790 | GA (Effingham County) | 65 yrs old |  Page 67, head of house - Jno. Davis
| Additional information about Effingham County, GA around 1790: Settlement of this land actually dates back to the days of Oglethorpe in 1734 shortly after the town of Savannah was established. Effingham County was officially created in 1773 by combining portions of St. Philip and St. Matthew parishes -- both of which had been created in 1758. GA had been a poor colony from the beginning and expansion had been hindered by the Creek Indians on the west. During the 1750s and 1760s more than 2 million acres were acquired from the Creeks. After the American Revolution ends in 1776, the state of Georgia is created and the new government begins a land campaign. By 1785, they identify that four-fifths of the land claimed by GA is still occupied by Creek Indians. | |
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| Land Deed | 3/8/1790 | GA (Effingham County) | 65 yrs old |
State of Georgia
Effingham County
Warrant dated March 8th, 1790, Surveyed for John Davis who lives in this
State, a Tract of 500 acres of land on the North side of the Great
Ogechee (River), Bounded S. Westerly by land surveyed for Elias Hodges,
land of _______ (Osborn? Ogdon?), Great Ogechee River, Westerly by land
unknown, and bounded South on all other sides by land vacant.
Certified by: John Moore, CS (Certified Surveyor)
Scale of 20 Chains to an inch.
William Osteen, William Davis, CC (Chain Carriers)
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| Other | 6/30/1793 | GA (Effingham County) | 68 yrs old | Last Will & Testament of John Davis
I, John Davis, Being as I expect a leaving this life I recommend my soul to
God that gave it and my Body to the Dust and to His world. Concerns Idispose of
as follows:
(Viz)
After my lawful Debts is paid, I give my True and Loving wife, Elizabeth Davis,
one Negro woman named Phoeby, and one Negro boy named Adam; I give my sons
Joseph, John, James, William & Samuel, ten pounds each, and George and Walter,
twenty pounds each. My daughter, Nancy, twenty pounds, William Osteen, ten
pounds, or at that rate equally divided according to the amount of the Estate.
And respecting my lands at Buckhead, according to my Contract with William and
Samuel, paying what monies I owe for said lands, it shall be their Right and
Property.
To my son, Walter, I give the Plantation we now live on, and the lands' round
about to George.
The Boat shall be divided between William, Samuel, George and
Walter.
May the 30th 1793
Witnesses present, signed:
Joseph Davis
George Davis
Agnes Davis
Elizabeth Osteen
We the subscribers, believing this Testament to be the Will & Desire of
our Deceased Father, do freely and voluntary agree that the same should be
executed agreeable to the Tennor of the same, witness our hands this 9th day of
Sept 1793.
Signed:
Joseph Davis
John Davis
Samuel Davis
Walter Davis
George Davis
Nancy Davis
William Davis
State of Georgia, Effingham County:
Personally appeared Mr. Joseph Davis and made Oath & Declared that at the
request of his Father, John Davis, deceased, he wrote the within as his Last
Will & Testament, and he believes that he was in his perfect senses at the time
he wrote, and that it is as he desired him to write it, and after he wrote it
he did read it to him and he was satisfied, but did not sign it, and the within
named or signed as witnesses was present and that he was satisfied, names as
thus, Joseph Davis, George Davis, Agnus Davis, and Elizabeth Osteen.
Sworn before me this 27th Jan 1794
Signed: Joseph Davis
A. C. Revost, R.P.E.C.
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1732 |
James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled. It is established not so much for economic opportunity, but to be a military barrier between Spanish-owned Florida and the Carolinas. It is also set up as a refuge for former prisoners and the poor. |
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1741 |
Georgia is divided into two counties: Savannah and Frederica. |
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1743 |
William Stephens becomes the first President of Georgia. |
| 24 |
1749 |
Mary Musgrove declares herself Empress of the Creeks and marches on Savannah with a Creek Army to either collect moneys due her for services rendered during the War of Jenkin's Ear or to drive whites from Creek lands. |
| 33 |
1758 |
Georgia organized into 8 parishes: Christ Church, Saint Andrew, Saint George, Saint James, Saint John, Saint Matthew, Saint Paul and Saint Philip. |
| 38 |
1763 |
The Treaty of Augusta created the first defined line between the Creeks and the colony of Georgia by using well known trails and rivers. |
| 48 |
1773 |
Debts the Creeks and Cherokee owe to Georgians are assumed by the state in payment for the land. This includes a small portion of North Georgia. |
| 57 |
1782 |
The British evacuate Savannah on in July. |
| 59 |
1784 |
Franklin and Washington Counties are formed. |
| 60 |
1785 |
Burbon County formed. |
| 61 |
1786 |
Greene County was created the same year Oglethorpe dies. |
| 63 |
1788 |
Bourbon County Act rescinded. |
| 64 |
1789 |
December 21 - Governor Telfair signs first Yazoo Act selling 20,000,000 acres of and for $207,000 or about one cent per acre to. The Yazoo Companies attempted to pay in worthless paper money and Georgia refuses to transfer the land. The Virginia Yazoo, headed by Patrick Henry, even had the unmitigated gall to attempt to pay in worthless Georgia paper money. The South Carolina Yazoo Company sues Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel delivery but the suit fails when Georgia is able to obtain ratification of the eleventh amendment to the U.S. Constitution on February 7, 1795. |
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1790 |
Alexander McGillivray, a mixed-blood of the Upper Creek Nation cedes the Altamaha lands to the Oconee. This treaty -- Treaty of New York -- is signed by President George Washington. |
| 65 |
1790 |
Columbia and Elbert Counties are created. |
| 68 |
1793 |
Hancock, Bryan, McIntosh, Montgomery, Oglethorpe and Warren Counties formed. This same year, the Fugitive Slave Act is passed. |
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| 27 |
1752 |
Great Britain adopts the Gregorian calendar on 9/14/1752. |
| 44 |
1769 |
The first steam engine is invented by Watt |
| 52 |
1777 |
The concept of chemical compounds is conceived by Lavoisier |
| 58 |
1783 |
The hot air balloon is invented by Michel and Montgolfier and the first people in modern history fly at an altitude of 1800 m. |
| 60 |
1785 |
The power loom was invented by Cartwright to produce cloth. |
| 68 |
1793 |
The cotton gin was invented by Whitney. |
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| 24 |
1749 |
Laws in GA prohibiting the importation of slaves are rescinded. Georgia planters were hiring SC slaves for life and even openly purchasing slaves at the dock in Savannah. |
| 50 |
1775 |
NEWS HEADLINES: On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America. |
| 51 |
1776 |
NEWS HEADLINES: July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created. |
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| 42 |
1767 |
Tryon Palace is build in New Bern, NC, and becomes the capitol building for the North Carolina colonist. |
| 64 |
1789 |
The capitol of North Carolina moves from New Bern to Raleigh and North Carolina becomes the 12th state of the United States of America. |
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1730 |
Map of US Colonies |
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1732 |
James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony in the new world. The new settlers form friendships with the Creek Indian Nation towns in this area. Georgia is the thirteen English colony to be settled. |
| 22 |
1747 |
The New York Bar Association is founded in New York City |
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1750 |
Charleston, SC, has become the most affluent and largest city in the South. It is the leading port and trading center for the southern colonies. The population in the Carolinas has exceeded 100,000 with many French Protestant Huguenots. The wealth plantation owners bring private tutors from Ireland and Scotland. Public education does not exist. |
| 35 |
1760 |
The Cherokee War (1760-61) ends in a treaty that opens the Up County for settlement. The Bounty At of 1761 offers public land tax free for ten years, and settlers from other colonies begin pouring into the Carolina "Up Country". |
| 38 |
1763 |
Georgia Gazette begins publication. It is the first newspaper in Georgia and the eighth newspaper in the English colonies. |
| 41 |
1766 |
Britain passes the Stamp Act taxing all colonial newspapers, advertisements, leases, licenses, pamphlets, and legal documents. Later the same year, Britain repeals the Stamp Act in Britain -- but it continues to be enforced on colonists in North America |
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1773 |
Angered by the tea tax of 1767 and the British East India Company's monopoly on tea trade, the independent New England colonial merchants dump the precious cargo overboard into the Boston harbor. This incident is called the Boston Tea Party. |
| 49 |
1774 |
The First Continental Congress of fifty-five representatives (except from the colony of Georgia) meets in Philadelphia to discuss relations with Britain, the possibility of independence, and the hope of a peaceful solution. King George III scorns the thought of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in a state of open rebellion. |
| 50 |
1775 |
On April 18th, Paul Revere makes his famous ride proclaiming "The British are Coming" and the American Revolution War begins. Britain hires 29,000 German mercenaries to handle conflict in North America. |
| 51 |
1776 |
July 4th, American Revolution War ends and the United States of America is officially created. |
| 53 |
1778 |
Alliance between United States and France |
| 62 |
1787 |
Constitution of the United States is signed |
| 68 |
1793 |
Alexander McGillivray, the head of the Creek Indian Nation, dies. A restlessness begins to grow among the Indians in what is now Georgia, Alabama and Northern Florida as town chiefs via for the vacant leadership role. |
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1738 |
System of forced labor to build roads in France is devised by Jean Orry |
| 18 |
1743 |
King George's War against North America and Caribbean begins |
| 23 |
1748 |
King George's War against North America and Caribbean ends |
| 31 |
1756 |
Seven Year's War begins |
| 34 |
1759 |
Jesuits are forced out of France |
| 38 |
1763 |
Seven Year's War ends; Peace is established in Paris between France, Spain, England and Portugal |
| 39 |
1764 |
Britain passes the Sugar Act forbids American importation of foreign rum and taxing imported molasses, wine, silk, coffee, and a number of other luxury items. |
| 42 |
1767 |
Jesuits are forced out of Spanish America |
| 54 |
1779 |
Spain declares war on England |
| 55 |
1780 |
Josef II abolishes serfdom in Hungary; England declares war on Holland |
| 58 |
1783 |
Peace established at Versailles between France, England, Spain and United States; Britain cedes all lands west to the Mississippi River |
| 62 |
1787 |
Catherine the Great leads Russia into war with Turkey |
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1788 |
Russia begins war with Sweden |
| 64 |
1789 |
French feudal system is abolished with the Declaration of Rights of Man. Outbreak of hostilities in France with the fall of the Bastille on July 14; Revolution in Austrian Netherlands declares independence as Belgium |
| 67 |
1792 |
French Revolutionary Wars begin and the French royal family is imprisoned the following year |
| 68 |
1793 |
Marie Antoinette is executed; Fugitive Slave Act passed; Roman Catholic faith is banned in France; France declares war on Britain and Holland. |
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| Elizabeth Unknown
Born about 1737 and died on June 2, 1793.
They were married 12/31/1749.
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The Children of John Henry Davis
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Elizabeth Davis
Born somewhere in South Carolina about 1751 and died in Camden, South Carolina about 1820. She was about 69 years old.
She married William Osteen. He was a civil engineer and surveyed the Davis estate where John Henry Davis livied when he died. Elizabeth and William moved to Camden, SC....
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John Henry Davis Jr.
Born somewhere in South Carolina about 1760 and died in Jackson County, Mississippi about 1832. He was about 72 years old.
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Joseph Davis
Born somewhere in South Carolina about 1762 and died somewhere in South Carolina about 1825. He was about 63 years old.
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James Davis
Born somewhere in South Carolina about 1764 and died somewhere in South Carolina about 1840. He was about 76 years old.
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William D. Davis
Born somewhere in South Carolina about 1767 and died in an unknown location about 1850. He was about 83 years old.
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Samuel W.H. Davis
Born somewhere in North Carolina on May 12, 1769 and died in Davis Bayou, Greene County, Mississippi about 1830. He was about 60 years old.
Married Sarah Balshar (8-5-1776) GA. He was a Baptist Deacon and died before 1832.
Children:
Simon (1795)
Nancy (1799)
George (1802)
Samuel (1804)
Martha (1806 GA - 1-1...
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Nancy Ann Davis
Born somewhere in North Carolina about 1771 and died in an unknown location about 1861. She was about 90 years old.
Believed to have married Miles Collier. They had five children: (1) Burwell; (2) Elizabeth; (3) Martha; (4) Peggy; and (5) Mary....
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Walter Davis
Born somewhere in North Carolina about 1772 and died in St. Joseph, Franklin County, Florida about 1836. He was about 64 years old.
His full name may have been John Walter Davis.
About at the age of two his family moved from North Carolina to Effingham Co. GA. He married Rebecca Harvey about 1799
in Bryan County, GA. ...
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George Davis
Born somewhere in Georgia on April 25, 1773 and died somewhere in Mississippi about 1850. He was about 76 years old.
He married Elizabeth Lanier (8/1/1772 NC - 3/21/1836 MS). The daughter Mary & Lemuel Lanier Jr.
George and his family moved west to Mississippi. In 1813 he was elected Justice of Jackson ...
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