Elisha Davis

1670 - 1739  (68 years)

• Name	Elisha Davis
  Born	30 Aug 1670	Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	18 Jan 1739	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Person ID	I22382	Complete
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2015

  
  

  Father	James Davis, (2),   b. 1608, Marlborough, Wilshire, England
  Mother	Elizbetth Eaton,   b. 1620, England ,   d. 21 Jan 1683, Haverhill  (Age 63 years)
  Married	1 Dec 1638	Haverhill
  Family ID	F8533	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Grace Shaw,   b. Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Married	19 Jun 1694	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
  Children	+ 1. Daniel Davis, (1),   b. 2 Dec 1697, Haverhill, Rhode Island, USA ,   d. 11 Nov 1773, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA  (Age 75 years)
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2015
  Family ID	F8532	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Married - 19 Jun 1694 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Died - 18 Jan 1739 - Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S223] Rhode Island Reading Room, Various, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/article. (III) Elisha Davis, son of James (2) and Elizabeth (Eaton) Davis, was born in Haverhill, Mass., August 30, 1670, and died there January 18, 1739. He was honored among his townsmen for gallantry displayed n defense of Haverhill, and was mentioned in chronicles as the intrepid Davis. Numerous well authenticated anecdotes are told, and the local histories of Haverhill corroborate them, of his bravery in the border warfare with the French and Indians. Elisha Davis married, intentions published in Rehoboth, June 19, 1694, Grace Shaw, daughter of Thomas Shaw, of Rehoboth. Among their children was Daniel, mentioned below.