Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
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from Life-stories from early New England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Map: ‘The South part of New-England, as it is Planted this yeare, 1634’
- Map: New England, c. 1660
- Timeline
- Introduction
- Life-stories from early New England
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Appendix 1 Settlers leaving New England before 1640
- Appendix 2 Settlers visiting England, 1640–1660
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
DAVIS, John
John Davis set sail from London in 1635 on the Increase, and settled at Boston. On 31 January 1635/6, ‘John Davisse joyner’ became a member of the church, and on 25 May 1636 a freeman of Massachusetts. Davis was among those disarmed in 1637 for supporting Anne Hutchinson. By 1645 he lived next to one of the Boston ministers, John Wilson*, and (in the interests of good neighbourly relations) the deed of sale bound Davis to ‘maintain the fence between Mr Wilson and him, and not to annoy him with any stinks or jakes’. Davis sold his house and garden to John* and Katherine Trotman*; he also sold land adjacent to another dwelling house to Edmund Jackson. In October 1646 he sold this ‘dwelling house and yard’ to Jackson.
John Davis left no trace in colonial records after October 1646. Many settlers left for England that autumn, with Davis probably among them.
GM 2: 301–3; Suffolk Deeds, I, 60.
DAVIS, John (d. 1657)
John Davis, the son of William Davis of New Haven, graduated from Harvard with a BA in 1651, and an MA in 1654. In 1652 ‘Brother Davis his sonne was propounded to supply the scoole masters place’ at Hartford, Connecticut. He was in Hartford in 1655, when the town allowed him £10 ‘for preaching and schooling’ to 7 February 1655/6, and another payment was made the following May.
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- Abandoning AmericaLife-Stories from Early New England, pp. 88 - 95Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013