Date Posted:03/ 9/03 5:47pm Author:Mary Allison Yonan Author Host/IP: 137.arc1.il-decatur1.fgi.net / 204.212.222.11 Subject: Orange Co., NY DAVIS family...late 1700s--mid 1800s
Does anyone have any information about the Orange Co., NY DAVIS family? I would be very grateful to learn anything about Gilliam DAVIS and his children, Mary and Benjamin.
Isaac ALLISON, Jr. (b.1762; d. Mar. 15, 1825 in Orange Co., NY) married Mary DAVIS on June 28, 1785 at the Baptist Church in Warwick, Orange Co., NY. Isaac fought in the Revolutionary War.
In his book, THE HISTORY OF THE ALISON OR ALLISON FAMILY IN EUROPE AND AMERICA A. D. 1135 TO 1893, Leonard Allison Morrison listed eight children of Isaac, Jr. and Mary DAVIS ALLISON. They are:
Isaac III, Sallie, Nathaniel, Samuel, Mary, Annie (my G2 grandmother), Richard and Elizabeth.
Mary DAVIS ALLISON moved with Annie and Elizabeth's families and other Allison relatives from Orange Co., NY to near Newark in Licking County, OH about 1841. Mary died in Licking County on April 19, 1843. I have been to Licking Co., OH to do research and have a picture of Mary's gravestone which states that she died in her 79th year. That would make her birth year 1764.
I do not have much information about Mary DAVIS' family. In his book, Morrison said that Mary's brother was Benjamin DAVIS. I have read that Mary's father may have been Gilliam DAVIS.