New England Families

In an abstract of Rhoda's father Ezra Davis Jr's pension file, it says that Rhoda was born 'a few miles from what is now Bangor'.
Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Virgil D.White (Waynesboro TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990), p 894.

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Rhoda's 1860 census says she was born in 1787.

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There is this birth record for Rhoda Davis, but I really think she was born where her father said she was on his pension application, namely Conduskeag Plantation, on the Penobscot River near Bangor, where he was living in 1790.

State of Maine
copied from old records
Record of a Birth
Rhoda Davis
b August 20, 1790
Pittston
father: Ezra Davis
mother: Abigail Davis

signed: blank
Clerk of Pittston

"Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HJ5-6JT : 2 March 2021), Rhoda Davis, 20 Aug 1790; citing Pittston, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.

1830 Census Bangor, Penobscot Co., Maine
Series M19, Roll 51, Page 260
Benjamin Inman
1 male 0 to 5 1 female 0 to 5
1 male 5 to 10 1 female 5 to 10
2 females 10 to 15
1 male 50 to 60 1 female 15 to 20
1 female 40 to 50

 

 

1840 Census Newburgh, Penobscot Co., Maine
Series M704, Roll 149, Page 179
Benjamin Inman
2 males 5 to 10 1 female 0 to 5
1 male 10 to 15 2 females 10 to 15
1 male 60 to 70 1 female 15 to 20
1 female 40 to 50 [?]
1 female 80 to 90

I am tentatively including Abigail (Ayers) Davis as the female 80 to 90 in this household. She was alive to make a will in 1843.

 

 

1850 Census Newburgh, Penobscot Co., Maine
Series M432, Roll 265, Page 372
August 27, 1850
[indexed as Innman]

Inman, Benjamin, 75, farmer, real estate: $350
Inman, Rhoda, 65
Inman, Woodward, 17, laborer [their son, act. born 1829]
Inman, Alden, 14, attended school
Inman, Rosanna, 13, attended school

same household:
Inman, Franklin, 25, farmer, real estate: $350
Inman, Eliza W., 19
Inman, Henry A., 9/12

all born in Maine

1860 Census, Hampden, Penobscot Co., Maine
Post Office: West Hampden
June 18, 1860
Series M653, Roll 447, Page 357, family 413 and 414
June 18, 1860

Inman, Benjamin, 86, farmer, real estate: $700, personal estate: $600
Inman, Rhoda, 73
Page, Joana, 36, domestic
Page, Abba D., 6
Page, Anne D., 6
Page, Thomas P., 4

Benjamin Cowan, 26, male, laborer, no real estate or personal estate
Rose Cowan, 20, female
Martha E Cowan, 1, female
Sarah Davis, 8, female

All born in Maine

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Rose Cowan was the daughter of Benjamin and Rhoda (Davis) Inman
Rhoda Inman was a Davis by birth