Ezra Davis

Birth Name Ezra Davis
Gender male
Age at Death 70 years, 8 months, 8 days

Narrative

On 4 Jan 1777, Ezra Davis (Jr) was listed among the male inhabitants of Pittston (then Gardinerstown), along with his father and brother Joseph.[12] He served in the Revolution (in Captain Oliver Colburn's company of minutemen)[13] and filed an application for a pension on 30 Mar 1818 at Pittston at the age of 62.

 

He and his wife were married in what is now Castine in 1780,[14] and by 1786 they were living along the Penobscot.[15] Ezra is on the 1790 Census of Conduskeag Plantation.[16] He returned to Pittston by 1800.[17]

12. Maine Families in 1790, Vol 5 (Camden ME: Picton Press). Source: The Maine Seine of Nov 1987, which cites MA State Archives Collection Vol. 322.

13. Maine Families. Their source: MS&S 4:488.

14. Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Virgil D. White (Waynesboro TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1990), p. 894..

15. Maine Families. Source: Coll. MHS, 2nd Series, 21:209).

16. 1790 Census, Maine, Hancock Co., Conduskeeg Planta

Series M637, Roll 2, Page 73

17. Maine Families. Source: the census.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1756 Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States   1
General

p. 894

Death September 9, 1826 Pittston, Kennebec County, Maine, United States   2
General

Their source: Kennebec Co. Probate Files

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Ezra Davisabout 1725after October 20, 1802
Mother Rebecca Pomeroy
         Ezra Davis 1756 September 9, 1826

Families

Family of Ezra Davis and Abigail Ayers

Married Wife Abigail Ayers ( b. d. ... )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage November 1780 Castine, Hancock County, Maine, United States   1
General

The files said they were married at "what is now Castine".

  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
John Smith DavisDecember 8, 1781
Henry DavisAugust 1788
Rhoda DavisAugust 20, 1790after 1860
Enoch DavisApril 11, 1794
Sarah DavisMarch 27, 1796
Levi DavisOctober 7, 1798
Hannah DavisOctober 10, 1805