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Notes for Griffith Davis and Elizabeth Coate

1724 Griffith Davis and Elizabeth Coate declared, to the Buckingham Women's Meeting, their intention to marry. Dated 3 of month 1 [March], 1723/24 and 7 of month 2 [April], 1724. [1] [2]

1724 The marriage of Griffith Davis was reported accomplished. Dated 7 of month 2 [April]. [3]

1737 Griffith Davis purchased 300 acres on Dec. 22, 1737 in Philadelphia for land on Tohickon Creek in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It was surveyed on Apr. 1, 1738 and was bounded on three sides by vacant land and the fourth by Wm. Graham. It was returned Aug. 12, 1745. The final date on the paperwork for this land was Mar 10, 1757. He was deeded this property by the Governors in Chief, John, Thomas and Richard Penn, Esq.'s. [4]

1743 Griffith Davis requested a certificate for his wife and children to move to Richland MM on 1 of 6 mo [August], 1743. Griffith Davis was amongst the first eleven families to inhabit Haycock, Pennsylvania in 1743. [5]

Descent through daughter Elizabeth Davis:

1762 Elisabeth Davis was named in the records of the Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on January 13. [6]

Christina Eby and Abraham Line were the parents of George Line. [7]

1801 George Myers Line Sr was born on March 5, son of Abraham Line and Christina Eby. George was the father of Agnes Line. George died on September 9, 1877. [8]

1804 Elizabeth Eby, wife of Henry Eby and mother of Christiana Eby, died. [9]

1820 Christiana Line, spouse of Abraham Line, died on August 19. She was born on January 17, 1765. [10]

1877 George Myers Line Sr, spouse of Rebecca Line, died on September 9 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born on March 5, 1801 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, son of Abraham Line and Christiana Line. [11]

1900 Agnes E Line (born in Pennsylvania in Jul 1862, married for 15 years), wife, lived in Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in a household with John L Allen (38), Clarence B Allen (14), George W Allen (11), John E Allen (7), Grace E Allen (4), Paul L Allen (1), and Airie I Finkenbinder (15). Agnes E Line's parents were both born in Pennsylvania. Agnes E Line had had 5 children, 5 still living. [12]

1952 Agnes E. Allen, spouse of John Lincoln Allen, died on December 10 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. She was born on July 12, 1862 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, daughter of George Myers Line and Rebecca Line. [13]

1977 George W Allen, spouse of Cecelia Eva Allen, died on January 30 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born on August 25, 1888 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. [14] [15] [16]

Notes for daughter Prudence:

Prudence Davis married William Barron. [17] [18]

1796 Prudence Barron died in 1796 in Wilkes County, Georgia. She was born in 1740-42. [19] [20]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, Minutes, 1722-1763, 3, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, Minutes, 1720-1763, 15, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, Minutes, 1720-1763, 17, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 532, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[5] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 640, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[7] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[8] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[9] Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, Genealogical Card File (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[11] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[12] United States Federal Census, 1900, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[13] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[14] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[15] U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, [AncestryRecord].

[16] U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[17] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[18] History of Baldwin County, Georgia, [AncestryImage].

[19] Find A Grave Virtual Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[20] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].