York County ME Archives Biographies.....Davis, James 1789 - 
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John Davis, with two brothers, came from Wales to America about 1640. John
settled near Casco Bay.  John Davis, who settled in Saco, was born 1748; married 
Hannah Fletcher; had ten children, two of whom settled in Parsonsfield, viz. : 
James and William. James moved here in 1817; was born in Buxton, 1789; married, 
1811, Harriet Milliken; died February 9, 1837; she died November 18, 1883; had 
nine children, viz.: Lucinda, Jeremiah, Sally, Jane, Sarah, Moses B., Mary, 
Isabelle and Harriet, all living (1837), save one. Lucinda,1 b. Aug 9, 1812; m. 
Wm. H. Foster, 1838; had six children viz.: Eliza; James D., now a resident of 
Freedom, N.H.; Lucinda, died in infancy; Nancy W. L., died in childhood; William 
L., died in 1862, in the United States service. Jeremiah,2 b. June 26, 1815; m. 
Mehitable W. Foster, 1833. He had one son, James, b. June 16, 1841, m. Sarah F. 
Stacy, of Porter, in 1860; enlisted in Thirty second Regiment, Massachusetts, 
under Colonel Prescott, and re-enlisted; drove General McLellan's private 
carriage; settled in Dorchester, where his family now resides; had children, 
Albert, Fanny, Florence and Sidney, and died at Soldiers' Home in Chelsea, 
Mass., Feb. 12, 1887. Mrs. Mehitable Davis died Dec. 12. 1842, and
Jeremiah2 married Elizabeth Day, April 25, 1843, and had children: i, Charles, 
b. May 5 1844; entered the Twenty-seventh Maine; re-enlisted and served through 
the war; m. 1st, Julia Weeks; had two children, Alta May and Clark; m. 2d, Milla 
Pugsley, of Porter, May 20, 1886. ii, Elizabeth; iii, Stephen, both died young. 
iv, Eliza, b. July 5 1849; m. Charles W. Jenness; has two children. v, John, b. 
Jan. 2, 1851; m. Myra Bray; settled in Webster, Mass. vi, Ellen, b. May 4, 1852; 
m. Austin Hanson, vii, Jerry, b. Dec. 8, 1858; m. Grace J. Higgins, March 9, 
1887. viii, Hattie, b. July 24. 1860; m. Edwin Libby; d. Oct. 25, 1883. ix, 
Ella, born July 20, 1863; m. Herbert L. Ridlon; has three children, Gertrude, 
Myron and Samuel. Sally3 b. Nov. 30, 1817; m. Stephen Martin; had two daughters, 
Sarah, the wife of Andrew Edgcomb, of Parsonsfield, who had four children, and 
Mary, the wife of George Mason, of Porter. Jane,4 b. June 12, 1820; m. Isaac 
Foster, of Parsonsfield; had eight children, Charles, Martha, Hannah, Mary,
William, Moses, Emma, Ida. Susan,5 b. Aug. 7, 1822; m. first, Smith Sargent, of 
Corinth; 2d, Stephen Chick. Moses B.,6 b. Nov. 8, 1825; m. Martha Ramsdell, 
1854; resides in Cornish; has children, Susett, Fulton, Elizabeth, Anna, Albert. 
Mary7, b. May 23, 1828; m. John P. Lougee, of Parsonsfield, Oct. 15,1845; had 
children, Hattie, Mary, Gertrude, John, Caleb. Isabelle 3 b. June 7, 1830; m. 
Asa Cartland, of Parsonsfield, who died in the Insane Hospital at Augusta in 
1885; had children, Julia, Emily, John and James. Harriet,9 b. March 9, 1832; m. 
James Sargent; children, Ellen, Louis G., Albert, Fred, Lizzie, Harriet, Marsha, 
Jenny; Lizzie and Hattie died in January, 1887.

Additional Comments:
(Source: A History of the Town of Parsonsfield, Maine, Portland, Me., Brown 
Thurston and Co., 1888, p. 373-4.)

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