William DAVIS & Phebe LAWRENCE

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William DAVIS, Jr.
Phebe LAWRENCE

Please Note: I'm seeking a male DAVIS who descends from our subject on a patrilineal line for Y-DNA testing. We have one such male already tested (#110564), but we need another. I will pay for the testing. Please contact me if you are such an individual or if you know of one.

Husband: William DAVIS, Jr.
Birth: 20 May 1782, Black Lick Twp., Indiana Co., PA
Death: Apr-Aug 1844, Black Lick Twp., Indiana Co., PA
Will Signed: 28 Apr 1844, Indiana Co., PA
Will Proved: 26 Aug 1844, Indiana Co., PA
Father: William DAVIS
Mother: Jane WAUGH

Marriage:

Wife: Phebe / Phoebe LAWRENCE
Birth said to be: 1785, NJ
Death: bef. 28 Apr 1844
Father: Col. Elisha LAWRENCE
Mother: Elizabeth DRAKE
It's said Phebe's tombstone reads, "Phoebe, dau of Col Elisha Lawrence," but where is this tombstone?!

Many secondary sources allege these are Phebe's parents:
Father not: Amos LAWRENCE
Mother not: Phebe BABCOCK
but the evidence not only doesn't support the connection, it argues strongly against it.

Children:

. John DAVIS; m. Mary RANKINS
. Archibald DAVIS, b. 1807
. Lyman DAVIS
. David DAVIS, b. 1821/2
. Jane DAVIS
. Rachel DAVIS; m. Thomas BURNS

. William DAVIS; m. Christina HERALD
. Elizabeth DAVIS, b. 1813; m. Joseph PERSHING

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Pennsylvania

Sources:

1. John Alexander Caldwell. 1880. History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 1745-1880. Wadsworth Publ. Co., Newark, OH (online at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~treasures/pa/indiana/):

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p. 369 ARCHIBALD DAVIS was born on the old Davis homestead, in what is now Black-lick township, in 1807, and was a son of William and Phebe Davis, nee Lawrence. The former was a son of William Davis, a native of Ireland, who was among the early settlers of Black-lick township. His wife was a Welsh lady by the name of Waugh... William and Phebe Davis’ children were: William, d., m. to Christina Herald, d.; Archibald, m. first to Matilda Kurtz, d., daughter of Jonathan Kurtz, and second to Mrs. Mary Culbertson, nee McChesney; Elizabeth, d., m. to Joseph Pershing, d.; Jane, Rachel. d., m. to Thomas Burns; John, m. to Mary Rankin, and David, m. to Rebecca Day....

. Charles A. [Adam] Fisher. 1950. [Abstracts of] Wills of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 1817-1849. Self-published, Selinsgrove, PA.

DAVIS, William; Blacklick; John, Archibald, Lyman, David, Jane, Rachel.

. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com): one file here shows Phebe the daughter of Elisha & Elizabeth (DRAKE) LAWRENCE, and I think they may be correct.

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