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• Residence: 1820, Harrison Co, (W)VA

George married Elizabeth "Betsy" PANGBURN Ohio. Elizabeth was born 1 Dec 1787; died 7 Mar 1850; was buried CLAWSON CEMETERY, Princeton, Butler Co, OH. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Andrew and Sarah Smith Davison, with their five children, traveled from New Jersey to Fayette County before 1790. By this time, their son William was already married to Mary Maple, daughter Anna was married to John Gaston, and daughter Elizabeth was, or soon would be, married to Watters Smith. These three families a few years later would settle on Duck Creek in Harrison County, (W)VA.

Andrew married Sarah SMITH. Sarah (daughter of John SMITH and Hannah WATERS) was born CA 1740, New Jersey; died Aft 1810, Harrison Co, WV; was buried , Harrison Co, WV. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: Farmer

Notes:

Anne Brinson was reportedly William Davison Jr.'s second wife. No information about his first marriage in known.

William married Anne BRINSON 1744. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: Yeoman
• Residence: Maidenhead Twp, Burlington Co, NJ

John married Hannah WATERS. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

There is some confusion among researchers as to Hannah's last name. Although some give it as Waters, others maintain that the name Waters came from her sister Mary, who was married to William Waters, and that Hannah's maiden name is still not known.

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• Occupation: farmer & carpenter

Notes:

William Davison came to America in 1685 from Leith, Scotland. Tradition has the ship name the Caledonia. He arrived in East Jersey in late Oct 1684/85. Railroad tracks were built across William & Margaret's land, destroying the family burying ground. It is said that the Battle of Monmouth (6/28/1778) was fought from a battery position on William Davison's land, and that it was from the brook on his land that American Revolutionary heroine Mary Ludwig Hays, better known as Molly Pitcher, carried water to the fighting patriot troops.

William married Margaret OLIPHANT CA 1695, New Jersey. Margaret (daughter of John OLIPHANT and Janet GILCHRIST) was born CA 1667, Pencaitland, Lothian, Scotland; died Aft 6 Apr 1723. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
Margaret Oliphant Davison was still living when her husband made his will on this date.

Notes:

Daniel Brinson, of Membury County, Devon, England, arrived in America on September 28, 1677 in the "Willing Mind" of London. He married Frances, the daughter of Doctor Greenland, formerly of Newburyport, MA. In 1678, Doctor Greenland, at Piscataway, NJ, and Daniel Brinson became interested in lands in the Millstone River region, near the present site of Princeton. Doctor Greenland died in 1694 or 1695.

Daniel married Frances GREENLAND 8 Oct 1681. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: EARLY, Bedford, Town of Brooklyn, Kings Co, LI, NY
• Residence: BY 1699, Maidenhead Twp, Burlington Co, NJ

Notes:

Thomas Smith's first wife, not identified, died in 1695. He resided in Bedford Village, Town of Brooklyn, New York, and later in Maidenhead Township, Burlington County, New Jersey.

Thomas married Susannah MATTHEWS Aft 1695. Susannah (daughter of Samuel MATTHEWS, Sr.) died , Maidenhead, West Jersey, NJ. [Group Sheet]

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• Residence: ORIGINALLY, Jamaica, Long Island, Queens Co, NY

Notes:

Died:
Lewis D. Cook, p. 753, gives death date for Susannah Matthews Smith as 1695, but that is clearly incorrect. She had children in 1699 and 1702, and was listed as a survivor when her husband died in 1702.

Notes:

The first Oliphant to come to America was William Oliphant, "The Covenanter," who was arrested in June 1685 for attendance at a conventicle, or meeting of the Presbyterians, imprisoned with others at London, Leith and Dunottar Castle, and then exiled to His Majesty's plantation in East Jersey, under sentence of death should he return to his native land. The ship sailed from Perth on Sep 5 1685, reaching New Jersey in December. Shortly after William was sentenced to exile, his parents, John and Janet (Gilchrist) Oliphant of Pencaitland, indentured themselves and their minor daughters, Margaret and Janet, to John Hancock, of Edinburgh, to serve him for four years in New Jersey, for their passage over and room, board and other necessities. After the four years, Hancock was to grant John Oliphant 25 acres of land in America, along with one cow, two sows, and was to plow one acre of land and give him corn to plant. Tradition says that John had lost his property because of the heavy fines imposed on him by the English for his loyalty to the Presbyterian cause. Most researchers assume that the Oliphant family sailed to America aboard the Henry and Francis of Newcastle, which was used to transport various religious prisoners and interested emigrants to New Jersey. It appears that William was among the dissenters, while the other Oliphants joined him voluntarily to seek a new life in America.

John married Janet GILCHRIST CA 1660, Scotland. [Group Sheet]

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• Occupation: bricklayer

Notes:

Resided in 1660 at Gravesend, Long Island, NY. Possibly resided earlier at Mespath Colony on English Kill, LI, NY with Rev. Francis Doughty, who died in Virginia. On 3/17/1680, he purchased from Isaac Deschamps, a merchant of NYC, a 2-acre home lot, a 40-acre farm lot and four meadows in Bedford. He built a house and resided there. He bequeathed his estate by will dated 9/26/1683 "to his children" but did not name them. But Thomas and Jasper were the two sons, as they subsequently conveyed the same property to another in 1696.

John married Susanna HUNT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Hunt was probably not her maiden name because, as a widow, she was married to Ralph Hunt, identified in son Thomas Smith's will as his "father-in-law," although this would be inaccurate by today's definition of the term.

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• Residence: ORIGINALLY, Jamaica, Long Island, Queens Co, NY