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Davis-Heinegg extractions
Genealogy Report
Information from Paul Heinegg's site:
http://www.freeafricanamericans.com
extracted by: Jen
DAVIS FAMILY
The Davis family may have descended from Hugh Davis who was ordered to be whipped "before an assembly of Negroes and others for abusing himself to the dishonor of God and shame of Christians, by defiling his body by lying with a negro" in 1630 [Hening, Statutes at Large, III:459-460].
1. Mary1 Davis, born say 1700, was living in Surry County, Virginia, on 22 April 1742 when her daughters Mary and Isabella (no race indicated) appealed to the court that Richard Parker was detaining them as servants. The court ruled that they were free women and should be discharged from any further servitude. The same court bound out her children Jacob, David, and Lucy Davis [Orders 1741-42, 22]. She was the mother of
2 i. Mary2, born say 1721.
ii. Isabella1, born say 1723.
iii. Jacob, born say 1730.
iv. David, born say 1733.
v. Lucy, born say 1735.
2. Mary2 Davis, born say 1721, was a "free Mulatto" whose unnamed children were ordered bound out by the churchwardens of Southampton County in September 1749. She was probably the Moll Davis whose "Mulatto" son Daniel was bound out in Southampton County ten years later on 11 May 1759 [Orders 1749-54, 19; 1754-59]. And she may have been the Mary Davis who was a taxable head of household in the eastern division of the Borough of Norfolk in 1765 [Wingo, Norfolk County Tithables 1751-65, 217]. Her children were
i. ?John3, born say 1746, "Mulatto" head of a Nansemond County household with no whites in 1784 [VA:74], head of a Norfolk County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [VA:815], perhaps the husband of Nancy Davis who registered as a "free Negro" in Norfolk County on 16 August 1815: 5 feet 4 Inc, 22 Years of age, of a dark Complexion, Born free in Southampton County [Registry of Free Negros & Mulattos, no.101].
ii. Daniel, born say 1748, bound apprentice in Southampton County on 11 May 1759.
iii. ?Isabel2, head of a Southampton County household of 3 "other free" in 1810 [VA:79].
Other members of the family in Virginia were
i. Catherine, born say 1718, the (white) servant of Willoughby Newton of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County who confessed in court to having a child by "Akey a Negro Man Slave to her said Master." The court ordered that she serve her master an additional year and be sold by the churchwardens for five years after completing her indenture [Orders 1731-9, 173a].
ii. Sarah, born say 1719, the (white) servant of Captain John Elliott of Washington Parish, Westmoreland County on 29 July 1735 when she confessed in court to having a "Mulatto" child by her "Masters Negro man Fan." The court ordered that after her indenture was completed she should be sold by the churchwardens for five years [Orders 1731-9, 176a, 263, 270a].
iii. Daniel, "a mulatto," born in Lancaster County, who enlisted for the war and deserted from the ship Gloucester near Warwick with William Smith, a Creole born in Barbados, according to an advertisement in the 2 August 1780 issue of the Virginia Gazette [Virginia Genealogist 4:136].
iv. John, head of a Westmoreland County household of 4 "other free" in 1810.
v. George, head of a Loudoun County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [VA:268].
vi. Deborah, head of a Norfolk County household of 2 "other free" in 1810 [VA:894].
vii. Susan, head of an Isle of Wight County household of 3 "other free" and a slave in 1810 [VA:28].
viii. Toby, "Free Negro" head of an Isle of Wight County household of 4 "other free" in 1810 [VA:28].
ix. Sarah, head of an Accomack County household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:91].
x. David, head of a Frederick County household of 7 "other free" in 1810 [VA:549].
xi. Lucy, head of a Buckingham County household of 9 "other free" in 1810 [VA:338].
xii. Samuel, head of a Buckingham County household of 11 "other free" in 1810 [VA:816].
xiii. Betsy, head of a Lunenburg County household of 6 "other free" in 1810 [VA:338].
North
Carolina
3.
Robert Davis, born say 1715, was a "Black" taxable in 1753 in Osborn
Jeffrey's Granville County list in 1753. In 1754 he was head of a household of
four "Black" taxables including (his wife?) Margaret, (his children?)
Ephraim, and Sarah Davis in Gideon Macon's list [CR 44.701.1]. He was listed as
a "Mulatto" in the muster of Colonel William Eaton on 8 October 1754
[Clark, Colonial Soldiers of the South, 718]. His children may have been
i.
John1, born say 1733, a "Black" taxable in the 1754 list of
Gideon Macon and a "mulatto" taxable with Margaret Davis in the 1761
list of James Paine for Cross Road District. He may have been the John Davis who
purchased 400 acres in Granville County on both sides of Beaver Pond Creek on 5
March 1754 [DB B:294].
ii.
Ephraim, born before 1743 since he was taxable in 1754.
iii.
Sarah, born before 1743 since she was taxable in 1754.
iv.
Simon, head of a Granville County household of 15 "free colored" in
County Line District in 1820 [NC:35].
4.
William Davis, born say 1725, a "Molatto," was listed with 180 acres
at the head of Chinquopin Creek in a 1753 Craven County list of landowners
[Craven Wills, Deeds, Bonds, Inventories, Accounts of Sales, 306]. He was head
of a Craven County household of one "Black" male taxable and three
"Black" female taxables in 1769 [SS 837]. His descendants may have
been
i.
John2, born say 1743, head of a Craven County household of one
"Black" male and one "Black" female taxable in 1769 [SS
837]. He married Nancy Godet, another "Black" taxable in Craven
County in 1769, by 12 November 1796 Craven County bond with William Dove
bondsman.
ii.
Richard, head of a Brunswick County, North Carolina household of 8 "other
free" in 1800 [NC:13], probably the R. Davis who was head of a Brunswick
County household of 5 "other free" in 1810 [NC:236]. In 1791 he
petitioned the North Carolina General Assembly claiming that he had been an
artilleryman in the Revolution, his wife had been emancipated by her master in
1784, and he asked that his children be also emancipated [Crow, Black
Experience in Revolutionary North Carolina, 99].
iii.
Ephram, head of a Jones County household of 6 "other free" in 1810
[NC:257].
iv.
Michael, head of a Jones County household of 5 "other free" in 1810
[NC:257].
v.
Luzana, married William Godett, 24 May 1805 Craven County bond with Peter
George bondsman.
vi. George, head of a Pasquotank County household of 4 "other free" and 3 slaves in 1800 [NC:627], 5 "other free" in 1810 [NC:895], and 4 "free colored" in 1820 [NC:247].
