Jacob was born in Malden & lived in Framingham all his life. He bought land of Joseph Buckminster, and land near Moses Parker. They had 5 children born to them in Framingham. He was in Capt. William Jones' Company during the French & Indian War & died at Fort William Henry while in service.
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VITAL STATISTICS OF MALDEN, MASS.
HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASS. by J. H. Temple
HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASS. by William Barry
ESSEX INSTITUTE HISTORICAL COLLECTION, VOL. 20HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASS, by J. H. Temple:
pg. 724, TOWNSEND, Jacob, bo't land of Jos. Buckminster and land near Moses Parker; was in Framingham l730; died in the service Oct., l756. He married Sarah ___.
Children:
Sarah, born Sept. l2, l73l;
Jacob, born April 7, l736;
Mary, born Jan. 22, l738;
Nathan, born Sept. 2, l742;
Samuel, born Feb. 2, l744.HISTORY OF FRAMINGHAM, MASS, by J. H. Temple:
pg. 228, Jacob Townsend, of Capt. William Jones' company, died at Fort William Henry, before Oct. ll, l756 (French/Indian War).VITAL STATISTICS FROM FRAMINGHAM, MASS.
Children:
Sarah, daughter of Jacob & Sarah, Sept. 12, 1731
Jacob, son of Jacob & Sarah, April 7, 1736
Mary, daughter of Jacob & Sarah, Jan. 22, 1738
Nathan, son of Jacob & Sarah, Sept. 2, 1742
Samuel, son of Jacob & Sarah, Feb. 2, 1744
Data from Emma Mae Jones 1985: Name was Rebecca, legally changed it to
Becky
Data from Emma Mae Jones via Hamilton Twitchell 1981
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MRS. LILA B. TWITCHELL
Mrs. Lila Belle Twitchell, 48, of 2624 North Fifty-first, Kansas City, Kansas, died early today at Bethany hospital, where she had been a patient a week. She lived in Kansas City, Kansas, all her life. Mrs. Twitchell was a switchboardoperator at Armour & Co., until she retired two years ago because of illness. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. She leaves a daughter, Miss Delores Twitchell, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Morris, all of the home; three other daughters, Mrs. Nancy Tollie, 5729 Beverly and Mrs. Norma Dowd, 5242 Horton, both of
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Information for this family comes from Theron Davis
From the Public Records of Connecticut, Vol. 9, page 242 for October 1746: "This Assembly do establish and confirm Mr. Jabez Daviss to be Ensign of the first company or train band in the town of Danbury, and order that he be commissioned accordingly."
The following from the will of Jabez Davis: Administrators were Daniel and Eliakim, with Thad Benedict, Clerk. Witnesses: Ebenezer Hickok and James Seeley. Some assets were: 3 year old steer, powder horn, string gold beads, 1/2 beef barrel, pe wter plates, milk tray, flannel jacket, house and barn value 72-0-0, land Hoyts Hill 81-17-0, hamelot(?) 152-0-0, land at capt beebles 33-0-0, land at great pasture 67-5-0, land at moon hill(?) 25-10-0, Hoyts Hill again 33-0-0, little field meadow 12-0-0. Notes 12-0-0, count book of old trunk 21-5-5. [That's a total value of 510 pounds (sterling) and change.]
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Theron DavisThomas TAYLOR was the son of Thomas TAYLOR who was born in 1669 in Norwalk, and probably his first wife, Phebe BENEDICT who was born 1682 in Norwalk. In "History and Genealogy of Old Fairfield" by Donald Lines Jacobus, the Will of Thomas TAYLOR names a second wife, Abigail and sons Thomas and David and daughters Mary, wife of Benjamin SPERRY and Elizabeth, wife of Jabez DAVIS, all of Danbury (Bethel), witnessed by James Benedict, Samuel Catt??, and Mary Benedict. [Note: until the 1850's , Bethel was a part of Danbury.] The will was written 05 May 1746 and proved 1758.
Will: May 05, 1746, Danbury, Ct. His will 5 May 1746, proved 10 July 1758 named wife Abigail, sons Thomas, David, daus. Mary wife of Benjamin Sperry and Elizabeth wife of Jabez Davis.
Moved with his widowed mother from Windsor,Conn. to Norwalk Ct.1656 After marriage, one of the first settlers.
The History of Danbury indicates that Phebe Benedict and Hannah Benedict, wife of Nathan Taylor were sisters. This is inconsistent with the parentage of the two women listed in this Genealogy.
The following article concerning hatting in Bethel was written for us by Captain Isaac H. Seeley just before his death on March 2d, 1880 . He was in his eighty-seventh year, but his memory was as clear as twenty years ago. Bethel had not been incorporated as a town by itself, and therefore appropriately comes under the head of "Old Danbury ."
Mr. Seeley came to Bethel in May, 1793 . "At that time there were but four hat shops in operation. Zar Dibble 's shop stood on the ground where Walker Ferry 's Block now stands, corner of Centre and Chestnut streets. Captain Eli Taylor had a shop west of his house. Thomas Taylor 's shop stood west of his house, and Eli Hickok 's shop near the Farnum homestead . These four shops each had two boys at work. Hats were mostly made from lambs' wool, about seven ounces weight, and napped with black muskrat, about one and a half ounces weight. Belly muskrat was considered too fine and short for use then. We had no carding machines then, and the wool was all carded by hand by women. Hats were sold in New York in an unfinished state after they were colored. Captain Eli Taylor once went to New York on horseback with a lot of hats packed on the back of the saddle. He exchanged them for stock (lambs' wool and muskrat fur), taking small parcels of wool and fur for immediate use. The balance was sent on by the sloop and transported from Norwalk to Bethel by the "Merchants' Line" of wagons. In 1800 Noah Hickok , Eliakim D. Trowbridge , and Daniel Morgan each built shops in Grassy Plain . Hickok 's shop was by his house, where George Osborne now lives; Trowbridge 's was a little west of the large elm-tree now standing at the lower end of Grassy Plain Street, and Morgan 's was near William H. Barnum 's present residence. In 1801 Matthew Trowbridge built a shop here. These shops were all worked by boys as apprentices."
In 1799 Zar Dibble and Eli Davis owned all the land in the centre of Bethel , as far down as Little Fields, now known as Nashville , some sixty acres in all. Dibble wanted to sell out and move to Ballston, N. Y. , and proposed to divide the land to accommodate purchasers. His own dwelling was on the west road, and his hat shop was on the east side of his farm. No other buildings were on this plot of land. Phineas Taylor , P. T. Barnum 's grandfather, bought all the home land, leaving about one acre with the house and barns, which was purchased by Timothy Taylor
Note that Lucy Davis' grandmother was a Dibble and Phineas Taylor would have been a great grandfather.
According to the 1790 US Census in Danbury, CT, there was a male under age 16 living in the Zar Dibble home. Since Zar and Lewcey were married only 4 years before the census, and had two girls, the boy under age 16 could have been his, but there is a possibly that Eli Davis was the male living with the Dibbles in 1790. I believe the latter most likely. - T.L Davis
According to the 1800 US Census in Danbury, CT, Zar Dibble was still living there. Besides Zar and his wife, there was one female child under age 10 in the home. (The households enumerated near him suggest he was in the Bethel, CT area.) And , since Zar died in 1805 in Ballston Spa, Saratoga, NY, we know he moved to Saratoga County between 1800 and 1805. Since Zar and Eli Davis were apparently planning the move together after selling their property holdings in Bethel, I suspect that the move was made just after Eli married Thirza Barnum. - T.L. Davis
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Theron Davis
Could have been born anytime between 1770 and 1773. Possibly remarried a Jerry Hine 30 Dec 1816 in Granville, NY after first husband, Zar Dibble died in 1805.
Source:
Theron Davis
The majority of my information on this family comes from Theron Davis
E.G. Davis says Eliakim was Welch and his mother Scotch-Welch.
The tomb stone of Eliakim says that he died on 18 May 1776 at the age of 35.
According to records in Danbury, CT found by Patrick Wild, a Bethel, CT historian: Eliakim and family lived on Main Street, Bethel, CT near the meeting house (still there in 2000) and they lived next door to the Dibbles (Zar Dibble married Lucy Davis) almost directly across the street from the cemetery. Jabez (Eliakim's father) owned land on Hoyt's Hill and Great Pasture Rd as well as the house and barn on Main Street. [Hoyt's Hill brings to mind that Eliakim Davis's mother-in-law was a Hoyt before she married a Benedict. TLD]
The Davis family that lived in Bethel, CT in the late 1700's were Congregationalist which is adjacent to the cemetery that he was buried in. Their house was directly across the street from the Church. Hoyt's Hill is still Hoyts Hill today.
The following from the will of Eliakim Davis: Eliakim, being of sound mind and weak body, I bequeath to Anna my dear and well beloved wife 1/3 of my estate., to my only son Eli 1/3, to my daughters Lewcey, Elizabeth, Betsey, Anna 1/3. He then goes on to mention only 3 daughters (specifically writes 3) which I have the feeling was the case. Also on distribution papers it states distribution to Anna Perry widow of deceased, married to Samuel Perry. Daughter Betty (Betsy) died since fathers death and is to be distributed equally then lists Lewcey and Anna. Distribution date 5/16/1786. Hannah probably remarried to Samuel Perry between 1780 and 1786. The last child born to Samuel Perry and his first wife was about 1780.
From the distribution of Eliakim Davis estate: Eliakim assets: Acct brought forward 50-11-10, land Hucklebury Hill 38-0-0, house, barn and land which they stand 33-0-0, meadow east of barn 20-0-0, meadow south of ye house & ye garden 15-0-0, corner lot by meeting house (still there in March, 2000) 13-0-0, orchard lots and pasture lands 32-0-0, land between woods and orchard 20-0-0, land lying west of Hoyts woods 7-0-0, wood lands 10-0-0, his part of Cornwall Farms 33-0-0. Evidently he had a portion of a farm in Cornwall, CT which was sold off and money distributed. (Cornwall is quite a way from Bethel especially in those days??.)
An heirs agreement was signed by Eliakim and his siblings on 20 Mar 1773 that mentions (in part) a split of inventory. It appears that Eliakim bought most everything from his siblings. It also mentions that John and Daniel are now from New Milford, CT. It mentions Abigail and James Trowbridge of Ridgefield, CT (Trowbridge is a prominent name in Bethel, CT houses still standing) Vol. 3 pg245.
Hannah (Anna) Benedict was one of eleven, possibly twelve children and the daughter of Thomas Benedict, born 1664, died July 4, 1776. Thomas was married in 1720 to Abagail Hoyt and was instrumental in the fight for independence in the American Revolution. It was on this basis that Anna Davis Erskine gained admission to the Daughters of the American Revolution in the Dodge City, Kansas chapter in 1941. She had DAR #326325.
The Census of 1820 shows the Widow Hannah Perry living alone in Orangetown, Rockland, NY. She does not appear in the 1830 Census.
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Theron Davis
Could have been born anytime between 1771 and 1773. Anna was still a "minor" in March of 1789 when her guardian, Andrew Comstock, died and she had Zar Dibble appointed as guardian. Moved to Ballston, NY with brother Eli after she married John King.
The following from the 1790 Census of (Danbury) CT, seems to indicate that Zar Dibble was possibly acting as guardian of Anna and Elizabeth and Eli Davis after he married Lucy in 1786. While some of the two additional "free white females and the on "all other free persons" could possibly have been his and Lucy's children as well.
HEADS OF FAMILIES THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790 CONNECTICUT
Connecticut Census -- 1790, p.10 FAIRFIELD COUNTY.No attempt has been made in this publication to correct mistakes in spelling made by the deputy marshals, but the names have been reproduced as they appear upon the census schedules.
DANBURY TOWN
page 12
Name of head of family: Dibble, Ezra
Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1
Free white females, including heads of families: 3
All other free persons: 1SOURCES:
1790 Census, Danbury Twp, Fairfield Co., Ct.
Theron Davis