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{"value"=>"Davis and King families"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Captain Nathaniel Davis (1782-1829), was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts and died of yellow fever and was buried in Appalachia, Florida. Several of George's letters with other genealogists mention that he was a marine officer during the War of 1812 and was wounded during an engagement with a British vessel and/or was a POW in Dartmouth, England. Unfortunately, these folders do not contain any independent confirmation of these biographical details; understandably, most of George's correspondence herein illustrates his attempts to verify these family claims.</p> <p>Davis married Hannah King (1781-1879) of Raynham, Massachusetts and they had six children, five daughters and one son. Their daughter Sarah Caroline Davis (1807-1881) married John Davenport (1804-1895). Sarah's sister, Hetty Davis Woodward, corresponded with her sister, and her letters appear in the Davenport folders.</p> <p>The files include portraits of Hannah King and Nathaniel Davis, as well as a printed genealogy entitled \"The Maternal Lineage of Sarah Caroline Davenport Willis,\" mailed in November 1894 from N.D. White in Manhattan to Sarah Caroline Davenport, wife of William P. Willis and George Ingraham Willis' maternal grandmother. Also included is a will of John Davis, 1825.</p>"}
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1824
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1983
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1824
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1824
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1983