General Aquila Davis
(1760-1835)

 

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1. Abigail Watts Stevens

General Aquila Davis

  • Born: 27 Jun 1760, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
  • Marriage (1): Abigail Watts Stevens on 10 Aug 1785 in Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
  • Died: 27 Feb 1835, Cumberland, Maine at age 74
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Father: Francis DAVIS
Mother: Bettey Or Elizabeth FERRIN


History of Warner, NH
At a meeting of the proprietors of the township No. 1, June 23, 1738, the committee appointed to make some surveys for settlements, &c. reported, that they had laid out sixty-three house lots, containing about five acres each. These lots were laid out in the vicinity of Gen. Aquila Davis' mills.
Aquila Davis
Added by DavidWoods on 22 Jan 2009
General Aquila Davis, son of Captain Francis Davis, was born at Amesbury, June 27, 1760, baptized August 31, 1760. He was a soldier in the revolution and serviced in campaigned on the Hudson, in New Jersey and at Saratoga. He witnessed the surrender of General Burgoyne. He rose to the rank of colonel after the war, and commanded the Thritieth New Hampshire Regiment from 1799 to 1807, and was brigadier-gneral of the Forth Brigade from 1807 to 1809. He resigned, but when the war broke out in 1812 he raised the first regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, enlisted for one year and was commissioned colonel by President Madison. Subsequently his regiment was transferred to the Fourty-fifth United States Infantry and he accepted the lieutenant-colonelcy. After the war he returned to his mills and a farm at Davisville, and was one of the leading citizens of Warner until his death. Following is his discharge from the revolutionary service, after three years of hard service: "Aquila Davis, of the Third New Hampshire Regiment, formerly an inhabitant of Amesbury, having faithfully and honorably servied as a soldier in the services of the United States of America, the term of three years, it being the term of his enlistment, is dischared from the service, and is at liberty to return to his home. D. Livermore, Captain Third New Hampshire Regiment, May 10, 1780."

It is related of him that while stationed on an island on Lake Champlain, he mounted a battery of guns and kept the British at a respectable distance, although his artillery was nothing but painted logs - the kind known to the army as "Quaker guns." General Davis was a man of sound judgement in peace as well as war; he served the town many years as representative in the legislature, and was a shred and sagacious legislator well known throughout the State. In many walks of life he demonstrated his ability. He was a man of sharp wit and exceptional humor, genial and magnetic in manner. He died February 27, 1835; and was buried at Warner, March 3, following, with Masonic honors. He had alwasy enjoyed good health until his last illness. He died at Cumberland while on a journey to Sharon, Maine.


He married, August 8 or 10, 1785, Abigail Watts Stevens, of Concord. She was born July 12, 1766, and died January 14, 1862, at Davisville. Children Paine, born February 2, 1786, died March 28, 1832; married May Dow. 2. Sarah Ambrose, born February 4, 1788, died October 10, 1856; married Simeon Virgin. 3. Abigail Watts, born March 24, 1790, deid February 4, 1869; married Alpheus Davis. 4. Theodore Stevens, born June 3, 1792, died January 15, 1835. 5. Nathaniel Ambrose, born June 29, 1794, mentioned below. 6. Persis H., born October 3, 1797, died October 27, 1841; married Stephen Currier. 7. Nathan, born February 7, 1799, died August 25, 1841; married Judith Buswell. 8. Daughter born and died June 6 1801. 9. Charles, born April 12, 1803, died October 30, 1882; married Sarah Currier Foss. 10. Aquila A., born August 2, 1806, died March 27, 1866; married Rhoda Straw. 11. James, born June 3, 1809, died December 1, 1842; married Adaline Eastman.


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Aquila married Abigail Watts Stevens on 10 Aug 1785 in Warner, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. (Abigail Watts Stevens was born on 12 Jul 1766 and died on 14 Jan 1862 in Davisville, Merrimack, NH.)




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