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Patience DAVIS

Patience DAVIS

Female Bef 1747 - Aft 1800  (> 55 years)

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  • Name Patience DAVIS 
    Born Bef 1747  Friendship, Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Census 1800  Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Died Aft 1800  Friendship, Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried unknown Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I36453  Main
    Last Modified 30 Oct 2023 

    Father William DAVIS,   b. 9 Apr 1695, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Aug 1768, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years) 
    Mother Patience FOSTER,   b. 1 Dec 1700, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1770, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Married 22 Jan 1719  Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F32015  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Capt Cornelius BRADFORD,   b. 10 Dec 1737, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1790, Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years) 
    Married 1760  Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Children 
    +1. Elizabeth ”Betsy” BRADFORD,   b. 1765, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 May 1865, Warren, Lincoln [Knox] Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 100 years)
     2. Mehitable BRADFORD,   b. 1773, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1773, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     3. Hannah BRADFORD,   b. 1761, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Elsie BRADFORD,   b. 4 Nov 1763, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Joshua BRADFORD,   b. 4 Sep 1764, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Josephus BRADFORD,   b. 10 Feb 1768, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Sarah BRADFORD,   b. 1770, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Sylvia BRADFORD,   b. 1772, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Prudence BRADFORD,   b. 5 Oct 1774, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Winslow BRADFORD,   b. 1777, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     11. Lydia BRADFORD,   b. 1780, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     12. Frederick BRADFORD,   b. 1782, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     13. James BRADFORD,   b. 1784, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location
     14. Cornelius BRADFORD,   b. 19 Feb 1788, Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 May 1857, Friendship, Knox, Maine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
    Last Modified 13 Sep 2021 
    Family ID F13384  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - Bef 1747 - Friendship, Knox, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 1760 - Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1800 - Meduncook [Friendship], Knox, Maine Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Aft 1800 - Friendship, Knox, Maine Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Sometime between 1726 and 1747, during which time daughter Patience was born, parents William and Patience removed from Gloucester and traveled coastal north first to Falmouth, Cumberland, then by 1747 they had settled in Meduncook (now Friendship, Maine). This time frame is inferred from three events concerning their seven children. These events are as follows: 1) the first 3 (of 7) children with recorded births in Gloucester, the last of the three being March 18, 1725; 2) recorded death of a child (William) in 1726 in Falmouth; and 3) birth of Ebenezer in Meduncook in 1747. This family (along with extended family members) and their removal from Gloucester to Falmouth are also documented in Babson's work entitled ''History of the town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: including the town of Rockport'', Chapter XII: "Emigration to Falmouth, Me." Babson writes and quotes from the journal of a Reverend as follows: "Under 1726, he [Rev. Thomas Smith] says [in his journal], 'This summer, there came from Cape Ann one Davis,--a pretty troublesome spark,--with his family; also one of his wife's brothers, no better than he; also one Haskell, a sober sort of a man, with his family'....William Davis's wife was Patience Foster..." Rev. Thomas Smith's journal entry locates this family in Falmouth by Summer 1726.

      Patience, named after her mother, married Cornelius Bradford in 1760 in Meduncook. There they would have 14 children including: Elcy b. 1762; Joshua b. 1764; Elizabeth (aka "Betsey") b. abt. 1766; Hannah b. abt. 1766; Josephus b. 1768; Sarah b. 1768; Sylvia b. 1772; Mehitable b. 1773 (died young); Prudence b. 1774; Winslow b. 1777; Lydia b. 1780; Frederick b. 1782; James b. abt. 1784; and Cornelius Jr. b. about 1786 (cast away on Grand Manan Island and perished).

      Cornelius passed away in 1790, about four years after their last child was born. Patience Bradford is listed as "Head of Household" in Meduncook Plantation's 1800 Federal Census, which enumerated three household members: 1 female over 45 (Patience); 1 male age 16-25 (likely son James); and 1 female age 16-25 (likely daughter Lydia).

      Patience passed away after 1800 in Friendship, 1800 being the last known reference to her residence as documented in the 1800 Federal Census. [2]

  • Sources 
    1. [S162] BRADFORD, Descendants of Gov. William Bradford-to the family of Martin Bryne Bradford of Charlotte County,-New Brunswick, Canada.

    2. [S151] WikiTree, https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Davis-25145.


Notes

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Updated 23 Dec 2023