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- m1 Abigail ANDRESS (aka Andrews) on May 17, 1716. They were married in Gloucester by the Justice of the Peace. Abigail appears to have died from complications of childbirth having given birth to their son William b. February 10, 1718. She died a few days later on February 18, 1718.
m2 Patience FOSTER on January 22, 1719 in Gloucester after filing their marriage intention on December 18, 1718. They were married in Gloucester by Rev. John White. William and Patience had at least three children in Gloucester including Zachariah b. November 6, 1719; Sarah b. April 20, 1723 & d. February 16, 1726; and William b. March 18, 1725. Two more children followed who may have been born in Falmouth, Cumberland (now Maine) including: Samuel b. about 1735; and Patience b. July 9, 1737.
Sometime between 1726 and 1747, William, Patience, and family 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.
Of note: At the time of the Davis's residence in Falmouth, 1727 to say 1746, the area known as Falmouth was a wide expanse including today's towns of Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, and Cape Elizabeth. Today's Falmouth was called New Casco. It wouldn't be until 1765, that Cape Elizabeth (then included South Portland) would be the first township to break off; followed by designations of the other towns set forth into the early 1800s.
William is listed as one of the earliest settlers of Meduncook, the first settlement being 1743, and maybe 15 or so settlers by 1750. These families came from Plymouth, the original Falmouth, among other places. The garrison/block house was built about this time on an 8-acre island in the southern part of the settlement, which became known as Garrison Island. The Island is connected to the mainland by a sandbar at low tide. By about 1754, there were 22 families. [1]
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