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             Husband: Reuben THOMAS (1 2 3 4)
                Born: l 1740
             Married:
                Died: 25 FEB 1815
              Father: 
              Mother: 
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Rhoda CLINTON (5 6 7)
                Born: l MAR 1730
          Christened: 06 MAR 1730 in Christ Church, Stratford, Fairfield, CT (8)
                Died: 08 OCT 1775 (9 10)
              Father: Thomas CLINTON
              Mother: Mary DOWNS
             Spouses: Samuel STEVENS
Children
01               (F): Anna THOMAS (11)
                Born: l 1761 (12 13 14)
                Died: 16 FEB 1824 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (15 16 17)
             Spouses: Jesse SMITH; Stephen BATEMAN
02               (F): Mahitable THOMAS (18 19 20 21)
                Born: 12 APR 1764 in New Haven, CT (22 23)
                Died: 27 DEC 1852 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (24)
             Spouses: John DAVIS
03               (F): Theresa THOMAS
                Born: l 1766 (25)
                Died: 14 MAY 1847 (26)
             Spouses: Josiah BALDWIN
04               (M): Ebenezer Downs THOMAS (27 28)
                Born: l 1769 (29)
                Died: 17 JAN 1853 (30)
             Spouses: Sarah PERKINS
05               (F): Amelia THOMAS (31)
                Born: l 1771 (32 33)
                Died: 14 DEC 1853 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (34 35)
             Spouses: William MORRIS
06               (F): Elizabeth THOMAS (36 37 38 39)
                Born: l 1772 (40 41)
                Died: 22 DEC 1808 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (42 43)
             Spouses: William MORRIS

Footnotes

  1. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 227.
  2. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 560.
  3. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1662.
  4. Ibid., vol 2, p 424.
  5. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 227.
  6. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 560.
  7. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1662.
  8. Ibid., vol 7, p 1700.
  9. Ibid., vol 7, p 1700.
  10. Ibid., vol 2, p 424.
  11. Ibid., vol 7, p 1662.
    ... she divorced him [Jesse] in 1809 ...
  12. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  14. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1662.
  15. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  16. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  17. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1662.
  18. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 127 - 129.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/127.html.]
  19. 1850 Oxford Census.
    [Living w/ son Burritt and family.]
  20. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 39, 40, 73.
  21. B. H. Davis, Reminiscences of Oxford Homes and People (Seymour Record - 1913), Chapter 3.
    A short distance north of the College Farm is located the old Davis homestead. This place is situated on the corner of the road leading to Pinesbridge. The old original house was built about the year 1708 by Joseph Davis, one of the early pioneers of Oxford, then a part of the town of Derby. He was the father of Col. John Davis, the subject of our sketch. The house was of antique design, with a long sloping roof, the rear forming a veranda about eight feet wide and twelve feet long.
    Col. John Davis was born in this house Sept. 28th, 1755. On April 19th, 1782, he married Mehitable Thomas, a daughter of Capt. Reuben Thomas of New Haven. They had 14 children:
    Sarah, born March 31, 1783
    Anson, born Sept. 5, 1785
    Truman, born March 13, 1787
    John, born Sept. 8, 1788
    Lucretia, born Sept. 22, 1790,
    Mary, born March 28, 1792
    Charity, born Feb. 8, 1794
    Twins, Nabby and Nancy, born Dec. 21, 1795
    Joseph, born Aug. 13, 1798
    Sheldon, born Sept. 3, 1800
    Lewis, born Jan. 26, 1803
    Burrett, Born July 12, 1806
    Julia, born July 4, 1810
    On the evening of Nov. 12, 1848, the old house was burned. There was quite a body of snow on the ground at the time and old Mr. Davis, unmindful of results and so eager was he to quench the fire that he went out in the cold barefooted and thinly clad, and threw snow on the burning building. Just previous to this he was injured while engaged in breaking a colt. He contracted a severe cold which resulted in his death Nov. 27, 1848, in his 94th year. Mehitable his wife died Dec. 27, 1852, in her 89th year.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/davis-reminiscences/Davis-03.html.]
  22. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 227.
  23. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1742.
  24. George T. Davis, Genealogy of the Davis Descendants of Colonel John Davis of Oxford, Conn. (New Rochelle, N. Y., 1910), 227.
  25. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1742.
  26. Ibid., vol 7, p 1742.
  27. Ibid., vol 6, p 1434.
  28. Ibid., vol 8, p 2023.
  29. Ibid., vol 7, p 1742.
  30. Ibid., vol 7, p 1742.
  31. 1850 Oxford Census.
  32. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  33. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 560.
  34. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  35. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1742.
  36. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 42.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/042.html.]
  37. Ibid., 43.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/043.html.]
  38. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 58, 59.
    Betsey.
  39. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 14.
    ... 1794 ...
    Septr 21st, John Riggs 3d & Mary his Wife Renewed their Covenant.
    Sept. 21, Wm Morriss & Elizabeth his wife Renewed thedir Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/014.html.]
  40. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  41. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 2, p 560.
  42. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Oxford Congregational Cemetery (Congregational Cemetery), 7.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cgcemscan7.html.]
  43. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1742.

Revised: 19-Oct-08
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