 1765 - 1834 (68 years)
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| Name |
DAVISON Ezra |
| Birth |
11 Aug 1765 |
Nova Scotia Co., Canada  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 Apr 1834 |
Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY |
| Notes |
- Although family tradition holds that Ezra enlisted when he was but 16, the first record of his service is his enlistment in Capt. Benjamin Durkee’s company of Matrosses, at Port Trumbull, Connecticut, August 12, 1782, his 17th birthday.
They took up land two miles northeast of Grafton Centre. the country was then a wilderness. They built a house, cleared the land of forest, planted on archard, and built stone walls, or fences. Panthers used to steal their sheep. Bears were in the woods. There were few settlers. No Church nor School House. The first school district was organized, Sept. 13, 1813, and they voted to build a school house on a man's land, whose name was Cobb. (It was always called the Cobb's school house.) It was sixteen feet square with an entry large enough to hold a load of wood. They levied a tax of $75.00, the rest was to be paid in work. Three or four generations of Davisons studied Webster's spelling book, Daboll’s arithmetic, and the English Reader, and perhaps got punished in the Cobb’s school house.
The first trustees were Daniel Mills, Foster Reynolds, and Bradick Peekham, Jr., moderator, Elisha Wells, Clerk Daniel Mills. A great many prominent men were educated in the Cobb's school house. About 1842, Van Ransellaer, the Patron, offered a set of outline maps, to the best school in Grafton, to be examined by a committee at the Church in Grafton Centre. We carried home the maps and were justly proud of it. I visited the spot in 1889. Found nothing but the foundation stones and thickly grownup weeds and brush. (A. A. Davison)
Ezra lived and raised his family on what we call the “Old Davison Homestead.”
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| Person ID |
I35150 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
10 Apr 2024 |
| Father |
DAVISON Asa, b. 01 Sep 1736, Preston, New London Co., CT d. 29 Jan 1831, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY (Age 94 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
PRIDE Sarah, b. 24 Aug 1743 |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F18118 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
SMITH Diedamia, b. 1774 d. 1853 (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
24 May 1790 |
Argyle, Penobscot Co., ME |
| Children |
| | 1. DAVISON Asa Lee, b. 03 Dec 1792, Preston, New London Co., CT d. 02 Mar 1853, Canton, Fulton Co., IL (Age 60 years) [natural] |
| | 2. DAVISON Lois, b. Abt 1795, Westerly, Washington Co., RI d. 04 Nov 1834, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY (Age 39 years) [natural] |
| | 3. DAVISON Sarah, b. 01 Jun 1796 d. Ashford, Cattaraugus Co., NY [natural] |
| | 4. DAVISON Reuben S., b. 10 Feb 1802, Alfred, Allegany Co., NY d. Jul 1921, Alfred, Allegany Co., NY (Age 119 years) [natural] |
| | 5. DAVISON Daniel P.M., b. 25 May 1804, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY d. 08 Jan 1844, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY (Age 39 years) [natural] |
| | 6. DAVISON Paul K., b. 01 Jan 1807, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY d. 1884, Troy, Rensselaer Co., NY (Age 76 years) [natural] |
| | 7. DAVISON John Milton, b. 14 Sep 1811, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY d. 19 Mar 1895, Minonk, Woodford Co., IL (Age 83 years) [natural] |
| | 8. DAVISON Rowland (Squire), b. 26 Oct 1813, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY d. 08 Apr 1867, Minonk, Woodford Co., IL (Age 53 years) [natural] |
| | 9. Sr. Norman Lewis Davison, b. 26 Jul 1817, Grafton, Renssealaer Co., NY d. 24 Apr 1902, Denton, Lancaster Co., NE (Age 84 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F18122 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
10 Apr 2024 |
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