Reg. March 30th 1854
This Indentured Made this 30th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three between David Davis & son James R. Davis of Madison County and State of Tennessee of the one part, and Lorenzo Lea of the County of Madison and State of Tennessee of the other part, Witnesseth, That for and in consideration the said David Davis & Son for and in consideration of the sum of Six hundred & eleven dollars 10 cents to them in hand paid by the said Lorenzo Lea the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath given, granted, bargained. Sold, aliened, conveyed and confirmed unto the said Lorenzo Lea his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Madison and State of Tennessee, in the 15th Civil District and adjoining said Lea’s tract of land on the North and bounded as follows—Beginning at a gum near the Creek thence West 82 poles to a Corner; thence South 82 poles to a black Oak, thence East 82 poles along said line; thence North 82 poles to the beginning.To have and hold the aforesaid land with all and singular the rights, profits, emoluments, hereditaments, or in anywise appertaining, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Lorenzo Lea his heirs and assigns forever, And the said David Davis & Son for themselves their heirs executors and administrators doth covenant and agree with the said Lorenzo Lea his heirs or assigns, that the before recited land, and bargained premises, they will warrant and forever defend against the right, title, interest or claim of all and every person whatsoever. In Witnefs whereof, the said David Davis & sons have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year above written.
David Davis {Seal}
James R. Davis {Seal}
State of Tennessee}
Madison County} Personally appeared before me Thos W. Gamewell, clerk of the County Court of said County David Davis & James R. Davis bargainer to the foregoing deed with whom I am personally acquainted and who acknowledged that they executed the within deed for the purposes therein contained. Witness my hand at office this 28th day of Mo December 1853.
??? tax Paid Thos W. Gamewell, Clerk
By W. W. Gates D. Clerk
State of Tennessee}
Madison County} I, W. W. Gates Register of said County do certify that the foregoing deed and Clerk’s certificate therein was duly filed in my office this day (pg 334) at 11 o’clock A. M. and noted in Minutes Book No. 3 page 50. Witnefs my hand at office this 3oth day of March 1854.
W. W. Gates, Register
By Wm. G. Cockwill
David Davis is my 1st Cousin 5X Removed. He moved to Tennessee before the birth of his son, James Richardson, party to this land deed, was borne in May 1838. David Davis is said to have died in 1855. This date is said to be recorded in a Family Bible which also reports that his wife Margaret Fowler died in 1858. The Bible entry is reported as such: [Source: Davis Family Bible. Only date of death is written]. I have not seen the Bible entry.
In 1867, his son James Richardson, left Tennessee and migrated to the Napa Valley in California. Harry Alexander Davis in his book “The Davis Family (Davies and David) in Wales and America: genealogy of Morgan David of Pennsylvania” on page 128 reports that James Richardson Davis and his brother John Nathaniel Davis both died in the Civil War.
The obituary and a FindAGrave Memorial for James Richardson Davis shows that he died shows that he died 7 April 1901.
This is the only Land Deed I have found for David Davis and his son James Richardson Davis. For his son, John Nathaniel Davis, I found his Civil War Service Record but no other record of him after the Civil War.
David Davis is my 1st Cousin 5X Removed.
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1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C39N-4JTN?i=149&cat=449862
2. "Death of James Richardson Davis," obituary, Napa Journal, Napa, California, 9 April 1901, Page 2, Column 3; Digital On-Line Archives, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : viewed 11 July 2023).
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