Major William Davis1
b. 1724, d. 1780
- Family Background:
- Horn and Allied Families
Major William Davis was born in 1724 in Pennsylvania.1 He married Catharine Pickens, daughter of Captain Andrew Pickens and Anne Davis.1 He died in 1780.1
Additional Data
William Davis was named as a co-executor of his father-in-law Andrew Pickens's will dated 5 November 1756 in Anson County, North Carolina.2,3
Citations
- [S674] Terry Pickens McLean, online <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tmclean/…>, Terry Pickens McLean (e-mail address), downloaded 2004.
- [S675] E.M. Sharp, Pickens Families of the South (Memphis, Tennessee: E.M. Sharp, 1963), 11-12, citing a photostatic copy of the original will made by the State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, N.C. on Oct. 2, 1957. North Carolina Wills, Volume XXIV, page 42.
- [S674] Terry Pickens McLean, 2004, citing Lois K. Nix and Mary Kay Snell, Thomas Boone Pickens - His Ancestors; Wolfe City Texas, Hemington Publishing Company, 1989; pp 45-50, who cited Anson County, North Carolina, Will Book I, 1757, p. 115.