David Davis

b. 21 June 1748, d. 1 June 1822
  • David Davis was born on 21 June 1748 in Kensingham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
  • He married Eleanor Tyler circa 1771.
  • David Davis, an early settler on the Corinth-Bradford gore, was living in the latter town in 1792 when he sold his property. The gore is mentioned in many deeds and extended for miles along the southern boundary of town. No acreage is given in the deed but this was a fairly common omission to exasperate researchers tracing deeds, especially when several pieces of land were involved. This man's fame lies in the fact that he was the father of the first child to be born in Corinth. . . . We know these people first lived on the gore along the Bradford-Corinth border and in the case of David Davis, it can be presumed that he thought he was in the town of Bradford which already had a few settlers and a grist mill inoperation at the time his daughter Mary was born in 1772. Twenty years later David Davis sold the land he purchased some years after the birth of his children and nothing more is known of him. Until proved otherwise little Mary Davis must be given credit for being the first child to be born in Corinth." (History of Corinth 1764-1964.)
  • David Davis died on 1 June 1822 at age 73 in Wales, Erie County, New York.
  • Last Edited: 17 Oct 2009

Family: Eleanor Tyler b. 20 February 1754