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Abadieh Davis (Lewis)

Also Known As: "Abby", "Abadiah Lewis", "Abediah Lewis"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Virginia, Colonial America
Death: before circa 1753
Georgia
Immediate Family:

Wife of Robert ‘the Black’ Davis
Mother of James Davis; Susanna Susannah Cox; Evan Davis; Elizabeth Sexton; Isham Davis and 8 others

Managed by: Thomas Roger Poland
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About Abadieh Davis

Not the same as Abadiah Floyd or Elizabeth Venable


concerns

This Abadieh is not a daughter of Margaret Lewis. Abadiah is not listed in "father"s 1677 will:

Will of WILLIAM DALLATHY, GENT. OF BDOS St. Michaels Parish, Barbados 20 Nov 1677, RB6/10, P. 188

  • Dau Margrett Lewis, wf of Capt. Hugh Lewis;
  • Wife Elizabeth Dallathy ? Executrx;
  • gr chn Elizabeth, Margarett, William, John, & Benjamin, all at 18; Capt. John Farmer, Margarett Farmer, Samuell Farmer, & Elizabeth Farmer, the sons & daus of Samuel Farmer Esq of Bdos; James Cowes, gr ch of said Samuel.
  • Signed William Dallathy.
  • Wit: John Sparke, William (x) Lukus [or Curtis?], Susannah (x) Barnes
  • Proved 29 JUNE 1680, court says Hon. John Sparke is also decd.
  • (Barbados Records Wills and Administrations Volume 1, 2 and 3. Joanne McRee Sanders

notes

From the WeRelate page on her husband's father, Nathaniel Davis (http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Nathaniel_Davis_(7)_ ):

"One tradition has it that about 1680 Nathaniel Davis, a native of Wales, married a child of Nicketti, a daughter of Opechancahough, the brother of Powhatan. Their son Robert Davis was an ancester of Jefferson Davis, President of the CSA.
"According to another record, Martha Davis, who married Abraham Venable II, was a daugher of Nathaniel Davis. Elizabeth Marshall Venable says, 'Hugh Lewis came first with this wife and daughter, Abediah Lewis, and lost his wife in America and returned to Britain with Abediah, his only daughter, and both returned again to America in Virginia, with Robert Davis, who came away without the consent of his parents, and served four years in Virginia, King & Queen County, for his passage, and then married Abediah Lewis, with whom he emigrated. The descendants who prefer for their heritage the romance of the Indian Princess, Nikitti, will find preferable the account in "Cabells and their Kin". We believe that of our own family record is more nearly correct.'"
RIN: MH:I634

sources

  • Jackson Sterett Moorman. Ancestors of Mary Burr Moorman (Harpole), et al. (Louisville, KY, Nov. 15, 1945), p. 5, 30 Jul 2006, Primary quality.
  • Seaman, Catherine Hawes Coleman. Tuckahoes and Cohees: the settlers and cultures of Amherst and Nelson counties 1607-1807. (Sweet Brier, Virginia: Sweet Briar College Printing Press, c1992), pg. 73. - Elizabeth Cabell's grandfather, Nathanael Davis, was likely a Quaker, and it may have been her relationship to members of the Society of Friends, that kept her safe on the frontier (A.Brown: 1895:45). However, Elizabeth herself was a woman ahead of her time. She was not only responsible for seating the "first English patent" in old Goochland in 1738, she managed the plantation and reared her family far from the white settlements of Goochland County while her husband. Dr. William Cabell, was in England for six years. Cabell, called away to England on business, left "his loving wife, Elizabeth Cabbell" in charge of the two patents, one of 4800 acres taken in 1738. and the other for 400 acres in 1739. The patents lay in "the last hunting ground of the Indian east of the Blue Ridge." Alexander Brown described Elizabeth as managing the affairs of her absent husband quite well. He describes her as "a colonial dame, who mounted on her good steed and attended by her trusty men, rode fearlessly into the wild woods, whenever occasion required to overlook these lands - the planting of them, and the preventing of encroachment upon them. She paid the quit-rents, taxes, etc.. attended to all legal requirements within her power, and. on her husband's return in 1741, turned his affairs over to him in comparatively good shape ... tradition ... has it that Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell was descended from an Indian princess of the Powhatan tribe, and that "it was the knowledge among the neighboring Indians of this descent which protected her husband while locating these lands, and herself when she was managing them in his absence" but he adds that her Quaker connections may as well have accounted for her safety.
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Abadieh Davis's Timeline

1690
1690
Virginia, Colonial America
1705
1705
Norfolk, VA, United States
1705
1708
1708
Hanover County, Province of Virginia
1709
1709
Amherst, Virginia, United States
1715
1715
Virginia
1716
1716
Province of Virginia
1718
1718
Amherst, Virginia, United States
1721
1721
Hanover County, Province of Virginia