This is a genealogical book describing a vast number of descendants from the Davis family. It chronicles several generations, going back all the way to the 1700s. It is a wonderful reference of family history from both England and the United States.

Excerpt from History of the Davis Family To My Kinsmen and Others - The Biographical, Historical and Genealogical Record of the descendants of our ancestor, John Davis, upon which I have spent four years' labor, and not a little expense, nears completion, and will soon be ready for the press. I have departed somewhat from the methods of some genealogists and have traced, not only the descendants of the male line, but also the descendants of the female line, thus bringing the record as far as was possible in full, down to date, I have also traced the ancestry of many of those families which have become interlinked with ours by marriage, going back in many instances to the time that the ancestors of these families came to this country. I have often wished since the commencement of the work that it had fallen into abler hands, and I have also been impressed with the fact that if it were to be done at all, it had been undertaken none too soon. Older members of the family who were living when the work was commenced, and from whom much information was received, have passed away to join the great silent majority. Old town, church and property records, from which facts and data have also been drawn, are fast fading away, and will soon be illegible, so that unless the records are re-written and then printed, in a few years the facts obtainable from them will be forever lost. The correspondence which has grown out of the compilation of this work has been very large. Over 3,000 letters have been sent, and answers to nearly all of them have been received. Our fathers are gone, many of them sleep in unmarked graves, and many of the other graves are becoming unmarked by the ravages of the elements and time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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