The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-02-28
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* William Davis Il supposed 10 have
been born ID New Jersey, and came
40 Harrison county 3 s6uie time dft6l
Eiie war Of, 3ie q 6T6luf Ion, 3
"a He settled sin the Bottom land: be:
fsreeh Salem ana Bristol. WAS large
owner; of lands: remoFed TO Ohio and
lied ihnf6 some time Ia slhea thirties.
r. He alssays sieneSd his name William
Davis 81 al toiti 4 tDs distinguish: thin,
rom III b 6f "a 4es ri lif Il y Il Nam Day
ikes Who lived liii the heie ldf f0pds
ll Tradition says that he had ifhepn i
Esailor9and that dutiBE tie tior
he; was loyal to the Il ny and \ hut ID
|, Riioted the British fleet through thu
He'll Cat 3 dhaBf6l. under the COM
handspf Lord Hove. at the time New
Work was captured IN i778: and fol
liis services on that occasion he re
ceiyei Ia largo bag of gold 3 a
"a After the close OF the " ar. and up
on his return homo, he found IL d
little unpleasant for persons OF hil
political opinions and :emigrated 10
The western country as ~ was then
called. where some OF his relatives
had come sloefore. Deeds executed By
him show that Il & lived nj this county
as late as 1895. = 4; 4 Il
His father re sIdads al n the olit he:
Held u BfaHds vine and rode o,i from
home, on . white horse sees the
battle, and the cololssuf . horse at
siecttfg attention, he was fired seis and
killed. - e
Major W isIiaiil tIny nloau
William Hay md, siDl 6t J6tit, Ssfie
came from england prior to iksrsS4 I; was
born In the colony Of Maryland, Jam
iiafy 4, k740s (OS1 andsdieG at his resi-
dence near Quiet Dell, November l2,
1891. y
j According to family tradition he ae-
cpmpanicd the army of General Ed.
ward Braddock on It's march to cap
lure Fort Dtquesne; now Pittsburg
from the Erenefi, and which tdet with
disastrous defeat on the Mon6ng I'd
|heia river on the ninth OF July, i7I5,
All this time he was only fifteen
years Of age, and 1T is not known in
what capacity he was employed but
likely In the quarter masters depart.
ment. &,
In the year si75S he. was a soldier
In the expedition eommanded by Gen;
eyal Forbes against the same position
Which vas successful and the name
was changed to Fort Pitt after the
English prime minister, n X
In February, j759. he enlisted In the
Virginia regiment commanded by Coz
George Washington which had been
detailed to garrison the country cap
tured from the French. He served
along the Monohg hefa and Al Allegheny
rivers and as far north as sPresque
Isle, now Erie, on the lake Of that
name. When the regiment was with
drawn from the vest 1t. was marched
up ffe Shenandoah valley and on ID
Fthe Holstein river to suppress an, out;
break among the Cherokee Indians.
When the Cherokees were 1uieted
THE regiment returned TO the valley
and was discharged Williams dis:
charge is dated at Fort Lewis, near
.Stappton, ya5 February "a, 1859, and
states that Ne has DIii served three
years and behaved as q good spl diet
and faithful subiect,'s I III. sssss
After he returned home from the
wars. he, in the following year, April
10, 1858, was married to GassRndEa
Cielland. and settled down to the life
OF a. planter: t.g seatlst.ts
In May, 1913 ;gheesoli his farm near
Rockville, Md, tofJames Suttcr for
the sum Of two hundred and twelve
pounds and ten shlllinss current mon
Nv. of TIN 3nr6yince. and moved with