Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-03-25

Crcst--uut OF /, ducal crown the head
OF lion ppr.
Motto-Fosti-ot Fidclc
They were attached to the military
service OF the King.
Three brothers. Sir Jonathan Davis.
Captain Dollar Davis and Nathaniel
Davis came from Kent. England in
1867.
CAPTAIN Dolan Davis settled in st.
Mary's. Maryland. lie was the grand
father of Joseph Emory Davis and
Jefferson Davis. President of the Con-
federacy.
Nathaniel and Sir Jonathan settled
in Hanover County, Va.
Nathaniel Davis married Mary
Eurkes. Elizabeth their daughter
married Captain William Cabcll Mar
ried Abraham Ncnahlc. of MADDEN Hall.
Derbyshire, England.
Sir jonathan Davis married Martha
Drayton Vernon. daughter of Sir Henry
Vernon and Helen de Montgomerie. OF
Sudbury Hall. DerbyShirc. England
The NernonS were one of the oldest
families of England. being descended
from Richard dc Vernon. who accom-
panied William the Conuueror from Nor
mandy 10 England. and was one of the
seven harons created by Hugh Lupus
the Great. Earl of Chester.
Vernon Drayton Davis. son of Sir
Jonathan Davis. and Martha Drayton
Vernon. married Anne Beaufort, of
London. Their son. John Davis mar
ricd Elizabeth Fielding. daughter Of
ambrose Fielding. of Bristol. England.
This family Of Fielding iuterniarried
with the Lewis family. OF whom was
Lawrence Lewis and Fielding Lewis.
Of the Revolution. Rev William Davis.
son Of Vernon Drayton Davis and Anne
Beaufort. married Catherine StaiGc. Of
Middlcsex County. England. lie bap-
tizcd James Madison. born March 81
1881. whose godfathers were John
Moore and Jonathan Gibson: god
mothers, Mrs. Rcbccca Moore and
Misses Judith and Elizabeth Catlett.
He afterwards became President OF
the United states.
William Davis. son Of William ana
Catherine Staisc Davis married Mar
tina Taylor Winston. daughter OF Nn-
tony Winston and Alice Taylor. who
was the daughter OF James Taylor.
member Of the Virginia Convention in
1876. from Caroline County. Va. This
Antony Winston was son of Isaac Win
ston and Mary Dabncy. whose dauEh-
ter. Sarah Winston. who was the
ttirsD Sarah Shelton. and had six
children. tsccondD Dorothca cambridge.
granddaughter OF Governor Alexander
Sp"tswood. and had ten children.
Jonathan DAVIS, sou OF Nli!lam
| Davis and Martha Taylor Winston,
married November 80. 1909, Mary Pom
fret liutlcr. by Rev. Henry T. Syron.
rector of tho old Colonial church.
! :AQuinton, ST. Dnvid's Parish. King VIII
liam County. Va. Mary Pomfr"t But
/ Ter was the daughter Of Isaac Butler
| and Mary pomfrct. who was the dauEh-
! ter OF Sir John William F"rmor Pom
| fret. Of EaStou Neston. MiddlescN. Eng
! land. and Sarah .Aylett. OF Breasted
Magma, ESSEX, England. who settled
| first in Connecticut. The town Pom
/ fret. in Connecticut. is named FOR him.
| From there lie came Ia King William
! County. Va, and is buried in The Gem
ctery of Auuinton Church, of which he
/ WAS vcStryman..
Coat OF arms Of rcmfrct Agent. a
Jesse. cable between three lion heads
erased guile
Cr"st-.Out OF a ducal coronct or n
cocks head Gnl". rcd crest ana wat
Ties. Gold supporters. two lions ppr
Motto--IIora = scmprc---always hon
orablc.
William Butler. married Mildred
daughter OF Lawrence Lewis, and ISIS
GUSTS. lie was son of James Butler,
Duke of Ormcnd. OF Berwick, Scotland
whose sister. Jane Anne Butler. Marie ed
Governor !lrHaudcr Spotswood. Isaac
Butler. son OF William Butler, ana Mill
drcd Lewis. married Mary Pomfrct.
daughter of Sir John William Fcrmor
I'omfrct. OF E:uston- Weston. MiddlcScX,
Eng land, and Sarah Aylct,, his wife. .!
l:rasted Magma, Essex County, Eng
land
William Butler. father OF Issac Put
Ter, came from berwick. Scotland, and
settled In Culpcpcr County. Va. near
the courthouse. lie accumulated :,
large fortune and lived to be ll2 years
old. The old homestead was occupied
by the family more than 100 years.
Vernon Drayton Davis. son Of Jona-
| than Davis and Mary Pomfrct Butler,
/ died young.
/ Martha, daughter OF Jonathan Davis
( married Levin Perry, and had: Joshua
. died while at the University Of North
( Carolina: Thcophilus. died in Texas
/ Louisa married sawyer. and had Fer
/ cncc. Levin and blair: Hugh married
! Mary MassenburS. and had Mary Eliza :
I beth. Nicholas and Hugh.
/ Evelyn, daughter of Jonathan Davis
and Mary romfret Butler, married
/ Hugh Hayes. lived i'm Jackson. Miss
/ and had William. Charles, Joseph and
/ Celeste, who married Chichester and
had Evelyn.
/ Isaac iii.liard, son Of Jonathan and
Mary rUmfrct Butler. married Anne
Alexander powncy. sreat-Granddaugh-
/ tor OF Samuel Smith. from whom She
! Inherited Abrams Plains, where she was
I born and lived cighty-four years; died
. September Z, 1914, and is buried there
Mary. daughter Of Isaac billiard
! Davis and Anne Alexander Downcy
| married William II. Gregory and had
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