Ancestry of
Mitt Romney

70th Governor of Massachusetts

Isaac Davis

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Mitt Romney — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 506 
  • Father:
  • Nathan Davis 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Phinney   
  • Birth Date:
  • Jan 1720 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 5 Jan 1780 
  • Death Location:
  • Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Charity Hall
  • Marriage Date:
  • 21 Feb 1744/1745 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sheffield, Berkshire, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mercy Davis (Ahnentafel No:253 )

  • Notes: 

  • Although Isaac Davis's birth date is often stated as 01 JAN 1720, the source usually cited if The Mayflower Descendant (4:222) which gives the date as "[illegible] January 1720."

• Sources for Isaac Davis

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, Gen. No. 67554, IL State No. 2705, Application for Elizabeth Beulah (Hinkly) Kaiser.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lee, Vol. 1, p. 194, Death record for Isaac Davis incorrectly gives death year as 1780.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2007, Vol. 161, p. 46.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1902, Vol. 4, p. 222.
  • ⁵ Baker, Peggy M., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 19, 2nd ed., Thomas Rogers, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2013), 200.
  • ⁶ Stanton, William Alonzo, A Record, Genealogical, Biographical, Statistical, of Thomas Stanton, of Connecticut, and His Descendants 1635-1891, Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1891), 536.

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