Ancestry of
John Davis Long

32nd Governor of Massachusetts

Simon Davis

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• • Grandfather of John Davis Long — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • David Davis 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Brown   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 16 Sep 1765 
  • Christening Location:
  • Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Mar 1810 
  • Death Location:
  • Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Persis Temple
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Feb 1803 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boylston, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Julia Temple Davis (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • The tombstone for Simon Davis's first wife Persis Newton is inscribed at the bottom with "Mr. Davis Died in Falmouth, Me. Mar. 17, 1810, AE. 44."

• Additional marriages for Simon Davis

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  • Spouse:
  • Persis Newton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Feb 1789
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rutland, Worcester, Massachusetts

• Sources for Simon Davis

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/11/2022).
  • ² History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 3, Genealogical, Cambridge: John Wilson & Son (1893), 25.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rutland, Vol. 1, p. 34, Baptism of Simon Davis.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rutland, Vol. 1, p. 131, Marriage record for Simon Davis and Persis Newton.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Boylston, Vol. 1, p. 93, Marriage record for Simon Davis and Persis Seaver.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Boylston, Vol. 1, p. 22, Birth records for children of Simon and Persis Davis.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, West Boylston, Vol. 1, p. 129, Death record for Simon Davis in Falmouth, Maine.
  • ⁸ NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900, 1880, 24:1, Membership application for John Davis Long.
  • ⁹ Leonard, Ermina Newton, Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical: Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1915), 552-553.
  • ¹⁰ Long, Peirce, ed., From the Journal of Zadoc Long, 1800-73, Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd. (1943), 305, 308, 311.