Griffith Davis

1700 - 1769  (69 years)

• Name	Griffith Davis  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	1700	, , , Wales
  Gender	Male
  Death	1769	Salsbury, Bucks, PA
  Person ID	I11479	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Coate,   b. Aft 1704, Buckingham M.M., Bucks, PA d. Aft 1743 (Age > 39 years)
  Marriage	Bef 5 May 1724	, , NJ, USA
  Family ID	F3424	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  From Bucks Co, PA, he requested a certificate for his wife and children to move to Richland MM on 1743, 6mo(Aug) 1. According to the "History of Bucks County, PA", he was amongst the first eleven families to inhabit Haycock, PA in 1743.t of the families were German, with a little Welsh and Irish thrown in too. I believe it later became the township of Springfield. He appears to have begun the purchase of this land, 300 acres on Dec. 22, 1737 in Philadelphia for land on Tohickon Creek in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania It was surveyed on Apr. 1, 1738 and was bounded on three sides by vacant land and the fourth by Wm. Graham. It was returned Aug. 12, 1745. The final date on the paperwork for this land was Mar 10, 1757. He was deeded this property by the Governors in Chief, John, Thomas and Richard Penn, Esq.'s. (C-253c, 2171, C-DOC provided by Orrell Dunn, E.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S51] Burlington Friends Records, New Jersey. [S1808] History of West Branch Quarterly Meeting of Society of Friends, West Milton, Ohio 1807-1957. [S2572] Orrell Dunn to Linda Coate Email letters dated 1999 at odunn@suffolk.lib.ny.us (C-2112). [S57] Burial Friends Records of New Jersey.