Dolar DAVIS

Sources:

This Family Group Sheet was compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls, of Gilbert, Arizona
Barnstable,MA 'Families` 1888-1890, Vol. #1 & 2, Book # F24B1408
Davis Genealogy, page 18
Daughter's of American Colonists Lineage Book, Vol. #IV page 49
Pioneers of Massachusetts, #2929.3744/Pop
Middlesex, Massachusetts, FHL #974.44c

Notes:

                   SOURCES:  1. Ancestral File
            2. 1997 Ordinance Index
            3. Main Archive Record
            4. This family group sheet compiled by Marion Grace Jewell Nicholls
               of Gilbert, AZ
            5. Dau of American Coloniss Vol.XIV p24

NOTES:  
        1. Husband Dolar Davis was Petitioner for the Grant of the town of
             Groton, 1656, one of the 20 of the Plymouth Colony who had lands
             granted to them at Concord, Mass, 1658.
        2. Possibly died Jun 1696 Bennefield,Northampton,Northamptonshire,England

NOTES:
      1. Dolar Davis "The Immigrant'  - Came to America with his wife and three  children from the County of Kent, England.  His brother-in-law Simon Willard camewith them.
      2. Dolar was a selectman in Concord, Ma - The Selectmen managed the prudential affairs of the town laid outh the lands into lots and disposed of them to thefirst settlers.  A Mr Thomas Hinckley was also a Selectman with him.  Dolar's house stood not far from the water mill built by the first settlers on the spot where the present mill standsl.
      Back of Yellow sheet.  (Information from Book #974.44c)
      Dolar Davis
      1. Carpenter and Master Builder
      2.  Received first grant of land in Cambridge, MA (4 June 1635) others later
      3.  He removed to Duxbury, MA 5 August 1638-1639, was admitted a freeman and
      granted land there in 1640.
      4. Was a resident of Barnstable, MA in 1643 and admitted freeman there 2 June 1646.
      5. Held various public offices in Barnstable, including surveyor of highwayand constable.
      6. He and his wife were dismisssed from the Duxbury Church to the BarnstabelChurch
      27 August 1648.
      7.  In 1656 Dolar left the Ploymouth colony and returned to Massachusetts Bay, and
      purchased in Concord 150 acres with a house.
      8. In 1666 he returned to Barnstable where he resided until his death.
      His will -  Made on 13 September 1672 - (proved 2 Jul 1673)  Mentions sons Simon and
      Samuel as already having their portions, Eldest son John and son-in-law Lewis and Mary
      his wife also daughter Ruth Hall.
      Information from Book Daughter's of American Colonists Lineage Book Volume XIV (page 24)
      Dolar davis was Secretary to the First colonial Governor of Massachusetts (Bay Colony