Davis: The Settlers of Salem, West Virginia by Susie Davis
Nicholson (Bicentennial Edition, 1992) has been reprinted. The
cost is $75.00 plus $4.00 postage and handling. (All the $60.00
preprinting orders have been filled.) This book is an extensive
genealogy very useful for other family lines as well. Our
Cemetery Association has reprinted the 3rd edition (1992) and is
selling it, proceeds to go to cemetery maintenance and
restoration.
Send check for $79.00 to the Salem & Greenbrier SDB Cemetery
Assn, 171 E. Main St., Salem WV 26426. (For more information
contact Janet Thorngate, same address; or (304) 782-1727; or
djthorn17@aol.com.
Susie (Davis) Nicholson granted permission to the Salem and
Greenbrier Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery Association to reprint
the book because it has been is continual demand. Proceeds go to
the Cemetery Association, which maintains the two historic
cemeteries where most of the original settlers and many of their
descendants are buried. This printing is clothbound, 930 pages,
7 x 10 inches, including index.
Synopsis: Out of print for over ten years, this third edition is
basically a genealogy of the family of Rev. William Davis
(1664-1745), born in Wales, settled in Pennsylvania in 1684,
died in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Several of his
descendants formed the core group that settled the town of
Salem, West Virginia (formerly New Salem, Virginia) in 1792.
Included are biographies of William Davis (updated 1992) and his
children and grandchildren who founded Salem and including
considerable information on Seventh Day Baptists, the religious
group of which they were a part first in Philadelphia, then
Stonington, Conn., then Shrewsbury, New Jersey until the church
migrated as a body to form the church and then the town in
Salem, West Virginia.
There are genealogical entries for 37,000 of their descendants
(down to 1992), 2,017 of them primary entries (i.e., assigned a
number as head of a family as opposed to all the listings under
those heads.) Included also is information on 35 colonial
families of England and New England who were ancestors of the
Davis families. Maps, photographs, and manuscript copies are
also included as well as the complete name index, all in one
volume.
Allied family names include Ash, Babcock, Bee, Bond, Cox, Fitz
Randolph, Ford, Hall, Hutson, Maxson, Nicholson, Randolph,
Smith, Sutton, Tharp, Williams, and many others.)
Please send me a copy of Davis: The Settlers of Salem, West
Virginia (2005 reprint of the 3rd edition, 1992). Enclosed is a
check or money order for & $79.00 ($75.00 plus $4.00 postage &
handling) or for $75.00 if I plan to pick up the book in Salem.
Name______________________________________ Amount of Check:
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