Benjamin Davis

Benjamin married Rebecca Conklin Abt 1712, , Suffolk, New York, United States. Rebecca (daughter of John Conkling) was born Abt 1694, , Suffolk, New York, United States; died 1772, , Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. David Davis was born 11 Mar 1714; died 6 May 1761.
2. Eliakim Davis was born Cal 1721, of, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States; died 18 Nov 1808, Mount Sinai, Suffolk, New York, United States; was buried , Eliakim Davis Cemetery, Mount Sinai, Suffolk, New York, United States.
3. Gilliam Davis died Aft 1768.
4. Hannah Davis
5. Silas Davis was born 1735; died 9 Sep 1796.
6. Zopher Davis died 1782.
7. Elizabeth Davis
8. William Davis

Joseph married Elizabeth Mather Abt 1670, , Town of Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Timothy Mather and Elizabeth Catherine Atherton) was born Abt 1645, , Town of Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States; died 23 Feb 1702, Mount Sinai, Suffolk, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

Foulk married Mary. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The Mather family has included many brilliant men. (See Lineage of Rev. Richard Mather, by Horace E. Mather, pp. 539, Hartford, 1890.) Dr. Increase Mather', son of Rev. Richard Mather, and his sons, Dr. Cotton Mather and Rev. Nathaniel Mather (See A Colonial Boyhood, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 88 (1901), p. 651.), are so well known as to require no treatment here. The English home of the family was in Lawton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire, England, where it is of record that Thomas, the father, and John, the grandfather, of the American ancestor resided. The family arms as preserved in the family of the early 11lathers of Boston are described thus:

Arms: -Ermine on a fesse wavy Azure, three lions rampant, Or.
Crest: -A lion sedant, Or.

This coat of arms is found in MS.: "Promptuarium Armorum," and is there recorded as the arms of William Mather of Salop, 1602. The motto is sometimes given "Sunt Fortia Pectora Nobis," and sometimes "Virtus Vera Nobilitas Est."

Although the ancestor of the family settled at Dorchester, his grandsons removed to Connecticut and founded the Windsor, Lyme, and Suffield branches of the Mather family. All the Mathers now living are descended from Timothy Mather' of Dorchester, the "Farmer Mather," the other lines having ended at the death of Samuel Mather, the grandson of Dr. Cotton Mather. Many persons claim decent from Dr. Cotton Mather, but they are in error, though some are descended from Mathers who bore the name of Cotton.

Rev. Richard1, the American ancestor of the Mathers, was born in Lowton, Winwick Parish, Lancashire, England, in 1596. He married (1) Catherine, daughter of Edmund Holt of Bury, England, from whom this branch of the family is descended, on Sept. 29, 1624. They came to America from Bristol, reaching Boston on Aug. 17, 1635, and settling at Dorchester. The wife Catherine, who bore all the children of Rev. Richard Mather, died in 1655, and he married (2) the widow of Rev. John Cotton. All his sons who came to mature age, five in number, were ministers, with the exception of Timothy, the "Farmer." Timothy's brother, Increase, was the president of Harvard College and a great man in the colony. Richard' died April 22, 1669.

Timothy2, second son of Rev. Richard1 and Catherine, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1628, and died in Dorchester, Mass., Jan. 14, 1684. He married (1) Elizabeth, the daughter of Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton of Dorchester, who bore all his children, five sons and one daughter. In March 1678-9, he married (2) Elizabeth, daughter of Amiel Weeks.

Atherton3, youngest son of Timothy2 and Catherine, was born in Dorchester, Oct. 4, 1663, and died in Suffield, Conn., Nov. 9, 1734. He married (1) _____; (2) Rebecca Stoughton, daughter of Thomas Stoughton on Sept. 20, 1694; and (3) Mary Lamb of Roxbury, Mass. on October 24, 1705. He removed to Suffield in 1712 and founded the Suffield branch of the Mather family. He represented the town of Suffield in Boston for four years in the General Court. He was a cousin of Dr. Cotton Mather. He had five sons and three daughters.

William4, oldest son of Atherton3 and Rebecca, was born in Windsor, Ct., March 2, 1698, and died in Suffield, Ct., in 1747. He married Silence Buttolph, daughter of David Buttolph of Simsbury, Ct., on Nov. 7, 1721 and had six sons and one daughter.

Timothy5, oldest son of William4 and Silence, was born in Greenwich, N. J., Aug. 4, 1722, and lived in Suffield, Ct. On Oct. 25, 1748, he married (1) Hannah Fuller, who died April 7, 1757. By her, he had two sons and two daughters. On March 6, 1760, he married widow Lucy Kellogg, by whom he had three sons.

Timothy6, second son (fourth child) of Timothy5 and Hannah, was born in Suffield, Ct., March 2, 1757, and died March 8, 1818. In 1779, he married Hannah, daughter of Dea. John Church, who died in Oct. 1827. He lived in Marlboro, Vt., and had six sons and four daughters.

Hannah7, second daughter (second child) of Timothy6 and Hannah, was born in Marlboro, Vt., July 1, 1781. She lived at Leyden, N. Y., and died March 9, 1680. On Jan. 1, 1799, she married Rev. Ruel Kimball, who died Oct. 1, 1847. They had six sons and five daughters.

Timothy married Elizabeth Catherine Atherton Abt 1649, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. United States. Elizabeth was christened 28 Sep 1628, Church of England, Winwick, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom; died 15 May 1678, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. United States; was buried , Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. United States. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Richard Mather was born in Lowton, in the parish of Winwick, Lancashire, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but nevertheless entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.[1]
He studied at Winwick grammar school, of which he was appointed a master in his fifteenth year, and left it in 1612 to become master of a newly established school at Toxteth Park, Liverpool. After a few months at Brasenose College, Oxford, he began in November 1618 to preach at Toxteth, and was ordained there, possibly only as deacon, early in 1619.[1]
Between August and November 1633 he was suspended for nonconformity in matters of ceremony; and in 1634 was again suspended by the visitors of Richard Neile, archbishop of York, who, hearing that he had never worn a surplice during the fifteen years of his ministry, refused to reinstate him and said that "it had been better for him that he had begotten seven bastards".[1]
He had a great reputation as a preacher in and about Liverpool; but, advised by letters of John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, he was persuaded to join the company of pilgrims in May 1635 and embarked at Bristol for New England.[2]
On 3 June 1635, Richard, wife Katherine, and children Samuel, Timothy, Nathaniel, and Joseph, all set sail for the New World aboard the ship James. On June 3, 1635, the James joined four other ships, and set sail for the New World with just over 100 passengers as part of a fleet of five ships, including the families of Richard Mather, Captain John Evered and John Ayer. As they approached New England, a hurricane struck and they were forced to ride it out just off the coast of modern-day Hampton, New Hampshire. According to the ship's log and the journal of Increase Mather, whose father Richard Mather and family were passengers, the following was recorded;
"At this moment,... their lives were given up for lost; but then, in an instant of time, God turned the wind about, which carried them from the rocks of death before their eyes. ...her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if they had been rotten ragges..."
They tried to stand down during the storm just outside the Isles of Shoals, but lost all three anchors, as no canvas or rope would hold, but on Aug 13, 1635, torn to pieces, and with not one death, all one hundred plus passengers of the James managed to make it to Boston Harbor.
He arrived at Boston on 15 August 1635, in the midst of the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.
As a famous preacher "he was desired at Plimouth, Dorchester, and Roxbury".[3] He went to Dorchester, where the Church had been greatly depleted by migrations to Windsor, Connecticut; and where, after a delay of several months, in August 1636 there was constituted by the consent of magistrates and clergy a church of which he was "teacher" until his death in Dorchester on the 22 April 1669.[3] He was buried in the Dorchester North Burying Ground. [4]
Family
Mather married in 1624 Katherine Hoult or Holt (died 1655), and secondly in 1656 Sarah Hankredge (died 1676), the widow of John Cotton. Of six sons, all by his first wife, four were ministers:[3]
Samuel (1626–1671), the first fellow of Harvard College who was a graduate, chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1650–1653, and pastor (1656–1671, excepting suspension in 1660–1662) of Church of St. Nicholas Within Dublin [3]
Nathaniel (1630–1697), who graduated at Harvard in 1647, was vicar of Barnstaple, Devon, in 1656–1662, pastor of the English Church in Rotterdam, his brother's successor in Dublin in 1671–1688, and then until his death pastor of a church in London;
Eleazar (1637–1669), who graduated at Harvard in 1656 and after preaching in Northampton, Massachusetts, for three years, became in 1661 pastor of the church there;
Increase (1639–1723) was a Puritan minister and a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts).
Horace E. Mather, in his "Lineage of Richard Mather", (Hartford, Connecticut, 1890), gives a list of 80 clergymen descended from Richard Mather, of whom 29 bore the name Mather and 51 other names, the most common being Storrs and Schauffler.[3]
References
1 Webster, Richard (1911). "Mather, Richard". In Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. pp. 885.

2 Webster, Richard (1911). "Mather, Richard". In Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. pp. 885-886

3 Webster, Richard (1911). "Mather, Richard". In Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) Cambridge University Press. pp. 886

Richard married Katherine Holt 29 Sep 1624, Church of England of Saint Mary the Virgin, Bury, Lancaster, England, United Kingdom. Katherine was born 18 Jan 1596, Bury, Lancaster, England, United Kingdom; was christened 18 Jan 1596, Church of England of Saint Mary the Virgin, Bury, Lancaster, England, United Kingdom; died Mar 1655, Dorchester North Burying Ground, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. United States. [Group Sheet]