
This Davison data has been gathered from Wills Deeds, Census Records, Cemetery Records, Bible Records, Church Records, Family Records, Newspaper item of obituaries, weddings etc, Female lines as well as ones have been run to date as far as possible.
Where the man and the woman are both descendants of Robert Davison, the issue is given under the man. The * mark before a name indicates the line is continued on a separate page with that name at the top. The number following a name indicates the generation The number before the name indicates that person's
individual number. The data concerning the Bedell and DeMott families is the lineage of Nancy(Anne) Demott who married, Robert Davison who was employed by her father, Antonte DeMott, at the time they were married.
The Rockville Cemetery referred to to the cemetery located on Merrick Rd. between Rockville Centre and Lynbrook, It has been known as the Sandhole, Lynbrook, Old Church and Rockville Cemetery. The Methodist Protestant Church, which is now in Lynbrook, was formerly in the middle of this Cemetery, The first edifice was constructed about 1790. Lynbrook was formerly called Pearealls and Pearsall Corners. East Rockaway was called Near Rockaway. Both of these villages and.Rockville Centre are in the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York.
Robert Davison made his will 15 Mar. 1819, at which time
Alexander was the only child living home and as yet unmarried,
Alexander married 19 March 1823. As a matter of law an Executor
cannot convey property to himself which doubtless Robert knew
as he did not make Alexander an Executor but probably desiring
him to buy the home and mill property from the Executors, made
his sons Robert and Anthony and his friend Oliver Denton the
Executors, Oliver Denton's daughter., Amelia, married Alexander
19 Mar. 1823,
Robert Davvison's will was probated 23 Jan, 1824
The property alluded to was the farm and mill property an Ocean Avenue and Atlantic Avenue., East Rockaway, New York. The mill was a grist and saw mill located at the head of the East Rockaway creek with house opposite with about forty acres of land, This creek was at the foot of Mill River which starts in Hempstead Village,