The book, "Descendants of Samuel Davis of Ulster County, New York", by David Davis and published in 1968, says Samuel and three brothers, "came to the colonies from Wales some time between 1710 and 1730". He says two brothers located in Ulster Co. NY and goes on to say, "The other two brothers decided to settle in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia." David says Samuel was about 12 when he crossed the Atlantic but he gives no other hint of the age of the brothers. There is no further information on the brothers who located in Virginia, apparently he was not able to follow their trail, so we have no idea when they might have moved their, though a guess would have been in the early to mid 1700s, and no idea if they were successful and stayed. Does this ring a bell with any researchers of early Davis settlers of James City County, Virginia? One other hint, Samuel named his children as follows (and in this order), Jacobus, Isaac, Elizabeth, John, Peter, Jean (Jennetje), Maria, Esaias, Winifred, Catherine, then Rachel. Perhaps the brothers would have used some of these names as well. We are just now doing a DNA sample on a Davis who has a strong paper trail to Samuel, so the possibility of connecting these branches by DNA exists. Thanks for any help. Richard

Jefferson Davis was said to have been from James City County, Va... There were Davis families in Warwick, York, and Elizabeth City Counties, some of whom have been researched...

Could possibly be related to same Davises in Richmond County, Virginia in 1762? Tracking parents of John Davis who married Lydda/Lydia/Lidda Lyons in Granville, NC in 1784. Would love to hear from those related. Many Davises appear around Middlesex, VA and well before 1700s.

Hi Kathleen, Has a male Davis from your family joined the DNA Davis Project? As more and more of us do that we will start finding connections that will help greatly in our research.

We're on Sorenson's DNA. Can you tell more about Davis study please? Thank you.

Here is the e-address of the Davis Project on Family Tree DNA - http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Davis/default.aspx
There are now about 310 Davises listed from all over the US and elsewhere, click on "Y-DNA Results" in the upper left to see the list. The Davis I mentioned in my first post in this thread will have his results listed here about the end of May (my own results are the Moses Davis at the very bottom of the list). I believe you can have your Soronson's results included on the Davis Project, just contact Elby Davis, the administrator of the project.
Regards, Richard

Thank you, Richard. Would like to email Elby Davis about progect directly since we are working with Sorenson and not FTDNA. I have quite a number of males Davises testing.