<Sent in March 2019>
Greetings Friends!, {of Shrewsbury Mtg}
I am working on a history/genealogy of early Quakers of your Meeting.
Might you have any links for on-line lists of members specific to Shrewsbury.
I’m particularly interested in the <DAVIS> family in the years between the earliest of your Meeting and 1750
I am working forward from the following:
==from http://www.njfounders.org/history/growth-settlement-1 ==
1676: Eliakim Wardell, in right of Nicholas Davis, ten shares, 480 acres
from a list of some of the earliest settlers who claimed land ownership under Grants and Concessions. The records were taken from the Proprietors Records at Perth Amboy and reprinted in Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey by John E. Stillwell M.D., New York, 1906.
another topic:
There was and early Nicholas Davis who was the brother of Dolar Davis. Is this the Nicholas Davis who was imprisoned in Boston?:
"Quakers had been spreading elsewhere on the South Shore during these years. Nicholas Davis, early Sandwich Quaker who had been imprisoned in Boston for three months in 1659 for his faith, returned home to become the first settler of Hyannis. "
http://www.capecodquakers.org/smm_history.html
I see this profile on GENi: Nicholas Davis
There are so many early New Engand Quakers named Nicholas Davis!
Add to this, that there are indications that the Nicholas Davis, Quaker, patentee of Monmouth who may have fathered Thomas Davis of Middletown Jersey Province
I should point out a circumstance that ties the Monmouth County Davis and Shrewsbury MM Quakers named Davis to those who started the oldest MM on Cape Cod. It involves the story of Mary Dyer and her fellow persecuted companion Nicholas Davis who were imprisoned in Boston in 1659.
Eliakim Wardell and his wife were also persecuted Quakers of Mass. colony. The couple ended up in Monmouth and were associated with a Nicholas Davis there.
I therefore wonder if the two Nicholas Davises I mention here are one and the same?