The Davis family : a history of the descendants of William Davis and his wife, Mary Means .. . day, and at that time was veryrare. We have some employers, like the Messrs. Patter-son of the National Cash Register Company, at Dayton,Ohio, who take great pains to make their employees com-fortable, and to give them time and opportunities for per-sonal improvement, so that their humanity has excitedthe admiration of the entire country. But the had as much care for the moral and religiousimprovement of their people as they had for their physicalcomfort. They established a Sunday scho
The Davis family : a history of the descendants of William Davis and his wife, Mary Means .. . day, and at that time was veryrare. We have some employers, like the Messrs. Patter-son of the National Cash Register Company, at Dayton,Ohio, who take great pains to make their employees com-fortable, and to give them time and opportunities for per-sonal improvement, so that their humanity has excitedthe admiration of the entire country. But the had as much care for the moral and religiousimprovement of their people as they had for their physicalcomfort. They established a Sunday school among themthe result of which was, according to the testimony ofthe Halls, that, from being a lot of idle, straggling, starv-ing creatures, they were transformed into industrious,comfortable, self-respecting, and happy people. JAMES THE FIRST JAMES DAVIS, son of Samuel, was born nearDrumquin, March 1, 1699. On January 3, 1729,he married Eliza Jennings, who was born May 3, 1706,and died in Tinicum township, Bucks County, Pa., in1746. In 1735 James, his wife, and two children, William «. JAMES THE FIRST 7 and Patrick, were among the large number of those whocrowded the vessels sailing to America that year. Sogreat had been the exodus from Ulster of the best andmost desirable part of its population, that the BritishGovernment took measures, that very year, to put anend to this emigration. Our ancestor, however, suc-ceeded in reaching America with his little family. Set-tling in Pennsylvania, in what later became Tinicumtownship, Bucks County, he purchased two hundredacres of land upon which he established a home, andoccupied the same until his death in 1760,^ He was a prominent and active citizen in his com-munity. His name appears in the County Records asauditor, appointed by the Court, in the settlement ofdifiFerent estates, as a road commissioner, etc. In thewinter of 1747-1748, when the whole frontier was threat-ened with the depredations of Indians, the inhabitantsabove t
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