Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Timeline notes for Phillip David
abt 1690. This is very ballpark guess as to when Philip David was born based on life events. I have no idea where. I have no idea the names of his parents. I would assume he was born well away from New Hanover County, perhaps in Europe perhaps in some other part of Colonial America.
Maybe he came from Wales, a guess only based on the fact that his son David David later bought a 640 acre tract on the Welsh Tract. There’s a book on the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania and the index includes quite a number of people with the David surname. Also, Saint David is the Patron Saint of Wales. But, still, just a guess.
I think I first became aware of the David family from the writeup on John Deloit Lamb in the the Sampson County Heritage book. It says he was the son of William Lamb and Abigail David Lamb (b.1752), the daughter of Ann and David David, a planter and carpenter of New Hanover County. It says further that David David died 3 Mar 1775, he was the son of Philip David who died 1747. I believe and think I have verified everything it says there.
In 1738, Philip David bought a town lot on Market Street — between Front and Second Street I think — and perhaps a little later he bought a 640 acre tract on the North East Cape Fear River near Rocky Point.
On 5 Aug 1747, Philip wrote his wlll which proved in the December Court in 1747 (so he died, say Autumn 1747). He left his land on the North East Cape fFar River to son David who was then living there and he split his town lot, which then had four houses on it, between his son David (who he also gave his carpenter tools) and his daughter Mary McKeithen — they each got half the land and two houses.
In a book entitled Wilmington Town Book which tells the early history of Wilmington, Philip David is documented to have been among the very early group of citizens involved with completing a proper survey of the streets of the town and in May, 1743 subscribed money for that purpose along with 20 others. Philip should be considered a town founder. Both Philip and his son David were mentioned numerous times in that book but only for little things like being part of a work crew on the streets.
Maybe he came from Wales, a guess only based on the fact that his son David David later bought a 640 acre tract on the Welsh Tract. There’s a book on the Welsh Tract of Pennsylvania and the index includes quite a number of people with the David surname. Also, Saint David is the Patron Saint of Wales. But, still, just a guess.
I think I first became aware of the David family from the writeup on John Deloit Lamb in the the Sampson County Heritage book. It says he was the son of William Lamb and Abigail David Lamb (b.1752), the daughter of Ann and David David, a planter and carpenter of New Hanover County. It says further that David David died 3 Mar 1775, he was the son of Philip David who died 1747. I believe and think I have verified everything it says there.
In 1738, Philip David bought a town lot on Market Street — between Front and Second Street I think — and perhaps a little later he bought a 640 acre tract on the North East Cape Fear River near Rocky Point.
On 5 Aug 1747, Philip wrote his wlll which proved in the December Court in 1747 (so he died, say Autumn 1747). He left his land on the North East Cape fFar River to son David who was then living there and he split his town lot, which then had four houses on it, between his son David (who he also gave his carpenter tools) and his daughter Mary McKeithen — they each got half the land and two houses.
In a book entitled Wilmington Town Book which tells the early history of Wilmington, Philip David is documented to have been among the very early group of citizens involved with completing a proper survey of the streets of the town and in May, 1743 subscribed money for that purpose along with 20 others. Philip should be considered a town founder. Both Philip and his son David were mentioned numerous times in that book but only for little things like being part of a work crew on the streets.