Memorst Clinton (1747 - abt. 1788)

Born 11 Sep 1747 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Davis — married about 1767 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Died about 28 Sep 1788 at about age 41 in Derby, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Mamre Clinton, daughter of Thomas Clinton (Clenton) of New Haven, was born 11 September 1747 and baptized as Memorost (Christ Church Statford) on 1 October 1747.

She married Joseph Davis, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Tomlinson) Davis, about 1767. She and Joseph had at least five sons. Their son Isaac became a merchant in western New York. The others sons (William, Thomas, Joshua and Samuel Davis) were sailors and privateers, each being killed or lost at sea during the Quasi-War with France, 1798-1800.

Mamre died 28 September 1788 and was buried in Old Episcopal Graveyard in Ansonia, New Haven, Connecticut.

Sources

• Clinton, Mrs. E. J., The Clinton Family of Connecticut, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1915) Vol. 69, Page 58
• Davis Family Bible (transcription, c. 1958) last in possession of descendants of James Gibbs Davies, Winnipeg Canada. Transcribed pages housed in collection titled "Davies and Allied Families Papers. Arkansas Archives. Little Rock, Arkansas
• Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934. The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions./i Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library via Ancestry.com. 2012
• Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. United States, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979.
• Beardsley, A., Orcutt, S. (1880). The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880: With Biographies and Genealogies. United States: Press of Springfield Printing Company