Isaac Davids Lavinia Van Tassel

Anna   Cornelia   Charles   Albert   Abraham Nancy Van Wart

Samuel Y.   Washington   Henry V.   Anna Maria   Abraham I.

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Davids family history

• Isaac Davids, baptized 21 August 1731 in New York, suggested by Jim Downey by phone, married Lavinia Van Tassel, having children Anna, Cornelia, Charles, Albert, and others who may have died in infancy.
• X. Van Tassel, suggested by Jim Downey by phone
• Abraham Davids, was born in the vicinity of Tarrytown, Westchester County, N.Y. in 1774. About the year 1800 he brought his family down to New York City, and continued to reside there until about 1812 when he moved to what is now Chelsea, Duchess County, N.Y. He was the master of a sloop which sailed up and down the Hudson, ran grocery stores in both Fishkill and New York, and later in life was a U.S. Customs inspector in New York City. At one stage in his career he also ran the ferry between Newburgh and what is now Beacon, N.Y. After his retirement he lived with his daughter and son-in-law in Matteawan (now part of Beacon), N.Y., where he died Nov. 15, 1863 aged 89 years. Araham Davids married, about 1795, to NANCY VAN WART.
• Nancy Van Wart of Tarrytown, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Youngs) Van Wart. She was born in Tarrytown about 1779 and died in Fishkill Landing, N.Y. July 28, 1849.
• Samuel Youngs Davids, born Aug 20, 1796, died June 24, 1798. He is buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown.
• Washington, born 1800, died Dec 24, 1881 in poughkeepsie, N.Y. He married, about 1824, Mime or Jemima Rosecrance (1801-1860) of Fishkill. Listed in 1840 NY census of Dutchess County. Their children were:
  Anna Mary (1825-1850), married D.A.T. Gale ;
  Emeline B. (1830-1889), married Lemuel A. Chichester
  Delaphine C. (1831-1900), married George B. Gibbs
  Caroline (1838-1908), married Stephen H. Warren
• Henry Van Wart Davids, son of Abraham and Nancy Davids, was born in New York City in 1803 and died in Fishkill Landing, N.Y. Feb 21, 1842. During his life he lived in both Fishkill and New York City. He was, like his father, the master of a Hudson River sloop, and also ran a grocery and worked as an inkmaker. The last few years of his life he was a dentist in Manhattan. Henry Van Wart Davids married Maria Brinckerhoff lived in Fishkill-on-the-Hudson in N.Y., these identifications from a bible kept in the Edgerton family. Fishkill is 4 miles west the town named Brinkerhoff, both about 40 miles north of Manhattan. The will of their son Henry S. Davids refers to a neice Mary Oscar Davids. This family has been extensively studied by James Downey.
• Anna Maria, born Jan 15, 1809, died Jan 20, 1884 in Matteawan, N.Y. She married, before July 1, 1835, Thomas Pine Thorne of Fishkill (1805-1885). Their children:
  Irving (1838-1884), married Catherine Shea
  Mary E. (1843-1936), married William W. King
  Octavia H. (1847-?), married (1st) Abner B. Mase, (2nd) William D. Barron, (3rd) Mr. Corbett
  
  Edwin (1851-?)
  Henry Van Wart (1855-1913), married Jennie Hawkes
• Abraham Isaac Davids, generally called A. Isaac, born 1812, moved down to Charleston, South Carolina, and was living there in 1850. In 1856 he moved to Chicago, and lived there until 1864. He married, about 1838, Matilda ---. Their children :
  Julia (c. 1839-?)
  Henry (c. 1841-?)
  Lawrence Lee (c. 1845-1893), resided in New York City.
  Georgeanna
  possibly others
  Abraham Isaac became a good painter of portraits, signs, and historical murals, living in Charleston, South Carolina. After the civil war, he became a photographer, and Jim Downey felt he possibly photographed his father, who died in 1863.

  Information on the Davids and Brinckerhoff families come from [A] research by James Downey, [B] a record in a bible, and [C] email communication with Kathryn Greene and Pat Stephenson.