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Frank D. Andrews, ROBERT AYARS AND HIS DESCENDANTS, Vineland, NJ, Privately Published, 1918, p. 10. He was brother of Samual Davis, who married Anna Ayars, Esther's sister, and son of Elnathan Davis, of Trenton, NJ, Surveyor General.
"He was the son of Elnathan Davis, and nephew to the forementioned Jonathan Davis: he took the oversight of Shiloh at the time of the constitution [1737], and was one of the constituents: he continued in the oversight to Feb. 2, 1769, when he died, in the 60th year of his age: there is a handsome tomb raised to his memory in Shiloh graveyard. His wife was Esther Ayars, who bore him many children, who died young, except Jerman Davis, Elnathan Davis, and Naomi Davis; they married into the families of the Ayars and Bonds, and have raised him 24 grandchildren." Morgan Edwards, MATERIALS TOWARD A HISTORY OF THE BAPTISTS, Vol. 1, 1770, Reprinted by Heritage Papers, Gallatin, GA, 1984, pp. 137-138.
He was the first official pastor of the Shiloh Seventh Day Baptist Church Ebenezer Mack Treman and Murray E. Poole, THE HISTORY OF THE TREMAN, TREMAINE, TRUMAN FAMILY IN AMERICA, WITH THE RELATED FAMILIES OF MACK, DEY, BOARD, AND AYERS, (Ithaca, NY, Ithaca Democrat, 1901), p. 1547.
He was ordained 26 Nov 1738.
He was an original signer of the Shiloh covenant. REGISTER OF THE COHANSEY SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST CHURCH: 1737-1830, Ernest K. Bee, Jr., Editor, Plainfield, New Jersey, Seventh Day Baptist Publishing House, 1976, pp. 1B.
HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH DAY BAPTIST CHURCH, SHILOH, NEW JERSEY, 1737-1987, John Caminga, Editor, Shiloh, New Jersey, Historical Committee, 1987, pp. 38-40.
"JONATHAN DAVIS, b. 1710, son of Elnathan Davis; sett. Cohansey (Cumb.) N.J., Chh. at Shiloh, 27 Mar. 1737-1769; 7th Day Bapt.; d. Shiloh, Cohansey, N.J., 2 Feb. 1769, a. 59." COLONIAL CLERGY OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES, Compiled by Frederick Lewis Weis, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1978, p. 38.