Isaac Davis Jr. the fourth chid of Dea. Isaac and Anna Brigham, devoted forty years of his life to the cotton industry. In his early manhood he engaged teaching on the Maine coast, which then was a part of Massachusetts. In 1801 he returned for his bride, Polly Rice, daughter of Dea. Seth Rice and Sarah Brigham of Northborough and took her to Trenton, on the coast opposite Mt. Desert. There the most if not all his twelve children were born. In 1819 he came to Northborough to make a trial of the cotton mill before disposing of his home on the coast and moving his family from there.
source: "Three Generation of Northboro Davises 1781 - 1894" by John Davis Estabrook 1908 page 39
source: "Three Generation of Northboro Davises 1781 - 1894" by John Davis Estabrook 1908 page 39
Isaac Davis Jr. the fourth chid of Dea. Isaac and Anna Brigham, devoted forty years of his life to the cotton industry. In his early manhood he engaged teaching on the Maine coast, which then was a part of Massachusetts. In 1801 he returned for his bride, Polly Rice, daughter of Dea. Seth Rice and Sarah Brigham of Northborough and took her to Trenton, on the coast opposite Mt. Desert. There the most if not all his twelve children were born. In 1819 he came to Northborough to make a trial of the cotton mill before disposing of his home on the coast and moving his family from there.
source: "Three Generation of Northboro Davises 1781 - 1894" by John Davis Estabrook 1908 page 39
source: "Three Generation of Northboro Davises 1781 - 1894" by John Davis Estabrook 1908 page 39
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