John Davidson, DNA Family 17

Abt 1725 - Unknown

• Name	John Davidson
  Suffix	DNA Family 17
  Born	Abt 1725	Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Name	William Davidson
  Group	American Colonial Immigrants
  	Immigrants from the UK who came to United States or Canada before the Revolutionary War
  Group	Davidson Direct Descendant
  	Direct Descendant of any immigrant Davidson
  Group	Davidson DNA Family 017
  	Descendants of John Davidson and Mary Cody
  Group	Immigrant Ancestors
  	Immigrant Ancestors
  Died	Unknown	North Carolina
  Person ID	I12263	DNA Family 1 Genealogies
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family	Mary Cody,   b. Abt 1729,   d. Unknown, North Carolina
  Married	1750	Orange County, North Carolina
  Children	1. Rev. William Frederick Davidson,   b. 6 Apr 1751, North Carolina ,   d. 6 Oct 1832, Cleveland, Habersham County, Georgia  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	6 Dec 2020
  Family ID	F5083	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Davidson DNA Family 017 Descendants of John Davidson and Mary Cody

  
  

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  From Johnathan Kyle Davidson, December 2020: I purchased the Y-DNA tests for my uncle, Donald Davidson, who passed away in December 2015, and want to update the information that we have on his last known ancestor, John Davidson, listed below. Do you need confirmation from Family Tree DNA on my purchase? Kit Number: 157192, Donald Davidson Paternal Ancestor Name: John Davidson b. 1725, Inverness Castle, Scotland; m. 1750, Orange County, North Carolina, Mary Cody b. 1727; Description:  Jacobite taken prisoner and transferred to Virginia, after the 1746 Jacobite Trials in Carlisle, England. The John Davidson line first arrived during 1746, in the Virginia Colony, after the "Trials of Carlisle," where the surviving Jacobite Army soldiers were put on trial for treason to the Hanoverian Crown, following the "Battle of Culloden," in April 1746.  All Jacobite prisoners were hanged, except for members of the Clan Chatten; for they were brought onto the battlefield, during the last day of the battle, from pleas for help by the Jacobite cause and Chieftain of the Mackintosh's wife. The Clan Chatten was composed of related families and alliances of clans, North of the Grampian Mountains, who occupied Inverness Castle. Inverness Castle was the regional governmental seat. Earlier, on 14-15 November, 1745, the successful Siege of Carlisle by Charles Edward Stuart and his Jacobite Army was won.  Later in 1746, Charles Stuart was forced to retreat out of England and back to a stronghold in Scotland.  The Hanoverian Army soon besieged Carlisle and seized it.  Where do you go, when you stir up a hornet's nest in England? Well, the answer is Inverness Castle. Charles and the Jacobite Army fled to Inverness Castle for protection.  Charles flees to Rome and escapes the noose. He is still living in an apartment in Rome, while the Revolutionary War occurs in the British North American Colonies. The Davidson Y-DNA has been tested with the results of R1B>L-21 (Atlantic Celtic Branch, British Isles.) The second generation, from this Davidson line, was born in the North Carolina Colony and enlisted, as a private, in Colonel Thomas Polk's North Carolina 4th Regiment, in the Southern Division of the Continental Army, in Orange County, North Carolina Colony, on May 5, 1776, and fought under George Washington's command in Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, during the Revolutionary War. The name of this soldier, who was Johnathan's fourth great-grandfather, is Joseph Davidson, born 1754, son of John Davidson, born 1725, in Inverness, Scotland. On May 12, 1780, Joseph was captured at the Siege on Charleston, South Carolina, by the British, and spent about two years on a prison ship docked in the harbor at Brooklyn, New York. Later, in the summer of 1782, he was discharged in White Plains, New York.  He and one of his friends, on the prison ship, became ill, and his friend died of smallpox.  Joseph traveled from White Plains, New York to Orange County, North Carolina and got married, soon thereafter, to Sarah Peavy. In 1838, Sarah stated, "They had a total of thirteen children, with ten still living."  Joseph received land from land lotteries, in Georgia, and a pension for serving in the Continental Army.  He lived in Montgomery County, Alabama, before moving to Jasper County, Georgia, in 1818, and, later, to Pike County, Georgia. Thank you, Johnathan Davidson On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:39 PM Johnathan Davidson wrote: Hello, I want to update the Paternal Ancestor Name for the below Kit Number. Donald is my uncle, and I purchased the DNA tests. May I have contact information from the other matching kit numbers? Kit Number:  157192, Donald Davidson Paternal Ancestor Name: John Davidson b. 1725, Inverness Castle, Scotland; m. 1750, Orange County, North Carolina, Mary Cody b. 1727; Description: Jacobite Transfer to Virginia from the 1746 Jacobite Trials in Carlisle, England. Thank you, Johnathan Davidson