Davis family

The persons represented in this collection are ancestors of the donors, Elizabeth Allen and Sarah Davis, who are first cousins.

The Reverend Daniel Shines (1759-1843) was a Methodist circuit rider in eastern North Carolina in the 1790s. He later settled as a minister in Warrenton, N.C. Evidence in the papers indicates that he married Sarah Richmond Long, widow of Gabriel Long and mother of Rebecca Wesley Long Hill (1791-1867), who married Charles Applewhite Hill.

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