SUSSEX DELAWARE DAVIS
LAWYER
Sussex Delaware Davis,
lawyer, son of a famous American of pre-Revolutionary
War days, a grandson of a
colonial days preacher, has died at age 86, March 5th
1925 in Wilmington.
Mr. Davis was born at
“Delaware Place:” near Wilmington , December 30, 1838,
to Samuel Boyer and Sallie
Jones Davis. Sallie was the second wife of Samuel.
Samuel Boyer Davis was a
son of Rev Samuel Davis, a Presbyterian minister who
came to America from
Ireland in 1692 and first settled in North Carolina then came to
Wilmington in 1750 to make
a permanent home.
Samuel Boyer Davis, father
of Sussex Delaware Davis, tired of employment at a
Wilmington counting house,
went out for adventure. He made several trips to France
and married a daughter of
Baron Pierre de Boisfontaine. He became a captain in the \
French Navy and when the
French revolution broke out he and his wife came to New Orleans
where the Spanish, then in
control of Louisiana, made him captain of the port. When the
United States took over
Louisiana as a state of the union, he became a New Orleans Justice of
the Peace.
When war with the British
in 1812 came about, he was made a Lieutenant in the
U. S. Navy and set to Lewes
Delaware to defend it, and, successfully drove off the British
Fleet of Admiral
Beresford, the British commander.
During this period of time
his first wife died and he married Sally Jones who became
the mother of Sussex
Delaware Davis.
Sussex Delaware Davis was
graduated from Princeton in 1850 and the Chief
Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase, appointed him Register
of Bankruptcy in
Philadelphia, a post he held until the repeal of the Bankruptcy Act
in the
early 1870's. Since
then he has lived in this city and practiced law.
The surviving members of
the family are two sons, Samuel Boyer Davis and
Robert Hare Davis, a
daughter, Mrs Caroline Hare Davis Hall, all living in
Philadelphia
Sussex Delaware Davis was
a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church and the
Rittenhouse Club.
Abstract June 3, 2018 by
Harrison H from The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 7, 1925.
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