Author: John Davis
"JOHN DAVIS. (1761-1847.) Hon. John Davis, LL.D., born in Plymouth, Mass., Jan. 25, 1761, was the son of Thomas and Mercy (Hedge) Davis. He attended the schools of Alexander Scammel and Peleg Wadsworth, the former an Adjutant-General of the American Army, who was killed at the battle of Yorktown, and the latter the grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Having entered Harvard College in 1777, he graduated with honor at the Commencement in 1781, on which occasion he was the class poet. He afterward taught school in Plymouth, and, still later, was a teacher in the family of Joseph Otis, of Barnstable, the brother of James Otis. He studied law with Oakes Angier, of Bridgewater, and subsequently with Benjamin Lincoln, son of General Lincoln…
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