Augustine Jr. Davis

• formal_name:
• first_date: 1793
• last_date: 1793
• function: Printer's Devil
• locales: Richmond
• precis: Printer's devil in press office of his father Augustine Davis (119).
• notes: Printer's Devil
  Richmond
  Printer's devil in press office of his father Augustine Davis (119).
  The sons of Augustine Davis have left only fleeting evidence of their lives; Augustine Jr. has the most heart-rending story among them. He drowned in the James River while swimming near Ross's mill in May 1793 at nine or ten years of age; it was reported then that this second of Davis's sons was a devil in his office at that time.
  
  
  Personal Data
  
  Born:
  c.
  1784
  Henrico County, Virginia
  
  Died:
  19 May
  1793
  Henrico County, Virginia
  
  Sources: Hubbard on Richmond; obituary in father's Virginia Gazette, and General Advertiser, 25 May 1793.
  
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