Hello there. I am still looking for information on Edward Davis, from King and Queen county. There seems to be almost no information on him. The William & Mary college quarterly historical papers vol. 3 1894-95 (page 40) state that he married Mary Reade, the daughter of Francis Reade and Jane Chisman. Francis Reade, of Gloucester county is supposed to have died around 1694, to give a relative time frame. I saw no source for this information in the WMQ article, but presumably there must have been some sort of will, or deed, or register where they obtained that information.
https://archive.org/details/williammarycolle18941895tyle/page/n87/mode/2upThe only other information I managed to find on this Edward Davis was in the book Some Yancey, Hicks, and Medearis Descendants, written in the 1970s, which seems to be quite a well researched book, giving lots of sources, that mentions a deed from April 7th, 1749 in which Edward Davis of Essex county, schoolmaster, buys a tract of land for 30 pounds, part in Essex county, part in King and Queen, from a tailor named William Tywman. That seems to be all there is.
Both "Some Yancey, Hicks, and Medearis Descendants" and "Genealogy of Yancey, Medearis, and Related Lines," both focused on the family of Captain/Brevet Major John Medearis, when speculating about the parents of Captain John's mother, a certain Rachel Davis, mention that Edward Davis and Mary Reade had a daughter named Rachel, though they aren't certain that this is the same woman. Rachel seems to be quite a common name among the Davis family in the region. I have encountered several in my research all around the same time and I believe it may have to do with Captain James Davis and his wife Rachel (possibly Keyes?) who settled in the region, and died in the 1620s.
I have contacted two libraries, one in K&Q and one in Gloucester County, but they've said these are burned regions and wills and other such records are nearly all gone now. But seeing as the WMQ article that mentions the marriage of Edward Davis and Mary Reade was written in 1894/5, there must have been some post-bellum sources they were using. I would greatly appreciate any information on the Davis family, and particularly if there is any list of children for Edward and Mary Davis. I have written to the William and Mary Quarterly to see if they might have some information, but given the situation right now with the lockdown, I'm not sure they're operational at the moment.
Thanks for taking the time to read.