Capt. Benjamin Davis, of Montgomery county, Pa., who was First Lieutenant in the First Pennsylvania battalion, Col. Philip DeHass, October 27, 1775, promoted Captain January 5, 1776, serving in the Canada campaign. When this battalion, which in October, 1776 numbered five hundred and forty rank and file, returned to New Germantown, N. J., December, 1776, it numbered, rank and file, sixty-nine men, among whom was Capt. Benjamin Davis, who resigned January i, 1777.

He appears in the orderly book of the regiment as serving as "Captain of the Day," and as "Member of the Court Martial," at different times. Benjamin Davis, Jr., was Lieutenant of the Philadelphia Flying Camp 1776, elected a member of the Philadelphia City Troop October,1778, Honorary member September 10, 1787; died 1810, and was probably the Benjamin Davis, supra. Jane Davis, sister of Capt. Joseph Davis, married Col. John Patton, and died in Huntington, Pa., in 1832, aged 80 years. Capt. Joseph Davis social standing may be inferred by this connection, as Colonel Patton was a man held in high esteem by his co-patriots.