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Excerpt from George Davis, Attorney-General of the Confederate States: An Address Delivered Before the Supreme Court of North Carolina, October 19, 1915 In the maternal line, Mr. Davis was descended from William Swann, who settled Swann's Point opposite Jamestown in Virginia, and died there in 1638, and from Major Alexander Lillington, who in 1676, along with George Durant and others, turned out the Governor appointed by the Lords Proprietors, and established a free parliament in Albemarle; and in every succeeding generation his forbears and kinsmen were con cerned in the administration of public affairs. The names of Roger Moore, of Maurice Moore, of Edward Moseley, and Sam Swann were still familiar in the households of New Hanover when on 1 March, 1820, at Porter's Neck, overlooking the ocean, George Davis was born to his parents, Thomas Frederick Davis and his wife, Sarah Isabella Eagles. He was their youngest child, the eldest, Thomas, born in 1804 being then a student at the University, Junius coming next, and then Ann, afterwards Mrs. Poisson, endowed with unusual intellectual gifts and one of the most charming of her sex. Joseph Eagles, the father of Sarah Isabella, was a gentleman of elegant culture, and she herself was beautifully accomplished, and her children received from her many lovely characteristics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical