Family Tree of Willard T. Weeks

The Davidson family tree starts with John Davidson (b.1690) and his son Roderick Davidson (1723-1822) who married first Unknown and second Ann Fraser (1738-1808).

(copied by Virginia P. Street from the Family Tree chart drawn by Celestia Linner which was later lost).

John Davidson, my great, great grandfather, the first of our family of whom I have any knowledge, was born in the latter half of the seventeenth centry, probably about 1690-5, and resided in the parish of Avoch, Ross-shire, Scotland. The family, as the name shows, was Highland, the Davidsons being one of the branches of the great Clan Chattan, or confederacy of clans, the principal branches of which are the Mackintoshes, Macphersons, Macqueens, Davidsons, Macbeans, Shaws, Farquharsons, and others.

Whom John Davidson married and whether he had more than one son I have been unable to ascetain. My father always supposed that there was but one son, as he never heard his grandfather speak of having any brothers or sisters.

The only son of whom I have any knowlege was my great grandfather.
Roderick Davidson, born at Avoch, in Ross-shire in 1723.

From: Davidson Genealogy by Geroge G. Davidson. Tobias A. Wright, Inc. Printers and Publishers, New York, 1927.