NameClara Davis
Documentation
On 21 June 1798, a division of the land of Oswald Davis, deceased, was made by H. B. Brooke, Henry Garnett, and J. Sale, with lots distributed to W. Salvator Jones and Sally his wife, William Hill and Clara his wife, and William Brooken Sale and Nancy his wife. Ordered recorded on 20 February 1804. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, page 267.]
Clarissa Hill was mentioned in the 23 February 1804 will of her husband, William Hill, proved 16 April 1804. To my wife during her widowhood all my estate, but if she should marry then she to have one-third of the estate and the remainder to my two daughters, Suckey Waller Hill and Clarissa Hill. Beloved wife Clarissa Hill and my friend John Jones to be executors. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, pages 274–276.]
On 9 January 1824, Pascal Cooke and William Gray were bound until each other $2,000. Mrs. Clara Hill, their mother-in-law, has agreed to a division of the estate of her deceased husband William Hill in which she holds a life interest, and the parties agree to abide by a division of the property to be made by Richard Rouzee, William Fisher, Leonard Sale, Thomas M. Henley and George Wright. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 20, pages 61–62.]