Paul Davis, Sr., was born in 1747, and died in 1835. He
married Lydia Black, who died October 2Oth, 1826. Their
children were Lydia, Paul and Daniel. He kept a hotel on the
hill overlooking Eagleville for forty years. It was not a temperance
house—such were unknown in those days—although its
landlord was an entirely temperate man, never having drunk a
glass of liquor in his life, even refusing a hot sling given by
his physician the day he died. He was a man of integrity and
respected by every one. He served the town of Holden as
clerk for a term of seventeen years. [History of Holden]