53. Sample from family record of Judge David Davis, written in bible printed 1754, Thomas Baskett, Oxford, England [SJD p.11]. That John Davis had come from Wales is stated by Scull [GDS p. 31] as the family tradition, and this is the tradition published in the history by Shourds [TS pp. 70f]. This idea may well be based on the most common origin of people with the Davis surname, it being a Welsh patronymic form of "David." At one time I entertained the possibility that he was in Scotland because a group of Gibbites, called “Sweet Singers of Israel” had been transported to New Jersey just after 1681 from Edinburgh [MHE pp. 155ff].