General Notes

m. (2)  Newmarket, Nottingham & Lee NH 1825 Dec. 12, by Rev Israel Chesley, mss at NH Hist Soc Libr, [Lee VR p21 mss #68793 NHHS], [Walker et al, Burial Places in Lee NH, DAR, 1938].
Intention files Nov. 26, 1825 Lee, NH

Sarah A Thompson Small   Nottingham N.H  family bible lists marriage date as December 14, 1825
living with son, Josiah,by 1870 census
Living with grandson, Charles F. Thompson and wife, Ellen G. in 1880 census and grandchildren, Bessie C. Thompson

1880 census Jun 5 - Lee NH - 87/98
Charles F Thompson m 23 farmer NY/NH/NY;
Ellen G Thompson f 26 wife NH/NH/NH;
Bessie C Thompson f 9/12 Aug dau NH/NY/NH
Deborah Thompson f 82 grandmother NH/NH/NH
James Griffin m 46 farm laborer NS/NFL/NFL
Susan Beckwith f 50 widow NS/NS/NS; Willie L Wright m 10 NS/NS/NS [census]

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On Deborah DAVIS... let me clarify what I'd found:

1) Yes, I found birth records (plural) on Deborah -
- One with parents Jacob and Deborah (TUTTLE) DAVIS [NH State Vital Records][no record at NEHGS]
Deborah's date of birth 27 Sep 1798 matches the date on the birth record with parents Jacob and Deborah (TUTTLE) DAVIS.
- And another with parents Obadiah and Deborah (LORD) DAVIS [NEHGS] [No record at NH State Vitals].
2) The ONLY marriage record on Deborah DAVIS married to William THOMPSON, to be found, was at the NH Vital Records and it didn't have any parents listed.
3-a)  History of Durham states:
Obadiah 5 DAVIS died 1774 in Lee, , NH. He married Deborah LORD.  He died in 1774 and Deborah was born in 1798. And, his death is sourced, along with naming his wife as Deborah LORD DAVIS in Probate records:
1774 Oct 12 - Lee NH - admin to Deborah Davis [Evans, Abstracts of the Probate Records of Strafford Co NH p 34].
Deborah LORD married Obadiah 5 DAVIS.
They had the following children:
M i Frank 6 DAVIS
F ii Sarah 6 DAVIS
M iii Obadiah 6 DAVIS was born 1767 and died 1834  Now, his age indicates that this Obadiah could have been Deborah's father also HOWEVER according to the Lee records and his burial at Town Cemetery, Lee NH, this Obadiah married a Sarah NEAL.

I did find one other marriage record, at NEHGS, a - Deborah DAVIS married to James DEMERIT. Which I'd discussed at one time with  you, Norma... stating that because of William and Deborah's ages at the time of their marriage, I thought maybe it was their 2nd marriage and that they may have both had previous marriages. Which turns out to be in William's case. And which I now suspect even more to be the same case with Deborah.... and to add another twist.... IF Deborah was married to someone else before William - the last name of DAVIS may have been her married name at the time and not her given surname. My instincts say DAVIS was her surname but as a professional researcher, I have to keep ALL possibilities in mind until I find a record to prove whatever.

As for the records you stated (Dover library and Lee Burial Places).. yes, I've seen those records, even to the point of having them come back to me via Hal, president of Strafford Historical, and a friend of mine, who went to Lee Historical and dug up an unpublished record on William and Deborah THOMPSON whereas he stated: "Get this, parents mentioned as being Obadiah and Deborah (LORD) DAVIS". I called Hal to discuss what I'd found versus what he'd found, and asked him what he would trust, and he said it's a tough call because... where it states that Obadiah and Deborah (LORD) DAVIS are Deborah's parents in the Lee Burial Places, was [quoted from Hal] "written in hand - as if an afterthought". I asked him what the hell does that mean... he said "someone wrote it in there, but we don't know WHO or WHERE the SOURCE came from. He advised me to keep looking for records to back it up, or discount it.

With that said, and considering the facts we do have, and those we don't... who do we trust.
We don't know which of those two records you/I found (Dover library and Lee Burial Places) came first....
Did Early Marriages of Strafford County take record from what was "written as an afterthought" in Lee Burial Places, or did Lee Burial write the info taken from Early Marriages later on. AND, it now leads me to question... that Deborah's parents are mentioned in the "Early Marraiges", why isn't there a copy of that at NH Vital Records. I combed through ALL the DAVIS records and there is no mention of PARENTS found on any marriage record associated with any Deborah DAVIS.