At his residence, Tavistock-place, Durham, England, Captain John Davison, aged seventy-seven, and father of Mr. Davison of Wollongong; he was forty-four years in the Honorable Hudson's Bay Company's Service, during ten of which he commanded their Fleet, much and deservedly respected.
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