Individual Details

LIFE
A. He was mate of the Fair American ship which arrived at Hawaii in March 1790. Kameeiamoku led a group of warriors to capture the ship, slay the crew, and took the captain Isaac Davis prisoner to Kamehameha. The chief invited Isaac to remain with him as a friend and adviser (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 146-147). Isaac Davis was first mate; Captain Metcalf was killed, and Isaac Davis was spared and cared for by Kamehameha (The Diary of Ebenezer Townsend, Jr., Hawaiian Historical Society Reprints, No 4, 1888, p 10). This event occurred in March, 1790 (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 322).
B. Before he mated with Nakai, he had another unknown mate, but had no children with her (Isaac Davis genealogy, HMS G17a, p 1). Descendants of Isaac Davis in HMS G17a was researched by Bruce Cartwright.
C. He was governor of Oahu (Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 30).
D. He was poisoned by Kamehameha's chiefs for warning Kaumualii of their plot to assassinate him (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 156).
E. Birth year approximated from his burial monument: "The remains of M. Isaac Davis, who died at this Island, April 1810, aged 52 years." (Schmitt, The Cemetery for Foreigners, The Hawaiian Journal of History, vol. 34, 2000, p 64-65).

Birth	Abt 1757
Death	23 Apr 1810	Honolulu, Oahu
Alt name		Aikaka
Alt name		Aikaki
Alt name		Aikake

Spouse	Nakai (1777 - )
Child	Sarah Kaniaulono Davis (1797 - )
Child	George Hueu Davis (1800 - 1876)
Child	Elizabeth Davis (1803 - )