Like the ones who were our ancestors, coming to this new land over uncharted waters and into unsettled territories, we "cousins" salute you as an unsung hero from whose work we have all benefitted and will continue to build on your good work. A simple thanks... Carolyn C.

Thank you Jack (did you feel that kiss brush your cheek?) Carla

I only have one remark to make and that is: AMEN AMEN AMEN AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Billy Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:22 AM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Y2K Heroes > Whoever: > > Considering what all Nevada Jack has freely done for the Davenports over > the past several years in the matter of web pages, rootsweb accommodation, > program instructions, technical questions answered, etc, etc, etc, he > entitled to all the horn tooting he wants to do. Those that can do. Jack > also puts his name to his comments, as do I. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Send all subscribe and unsubscribe requests to: > DAVENPORT-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you're in mail mode) > DAVENPORT-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you're in digest mode) > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >

Whoever: Considering what all Nevada Jack has freely done for the Davenports over the past several years in the matter of web pages, rootsweb accommodation, program instructions, technical questions answered, etc, etc, etc, he entitled to all the horn tooting he wants to do. Those that can do. Jack also puts his name to his comments, as do I. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Well, If I could do what he did, I would toot my horn to the high heavens. It is the ones like me that cannot accomplish that type of work that hits a sour note. JJJ

nothing like tooting your own horn is there

Dear Cousins, Please forgive this non-genealogical message, but I thought that you would all find it very interesting. FYI, I was one of the IT people who participated in preventing Y2K problems for the State of Nevada. I hope this information gives you a better understanding of what many people had to go through in order to insure that the rest of you didn't have to experience the disaster that was "predicted" by the media. Nevada Jack Y2K HEROES by Judy Backhouse Congratulations, indeed, to one and all. The truly crazy headed for the hills with fortified bunkers and ammunition. The more cautious bought water and tinned food. Even the most optimistic drew some extra cash the week before. Everyone speculated about the outcome. But in the IT world, we worked. We checked code. We corrected code. We tested code. We rolled dates forward and backward and forward and backward until our nerves were paper-thin. We upgraded hardware. We upgraded operating systems (to cope with the new hardware). We upgraded compilers (to cope with the new operating systems). We modified more code (to cope with the new compilers). And then we began the cycle again of testing and rolling forward and testing and rolling backward. We initiated great, complex Y2k projects. We compiled project plans. We filled in endless forms about the state of our Y2k projects. We wrote monthly reports about the progress of the Y2k projects. We went to meetings where we were told how the future of the company depended on the Y2k project being completed in time. We dealt with panicked business people. We soothed troubled nerves at dinner parties. We were asked to predict the outcome by distant cousins who knew we were "in IT". We became overnight experts in the working of diesel generators, photocopiers, motor vehicles and washing machines. And, collectively, we averted the disaster. Like superman of old, the IT professionals of today managed to intercept nothing less than the end of the world. In an industry where projects run notoriously over the most pessimistic time estimates, we met the deadline. The clocks ticked over to the year 2000 with nothing more than minor hitches. And were they grateful? Did the world thank us and laud us as the heroes we quite clearly were? No! They turned around and called it "all hype". They questioned the money spent. We did our jobs so damned well that the only question remaining was whether there had been any need to do the job at all. So, to all those IT people out there who slaved away at the Y2k problems over the past few years, who endured the pressure of fearful but helpless managers; who lost endless sleep testing things at night because there wasn't a separate test machine; who canceled their December leave; who couldn't be in exotic places to welcome the start of the new millennium; who stayed sober on New Year's eve because they were on standby; who went to work on the 1st and the 2nd to boot up the machines - I say put our feet up, pat yourselves and each other on the back and go and get some much needed sleep with a smug smile on your face. We did it. The IT people across the planet are heroes - even if unsung ones. Like housework, what we do is not appreciated unless we don't do it. But like the housewives of old we go on doing it, knowing that it is good, honest, necessary work - and that it gives us inordinate power. So, my fellow programmers, system administrators, database administrators, operators, analysts and support staff - congratulations on a job well done. Ours may be the youngest profession on the planet, but this 21st century belongs to us.

I was working the OLIVE TREE GENEALOGY. I found this. HECTOR >From Ship Passenger Lists by Carl Boyner. The following is the passenger list for the vessel HECTOR, which brought the passengers accompanying JOHN DAVENPORT and THEOPHILUS EATON to Connencticut in 1637. There is another chip call the HECTOR that brougth the first Scottish Highlanders to Nova Scotia in the mid- 1700's but the Hector Heritage foundartion in Nova Scotia states that the ship that brought the DAVENPIRT/EATON pary is a different vessl. The HECTOR that brought the DAVENPORT oary to MASs was new vessel of 250 tones, Which had already made a previous passage to Mass Bay. On this there was John and Elizabeth Davenport www.rootsweb.com has Olive Tree page there janet

Keep me informed. Nancy PAHOFWA@aol.com wrote: > Nancy, Thanks for posting the Davenport marriages. They may come in handy > for me at some point. I see there are some Sarah's who married male > Davenports. And that is what I am looking for :) :) Mary Hamlin > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Search the List Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi

Just sharing today's research with everyone. Following are Davenport marriages in Cannon and Washington County TN. Nancy in TX CANNON COUNTY TN MARRIAGES Lorena S. Davenport m. William M. Bragg 12/28/1846 Harriett M. Davenport m. Christopher Cooper, 3/11/1847 James B. Davenport m. Nancy Bragg, 11/14/1848 Ruben Davenport m. Sarah Matthews, 5/4/1847 Thomas Davenport m. Mary E. Jones, 8/20/1850 William Davenport m. Polly Bryson, 7/24/1845 Fanny E. Davenport m. Neil H. Smith, 12/22/1847 WASHINGTON COUNTY TN MARRIAGES A. Davenport m. N. Literal, 9/2/1841 Alfred Davenport m. Sarah Swingle, 9/4/1834 Edward Davenport m. Margaret Fawbush, 7/28/1821 George Davenport m. Nancy W. Fain, 9/14/1837 George Davenport m. Mary Orlen, 6/27/1846

Nancy, Thanks for posting the Davenport marriages. They may come in handy for me at some point. I see there are some Sarah's who married male Davenports. And that is what I am looking for :) :) Mary Hamlin

I am researching my Davenport ancestry and will answer all responses. Generation 1.William Davenport, b. 1751, VA Generation 2: Absolum Davenport, b. 1774, NC Generation 3 : Warren Davenport, b. 1803 NC, married Susan Whitlock 1825, TN Generation 4: Andrew Davenport, b. 1838 TN, married Martha Susan Davenport (same surname), one of their children, (Generation 5) Nancy Lorraine b. 1869 TN, was my grandmother. She married John Hiram Kirkland, moved to TX abt. 1898. Nancy Carter TX

Dear Carla and others, Thanks so much for your input. I had not seen these items before. Have you seen a copy of the complete will of Martin S. Davenport? Since Presley Davenport was married to Sarah Abigail Credille, I would think that I might be able to learn something from the Will of Ellington Credille, and also, from the Will of Ellington's father as well (assuming that Sarah was Ellington"s sister). Do you know where I might be able to see these, short of going to GA? I beg your indulgence, for I am new at genealogy and am not that sure of how to do certain things. I don't want to burden anyone by asking them to do something in particular for me, but rather only want to ask for advice as to ways in which I might find out something for myself. Paul At 01:25 PM 1/11/00 -0500, you wrote: >Dear Paul; >In case you have not found these yet I submitt the following out of my notes: >Page 129 of Deed Book K, Clarke County, GA >Clark, County, December 8, 1842. Martin S. Davenport for love and affection >for my son Presley G. Davenport and his children do hereby give, grant >relinquish and convey unto my son-in-law, Ellington Credille, in trust for >the use of said Presley, his wife and children, a certain negro boy named >Hill about 3 years old and a negro girl 9 years old and her future increase. >Recorded March 29, 1843 > >Deed Book M, page 317 >May 6, 1850 Henry County, received from Catherine Criddle, Administrator of >the Estate of Ellington Criddle, deceased, one negro girl by the name of >Elizabeth being the only surviving negro conveyed to Ellington Criddle in >trust for Presley G. Davenport and his children. Signed: Moses N.(H) >Davenport > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Search the List Archives at >http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Bonnie, Thanks for you suggestion that I check the 1840 Pike Co., GA census. I have seen the census now, and it appears that all of the ages agree with what I already had for Presley Davenport's family.The only thing that differed was that the oldest child was enumerated as female, instead of male. This could quite possibly have been a mistake by the enumerator. Paul >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 >Message-ID: <38729A7C.C1CCF2F@net-link.net> >Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 20:12:28 -0500 >From: Deja Davenport <deja@net-link.net> >Organization: D&K Productions>X-Mozilla-Draft-Info: internal/draft; vcard=0; receipt=0; uuencode=0; html=0; linewidth=81 >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) >X-Accept-Language: en >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] New Subscriber Submits Information >References: <0.731d18c9.25a3c0b9@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Just a comment... I have a Presley G. Davenport in Pike Co., Georgia in 1840. >Bonnie > >> >> ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >> Search the List Archives at >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ >> >> ============================== >> Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >> RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >> http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > > >--------------9EB229E9010CC86F0C89B006-- > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support RootsWeb! Learn how at >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >============================== >The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >12.8 million individuals and counting. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >

Dear Dr. Davenport: What a wonderfully small world it is! I'm so glad I contacted you and I hope we can find out more about Ambrose Davenport's roots. In 1993 I produced a book on my family backgrounds called Northland Families. Right now I am working on converting the material in that book to a web-page. Northland Families had many typos, missing data, erroneous data, etc., most of which has been corrected and brought up to date so far as possible. But in all that work, my cousin, Jean Loehde, and I have not been able to find his roots. I would be happy to share what data I have so you could compare it with the data you have in an effort to resolve that problem - if that is possible. I am aware of the tavern in Williamsburg and thought at the time that we were on our way to a solution, but only dead ends have been the results so far. I certainly would be interested in discussing the options with you. With warmest regards, I am Woody >Dr. Morris: > > Ambrose has intrigued me for almost thirty years. I first found him in >the Territorial Papers of the United States-Northwest Territory, Michigan >Territory volumes. Are you aware of an Ambrose Davenport who had a tavern in >Williamsburg prior to the Revolution? I am time pressed at the moment, but I >would like to discuss with you the options relative to Davenport ancestry >that a 1771 birth in Richmond suggest. Perhaps you might give me another >query after the New Year if I don't remember. > > My first two children were born at the University Hospital in Iowa City. >I was a lowly instructor in Journalism, working on a Ph.D. in Commerce. Got >the degree in 1952, then went into Industry. Didn't go back to full-time >academics until 1980, although I was adjunct at a half dozen schools at the >graduate level in the interim. > > Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We'll take on Ambrose soon. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Visit the Davenport Genealogy Page at >http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/

Have you checked out Nevada Jack Davenport's site? There is a lot of information there which might help you. http://users.intercomm.com/nvjack/davnport/index.htm

Doc, You may be correct in your assumption that I descended from the Newberry Davenports. I cite these possible clues: 1. The similarity in names-Augustine and my gggrandfather's middle name was Augustus. 2. Dates when you say James was in South Carolina, probably in the vicinity of Laurens/Greenville. One bit of information that I had said that Willis came to South Carolina with his parnets at a very early age. He was born in 1808. 3. If James of Augustine had one son born in 1812 that fits in with what I had been told by some very elderly(now deceased)members of the family that Willis had one brother and possibly two. I know of one! Isaac was brother Willis and the Davenport line that my Mother descended from. Yes that makes me a double Davenport. 4. Finally, in a book on the history of Arkansas, one of Willis' sons, Willis B. Davenport is mentioned and in the book it quotes him as saying he came from Greenville South Carolina and that his father, Willis Augustus came to South Carolina from Ohio. I just wish I could confirm all of this. I have been looking for Willis' parents for over 10 years. Any additional information that might help nail this down? As always your meticulous information is greatly appreciated. By the way, It is amazing how much Davenport family inormation has been filled in since I first contacted you three years ago about my research and the possibility of your assisting with my Davenport family Newsletter. Most of the credit has to go to you for your insistence that we use a scientific approach based on hard evidence and not family hearsay. Thank you again, Roy W. Davenport

Hello Seeking information about William M. Davenport 1864-1933 of Washington Co., NC married Kizzy_____? What was his wife's maiden name and who was his father? They lived in Washington Co. NC and are buried at the Piney Grove Cem. Thanks Alice

Doc.... How poignant. How so many of our ancestors must have struggled through so many hardships and adversity settling and forming our great nation..... and really, not all that long ago. One just can not just imagine what the next century will hold for our descendants, let alone the next 1000. Thank you again for the insight and human interest, not to mention the facts unearthed by your considerable effort, you so often provide us. BGBob JSDDOC@aol.com wrote: > > Roy: > > As near as I can determine, the sons of Thomas Davenport and grandsons of > William Davenport and his wife Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, > were: (1) by Thomas' first wife Susannah Partlow and born in Spotsylvania > County, one: namely Burket, who married in Laurens County, South Carolina, > and died there in 1827; (2) by his second wife Lettitia Wharton, and born in > Laurens County, South Carolina, three: Samuel W. (Lauderdale County, TN), > Pleasant G. (Jackson County, AR), and George W. (Jefferson County, AL). I am > sure only of Laurens County for Burket as the final location. Others are > based on last Census findings, and I have not read beyond 1850. > > I still think that you are a Newberry, but James Davenport, son of > Augustine, Sr., of Rowan (now Davidson) County, NC, spent the years 1807-1814 > in South Carolina, location unknown. Considering that his Uncles Thomas and > John Davenport as well as Aunt Mary Davenport Arnold, and a whole batch of > Arnold cousins, were located in the southwest corner of Laurens County, > adjoining the Greenville line, James of Augustine may have spent his South > Carolina years there. We know that he married in South Carolina, > Mary--surname unknown, for he was unmarried when he left North Carolina in > 1807, and his son James W. Davenport, born 1812, consistently cited South > Carolina as his birthplace in Census enumerations. James of Augustine was > never a landowner in either Wayne County, Indiana, or adjoining Preble > County, Ohio, where his children appeared in the Census of 1850. Son James > W. married in Preble County before moving to Pike Township, Marion County, > Indiana. Both James and his brother David, sons of Augustine, bounced back > and forth across that Indiana-Ohio State line after coming north from > Carolina. Both are believed to have died, as did their sister Sarah > Davenport Fouts, in the Cholera Epidemic of 1832. Both James and David > worked at one time or another for their elder brother Jesse, who had left > North Carolina in 1801 and pioneered Wayne County, and owned and operated > Davenport's Mill on the Elkhorn (southeast of present-day Richmond). After > Jesse was killed in 1827, leaving 15 children, when a bunch of drunks dropped > the center beam on him at a barn raising, both James and David drifted back > and forth, apparently as hired men, across that State Line and both were dead > by 1833. In the Census of 1850, Mary Davenport, widow of James, was > enumerated in the Wayne County Poor House--after having been kept by Jesse's > widow Rebecca for a number of years (Court records). Elizabeth Davenport, > widow of David, was living alone nearby in Preble County. Neither left a > record of their families, both of which had been dispersed to foster homes or > work places after their husbands' deaths. > > The point being that both James and David Davenport of Augustine had > large families, neither of which has been definitively identified. I know > that you have family legend to the effect that your Willis Augustus was born > in Ohio. If James of Augustine could make his way from South Carolina to > Indiana-Ohio, a son could make his way back. There were Pamunkey Davenport > kinfolks of the sons of Augustine on Saluda waters in Laurens all through the > Nineteenth Century. > > It's only a straw, but you're welcome to it. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Search the List Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com.

I'm sorry, but my brain just can't figure out what this message says. Would someone kindly interpret it for me? Does anyone proofread their messages before they click the send button? Cliff Davenport -----Original Message----- From: monkey <monkey@goin.missouri.org> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:13 AM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Re: DAVENPORT-D Digest V00 #14 >In Va they Talk about Bolling and the Indians. I know was in Grayson >County, Va and put the name Bolling and the story about the Indians came up. >I when in the back door. throught Johnson County, Tn. i know that doesn't >sound right but that is what i did. janet >-----Original Message----- >From: MrtaHarris@aol.com <MrtaHarris@aol.com> >To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 3:54 PM >Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re: DAVENPORT-D Digest V00 #14 > > >>Janet, >>I have a James Isaac Davenport married to a Mary Anne Bolin (Bole; Boling) >>Family scuttlebutt says that his mother was Indian....I think it was >>Cherokee.....don't have any detail, I've been waiting to receive some >>information from a member of the list. If you think this might tie in, >>e-mail me, that way we can exchange more lengthly info >>Marta >> >> >>==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >>Visit the Davenport Genealogy Page at >>http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport >> >>============================== >>Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >>http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >>Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >> > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support RootsWeb! Learn how at >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >