John, In your expounding on the descendants of Augustine davenport you said. "I know of at least two proven James Madison Davenports, but both were born after 1810, one was Newberry, one was Pamunkey." Would you be kind enough to give me the details on those two individuals. I have been stopped for some time seeking the parents of James Madison Davenport, b. 1826 in Kentucky (according to tradition). Earl Epantier@Compuserve.com

Hello I am new to this list and have just begun looking into the Davenport family. I am searching for information about Captiola "Cappie" Davenport 1870-1944. She married Benjamin "Frank" Franklin Chambers b 1870. They liven in Tyrrell Co. and Washington Co.NC Both are buried at the Piney Grove Cem. in Washington Co., NC Children: John Shelton 1908-1974 Washington Co Edna 1906-1998 of Washington Co. marr. J.E. Sawyer Hazel d 1980 Albert Ray 1913-1961 Pasquotank Co, NC married Martha Lowers Lottie 1918-1992 of Washington Co. married Marvin Allen Waterfield Looking for the father of "Cappie" and the date and place of her marriage to "Frank". Thanks Alice Griffin

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. >

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

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

Doc, Do we know who the sons of Thomas and Lettitia were? I am still trying to find the parents of my gg granfather, Willis Augustus Davenport- 1808-1881. I know Willis had at least one brother, Isaac. The dates and the geographical location match since Laurens, SC is in the southwestern part of Greenville County. Willis A. lived within ten miles of there. Willis Augustus married a lady named Frances Coker. Both are buried at Standing Springs Baptist Church in Greenville County. The other interesting part is that family verbal history(according to my late grandfather is that we have Cherokee Indian blood in the family). Hope you and your family had a good holiday and new year. Roy W. Davenport

Pamunkey Davenports and Others: Concerning my remarks put on the DAVENPORT-L Rootsweb earlier concerning the erroneous identification of a fictional James Madison Davenport allegedly born in Halifax County, Virginia, in 1743 and allegedly the son of Augustine Davenport, Sr., I omitted a qualifier. In my identification of Augustine, I first identified him as the son of William Davenport and Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, which was correct. Later, towards the end of the message I identified him as a "son" of Martin Davenport of Hanover County, Virginia. The missing qualifier was "grand." Augustine was a grandso n of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, father of William of Spotsylvania. Martin was the older brother of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland County, father of James of Halifax--both Martin and Thomas being sons of Davis Davenport of King William. I regret the error and apologize for not having proofread my remarks more proficiently before putting them on the web. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Earl.... Wish you were....wish somebody was.. Oh well I have a James Madison Davenport born 1742 in Halifax Co., VA Father was Augustine Davenport. He married Elizabeth Gilliam in 1778. I have listed that he had a son Charles who married a Sarah Gray. James Madison Davenport died July 23, 1824 in Newberry County, SC. ( I am assuming that the death date is the same James Madison but I could be wrong.) Bonnie Earl Pantier wrote: > Bonnie, > <How are you connected? > Thanks, but I'm not. The time period is wrong. I'm looking for the > parents of James Madison Davenport/Devenport, b. 1826 in Kentucky and hoped > to tie in with one of the several Devenport families in Whitley Co. at that > time. > Earl > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > View the Cousins Directory at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > > ============================== > Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. > RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: > http://pml.rootsweb.com/

Bonnie, <How are you connected? Thanks, but I'm not. The time period is wrong. I'm looking for the parents of James Madison Davenport/Devenport, b. 1826 in Kentucky and hoped to tie in with one of the several Devenport families in Whitley Co. at that time. Earl

Pamunkey Davenports and Others Interested: Augustine Davenport, Sr., son of William Davenport and Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the first of that given name, was born c1748, hence could not have been the father of a James Madison Davenport, b. 1743 in Halifax County, Virginia. There was no Halifax County until 1751, and no known Davenports in the County until 1763 when James Davenport, eldest son of Thomas Davenport, Sr., of Cumberland County, moved there from either Cumberland or Prince Edward. Augustine Davenport, Sr., wife Mary Harris, settled in Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina, before 1769. His son James was one of his youngest children, was not born until the mid-1780s. James Davenport, son of Augustine, left North Carolina c1807 and went to South Carolina, where he married, then by 1815 was in Wayne County, Indiana Territory, working for his brother Jesse at Davenport's Mill on Elkhorn Creek. James is believed to have died in the Cholera Epidemic of 1832, either in Wayne County or adjoining Preble County, Ohio. His eldest son James, born 1812 in South Carolina, settled in Marion County, Indiana, fathered a large, distinguished family, and died there at a venerable age. There is a lot of baloney concerning a James Madison Davenport born before the Revolution in circulated genealogies of both the Newberry and Pamunkey Davenports. The Newberry 'James Madison' has been certified by the DAR as a Patriot. A DAR membership-seeking descendant massaged the name and appropriated the service record of Pamunkey James Davenport, Jr., of Hanover County, Virginia. The Newberry 'James Madison' instance was a matter of taking liberties with a person of record--also a matter of getting a Tory ancestor certified as a Patriot. The Pamunkey James Madison cited relative to Halifax County appears to be pure fiction, contrived by someone who had problems with genealogy, geography, and history. I know of at least two proven James Madison Davenports, but both were born after 1810, one was Newberry, one was Pamunkey. There is now a mass of proven Virginia Davenport Genealogy readily available that should put a halt to circulation of some of this garbage which has been passed around freely for the past several decades. At the present, there exists a fairly good sort between the knowns and the unknowns in the Pamunkey family. We do not have all the answers by any means, but we are a lot further down the pike than we were two-and-a-half years ago before the Pamunkey Davenport Family Association started functioning. I descend from Augustine Davenport, Sr. (son of Martin, Sr., of Hanover), of Rowan County, North Carolina, as well as James Davenport (son of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland), of Halifax County, Virginia. I have researched both in depth over the past thirty years, will be happy to separate the wheat from the chaff, to the extent that we've thrashed the harvest, for kinfolks with an interest. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

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

Think you what you sent me. I sent off to my friend who is a Bolling janet -----Original Message----- From: MargoBelle@aol.com <MargoBelle@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 8:10 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Pocahontas descendants >To Jane: > >Regarding your question about how Pocahontas was related to the Bolling name: > >John ROLFE was born on 6 May 1585 in Heachum, England. He died on 10 Mar 1622 >in VA. >He was married to POCAHONTAS in Apr 1614 in Jamestown, VA. Their only child >was Thomas ROLFE. > >Thomas ROLFE was born in 1615 in VA. He died in 1663 in Jamestown, VA. >Parents: John ROLFE and POCAHONTAS . >He was married to Jane POYTHRESS in 1645 in Charles City Co., VA. Their >daughter was Jane ROLFE. > >Jane ROLFE was born on 20 Oct 1655 in Jamestown, VA. She died in 1676 in >Charles City Co., VA. Parents: Thomas ROLFE and Jane POYTHRESS. >She was married to Robert BOLLING in 1675 in Henrico Co., VA. Their son was >John BOLLING. > > > >MargoBelle > > > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >View the Cousins Directory at >http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > >============================== >Search ALL of RootsWeb's mailing lists in real time. >RootsWeb's Personalized Mailing Lists: >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >

I have the following and wonder if anyone can tell me which Glover Davenport this applies to: Revolutionary Pensioners of 1818 1959 Southern Book Company, Baltomore P. 251 Statement showing the widows and orphans who are inscribed on the books of this office as half-pay pensioners for five years in sum per annum....and state where paid - Virginia. #509 Davenport, Glover widow, private, original commencement of pension 28 Nov 1814, 4 pounds per month, 48 pounds per annum. Mary Duncan

To Jane: Regarding your question about how Pocahontas was related to the Bolling name: John ROLFE was born on 6 May 1585 in Heachum, England. He died on 10 Mar 1622 in VA. He was married to POCAHONTAS in Apr 1614 in Jamestown, VA. Their only child was Thomas ROLFE. Thomas ROLFE was born in 1615 in VA. He died in 1663 in Jamestown, VA. Parents: John ROLFE and POCAHONTAS . He was married to Jane POYTHRESS in 1645 in Charles City Co., VA. Their daughter was Jane ROLFE. Jane ROLFE was born on 20 Oct 1655 in Jamestown, VA. She died in 1676 in Charles City Co., VA. Parents: Thomas ROLFE and Jane POYTHRESS. She was married to Robert BOLLING in 1675 in Henrico Co., VA. Their son was John BOLLING. MargoBelle

If they were from Indian des. how are they related to the Bolling. I have friend who is bolling. janet -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 10:45 AM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re:George Davenport and Samuel W. Davenport >Pamunkey Kinfolks: > > Both the George Davenport and the Samuel W. Davenport cited in various >messages exchanged today (W.T. Davenport) etc were sons of Thomas Davenport >and his second wife Lettitia (Lettice) Wharton of Laurens (not Lawrence) >County, SC. Thomas, son of William Davenport and Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania >County, Virginia, served in the Virginia Continental Line during the >Revolution, made a homestead on his father's land in Spotsylvania and married >a neighbor girl Susannah Partlow. In 1795, he moved to Randolph County, NC, >where he joined his brother John (settled there since 1779). In 1796-97 both >he and John uprooted from North Carolina and moved to Laurens County, SC. >After being mother to two known children, a boy and a girl, Susannah died >(either before or soon after the move to South Carolina), whereupon Thomas >married Lettitia, daughter of Colonel Samuel Wharton, a hero of the >Revolution in the Carolina backcountry. The count is still in doubt, but it >appears that Thomas and Lettice had at least three sons, possibly as many as >eight daughters before Thomas died in 1815. Whatever, the lines for both >George and Samuel Wharton Davenport back to Davis Davenport are clear. They >had a brother Pleasant G. Davenport (named for Uncle Pleasant G. Wharton) who >was working the steamboats on the Mississippi in the 1840s, living as I >recall near two or more of his sisters in Laurderdale County, Tennessee. >Edgar Byer III can tell you a lot about these families--he descends from one >of those eight sisters. > > I was intrigue by the suggestion in the W.T. Davenport biography that the >Davenports had Indian blood going back to Pocahontas, which has a ring of >probability insofar as a Pamunkey Indian connection is concerned. The >Pamunkey tribe was the largest and most powerful of the Powhatan >Confederation which gave the English so much trouble. Powhatan as Chief of >the Pamunkeys exercises suzerainty over a number of subordinate tribes. The >Pamunkey Davenports do not descend from Pocahontas, for her genealogy is well >established and recently tightly revised. But we cannot reject Indian >ancestry out of hand, for Davis Davenport, the first Pamunkey Davenport and >the family patriarch, first appeared in extant records in 1696 with a >plantation in an Indian Reservation. That fact alone means nothing insofar >as ancestry is concerned, but extant records speak of English-Indian >alliances in Pamunkey Neck from the early 1600s forward. Whether the W.T. >Davenport claim to Indian ancestry was based on now lost family legend or on >some biographer's whimsy we know not, but the seed falls on fallow ground. > >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) > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Email at monkey@goin.missouri.org and I will let you know janet -----Original Message----- From: PAHOFWA@aol.com <PAHOFWA@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 9:36 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] DAVENPORTS in Alabama 1850-60's >Ark late 1860's >Janet, I would greatly appreciate seeing the articles. If you need to be >reimbursed for copying and postage. Let me know. Thanks for your efforts. >Mary > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Having problems with this mailing list? >Write to: DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >

I am sorry I don't anything about the Davenports Only that Davis - Martin- Thomas- his daughter Mary Davenport , who married William Wiseman. I found the story and thought some would like it. janet -----Original Message----- From: JD2OK@aol.com <JD2OK@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] DAVENPORTS in Alabama 1850-60's >Ark late 1860's >Our Davenports in Alabama were John Polk b. 1852 - m. Mary Liza Jane Hudson. >Children were John Wesley, Ed, Roy, Robert, Liddie, Mattie, Ollie, Mary. >Any connections? .....any suggestions?? Thanks, Jann > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >View the Cousins Directory at >http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > >============================== >The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >12.8 million individuals and counting. >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >

Following is from TN Civil War Veteran's Questionaire, Volume 5: THIS CONCERNS DAVENP0RTS in VA, TN, AL: Samuel Martin Ray b. 6/1/1845 in Choctaw County MS, moved with father to Lauderdale TN in 1849. Father's name was Jerome Ray born in Jefferson County GA. Mother name was MARY MARTIN DAVENORT, daughter of Samuel W. and Jane Davenport of Jefferson AL. Grandfather was SAMUEL DAVENPORT, native of SC. "The family was originally from VA, said to be connected with Pocahontas, moved to SC>AL between 1820-30" This document is one of the most detailed responses to the questionaire and a most interesting account of Martin/Davenport family life, including household duties of his mother, Mary. Describes schooling, community life, leaders, social life, political affiliations, views on slavery, social/common classes of people, describes his home, value, property including furniture description, very detailed CSA military history. I hope a descendant out in cyber land can connect to this wonderful family. Hope I can find a connection to my Davenports. Nancy in Texas

-----Original Message----- From: DKDavNport@aol.com <DKDavNport@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Davenport- Moses Families of KY >In a message dated 1/8/00 3:00:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, corky@apex.net >writes: Livingston Co KY has no library but next trip to Murray State Pogue Library (great) I will check for you. Pat> ><< When their father Samuel died they > moved to Simpson Co, KY, then to Franklin Co.,Tn, then John's son > Samuel Devenport born 1811 moved to Graves Co.,KY Pat > >> > >Pat, > >I have Davenports in the Livingston County, KY area (which is above Graves >Co., KY). Do you have any connections to this part of KY? I have a John >Wilson Davenport 1842-1919 who married Elizabeth Bray 1841-1927, their >youngest son John Clementine "Clem" Davenport 1880-1971, his youngest son >J.C. Davenport 1924-1993, was my father-in-law. > >Deborah (Hampton) Davenport >Dallas, GA (born Louisville, KY) > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Having problems with this mailing list? >Write to: DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >

-----Original Message----- From: DKDavNport@aol.com <DKDavNport@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, January 08, 2000 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Davenport- Moses Families of KY >In a message dated 1/8/00 3:00:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, corky@apex.net >writes: > ><< When their father Samuel died they > moved to Simpson Co, KY, then to Franklin Co.,Tn, then John's son > Samuel Devenport born 1811 moved to Graves Co.,KY Pat > >> > >Pat, > >I have Davenports in the Livingston County, KY area (which is above Graves >Co., KY). Do you have any connections to this part of KY? I have a John >Wilson Davenport 1842-1919 who married Elizabeth Bray 1841-1927, their >youngest son John Clementine "Clem" Davenport 1880-1971, his youngest son >J.C. Davenport 1924-1993, was my father-in-law. > >Deborah (Hampton) Davenport >Dallas, GA (born Louisville, KY) > >My gggrandfather Samuel Turrentine Devenport was born in 1811 in what is now Simpson County, KY then moved to Franklin Co TN then married and moved to Graves Co KY in the 1830's. He had 3 living daughters but only one living son Samuel Turrentine Devenport II who had no children. I'll look through my Graves County books and see if I can help you although my husband is having surgery tomorrow, we'll be back God willing by saturday. I will try to help you then Pat. >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Having problems with this mailing list? >Write to: DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >