Mr. Guffin, Thank you very much for your concise statement on our Loyalist Davenports. It does little good to wish they were not Loyalists--they lived as they thought best, and did what they thought was right. I do believe they never considered themselves TRAITORS, but rather the more loyal of the two groups-- they undoubtedly felt the Patriots were rebels against the King, and therefore the ones who were wrong. Don't misunderstand me--I am a patriotic American and am grateful for the outcome of the Revolutionary War. It's just that we have to accept the good of our ancestors, who or what they were, and forgive them for what they did that we disagree with. Pauline McConkie Derhak Guffin, R. L. wrote: > > Newberry Davenports > > Many of us who work on South Carolina families > are familiar with the major reference work on patriots > in the American Revolution from South Carolina written > by Professor Bobby Gilmer Moss of Limestone College. > His latest work was recently found by regular > contributor to this site, Adrienne Morrison, and it > is entitled ROSTER OF THE LOYALISTS IN THE BATTLE OF > KINGS MOUNTAIN (1998, Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC). > Using pay abstracts now in Surry, England, he has > indicated that DAVID DAVENPORT, ISAAC DAVENPORT, and > JAMES DAVENPORT each served under Capt. William Hendricks > and Major Patrick Cunningham from June 14, 1780 in the > Little River Militia. Each was listed as participating > in the battle of Kings Mountain, each was reported to have > evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H. Cruger > and each was reported to have been with Maj. Cunningham > at Dorchester on August 23, 1781. > JOSEPH DAVENPORT is reported to have served six months > under Maj. Patrick Cunningham in the Little River Militia, > was under Ferguson in the battle of Kings Mountain, and was > with Lt. Col. Cruger in the evacuation of Fort Ninety Six. > > There is little doubt that David, Isaac, and James > Davenport, mentioned above were sons of Francis Davenport > who migrated from Granville Co., NC to Little River in SC > no later than 1771 and I concur with John Scott Davenport > that the above mentioned Joseph was a grandson of old Joseph, > older brother of Francis, who was settled in the Little River > region by 1769. The younger Joseph was the only son of > David Davenport, in turn the only son of the older Joseph. > The younger Joseph did move from Little River in Newberry > County to Greenville County, SC around 1800 and died there > approximately 1804. He was married to Margaret Floyd. > > R. L. Guffin > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > View the Cousins Directory at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > > ============================== > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi

I've misplaced the posting for someone who inquired about the spelling of Davenport/Deavenport. Please email me. Jann

Newberry Davenports Many of us who work on South Carolina families are familiar with the major reference work on patriots in the American Revolution from South Carolina written by Professor Bobby Gilmer Moss of Limestone College. His latest work was recently found by regular contributor to this site, Adrienne Morrison, and it is entitled ROSTER OF THE LOYALISTS IN THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN (1998, Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC). Using pay abstracts now in Surry, England, he has indicated that DAVID DAVENPORT, ISAAC DAVENPORT, and JAMES DAVENPORT each served under Capt. William Hendricks and Major Patrick Cunningham from June 14, 1780 in the Little River Militia. Each was listed as participating in the battle of Kings Mountain, each was reported to have evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H. Cruger and each was reported to have been with Maj. Cunningham at Dorchester on August 23, 1781. JOSEPH DAVENPORT is reported to have served six months under Maj. Patrick Cunningham in the Little River Militia, was under Ferguson in the battle of Kings Mountain, and was with Lt. Col. Cruger in the evacuation of Fort Ninety Six. There is little doubt that David, Isaac, and James Davenport, mentioned above were sons of Francis Davenport who migrated from Granville Co., NC to Little River in SC no later than 1771 and I concur with John Scott Davenport that the above mentioned Joseph was a grandson of old Joseph, older brother of Francis, who was settled in the Little River region by 1769. The younger Joseph was the only son of David Davenport, in turn the only son of the older Joseph. The younger Joseph did move from Little River in Newberry County to Greenville County, SC around 1800 and died there approximately 1804. He was married to Margaret Floyd. R. L. Guffin

R.L.: I take issue with the number of Newberry Davenports at the Battle of King's Mountain (8Oct1780), despite what the Professor may have written. My source is Murtie June Clark, "Loyalists in the Southern Campaign in the Revolutionary War" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981), 118, 254, 257, 261, 261, 267, 291, 331. Clark reproduces the actual payrolls. I do this with a sense of considerate mitigation for your Newberry kin, without intent to deprecate your scholarship. You were quoting a source. Some might think that it bad enough to have a better claim on membership in the British Empire Service League than in the DAR or SAR without having a "loser at King's Mountain too" horse collar. That's not a club a lot of folks are clamoring to join. Of all the Davenports on the British Army payroll, only Joseph was specifically identified as having been detailed to Colonel Ferguson's command, and was so paid. He appears on no payrolls with David, Isaac, and James. Lt. Colonel Patrick Cunningham commanded the Little River Regiment, Ninety Six Brigade, was not at King's Mountain. [In the Census of 1790 (1792 in SC), he was enumerated as the richest man in Laurens County, considering the number of slaves he had, so he was not particularly damaged by his Loyalist sympathies and activities 1780-1782.] Captain William Hendricks commanded a Company in Little River Regiment, was not at King's Mountain. He was the bitter end Royalist I told about earlier who refugeed with his family to Charleston after the King's Loyal Militia was dissolved by desertions following Yorktown, then went with the British Army to St. Augustine, East Florida, where he remained, becoming a Catholic and a subject of the Spanish King, and died an unregenerate Tory, refusing to accept Amnesty or American citizenship. Nevertheless, he was certified a Patriot by the DAR based on the service of Captain William Hendrick of the Old Cheraws, who served under Francis Marion. Hendrick and Hendricks are two entirely different families. The Cunninghams made the King's Loyalist Militia a family affair. Ninety Six Brigade was commanded by Brigadier General Robert Cunningham, who was a State Senator until he took the Oath of Allegiance to the King in 1780. Brother John Cunningham was the Paymaster for the Ninety Six Brigade. Brother Lt. Colonel Patrick Cunningham commanded the Little River Regiment. Brother Captain William Cunningham was "Bloody Bill," who commanded a Company that was infamous for its ruthless burning of homes and barns, and for its drumhead justice of hangings and hackings. I have not checked to see if any of these have been certified as Patriots. I know we are in agreement on the main points, am only suggesting that a little lightening up on a guilt trip for your Newberry kin is indicated by Clark's data. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

>From: JSDDOC@aol.com >Reply-To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com >To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re: William Davenport, wife Comfort Fisher, of Casey >County, KY >Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 07:43:16 EST > >To Angela, Elaine of Avery, and Any Others Interested: > > My apologies for taking so long to respond relative to the hypothesis >that William Davenport, wife Comfort Fisher, who was in Surry County, NC, >by >1782, was William Davenport, son of Richard Davenport of Albemarle County. >To my mind, William of Surry, later of Casey County, KY, was a done deal >insofar as identification was concerned more than twenty-five years ago. >Before I could respond intelligently to Elaine's suggestion that I address >the subject, I had to go through my files. I have fourteen long file >drawers >stuffed full. Since 1976 and my then move to Virginia, I have had a >systematic filing system--can retrieve by surname and geographical cross >reference. My search did not find a folder for William Davenport of >Surry-Casey, and I know that I had one. But I may have loaned it out or >given it away, having been convinced that it was not a Davenport line of my >interest, and had, therefore, been a blind alley and of no further value. > > I did not become a family wide researcher until the late 1970s when I >was >on the faculty of Brigham Young University and was exposed to the Family >History concept. I then had easy access to the BYU Library, which is >second >only to FHC at Salt Lake City in microfilm resources. Before becoming a >Family History convert, I had occasionally given away data files that were >no >longer of interest. The William Davenport-Comfort Fisher was likely one of >those. I had traced them from Accomack County, VA, to Surry County, NC, to >Casey County, KY, to (one line) Sangamon County, Illinois, before it became >obvious that they were not identifiable kin of mine. My recent search did >not find their data in my North Carolina/Davenport files, but I found >generic >data in my Casey County, KY, file, and eldest or second son George and his >full line in my Sangamon County, IL, file, all of which corroborates which >I >now relate. > > I can dispose of the hypothesis that William of Surry-Casey and >William >of Richard of Albemarle-Kentucky were one and the same person by pointing >out >that William of Surry-Casey was having children 10 to 20 years before >either >of the two Pamunkey William Davenports who were both in Kentucky by 1795. >(William of Surry-Casey was not in Kentucky until after 1800.) George >Davenport of Sangamon County, Illinois, either the first or second of >William >of Surry-Casey, was born in North Carolina in 1781. At that time, based on >their known children, neither William of Fayette County, KY, nor William of >Mercer County, KY, was married. William of Fayette was the son of William >of >Spotsylvania, son of Martin of Hanover (d. 1735). William of Mercer was >allegedly, the identification is vigorously disputed but that's another >discussion for another time, the son of Richard of Albemarle, son of Martin >of Hanover. Whatever, William of Mercer was married in Kentucky in 1795, >did >not start a known family until after that date. William of Fayette, an >officer in the Virginia Continental Line, apparently married in the >mid-to-late 1780s, then took advantage of his generous Revolutionary War >land >bounty and went to Kentucky from Louisa County, VA. He was not on the >Fayette tax list of 1787, but he was on the next extant list of 11Jan1790, >and remained thereon until his death in 1828. Both William of Fayette and >William of Mercer were on Kentucky Tax Lists in 1800. Both were enumerated >in the Census of 1810, with households reflecting children much younger >than >those of William of Casey, who, in the same Census, had four sons with >their >own household living near him in Casey County. > > For those interested in pursuing the William Davenport-Comfort Fisher >line, the records of Accomack County, Virginia, the northernmost county on >Virginia's Eastern Shore, are remarkably complete back to Accomack's >beginnings in the Seventeenth Century. I did not do Accomack, because I >cut >off my work on William and Comfort after identifying and discarding at the >front end. You will also find the couple in the records of Eaton's Baptist >Church, now Davie County, NC, then Rowan County, NC. I stumbled across >William, Comfort and family while I was doing research on the Reverend >Lazarus Whitehead, who was the pioneer Baptist minister of Wayne County, >Indiana Territory, and the pastor of Pamunkey Jesse Davenport, son of >Augustine, Sr., of Rowan County, NC. Jesse moved north of the Ohio River >in >1801, was in Wayne County, IT, by 1806, where he built and operated the >first >mill on Elkhorn Creek. Whitehead came a few years later, established his >church several miles downstream from Davenport's Mill. Whitehead was >pastor >at Eaton's Church twice--both times for a number of years, once in the late >1780s-early1790s and again in the first decade of the 1800s. Willard >Heiss, >the late Indiana Quaker historian-genealogist, had a marvelous collection >of >references and microfilm concerning North Carolina religion in the >Eighteenth >and early Nineteenth centuries, and loaned me a film which contained the >entire minutes of Eaton's Church, from the time of the Revolution, if I >recall correctly, until the time of the Civil War. There are a number of >mentions of William Davenport, his wife Comfort, and their family therein. >I'm going on recall, but William and Comfort were settled on Deep Creek in >Surry County, just above the Rowan-Surry Line and at least twenty miles >north >of Eaton's Church (it was still going strong ESE of Mocksville, Davie >County, >twenty-five years ago--I attended a service and researched its graveyard). >Why the Surry Davenports would affiliate with Eaton's when there were >surely >other organized Baptists nearer, I know not, but during that time there >were >Regular Baptists, Separate Baptists, Particular Baptists, and German >Baptists >(Hard Shells or Anti-Missionary came later), among others, in the North >Carolina Piedmont. Eaton's apparently was in doctrinal and discipline >agreement with the Davenports' beliefs. As I recall they were received by >Letter from an Accomack County church, and along with several others were >constituted as the Arm of Eaton's on Deep Creek. Over the years, the Deep >Creek Arm increased in number by Letter (transfers from other Baptist >churches) and Experience (baptized), and in the mid-to-late 1790s was set >off >as a daughter church of Eaton's. Rev. Whitehead was one of those >constituting the new church. Whether Deep Creek Baptist still thrives, I >know >not, for I had no interest in its cemetery. > > The basic evidence, I suggest, isolates the William and Comfort >Davenports, who I have categorized as EASTERN SHORE Davenports, from the >PAMUNKEY Davenports, and, therefore, excludes the possibility that this >William was the son of Pamunkey Richard Davenport of Albemarle. If someone >wants to do the Southern Davenports a favor, a thorough culling of the >records of Mercer County, Kentucky, would be immensely helpful, for there >were more Davenport households there in the Census of 1810 than in any >other >County in the Commonwealth, and at least two of my correspondents, >descendants of William of Mercer, have declared that none of the other >households were children or kin of his. One of those households was >Richard >Davenport, son of John, grandson of John, Sr., great-grandson of Martin of >Hanover. He was in Danville (now Boyle County), keeping a tavern, and >subsequently was a regimental commander in the War of 1812 who was breveted >a >Brigadier General of Militia for his heroism in the Recapture of Detroit >and >the various battles in Upper Canada; then was dead by 1819, leaving a most >distinguished family. > > Back in the early 1970s, I had a running disagreement with an elderly >lady and her daughter in Southwest Missouri about the identifications of >the >early William Davenport's of Kentucky. They claimed that William of >Fayette >was the son of Richard of Albemarle. I had already placed William of >Fayette >in the Pamunkey file (which I then called "William of Spotsylvania"). >After >much wrangling, I finally made a trip to Lexington, county seat of Fayette, >and searched the original records. I was frustrated on data prior to 1800 >by >a courthouse fire that had destroyed or badly damaged records prior >thereto, >but I found enough in extant records to make a case to my satisfaction--but >I >was unsuccessful in convincing the Missouri ladies, who were largely going >on >gut instinct, speculation, and a desire to get another star on their DAR >ribbons. However, I have not encountered the claim again since. > > Failing to do Mercer County, Kentucky, records when I had the >opportunity >(I lived in Cincinnati for twenty-five years) is one of my lifetime regrets >insofar as Davenport research is concerned. But there's always microfilm >at >an LDS Family History Center. If anyone has the motivation to take on >the >job and be the pathfinder in that area, enjoy. You could prove me wrong. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ >Dear John: You have certainly performed comprehensive research on some of >the Davenports in Virginia. I was wondering if you ever came across My >grgrgr grandfather, Lewis Davenport, in your travels through the records in >Virginia. I believe he was born in Virginia, approx 1795-1810, although it >could have been 5-10 years earlier, but I doubt it. I do know that he >married Mary A. Harris in Sumner County, TN in 1829, and I believe he was >previously married to Cecelia Wheeler, but have no marriage location or >date. The family lived in TN until 1851 when they moved to Crittenden >County, KY. Lewis died sometime between 1842 and 1850. I would appreciate >hearing from you if you have ever come across Lewis. The only lead I have >in Virginia is being told a Lewis Davenport lived as a child in Washington >County, Va, but I am still attempting to verify that information. Thank >you, Steve Siegrist, email: debbyandsteve@hotmail.com. > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support RootsWeb! 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To Angela, Elaine of Avery, and Any Others Interested: My apologies for taking so long to respond relative to the hypothesis that William Davenport, wife Comfort Fisher, who was in Surry County, NC, by 1782, was William Davenport, son of Richard Davenport of Albemarle County. To my mind, William of Surry, later of Casey County, KY, was a done deal insofar as identification was concerned more than twenty-five years ago. Before I could respond intelligently to Elaine's suggestion that I address the subject, I had to go through my files. I have fourteen long file drawers stuffed full. Since 1976 and my then move to Virginia, I have had a systematic filing system--can retrieve by surname and geographical cross reference. My search did not find a folder for William Davenport of Surry-Casey, and I know that I had one. But I may have loaned it out or given it away, having been convinced that it was not a Davenport line of my interest, and had, therefore, been a blind alley and of no further value. I did not become a family wide researcher until the late 1970s when I was on the faculty of Brigham Young University and was exposed to the Family History concept. I then had easy access to the BYU Library, which is second only to FHC at Salt Lake City in microfilm resources. Before becoming a Family History convert, I had occasionally given away data files that were no longer of interest. The William Davenport-Comfort Fisher was likely one of those. I had traced them from Accomack County, VA, to Surry County, NC, to Casey County, KY, to (one line) Sangamon County, Illinois, before it became obvious that they were not identifiable kin of mine. My recent search did not find their data in my North Carolina/Davenport files, but I found generic data in my Casey County, KY, file, and eldest or second son George and his full line in my Sangamon County, IL, file, all of which corroborates which I now relate. I can dispose of the hypothesis that William of Surry-Casey and William of Richard of Albemarle-Kentucky were one and the same person by pointing out that William of Surry-Casey was having children 10 to 20 years before either of the two Pamunkey William Davenports who were both in Kentucky by 1795. (William of Surry-Casey was not in Kentucky until after 1800.) George Davenport of Sangamon County, Illinois, either the first or second of William of Surry-Casey, was born in North Carolina in 1781. At that time, based on their known children, neither William of Fayette County, KY, nor William of Mercer County, KY, was married. William of Fayette was the son of William of Spotsylvania, son of Martin of Hanover (d. 1735). William of Mercer was allegedly, the identification is vigorously disputed but that's another discussion for another time, the son of Richard of Albemarle, son of Martin of Hanover. Whatever, William of Mercer was married in Kentucky in 1795, did not start a known family until after that date. William of Fayette, an officer in the Virginia Continental Line, apparently married in the mid-to-late 1780s, then took advantage of his generous Revolutionary War land bounty and went to Kentucky from Louisa County, VA. He was not on the Fayette tax list of 1787, but he was on the next extant list of 11Jan1790, and remained thereon until his death in 1828. Both William of Fayette and William of Mercer were on Kentucky Tax Lists in 1800. Both were enumerated in the Census of 1810, with households reflecting children much younger than those of William of Casey, who, in the same Census, had four sons with their own household living near him in Casey County. For those interested in pursuing the William Davenport-Comfort Fisher line, the records of Accomack County, Virginia, the northernmost county on Virginia's Eastern Shore, are remarkably complete back to Accomack's beginnings in the Seventeenth Century. I did not do Accomack, because I cut off my work on William and Comfort after identifying and discarding at the front end. You will also find the couple in the records of Eaton's Baptist Church, now Davie County, NC, then Rowan County, NC. I stumbled across William, Comfort and family while I was doing research on the Reverend Lazarus Whitehead, who was the pioneer Baptist minister of Wayne County, Indiana Territory, and the pastor of Pamunkey Jesse Davenport, son of Augustine, Sr., of Rowan County, NC. Jesse moved north of the Ohio River in 1801, was in Wayne County, IT, by 1806, where he built and operated the first mill on Elkhorn Creek. Whitehead came a few years later, established his church several miles downstream from Davenport's Mill. Whitehead was pastor at Eaton's Church twice--both times for a number of years, once in the late 1780s-early1790s and again in the first decade of the 1800s. Willard Heiss, the late Indiana Quaker historian-genealogist, had a marvelous collection of references and microfilm concerning North Carolina religion in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries, and loaned me a film which contained the entire minutes of Eaton's Church, from the time of the Revolution, if I recall correctly, until the time of the Civil War. There are a number of mentions of William Davenport, his wife Comfort, and their family therein. I'm going on recall, but William and Comfort were settled on Deep Creek in Surry County, just above the Rowan-Surry Line and at least twenty miles north of Eaton's Church (it was still going strong ESE of Mocksville, Davie County, twenty-five years ago--I attended a service and researched its graveyard). Why the Surry Davenports would affiliate with Eaton's when there were surely other organized Baptists nearer, I know not, but during that time there were Regular Baptists, Separate Baptists, Particular Baptists, and German Baptists (Hard Shells or Anti-Missionary came later), among others, in the North Carolina Piedmont. Eaton's apparently was in doctrinal and discipline agreement with the Davenports' beliefs. As I recall they were received by Letter from an Accomack County church, and along with several others were constituted as the Arm of Eaton's on Deep Creek. Over the years, the Deep Creek Arm increased in number by Letter (transfers from other Baptist churches) and Experience (baptized), and in the mid-to-late 1790s was set off as a daughter church of Eaton's. Rev. Whitehead was one of those constituting the new church. Whether Deep Creek Baptist still thrives, I know not, for I had no interest in its cemetery. The basic evidence, I suggest, isolates the William and Comfort Davenports, who I have categorized as EASTERN SHORE Davenports, from the PAMUNKEY Davenports, and, therefore, excludes the possibility that this William was the son of Pamunkey Richard Davenport of Albemarle. If someone wants to do the Southern Davenports a favor, a thorough culling of the records of Mercer County, Kentucky, would be immensely helpful, for there were more Davenport households there in the Census of 1810 than in any other County in the Commonwealth, and at least two of my correspondents, descendants of William of Mercer, have declared that none of the other households were children or kin of his. One of those households was Richard Davenport, son of John, grandson of John, Sr., great-grandson of Martin of Hanover. He was in Danville (now Boyle County), keeping a tavern, and subsequently was a regimental commander in the War of 1812 who was breveted a Brigadier General of Militia for his heroism in the Recapture of Detroit and the various battles in Upper Canada; then was dead by 1819, leaving a most distinguished family. Back in the early 1970s, I had a running disagreement with an elderly lady and her daughter in Southwest Missouri about the identifications of the early William Davenport's of Kentucky. They claimed that William of Fayette was the son of Richard of Albemarle. I had already placed William of Fayette in the Pamunkey file (which I then called "William of Spotsylvania"). After much wrangling, I finally made a trip to Lexington, county seat of Fayette, and searched the original records. I was frustrated on data prior to 1800 by a courthouse fire that had destroyed or badly damaged records prior thereto, but I found enough in extant records to make a case to my satisfaction--but I was unsuccessful in convincing the Missouri ladies, who were largely going on gut instinct, speculation, and a desire to get another star on their DAR ribbons. However, I have not encountered the claim again since. Failing to do Mercer County, Kentucky, records when I had the opportunity (I lived in Cincinnati for twenty-five years) is one of my lifetime regrets insofar as Davenport research is concerned. But there's always microfilm at an LDS Family History Center. If anyone has the motivation to take on the job and be the pathfinder in that area, enjoy. You could prove me wrong. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Dear Pat, Sorry, that name does not ring a bell. Carol

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4FB5B06E2397705FD696BD20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Group--I am passing this on from Jeff in the hopes that someone can put him on the right track. This line is not from my NC/Tennessee line. Shannon --------------4FB5B06E2397705FD696BD20 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail7.bellsouth.net (mail7.bellsouth.net [205.152.16.4]) by mail0.mco.bellsouth.net (3.3.4alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id PAA24522 for <scoyle4@sdf.bellsouth.net>; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:09:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pacs04.infoave.net (IDENT:21309AE1@pacs04.InfoAve.Net [165.166.0.14]) by mail7.bellsouth.net (3.3.4alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id OAA18615 for <scoyle4@bellsouth.net>; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 14:51:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from infoave.net ("port 1328"@[206.74.235.171]) by InfoAve.Net (PMDF V5.1-12 #23426) with ESMTP id <01JH4NJRDOBW94M7C5@InfoAve.Net> for scoyle4@bellsouth.net; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 15:07:29 EDT Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 02:04:06 -0500 From: Jeff Davenport <Cooter@InfoAve.Net> Subject: Davenport from Tennessee To: scoyle4@bellsouth.net Message-id: <3806D1E5.A53D5C6C@infoave.net> Organization: Davenport Farms MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-INFOAVE (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Hello, I am researching the Davenport from Jackson County Tennessee. I noticed that your Davenport line is from Tennessee also. below you will find a list of my line. thanks in advance for your help... Henry Davenport ..Joseph Davenport ...Martin Davenport ....Jefferson Davenport .....Warren Davenport ......Gearld Whit Davenport ..........Jeffery Darryl Davenport ..............Jeffery Forrest Isaiah Davenport *Henry Davenport [1840 cenus], Hannah Cassetty /s James Davenport [1850 cenus 59,Va.] w/ Susanah 50 Va. d/ Elizabeth 29 d/ Martha 24 d/ Adaville 23 d/ Manerva 20 d/ Nelly 18 s/ John 15 d/ Amanda 13 d/ Bardilla 12 * /s Joseph Davenport [1850 cenus 52 Tn] Elizabeth 48 Tn. s/ Milus M. 23 s/ Elias J. 20 d/ Amanda A. 18 d/ Nancy E. 17 d/ Louvina A. 14 s/ Simpson A. 10 *Martin Davenport [1870 cenus] w/ Sarah ? d/ Nancy Elizabeth " Nannie" b.15 Aug 1867 Jackson Co.. s/ William Davenport w/ Sarah Spivey s/ Milus S. s/Joseph Davenport [4/8/1869] *s/ Thomas Jefferson Davenport [4/8/1869 - 11/21/1932] w/ Elizia Sneed [8/8/1871 - 11/5/1934] s/ Hirman Davenport [1/20/1897 - 7/4/1967] m/ Aline Hankins [6/20/1902 - 1994] 8 children & 3 still born Moline Davenport [2/1/1919 - 1/4/1942] m/ ?Witcher . Goldman Davenport Hugh L. Davenport Robbie Davenport Mildred Davenport Martha Davenport Mary Davenport Roxy Davenport d/ Della Davenport d/ Lonna Davenport d/ Daffo Davenport d/ Anna Davenport s/ Hilman Davenport [ 10/9/1905 - 3/1985] *s/ Warren Davenport [3/6/1909 - 12/9/1988]w/ Clovis Orba Stubblefield [12/18/1912 - 6/1980] [wed 1/6/1932] d/ Irean Davenport w/ Douglas Holliman, Bud Cleamons, Robert Taylor s/ James Douglas Holliman ex-w/ Tonya Proyar d/ Pam Holliman 1st-h/ Lonnie Spivey,2nd-h/ Kennith Grogran s/ Brandon Spivey s/ ? d/ Michelle Holliman h/ ? s/ ? s/ Jason Holliman w/ Julie Phann s/ Louie Gray Davenport w/ Linda Faye Meadows Cynthia Lynn Davenport h/ Wayne Hill d/ Myla Dawn Hill s/ ? Hill Mylinda Gail Davenport [died at birth 8/8/1961] * s/ Gearld Witt Davenport w/ Margaret Faye Hancock s/ Micheal Gearld Davenport [1/25/1965] w/ Lori Kay Reece [5/29/1968] [wed 5/16/1986] d/ Sara Beth Davenport [3/18/1993] *s/ Jeffery Darryl Davenport [ 7/5/1969] /w Heather Dawn Wilson [7/12/1974] [wed 10/14/1995] *s/ Jeffery Forrest Isaiah Davenport [2/24/1997] --------------4FB5B06E2397705FD696BD20--

I am a ggg grand-daughter of John Tanner Davenport. I am looking for his father who was Peter Davenport that lived in Richmond Va. in 1831. His father was John Davenport who Married Ann Francis Willis. John Davenports father was Benjamin Davenport.What i need help on is to find the dates, children, andbirth and death dates. Ihave noticed that this line of Davenports that there is nothing on the webb. If anyone could help that would be a big help, this family is for a Christmas gift if i can get the rest of the imformation on these people. Ready to here from you and to change any imformation that I have on the Davenports that I already have. Cathy CHONAN2944@aol.com

Billy Bob: Relative to the Duke Family History (p. 340) you showed me at the Louisa, Virginia, Library in September which cited a Susannah Pettus marrying ---- Davenport, date not given, and having an older sister married in January 1775, and another sister married in Louisa County on 15Dec1803, the father of all three ladies having been William Pettus, who was a Militia Captain in November 1772 and afterwards a Colonel in the Revolution: The quality of the claim, if you gave it precisely, is rather uneven, but most elements are corroborated by other Louisa and Spotsylvania, Virginia, and Abbeville, South Carolina, record extracts. All of the Louisa corroboratives occurred within St. Martin's Parish, i.e., approximately the lower two and a half miles of the county--in fact, virtually next door to the Old Martin Davenport plantation. Our working paper "The Pamunkey Davenports of Colonial Virginia," gives the wife of John Davenport (A4f), son of Richard of Albemarle (a4), son of Martin of Hanover (A, d. 1735), as Susannah Pettus. This identification, admittedly a circumstantial one, is based on John's LW&T probated in Abbeville District, South Carolina, in 1798--wherein he identified his wife as Susannah, and his children as Charles, Richard, Peggy, and Patsy. Two of the witnesses to the Will were John Arnold and John Pettus Arnold. John Arnold obtained a marriage bond to wed Barbara Pettus in Louisa County on 9Jan1775, with Garret Minor, Thomas Minor, and William Arnold , Jr., his securities. (By your Duke book that would have been the older sister who got married in 1775.) This John Arnold (there are at least three contemporaries to keep separate) was the son of William Arnold, Sr., and wife Mary Davenport, eldest daughter of William Davenport of Spotsylvania. In 1778-79, William Arnold, Sr., and his brother-in-law John Davenport of William went to Uwharrie Waters, Guilford County, North Carolina, to look at land in the same neighborhood where Augustine Davenport, another son of William, had settled in 1768-69. The Rowan-Guilford Line divided the neighborhood, with Augustine being on the Rowan side. Shortly after Arnold's and John's arrival in North Carolina, Randolph County was created from the south of Guilford, and took in the land of Arnold's and John's interest. Having decided to settle permanently in North Carolina, the Arnolds returned to Virginia, and divested themselves of their property there, to wit: 9Dec1779 - Deed: William Arnold, wife Mary, of Randolph County, North Carolina, to John Arnold, of Louisa County, Virginia, for 5 shillings and the love and good will they bear the said John Arnold, 230 acres in Spotsylvania County [description not abstracted].../s/ John Arnold, Mary "X" Arnold. Wit: William Graves, William Pettus, William Pettus, Jr., John Z. Lewis, Robert Lewis. (Crozier's Spotsylvania Deeds, 372) Another piece of the picture you need is the fact that William Pettus [Sr.], father of Susanna, was married to Susannah Graves, daughter of Thomas Graves, Sr., and Ann Davenport, daughter of Davis Davenport. Graves, Sr., had two plantations, one in Spotsylvania, one in Louisa, across the North Anna River from each other. When Thomas Graves, Sr., died in Spotsylvania in 1768, son-in-law William Pettus was one of the executors. Hence, the marriage of John Arnold and Barbara Pettus was a marriage of Davenport cousins beyond the first degree. Richard Davenport of Albemarle apparently had obtained land from his father Martin's original 400-acre patent of 1727 (Martin retained only 150 acres on the time of his death). Richard did not sell the land, which either straddled the Louisa-Hanover line or abutted it, but rented or sharecropped it for twenty years or more (Martin Davenport? John Davenport, Sr.?). In the late 1770s, he apparently put his son John, who had married or would soon marry Susannah Pettus (her father's plantation was virtually next door to the Davenport place) on the place. Based on the approximated ages of John's children, an estimated date of marriage of 1778 is not unreasonable. One custom of the time that you've overlooked, Billy Bob: Obtaining a Marriage Bond was not the only way to legitimatize a marriage in Colonial Virginia. You could have the Bans read--which consisted of having the Parish Vicar announce the intentions of a couple to marry at three successive Church services, each time asking for those knowing of any impediments to such a union to come forward. After the third reading and no impediments existing, the Vicar would then leisurely marry the couple at a fashionable affair. No marriage bond or license required. Dissenters to the Anglican Church, of which there were many in the Davenport neighborhood where Hanover-Spotsylvania-Louisa came together, predominantly Baptists but there were Quakers and Presbyterians also, invariably obtained Marriage Bonds, wanted nothing to do with the Established Church--even though they were forced to support it by Sheriff-enforced tithing. To the contrary, devoted Anglicans, which included the family of Richard Davenport of Albemarle (he was a Vestryman, one of those gentlemen responsible for the religious and temporal affairs of the Parish), exercised the patience and discipline of having Bans read. The Vicar did not read Bans freely. He had to be paid and was likely more expensive than the cost of a bond, but it was the proper, genteel way of doing things. The likelihood was that John, son of Richard, had his and Susannah's Bans read. Hence it is unlikely that you will find a marriage bond or license for them in Louisa records--and all of the records of St. Martin's Parish, where a record would have been, no longer exist. The Pettus land, bought by Susanna's grandfather John Pettus of the Thomas Carr Estate in 1745, adjoined Martin Davenport's 1727 patent (hence was quite near Richard of Albemarle's tract), but by then one Garret owned that portion of Martin's tract. Martin's original ownership was cited in the Carr to Pettus deed. The Pettus land was totally within Louisa County, created from Upper Hanover in 1742. The original Davenport tract was divided roughly in half by the Hanover-Louisa County Line. John, son of Richard, lived on the Louisa tract until 1791, when he moved to Abbeville District, South Carolina, joining his older brother Charles there. Charles, surely the most successful of Richard's sons, had been a magistrate and Sheriff of Culpeper County during the Revolution, moved to the South Carolina backcountry in 1785--where he was immediately commissioned a Justice of the Peace and a member of the County Court. The Federal Census of 1790 was not done in South Carolina until the first six months of 1792, and by that time John Davenport had moved in from Virginia. Both he and brother Charles are enumerated in a cluster in Abbeville--Charles had 22 slaves, John had 5. They would soon be joined by Arnolds from Spotsylvania and Pettuses from Louisa. Concurrent or subsequent to John's decision to move to South Carolina, Richard Davenport contracted to sell his Louisa land to Tarleton Brown Luck, who had married a niece of Richard's, namely Crotia Cassity Kennedy (mother Crotia Davenport) in 1789. However, Richard died in early 1793 before he made a deed. By terms of his LW&T, five of his sons inherited the yet undeeded land. There are several powers of attorneys and deeds, recorded and unrecorded, in Albemarle and Louisa involving Richard's heirs passing title to Luck. Luck did not long survive Richard Davenport. He was dead by 1795, and his widow married the Rev. Hezekiah Arnold, to whom the Tarlton Brown Luck heirs sold the tract in 1798. Insofar as John Arnold and wife Barbara (nee Pettus) were concerned, they left Spotsylvania County in late 1791, likely going south with John of Richard and his family, to wit: 21Oct1791 - Deed: John Arnold, wife Barbara, to James Arnold, all of Spotsylvania County, for L40, 400 acres in Spotsylvania County, adjoining John Waller, Joel Trigg, Jonathan Clark, John Wiglesworth, Jr., and William Buchanan.../s/ John Arnold, Barbara Arnold. Wit: None. (Crozier's Abstracts of Spotsylvania County Deeds, 450) John Arnold and Barbara apparently first settled with his parents William Arnold, wife Mary (nee Davenport) in Laurens County, South Carolina, approximately twenty miles north on the north side of Saluda River, but by the time of John's death, they had joined John's family in Abbeville. After the death of his father-in-law Thomas Graves, Sr., and the death of the widow Ann Davenport Graves, William Pettus, Sr., bought the Graves plantation in Spotsylvania from his in-law heirs and moved thereon. He died there in 1798. His LW&T was made on 18Sep1795, probated on 4Sep1798, was witnessed by Sharp Smith, Peter Arnold, and Charles Dabney. His executors were sons William Pettus, Overton Hart Pettus, James Pettus, Joseph Pettus, and son-in-law William Graves. He left legacies to his wife [unnamed], sons Overton Hart Pettus; James Pettus; Joseph Pettus; nominated trustees: friends Jonathan Clarke, Edmund Clark, and Samuel Overton Pettus; and daughter Louisa. He identified his children as: Barbary Arnold, William Pettus, Nancy Graves, Susanna Davenport, Overton Hart Pettus, James Pettus, Joseph Pettus, and Louisa Pettus. (Spotsylvania County, VA, Wills, F:37) Louisa Pettus was apparently the sister of Susanna, wife of ---- Davenport, who got married in 1803 per the Duke tome. Susanna Pettus (nee Graves) was still alive in 1791 when she joined her husband in deeding Spotsylvania land. Witnesses then were Joseph Graves, Peter Arnold, Joseph Pettus, and Samuel O. Pettus. Gwathmey's Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution (1938) cites William Pettus, Louisa Militia, Major in 1777, appointed Lt. Colonel 14Apr1778, reappointed 8Jun1778, referred to as Colonel in private life (1782). So the Duke book is corroborated in that regard also. All of this, I submit, makes a rather strong circumstantial case that Susanna Pettus was the wife of John of Richard. I have a dozen more Pettus, Arnold, Graves items for evidence, but they would only be beating a dead horse insofar as furthering the argument. Does that answer your question, Bill Bob? John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

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Hi again Joel, Got side tracked and forgot the last 3 Children of Abraham Logsdon Laurence Lincoln b. 7 May 1903 Davenport d. 26 Apr 1987 Spokane m. Bertha Marie Olsen Children: Evelyn Logsdon, Hazel, Allen Laurence Logsdon, Raymond Lincoln, Logsdon, Bertha Marie Logsdon, Milton Lee Logsdon. Have to assume they are still living my mother hasn't said anytthing to indicate otherwise. Robert Theodore Logsdon b. 1905 Davenport d. 1914 Davenport Buried Mountain View Cem. Millie Berdina Logsdon b. 30 Aug 1907 (From Bible) 31 Aug 1907 (from death record) d. 10 Aug 1990 m. 1st Arthur Lewis Hoffman m. 2nd Charles Thomas 1930 Children with Hoffman; Arthur Hoffman and Dorothy Hoffman Children with Charles Thomas: Inez Thomas, Dwayne Thomas, Duel Thomas, Karen Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Neil Benjamin Thomas. Have to assume all are living. Now you really do have them up to the current generation; Sincerely, Ellen

Carol, I am looking for the parents and siblings of James Marion White who was born in GA. He was married to Dorcas Weaver and their son John C. White was my ggrandfather. John C. White married Susan C. Davenport in Carroll Co. GA. in 1865. That is all I know about James Marion White. I thought maybe they might be connected to your Whites. Thanks, Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <DixieChx@aol.com> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 7:52 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] William Davenport > Dear Pat, > > The William and Sophia Davenport White I referred to left Virginia circa > 1760 for Craven County S.C. By 1774, they had moved to Burke County, N.C. > They are my four x great-grandparents. I've been tracing their descendants > and researching for several years. What do you need? Are they who you are > looking for? > > > Carol > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > View the Cousins Directory at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > > ============================== > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Dear Pat, The William and Sophia Davenport White I referred to left Virginia circa 1760 for Craven County S.C. By 1774, they had moved to Burke County, N.C. They are my four x great-grandparents. I've been tracing their descendants and researching for several years. What do you need? Are they who you are looking for? Carol

BGROENHOUT@aol.com wrote: > > Carol and others: > > I remember tracing this William Davenport when I first began researching my line back into NC . What I remember is this: he married Sarah Comfort Fischer in Accomack Co., VA circa 1769. He had about eight children....................... Hi Group, we all agree that his wife was known as Comfort Fischer. The 1769 marriage would agree with what I have on some of the children. They came to Surry Co, NC by the time Martin DAVENPORT and father Thomas did (1775). I can't find it but Martin and 1 slave "Old Tom" are paid tolls and a William is nearby, seems it is 1776, but I ll have to find my documentation. For the children, I have John b 1771 m Sarah Elder in 1795 Surry Co Mar. There is Mary b 1773 m William Elder in 1800 Surry Co Mar Rec. Both of these families stayed in the Surry area. I have a Thomas b 1776, William b 1782, George b 1784 and Margaret b in 1786. There is an unexplained William in the 1800 census for Burke Co, NC. People have said it was son of Martin, but the one living near Martin has SONS, Martin's son William didn't marry until 1803 and had only girls. I had thought for a time it was William, s/o William, s/o Martin of Hanover, but DOC has done research to eliminate him. The one in Burke Co disappears and only one William shows up in the area of Burke that became Watauga on the 1850 c.The names for the children of the Watauga Co William is similar to children of William s/o Martin of Hanover. Maybe someone else has answers. This is all I have. Elaine in Avery(NC)

Hello Richard, I am researching Davenports in Tyrrell Co. NC. Here are a couple of Isaac Davenports that are of the age to have been the parent of Celia Davenport. Isaac date of birth unknown the son of Isaac Davenport d. Before Feb 1769 m. to Elizabeth Hawkins. Isaac date of birth unknown son of Joseph Davenport and Ann. Joseph left will 5 Feb 1792 Tyrrell Co. I to am having trouble with my Davenport line out of Tyrrell Co. These are Davenports I have collected while searching for my James F. Davenport b. 1815 Tyrrell Co. m. Ann Spruill in 1836. Hope they may lead to yours for you. Sincerely, Ellen Kroll ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard N. Brown <rnb2@axe.humboldt.edu> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 12:30 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] SEEKING CELIA (Davenport- b 12 Feb., 1792 Tyrrell Co., NC) > Dear list, > > I'm writing to introduce myself and to ask for help. My name is Rick Brown > and I'm researching my paternal grandmother's genealogy. Her GGgrandparents > were Richard Chapman and Celia Davenport. > > I'm writing to ask if any of you have any information on Celia Davenport b > 12 Feb., 1792 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, d 1852 in Macoupin County, > Illinois. > > Celia married Richard Chapman 10 Nov., 1808 in Tyrrell County and they had > children that included John Russel Chapman (b 11 Feb 1817). I believe > Celia's parents were Isaac Davenport and Anna (Davenport? cousins?). I've > found an Isaac Davenport in the 1800 census from Tyrrell County, but I have > no additional information. > > I would be very appreciative of any insight or information you might be able > to provide on these Davenports (or their relations - or potentially Richard > Chapman or relations). > > Many thanks in advance, > Rick Brown > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Please Help Support RootsWeb! Learn how at > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. > RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >

Dear John Scott Davenport and list, Please accept an apology for cluttering mail with a thank you but I have so enjoyed and appreciated all the information and leads you Davenport searchers have shared. Thank you John for the information on Thomas Minor and heading me in a direction. Judith Wood Henderson

Dear list, I'm writing to introduce myself and to ask for help. My name is Rick Brown and I'm researching my paternal grandmother's genealogy. Her GGgrandparents were Richard Chapman and Celia Davenport. I'm writing to ask if any of you have any information on Celia Davenport b 12 Feb., 1792 in Tyrrell County, North Carolina, d 1852 in Macoupin County, Illinois. Celia married Richard Chapman 10 Nov., 1808 in Tyrrell County and they had children that included John Russel Chapman (b 11 Feb 1817). I believe Celia's parents were Isaac Davenport and Anna (Davenport? cousins?). I've found an Isaac Davenport in the 1800 census from Tyrrell County, but I have no additional information. I would be very appreciative of any insight or information you might be able to provide on these Davenports (or their relations - or potentially Richard Chapman or relations). Many thanks in advance, Rick Brown

Carol and others: I remember tracing this William Davenport when I first began researching my line back into NC (Elaine, I'll get you started here). What I am posting is strictly from memory and could have some mistakes (couldn't find my old notes on him). What I remember is this: he married Sarah Comfort Fischer in Accomack Co., VA circa 1769. He had about eight children w/ the names that I remember for sure were a William and a Thomas. One of his children married a Spainhour (different spellings are found) in NC (Surry County) and remained there. There were many listings for Spainhours in Surry/Wilkes County that I remember. I am almost positive that I found an entry in the LDS Family History Center. I believe whomever contributed the entry stated that he was born in England, but that is to be determined. William is in the tax records for Surry up until around the 1790s and after. He moved to Casey County, KY to claim his military land grant. I am also pretty sure that I found a lot of evidence of his presence in Casey County records. I quit following him once I realized that he was not my ancestor. Hope this helps. Angela Groenhout

Earl: Go to this site: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl It is the archives for KYBIOGRAPHIES. Go to the year 1998 and search for Davenport and see if that William is the one that you are seeking. Robert L. Davenport aka Billy Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Earl Pantier <EPantier@compuserve.com> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 1999 11:14 AM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Davenport/Fayette/KY > The 1840 census index for Fayette County, Kentucky shows a Mary Davenport > as head of household and the 1830 for the same area shows Mary and also a > William. Does anyone have a line that fits with either or both of these? > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Search the List Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/DAVENPORT-L/ > > ============================== > FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! > Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >