Mary Lou - Your Humphrey would have been too young to fight in the Revolutionary War, too old for the Civil War, but might have served in The War of 1812. I didn't find any records of him there, but you might check further. I did find several Humphreys in some census indexes, possibly father & son? Here they are: 1810 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Tolland County CT, Pg. 311, Coventry Twp., Federal Population Schedule 1802 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Bergen County NJ, Pg. 8, Pompton Twp. August Tax List, NJ Tax Lists Index 1772-1822 1810 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Washington County NY, Pg. 502, Dist. 20201-01101 Federal Population Schedule 1820 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Ontario County NY, Pg. 312, Farmington Twp. Federal Population Schedule 1820 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Luzerne County PA, Pg. 312, Huntington Township Federal Population Schedule 1830 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Ontario County NY, Pg. 177, Manchester Twp. Federal Population Schedule 1840 DAVENPORT, HUMPHREY Tompkins County NY, Pg.186, Dryden Twp. Federal Population Schedule NOTE: There are 3 other Humphrey Davenports in the 1830 and 1840 censuses, in Renssalaer Co., Oneida Co. and Albany Counties, N.Y. I also found these land records: HUMPHREY, DAVENPORT MONROE Co. Michigan 1835/10/06 80 acres I also found two wills for Humphrey Davenports that were probated in Maryland, but haven't got the counties or dates, sorry. There are also several Humphreys in Ct. and N.J. listed in books about colonial settlers. A Humphrey Davenport also appears as a witness to several New York wills in 1680, as well as these references: New York City Wills, 1708-1728 Inventory: 2 decaying small houses at ye Old Church yard, next Suart Olpherts and Mrs. Humphrey Davenport, €300. All according to ye Respective Ground Briefs, and Transports thereof. Page 38.--Inventory of estate of ANN WATKINS, taken by James Matthews and Humphrey Davenport. Small list of household goods, and furniture, €18, 7s, 3d. Page 52.--THOMAS DODD, of Barbadoes Gent, administrator of estate of James Gilchrist, deceased, makes Francis Parsons his attorney, to collect all dues, and especially a judgment against Humphrey Davenport, July 26, 1681. HUMPHREY DAVENPORT, plaintiff, against Elizabeth Gebbs, August 2, 1679. Claims 127 guildres, due for rent. At a Court of Record held at the City Hall, August 1679, before Thomas Delavall, mayor. There also appears to be this biography at the New York State Library: Title: Allison, Davenport, Shawger (Shauger), Wendel (Wandle) : New Jersey - New York families / compiled by John Philip Rogers Subject: Davenport family. Davenport, Humphrey, d. 1727 Family. Allison family, Allison, John, 1797-1874. Shawger family, Shauger, George. Wendel family, Wendel, Evert Janssen, ca. 1610-1709. New Jersey Genealogy. New York Genealogy. I hope this helps you. Good luck. MargoBelle

Saw this in the paper ... Lanjaron, Spain: Tongue planted firmly in cheek, the mayor has banned death. He feels the local cemetery is too crowded for a soul to get decent eternal rest. So the 4,000 residents of this village in Granada province should remain alive while municipal officials shop for land to house a new graveyard. Mr. Rubio issued an edict last week ordering people "to take utmost care of their health so they do not die until town hall takes the necessary steps to acquire land suitable for our deceased to rest in glory. It is hereby forbidden to die in Lanjaron," the edict added. Rubio says the ban on death is his response to politicians pestering him for a quick fix.

Greetings, Humphrey Davenport is my 6G grandfather. I need help with his son, Cornelius, children. I thought I had them right but now I'm not sure. I have found many references to Enos Davenport, son of Cornelius and I don't have him listed. I need to find out just who are Cornelius's children. Could someone who is researching this family please email me privately. I would love to get this straightened out. Thank you, Joann IBSSG "Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Can someone help me with this: I have material from the Ontario Co, NY Historical Soc. which tells me about a Cornelius DAVENPORT married to Elizabeth COLE with children: Aaron (1842), Jacob (1848), Moses (1833) and Humphrey (1767). This last one doesn't seem to fit. Not only the name, but also the birthdate...and of course, he is the one I'm interested in! Does anyone else have Cornelius and Elizabeth? I'd appreciate hearing form you. Thanks. Mary Lou Garland

Mary Lou - It's possible that the Humphrey Davenport, b. 1767 that appears on the Ontario Co. N.Y. Census is Cornelius father who might have been living with them at the time. Later on tonight I'll go through some of my records to see what I can find and I'll E-mail you then. MargoBelle

Hello List While visiting a antique store in Sevier County TN, I found a Davenport Family Bible. It is dated the 1817 King James Version. This bible seemed to have lots of info in it. I really didn't get a good look at names or dates, but there were many in it. I do recall one name as Calvin. If you think that this might be your family, let me know and I can get you in touch with this antique store. Thanks Sharon sharon@planetc.com

I just tried to write a reply to Sharon and was told the computer could not find that address. Sharon , how do I reach you? I am interested. maybe, you can "find" me! Mary Lou Garland

Mary--I went back to my records and found documentation of a paper written in 1835 or 1837 by William Majors in his family Bible, son of Jonas and Alice Redd Davenport of Jessamine Co. KY. The William you mention is listed in this paper as a brother to this Jonas.It does not list the children of the marriage to Miss McAfee but does mention several. It also mentions that she dies and he remarried and all of his children live in Mercer Co. KY. There is a wealth of information on this family in articles written in the Kentucky Gazette Newspaper of Lexington KY. Shannon Mary Duncan wrote: > I found the following family in "The History of the Fee Family" (Pb. 1969) > > William Davenport b. Abt 1770 > Mar: 1. Elizabeth "Betsy" McAfee > 2. Margaret Hunter > Issue (1) Allen, John, Jonas, Nancy mar. Abraham Goodnight, Elizabeth, Margaret > Issue (2) America > > Nancy is buried in Spring Hill Cem. Harolsburg, KY. Abraham is buried in Mercer Co. near Mayo, KY. Nancy is said to have lived 104 years. Some of her descendants went to Salem, Indiana. > > Can anyone identify this family???? > > Mary Duncan > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > View the Cousins Directory at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > > ============================== > Support free genealogy on the Internet! Join RootsWeb.com today!

Mary--I do not know anything about the origin of those Davenports but I believe that Spring Hill Cemetery is in Harrodsburg KY, not Harolsburg, for those who might be searching. It seems to me that there was a Jonas Davenport in Jessamine County who married an Alice Redd in the late 1700's. Perhaps there is a connection there??? Shannon Mary Duncan wrote: > I found the following family in "The History of the Fee Family" (Pb. 1969) > > William Davenport b. Abt 1770 > Mar: 1. Elizabeth "Betsy" McAfee > 2. Margaret Hunter > Issue (1) Allen, John, Jonas, Nancy mar. Abraham Goodnight, Elizabeth, Margaret > Issue (2) America > > Nancy is buried in Spring Hill Cem. Harolsburg, KY. Abraham is buried in Mercer Co. near Mayo, KY. Nancy is said to have lived 104 years. Some of her descendants went to Salem, Indiana. > > Can anyone identify this family???? > > Mary Duncan > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > View the Cousins Directory at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > > ============================== > Support free genealogy on the Internet! Join RootsWeb.com today!

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Hi everyone, Saw this on another e-mail, thought I'd pass it along. It touched me as a mother of seven children, five of whom are between the ages of 16 to 3 year old twins. My two oldest are 20 and 18 and living at home. Time to give them wings. And I'm doing my best on the Roots. \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // Give your children these two things - One is roots, ( @ @ ) the other, wings. -oOOo-(_)-oOOo- Mahaloanny@aol.com Sabrina

I found the following family in "The History of the Fee Family" (Pb. 1969) William Davenport b. Abt 1770 Mar: 1. Elizabeth "Betsy" McAfee 2. Margaret Hunter Issue (1) Allen, John, Jonas, Nancy mar. Abraham Goodnight, Elizabeth, Margaret Issue (2) America Nancy is buried in Spring Hill Cem. Harolsburg, KY. Abraham is buried in Mercer Co. near Mayo, KY. Nancy is said to have lived 104 years. Some of her descendants went to Salem, Indiana. Can anyone identify this family???? Mary Duncan

To Carolyn and Hope, This is a real delay in a reply, but summer was to busy to keep up on genealogy....but time is a little easier now. So... I have a little information in my records regarding Bedford Davenport... but it too would need checking because I don't indicate where I got the information. I do believe it to be accurate though, because it came from my days of Court House Studies. For what its worth to think about, I show the following.. Bedford Davenport's father was James Davenport and mother Catrim. His siblings were James, Rhoday, Catrina, Mouring, Anna, and Joseph. Bedford was born November 21, 1748 and died August 21, 1832. Spouse Annie Comer. In 1782 and 1785 he was residing in Halifax Co., VA 1782 there were 8 White, 2 Black 1785 there were 7 White, 0 Black. Bible Records indicated that Bedfords children were Betsy b. 29 Mar 1773, married Dec. 1, 1790 Halifax Co - Thomas Douglass ' History of Halifax Co. ' by Carrington - Stephen b. 10 APR 1775, Smith 13 Dec 1776, Nancy 23 March 1778, Rebekah 18 Aug 1780. These Bible Records I had found in Richmond, VA. In 1820 Bedford lived in Halifax County, VA. James, ( Bedfords father) Davenports father was Thomas. carolyn tamblyn wrote: > BEDFORD DAVENPORT m. ANNIE COMER 5 December 1771, Charlotte co., VA, SAMUEL > COMER, sec. I think he was the son of THOMAS DAVENPORT. Both the Comer and > Davenport families used the name *MONROE* frequently as a given name. I > would appreciate hearing from anyone who may know what the relationship is > among the three, ie, Monroe, Comer, and Davenport. > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Having problems with the list? Tell Nevada Jack at > nvjack@intercomm.com > > ============================== > Search more than 274 MILLION NAMES and find your ancestors at Ancestry.com! > Get started today at http://www.ancestry.com/rootswebtext.asp

I found a great website for alphabetical lists of immigrant ships and other information about ships. It's at: www.fortunecity.com/littleitaly/amalfi/13/ships.htm MargoBelle

Is anyone out there related to James Davenport, b. May 1826 Kentucky, d. Sept. 1895 in Fall Leaf, Leavenworth Co., Kansas. Was in 9th Missouri Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. Would like to find others researching this Davenport line.

Is there anyone looking for info on the following: Joseph Davenport b. 2 June 1789 VA d. 22 Jan/Feb 1876 Dekalb Co., AL Wife: Mary Thomas b. 31 March 1789 VA d. 17 August 1849 Dekalb Co., AL I have several pages on this family. Mary Duncan

I am trying to find information about Edwin Davenport's earlier years. He was born in Michigan in 1856, taught school there until he was 30, then moved to New Orleans and married Margaret Louise Bolet there in 1886. They moved to Austin, Texas where he died in 1931. I believe he may have been married once before, and am trying to find information about this marriage. He bought 70 acres in Newaygo County, Mi. in 1880 together with a B. Davenport, possibly his first wife. Any help would be appreciated. MargoBelle

As I see the situation of copyright, I believe there should be protection of a persons works. As many of you know, first hand, genealogy research can be and is expensive and time consuming. So if we present this information in a certain format, it should be protected, especially from corporations whose only purpose is to cash in on someone else's work. And yes, I do copyright my webpages, but for the reasons stated above. But, the majority of us are family genealogist and therefore have no indention of making money on our toil. We sense an emotional high when we find another piece of information that connects the family together and we want to share this excitement with others. There is no malevolent intentions to anyone's hard work. So, to say that "Disguised as the nicest people on earth, many genealogists are nevertheless thieves, plagiarists, and copyright infringers" is not only irresponsible and reckless of the author, but borders on slander. Her definition of "many" is somewhat vague, but her remarks under "excuses" could be defined as almost every family historian. I wonder if the fact that being a certified genealogist (for hire) has anything to do with her title of the article "DARK SIDE OF THE INTERNET". One has to ask, is the intent to share and help family research or to make MONEY? -- Dave Goodman

Good evening everyone. I've started a reply to Margo's message several times and each time I've deleted it before sending. I happen to agree with Myra Gormley. Too often, people take information from web sites and other published sources without any consideration of the person who "published" that information. It doesn't matter if it is a transcription of public records, or an original work. Too often no source is given. It is not only plagiarism, it is also very bad genealogy!!! I cannot copyright a transcription of a public record, but can copyright my notes thereto and any other "original" information I append to the transcription. Technically, a genealogy and/or family history (there is a difference you know), is more than a compilation of facts. There is the matter of the "interpretation" of those facts that results in the genealogy or family history. If that "interpretation" is not intellectual property, then you might as well throw all the copyright laws in the toilet and just let everyone do as they wish without regard to others. The result would be total chaos. All histories are interpretations of facts (or in some cases - fancy). It is the interpretation of those facts which is copyrighted. Now if proprietary material (collections of letters, diaries, notebooks, etc.) is used, if the author doesn't have permission from the proprietor of that material, the author is committing copyright infringement and plagiarism. I resent having people using material that I've spent decades compiling without so much as a reference that I did the compilation. The mere fact that I publish it to the world wide web on a web page does not give someone the right to take it lock stock and barrel and put it up on their own web page as their own work! If I wish to share information with someone, I will do so and will generally tell them that they may use it. If I don't want them to use the information, I don't send it or I ask them to refrain from publishing the information (I could be wrong you know). We as genealogists walk a fine line. On one hand we use material that others have sent to us (hopefully we give them full credit for that material) and we copy facts and information from published public records as well as from the originals. We also use collections of letters, diaries and other materials which are not public record and these materials are often protected by copyright or at least by the rules and procedures of the depository for the materials. If you want to lose your research rights really fast, just publish something from a proprietary collection and see if the repository lets you back in again. What it all boils down to is common courtesy. If you copy something from someone else's material or from a published record, give credit where credit is due and hopefully have the common decency to ask permission to use the material. If you buy a painting from an artist, you the right to display that painting, but you don't have the right to make copies of it. I don't know why genealogists think that can copy information without giving credit. A historian who does likewise and publishes his article or book would be strongly criticized or else hauled to court. Is Myra's article something to get upset about, yes, it is because it is very true. And perhaps you should also consider the article an admonition. If you copy indiscriminately, you will certainly get corrupted data and information, especially if it comes off the web or some of these cd's which seem to proliferate like rabbits. Now can we get back to Davenport genealogy and history? Edgar Edgar D. Byler, III Medby3@netease.net> Editor, Wayne County Historian Wayne County, Tennessee, USA Co-Coordinator Wayne County Web Page: http://www.netease.net./wayne County Co-ordinator ALHN Wayne Co., TN page http://www.netease.net/wayne/alhn Listkeeper: WALRAVEN-L@rootsweb.com BYLER-L@rootsweb.com LINVILLE-L@rootsweb.com LENOIR-L@rootsweb.com Personal Page: http://www.netease.net/members/edby3 -----Original Message----- From: MargoBelle@aol.com <MargoBelle@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: 24 September, 1999 11:58 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Rebuttal to Rootsweb Article >Regarding this message from Rootsweb: > >"WELDING LINKS: DARK SIDE OF THE INTERNET > >by Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG <rwr-editors@rootsweb.com> > >Disguised as the nicest people on earth, many genealogists are >nevertheless thieves, plagiarists, and copyright infringers. >Some are high-tech robbers using computers, mice, and Internet >Service Providers to steal intellectual property. Some try to >hide their crimes under mantles of excuses such as: > >o I thought everything on the Internet was FREE. >o I'm just looking up information for FREE. I don't charge > people anything. >o You can't copyright facts and that's what genealogy is. >o Genealogy was meant to be shared. >o This is information about my family and I'm entitled to it. >o Reproduction of copyrighted materials was intended to keep > people from distributing information for profit. >o Authors are too greedy and should be grateful they are > getting free advertising on the Web. > >No matter how easy it is to copy from the Web, a book, or a CD, >taking another's work is wrong. Access to a great deal of >genealogical material may be free, but that does not give you a >right to copy and use someone's intellectual property -- without >his or her permission. If you offer to do lookups for others >(whether you charge or not) in books or CDs that you own, you >may be guilty of copyright infr, etc" > > > >This is a very vocal rebuttal to the previous message: > >It's a prevalent but faulty theory that the gatherers of information have now >become the OWNERS of the information. To imply that those of us who share >information with other genealogists are crooks, thieves, plagarists, robbers >and worse, is insulting to the entire genealogical community. > >Rootsweb and all the other genealogical co-ops did not write the information, >they did not create it, they do not lease, copyright or own it, and they >certainly cannot forbid the dissemination of information that they themselves >acquired from other sources. > >ALL the information contained on Rootsweb, Ancestry.com, CD's, etc. came from > public records. While they perform a needed service in gathering and >condensing the information, they did not buy it from courthouses, the Census >Bureau, authors, Civil War veterans, etc. What they did was gather it, >consolidate it, and for a fee, charge others for this service. We are paying >for the SERVICE, not the information itself. The information still exists in >the original courthouses and public records. > >I am perfectly willing to pay monthly fees or subscription fees for the >convenience of accessing information. I pay my money to Rootsweb, >Ancestry.com and several other online services. I am fortunate that I am >able to do this because many people cannot. But for you to imply that you now >OWN this information and can forbid people like me from sharing it, you are >grossly out of line and I take great offense at your statements. You are >confusing paying for the consolidation of the information with OWNING the >information. > >MargoBelle > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support RootsWeb! Learn how at >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >============================== >Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! >http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! > >

Thanks to all who responded regarding the Rootsweb message, I appreciate your thoughts and comments. I won't put any more about it on the list, but anyone who wants to comment can E-mail me directly. Thanks again, MargoBelle