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Kyle: As to Davenports in Augusta County, VA, there were few, if any, in the 18th Century, but Augusta originally covered a vast amount of the present US east of the Mississippi, but shrunk rapidly after the French & Indian War (mid-to-late 1750s). I know of only one Davenport alleged to have been in Augusta. Having not researched the County myself, I cannot give any credence to this factoid, but I have among my notes that there are records in Augusta concerning Gideon Davenport. The only Gideon Davenport yet found in 18th Century Virginia records was the third son in the second family of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline County, second son of Davis Davenport, the Pamunkey patriarch. When Richard died in 1775, his sons Gideon and Reuben apparently inherited some of his land, for they joined in a deed to Melchezeck Brame, possibly a brother-in-law, in 1777 of land that could only have come by inheritance from Richard, Sr. (All of the records of Caroline County, except for Court Orders, prior to 1865 have been destroyed. So we have grantor-grantee records that deeds were proved, but we have no deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc, i.e., no specifics.) We estimate that Gideon was born c1750, know that he married Mary Goodall of a prominent Hanover family c1776 and fathered a son Richard 1778, and was in extreme disfavor with his father-in-law Parke Goodall of Hanover by 1784. By that year, Father-in-law Goodall deeded two slaves to a Caroline trustee for the benefit of Mary Davenport, wife of Gideon Davenport, and her son Richard Davenport, solely for the personal use of said Mary during her natural life and then to Richard Davenport, " without being subject to the power and control of her present and future husband." One gets a sense that Gideon had taken off, may or may not have been dead, but Parke Goodall, soon to be Hanover Sheriff, wanted his hands kept off of Mary's assets--if they were in Mary's name, they belonged to Gideon. Gideon appears on no annual Caroline Personal Property Tax List, which begin in 1782, or on any Personal Property Tax List of any County adjacent to Caroline or adjacent to the adjacent to Caroline. The factoid relative to Gideon in Augusta County is of a post-Revolution time continuum. If there was a divorce, it has not come to my attention, surely would have been found by now. I also have the factoid among my notes to the effect that Gideon Davenport died in Chesterfield County. Chesterfield is on the south side of James River, over against (across from) Henrico County, which then included the City of Richmond. I looked for Gideon on Chesterfield Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782-forward, found nothing. Here's what I have in annotation to the Gideon Davenport-Mary Goodall marriage in Part 1 of "The Further Chronicles of the Pamunkey Davenports" --to wit: Gideon apparently led a nomadic life, although his wife and son remained in place in Caroline County. A deposition filed with the Augusta County Court Apr1799 relative to a bond posted by Gideon Davenport “of Spotsylvania County, ” stated that Gideon had lived either on the upper end of Caroline County or lower end of Spotsylvania about 1779 and then owned slaves, and that he had died in Chesterfield County in 1788, having no property. (The source providing this information offered no documentation.) Here's a place to start if you take on Augusta County. I believe you will digging in records heretofore only slightly investigated. I know not whether the Gideon Davenport factoid was found there as the search object, or encountered serendipitously in another search. Gideon is a Pamunkey loose end that I have had to leave so, for I have had my hands full with the Pamunkeys east of the Blue Ridge. Mary Goodall Davenport raised her son Richard in Caroline County. Richard married in Caroline in March 1803, probated Mary Davenport, surely his mother, in May 1803, was enumerated in the Census of 1820 as head of a Caroline household that included one male and three females, all of teen ages, as well as a female of his age, likely his wife Polly Brown. Beyond the fact that he served in the War of 1812 as a Corporal, I have researched him no further. Reuben, young brother of Gideon, served in the Virginia Continental Line during the Revolution, returned to Pamunkey Neck and lived out his life in King William County, no more than ten miles southeast of where Richard of Gideon lived. Reuben was an overseer, owned no land nor slaves, but was listed virtually every year on the King William Personal Property Tax List, charged either solely as a poll or as poll who owned a horse. But Reuben engaged in a ploy relative to his assets not unlike what Parke Goodall had done relative to the slaves he gave his daughter Mary. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Don, My line is through the three sons of William and Elizabeth Sydnor Andrew Davenport who emigrated to Coryell Co., TX around 1855 and then moved north to Eastland County in the 1890s. I've also done a fair amount of research on the family in Eastland County records and have always been puzzled at who those "other" Davenports were that showed up in the records. I find the possibility that they're also Pamunkeys rather amusing given the improbability of such a link after some 200 years of wandering these United States. At any rate I have a website dedicated to the descendants of William and Elizabeth Davenport at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~longkin/Davenport/wc_toc.html if anyone is interested. A very prolific family despite 3 sons killed in the Civil War. I think that my gg-grandfather (John Andrew D.) is the champion so far with 17 children by two wives. 2112 descendants and spouses thus far! Jason >Message: 1 >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:43:42 -0600 >From: "Don Crawford" <dcraw4d@austin.rr.com> >Subject: [DAVENPORT] Dr. Fred Parks Davenport >To: "DAVENPORT LIST" <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <00e001c71fc8$f0063f50$6600a8c0@dell8250> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Thank you, Doc, for posting the belated obit and stories. Your posting >helped me clear some confusion! I am a descendant of Elias Davenport son >of >Davis Davenport. As my ancestors migrated south and west they ended up in >Arkansas. Then sometime between 1860 and 1870 most of the family migrated >("Gone To Texas") on to Erath County Texas. > >In the early 1900s an "oil boom" began next door in Eastland County Texas. >Many of my Davenport / Devenport family left Erath County Texas for the new >jobs in Eastland County. My father was a rig skidder in the 1920s. He >later ended up in the oil related business in Freer, Duval County Texas, >just down the road about 350 miles to the south of Eastland County. > >With "family" having lived in Eastland County I have visited this county >many times research wise. I was always confused by other Davenports I >could >not fit into my family line. It looks as if you have satisfied this >confusion. After reading your posting again, I pondered that surely these >Martin and Elias Davenports / Devenports had met in Eastland County and >little did they know they were all Pamunkey Davenports. This genealogy >hobby is so fascinating! > >Another coincidence is that Dr. Fred resided in Boerne, Kendall County >Texas >which is the next count over from where I reside in Fredericksburg, >Gillespie County Texas. Boerne is about 50 miles from Fredericksburg. If >only I had known! > >Thank you again, Doc! > >Your friend and cousin, >Don (Davenport) Crawford _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.  Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000002msn/direct/01/?href=http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail

I just wanted to say hi to everyone. I am proud to be a Davenport, and glad to find all these resources online. I've just started doing my family's genealogy, collecting together all the work of other cousins. As luck would have it, my surname is the one I'm having most difficulty with. I have traced back to 4 Davenport brothers who arrived in Jackson County, TN about 1815, Henry, Joseph, Charles, and James. I have multiple clues they came from VA, and likely Augusta County. All 4 were born 1789-1796, and their mother was named Elizabeth b~1760. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them! I did spring for the Y-DNA67 test. I'm still waiting for results. Peace and Longevity, Kyle Davenport Dallas, TX

Hello Kyle: Welcome to the club. Lots of US Davenports here. Some are in Texas too. You related to any of them? t_dimmett@yahoo.com (be sure to get the _ that does not show well) Cuz Teri has them listed on her very own stop and is nice enough to share with all (free). You might want to click in there to check. Bet Yours are there also. Happy Holidays Paul D in KC. kdavenpo@comcast.net wrote: I just wanted to say hi to everyone. I am proud to be a Davenport, and glad to find all these resources online. I've just started doing my family's genealogy, collecting together all the work of other cousins. As luck would have it, my surname is the one I'm having most difficulty with. I have traced back to 4 Davenport brothers who arrived in Jackson County, TN about 1815, Henry, Joseph, Charles, and James. I have multiple clues they came from VA, and likely Augusta County. All 4 were born 1789-1796, and their mother was named Elizabeth b~1760. If anyone has any ideas, I'd love to hear them! I did spring for the Y-DNA67 test. I'm still waiting for results. Peace and Longevity, Kyle Davenport Dallas, TX ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Hi List, I need some help, does any of the Davenports out there have any connections to the Sorrells/Sarrels family? As some of you may know, my husband Duane Davenport is the 3rd G-Grandson of John and Nancy (Burnett) Davenport of VA.,KY.and IN. Duane's DNA still does not match any Davenports tested yet but, he does match three Sorrells/Sarrels family members. He is one away on James Thomas Sorrells of N.C. on 25 marker (James has not taken the 37 marker) He is two away on 37 marker matching John Sarrels of Texas, John's ancestors moved to Burnet, Burnet Co.Texas from Haywood Co.,N.C. sometime before 1880, the next match is a Neale Sorrells, I don't know where Neale lives and we are told he matches Duane 36/37, we don't know for sure on Neale because we were not notified of the match between him and Duane, we have been missed, being notified on two matches that we know of and have no idea on the ones we don't know of. We were told of the two matches by someone else. For all we know there may be Davenport matches and we haven't been notified, there is a match 4 of 37 to a number, the person has chosen not to give their name so how is one to know if there is not a name attached. I think that person is real interested in finding out who his ancestors were!!!! The only connection we have found to N.C. for any of Duane's family is old Elisha and we think he is the Elisha Devenport/Davenport that is on the 1800 Surry Co.N.C. census, I think Surry Co. is just below and west of Patrick Co.Va. We have never been in that area but looks close on the map. We think Elisha probably went down there just before John and Nancy Davenport went to Wayne Co.Ky. Any help would be appreciated, Hope all of you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a WONDERFUL NEW YEAR !!! Bettie and Duane Davenport ----- Original Message ----- From: davenport-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport-request@rootsweb.com> To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:43 PM Subject: DAVENPORT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 38 Today's Topics: 1. A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) 2. Re: A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country (haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>) 3. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) 4. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>) 5. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (steven perkins) 6. A Belated Obituary: Dr. Frederick Parks Davenport, 1916-2006 (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:30:34 EST From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> Subject: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Cc: TLAS@aol.com<mailto:TLAS@aol.com> Message-ID: <c46.9562d02.32b1769a@aol.com<mailto:c46.9562d02.32b1769a@aol.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI Possibly a brand new finding: On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. Hey, Deja! We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with Zacariah Davenport. Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have no expertise in that regard. To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train before doing depth research on those links. As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and curiouser." John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:06:12 -0500 From: <haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country To: <davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <20061213160612.IEKP24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net<mailto:20061213160612.IEKP24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Doc. I hate to break your Newberry bubble, but Zacariah Davenport is a proven Albemarle Davenport . >The proof is both paper and DNA. Zacariah( Also spelled Zechariah)b. 1774-1856, is the son of Jacob b. 1736-d.1815 , his father was Richard Davenport b.1699-d.1773, his father John Davenport Sr. b. 1677-d.1749 and his father Richard R. Davenport b.1642-1714. Richard R. Davenport was a Great Wigston Davenport from Leicestershire, England. D. Harold Davenport - an Albemarle Davenport > From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed AM 10:30:34 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> > CC: TLAS@aol.com<mailto:TLAS@aol.com> > Subject: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country > > NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI > > Possibly a brand new finding: > > On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington > County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was > Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have > not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second > family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein > siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not > bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, > Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the > second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. > > There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, > namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of > Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son > of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of > Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have > been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by > his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and > John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a > man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, > left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and > John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from > the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, > and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. > Hey, Deja! > > We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of > Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in > Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up > bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District > of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey > Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, > unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget > about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with > Zacariah Davenport. > > Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is > enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We > haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack > Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only > Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. > > Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier > in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for > the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, > the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, > and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after > 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified > as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, > all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for > second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). > Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further > west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have > no expertise in that regard. > > To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued > Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far > north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. > > Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the > immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I > encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. > He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most > Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley > were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong > in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I > claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you > gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. > > If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant > John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, > to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New > Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, > have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we > have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train > before doing depth research on those links. > > As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and > curiouser." > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:36:44 EST From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <573.985bf04.32b1b04c@aol.com<mailto:573.985bf04.32b1b04c@aol.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" D. Harold: You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:03:02 -0500 From: <haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: <davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <20061213230302.YVWZ24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net<mailto:20061213230302.YVWZ24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Doc. Clyde McCall Davenport of Knoxville, Tenn has published a book titled "The Davenport Families of Sevier County, Tennessee, Whitley County, Kentucky and Tyrrell County, North Carolina" which traces the family and especially Zacariah Davenport from Tyrrell County through to Whitley County, Ky and his descendents on to Tenn. As for the S.C. birth in the 1850 census, it is a mistake. You are correct about the Albemarles staying home. However, we now find that after the Revolutionary War the younger ones began to move west. Some moved only as far as western N.C. but others, such as Zacariah, moved the first year to Abingdon Va. then the next year over the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Zacariah was married to Precilla Spruill first but it looks like she died in Abingdon of child birth or other circumstances. He then married Jean Douglass on October 10, 1799. His first child by Jean Douglass was William born May 31, 1800 in Whitley Co. Ky. The 1815 tax list for Washington C! ounty N.C. still lists Zacariah Davenport as owning land but under the guardianship of his brother. Clyde Davenport has done extensive research in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee on this branch of the Albemarle Davenports and would be able to shead more light on Zacariah Davenport than can I. My family would be related to Zacariah via my third great grandfather John Davenport who would have been Zacariah's father's first cousin or first cousin once removed. Harold > > From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed PM 02:36:44 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! > > D. Harold: > > You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, > came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what > John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up > the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your > rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the > Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do > Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:18:22 -0600 From: "steven perkins" <scperkins@gmail.com<mailto:scperkins@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <da404fe10612131718y7db5d482ob0a4ba7e1e4caf1b@mail.gmail.com<mailto:da404fe10612131718y7db5d482ob0a4ba7e1e4caf1b@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello; Is there any relationship between Zacariah and John Davenport and Nancy Burnett of Wayne Co., KY and Indiana? John and Nancy were married in Patrick Co., VA. Thanks, Steven C. Perkins To contact the DAVENPORT list administrator, send an email to DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com>. To post a message to the DAVENPORT mailing list, send an email to DAVENPORT@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT@rootsweb.com>. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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Whoa! Don't nobody lrav e the theater, Tonight, I will go through my Missouri Davenports. I spent a lot of time trying to trace my Isaac Davenports to MO. and the l\family lore, Many years ago, Carol White told me that Zachariah married Jean Douglas and had been born in Va, I am not well these days and have many misccellanious notes collected over the years, They fit with I have just reread in all the posts today. It leads to he Zacharia and one of the counties along the MS,River. I'll go over all notes and see where they lead. Ellen Eanes Bethel

Thank you, Doc, for posting the belated obit and stories. Your posting helped me clear some confusion! I am a descendant of Elias Davenport son of Davis Davenport. As my ancestors migrated south and west they ended up in Arkansas. Then sometime between 1860 and 1870 most of the family migrated ("Gone To Texas") on to Erath County Texas. In the early 1900s an "oil boom" began next door in Eastland County Texas. Many of my Davenport / Devenport family left Erath County Texas for the new jobs in Eastland County. My father was a rig skidder in the 1920s. He later ended up in the oil related business in Freer, Duval County Texas, just down the road about 350 miles to the south of Eastland County. With "family" having lived in Eastland County I have visited this county many times research wise. I was always confused by other Davenports I could not fit into my family line. It looks as if you have satisfied this confusion. After reading your posting again, I pondered that surely these Martin and Elias Davenports / Devenports had met in Eastland County and little did they know they were all Pamunkey Davenports. This genealogy hobby is so fascinating! Another coincidence is that Dr. Fred resided in Boerne, Kendall County Texas which is the next count over from where I reside in Fredericksburg, Gillespie County Texas. Boerne is about 50 miles from Fredericksburg. If only I had known! Thank you again, Doc! Your friend and cousin, Don (Davenport) Crawford

PAMUNKEY KINFOLKS: Last Easter we lost one of the pioneers of Pamunkey Davenport genealogical research (although we did not put the Pamunkey label on it until 1998), namely Dr. Frederick Parks Davenport, of Boerne, Texas. Among his many contributions to Davenport genealogical advancement was Dr. Fred's curatorship of the genealogy papers of Harbert Davenport, Esquire, the earliest systematic scholar of what we now call the Pamunkey Davenports. As I recall Dr. Fred and I both appeared in "Who's Who in the Midwest, 1967, and he wrote me asking for my Davenport bonafides. I replied and we began an intensive genealogical correspondence. Subsequently he and his first wife visited in our home in Cincinnati three or four times thereafter, enroute between Michigan and Texas. In 1971, if I recall correctly, Dr. Fred initiated me into on-site Virginia Davenport research when we met at Spotsylvania Court House and he took me on a tour of Davenport historical sites in the North Anna (north fork of Pamunkey) watershed. We crossed Davenport Bridge from Spotsylvania into Hanover, visited the somewhat ramshackle house that was a shell, Fred said, over the original Martin Davenport, Sr., log manor. I remember taking out my wallet to extract a bill to reward the then owner, whose name I still remember, for his hospitality, when Fred slapped my hand. "Put it back," he commanded. I did so, and attempted no further initiatives of my own. Later, going back across Davenport Bridge, headed for Waller's Church in Spotsylvania, I remonstrated that I was merely going to express my appreciation. "These are simple people," Dr. Fred said, "They're on my payroll, and I don't want them to get bad habits from Damn Yankees." I was not the first that he had given the Old Martin Davenport homestead tour, but I was the first of the family to visit who did not have Confederate credentials. Alas, my grandfather William Asbury Davenport had been a Union man, had served in two Indiana Regiments--with Sherman in Georgia and Sheridan in the Shenandoah, had burned barns and such in both place, and Dr. Fred didn't let me forget it--in a joshing manner, course. Dr. Fred was Superintendent of Schools in Wyandotte, Michigan, at the time, and although Texas born is buried in Michigan. When Dr. Fred died, I appealed to his brother Joe Bob to write a proper obituary for the DAVENPORT Rootsweb. Joe Bob was undergoing serious surgical problems of his own at the time, but agreed that a proper obituary should be posted, and advised that he would write one as soon as his health permitted. Joe Bob is a retired Metropolitan newspaper editor, a far better writer than I and surely the best informed as to his brother's personal history. So, I left the matter in his hands. Joe Bob's health obviously has not permitted, so when Jean, Fred's widow, included Fred's extensive obituary from the San Antonio newspaper as an insert with her Christmas Letter, I decided to wait no longer. Here, slightly edited to eliminate redundancies and to expand abbreviations, is Dr. Fred's obituary: Davenport Dr. Frederick Parks Davenport passed away April 16, 2006, in San Antonio, Texas. He was born December 10, 1916, in Dothan, Texas, to William Frederick and Mary Ewell Johnson Davenport. Fred grew up in Eastland, Texas. Fred volunteered and served in the US Army during WWII. He graduated from Texas Tech with a Bachelor's degree. He worked on a Master's degree at the University of California, and received a Doctorate in Education from Wayne State University in 1967. Fred began his teaching career in Eastland, Texas, then taught in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, 1943-47. He was then an Instructor of Economics and track coach at St. Mary's College in California. He returned to Michigan and became an Elementary school principal in Wanda and Hazel Park. Thereafter he was Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum of the Wyandotte schools for 12 years, then was Superintendent, 1965-78. In retirement, Dr. Fred served on the Michigan State Teachers Retirement Board, with the Michigan School Superintendents Association, and as a consultant to the Michigan Association of School Boards. Fred was an avid reader and extremely knowledgeable in matters involving the Stock Market and Mutual Funds. He was a master storyteller, an avid sports fan, interested in genealogy, and wrote a genealogical column. Fred was preceded in death by his first wife, Frances Josephine Minarik, daughter Sarah Frances Davenport, and sister Maurine McElroy. He is survived by his wife Jean Netcher York Davenport, a retired University of Texas professor; daughter Susan Davenport, a retired teacher, of Auburn Hills, Michigan; brothers--Thomas O. Davenport (Haydee), of Acworth, Georgia, and Joseph R. Davenport (Katheryn), of San Antonio; many nephews, nieces, friends, and colleagues. Fred's funeral was held Friday, April 21, at Boerne, Texas [where Fred and Jean spent his retirement years]. A chapel service was held Monday, April 24, in Flat Rock, Michigan. Interment was in Michigan Memorial Cemetery [along side his first wife and daughter]. -------- Our thanks to Jean, Fred's widow, for supplying the added details in her Christmas letter. Rest in Peace, Dr. Fred. Pamunkey Davenports will forever be in your debt. Joe Bob, you get better, you hear. If any of you old timers have a Dr. Fred story, please share it. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Hello; Is there any relationship between Zacariah and John Davenport and Nancy Burnett of Wayne Co., KY and Indiana? John and Nancy were married in Patrick Co., VA. Thanks, Steven C. Perkins On 12/13/06, haroldns@bellsouth.net <haroldns@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Doc. Clyde McCall Davenport of Knoxville, Tenn has published a book titled "The Davenport Families of Sevier County, Tennessee, Whitley County, Kentucky and Tyrrell County, North Carolina" which traces the family and especially Zacariah Davenport from Tyrrell County through to Whitley County, Ky and his descendents on to Tenn. As for the S.C. birth in the 1850 census, it is a mistake. You are correct about the Albemarles staying home. However, we now find that after the Revolutionary War the younger ones began to move west. Some moved only as far as western N.C. but others, such as Zacariah, moved the first year to Abingdon Va. then the next year over the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Zacariah was married to Precilla Spruill first but it looks like she died in Abingdon of child birth or other circumstances. He then married Jean Douglass on October 10, 1799. His first child by Jean Douglass was William born May 31, 1800 in Whitley Co. Ky. The 1815 tax list for Washington! C! > ounty N.C. still lists Zacariah Davenport as owning land but under the guardianship of his brother. Clyde Davenport has done extensive research in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee on this branch of the Albemarle Davenports and would be able to shead more light on Zacariah Davenport than can I. My family would be related to Zacariah via my third great grandfather John Davenport who would have been Zacariah's father's first cousin or first cousin once removed. Harold > > > > From: JSDDOC@aol.com > > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed PM 02:36:44 EST > > To: davenport@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! > > > > D. Harold: > > > > You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, > > came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what > > John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up > > the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your > > rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the > > Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do > > Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. > > > > John Scott Davenport > > Holmdel, NJ > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Steven C. Perkins SCPerkins@gmail.com http://stevencperkins.com/ On-Line Journal of Genetics and Genealogy http://jgg-online.blogspot.com/ Steven C. Perkins' Genealogy Page http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html

Doc. Clyde McCall Davenport of Knoxville, Tenn has published a book titled "The Davenport Families of Sevier County, Tennessee, Whitley County, Kentucky and Tyrrell County, North Carolina" which traces the family and especially Zacariah Davenport from Tyrrell County through to Whitley County, Ky and his descendents on to Tenn. As for the S.C. birth in the 1850 census, it is a mistake. You are correct about the Albemarles staying home. However, we now find that after the Revolutionary War the younger ones began to move west. Some moved only as far as western N.C. but others, such as Zacariah, moved the first year to Abingdon Va. then the next year over the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Zacariah was married to Precilla Spruill first but it looks like she died in Abingdon of child birth or other circumstances. He then married Jean Douglass on October 10, 1799. His first child by Jean Douglass was William born May 31, 1800 in Whitley Co. Ky. The 1815 tax list for Washington C! ounty N.C. still lists Zacariah Davenport as owning land but under the guardianship of his brother. Clyde Davenport has done extensive research in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee on this branch of the Albemarle Davenports and would be able to shead more light on Zacariah Davenport than can I. My family would be related to Zacariah via my third great grandfather John Davenport who would have been Zacariah's father's first cousin or first cousin once removed. Harold > > From: JSDDOC@aol.com > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed PM 02:36:44 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! > > D. Harold: > > You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, > came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what > John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up > the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your > rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the > Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do > Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

D. Harold: You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Doc. I hate to break your Newberry bubble, but Zacariah Davenport is a proven Albemarle Davenport . >The proof is both paper and DNA. Zacariah( Also spelled Zechariah)b. 1774-1856, is the son of Jacob b. 1736-d.1815 , his father was Richard Davenport b.1699-d.1773, his father John Davenport Sr. b. 1677-d.1749 and his father Richard R. Davenport b.1642-1714. Richard R. Davenport was a Great Wigston Davenport from Leicestershire, England. D. Harold Davenport - an Albemarle Davenport > From: JSDDOC@aol.com > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed AM 10:30:34 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com > CC: TLAS@aol.com > Subject: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country > > NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI > > Possibly a brand new finding: > > On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington > County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was > Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have > not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second > family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein > siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not > bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, > Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the > second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. > > There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, > namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of > Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son > of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of > Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have > been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by > his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and > John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a > man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, > left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and > John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from > the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, > and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. > Hey, Deja! > > We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of > Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in > Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up > bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District > of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey > Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, > unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget > about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with > Zacariah Davenport. > > Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is > enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We > haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack > Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only > Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. > > Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier > in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for > the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, > the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, > and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after > 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified > as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, > all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for > second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). > Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further > west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have > no expertise in that regard. > > To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued > Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far > north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. > > Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the > immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I > encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. > He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most > Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley > were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong > in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I > claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you > gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. > > If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant > John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, > to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New > Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, > have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we > have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train > before doing depth research on those links. > > As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and > curiouser." > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI Possibly a brand new finding: On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. Hey, Deja! We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with Zacariah Davenport. Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have no expertise in that regard. To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train before doing depth research on those links. As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and curiouser." John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Whit: I've finally completed my review of the data you sent relative to the children in the family of Julius and Mary Noell Davenport and of the copy of Miss Rachel Hendricks Davenport's memoir of 1891 you kindly replaced for me. Several items therein corroborate deductions and identifications we've offered previously, but are new in the sense that we are now looking at them meaningfully. First, as to Miss Rachel: 1. My e-mail earlier today provided my contribution to the identification of the Hendricks involved in the naming of Miss Rachel and her brother Lilburn. Thomas Hendricks, son of James Hendricks of Orange County, North Carolina, and Ninety Six District, South Carolina, was of Russell County, Virginia, as was the Thomas Hendricks identified by Miss Rachel. His wife was Rachel Lea. 1. From Washington County Personal Property Lists (PPLs) we have concluded that Julius Davenport and wife Mary Noell, contrary to previously held conceptions that they had lived out their days and died in Buckingham County, were both in Washington County as early as 1795, that Julius likely died there c1797. Miss Rachel said in 1891: "My grandfather moved to Washington County and bought a farm on North Fork River, which took the name of Davenport's Bend from him. He died there and was buried there, and my grandmother was buried there." Fact: Miss Rachel's grandfathers were Julius Davenport and Henry Davenport, brothers. Her grandmothers were Mary Noell, wife of Julius, and Nancy Ann Pemberton, wife of Henry. Henry Davenport died in Buckingham County in December 1791, 250 miles northeast of Washington County. Nancy Ann Pemberton Davenport died in Buckingham County in late 1840, same distance from Washington County. That leaves only Julius and Mary as Miss Rachel's grandparents who could've died and been buried in Washington County. We know that a Mary Davenport appeared on the Washington PPL for 1798 with assets attributable to what Julius had been assessed for in 1796, and we know that an aged, indigent Mary Davenport was cared for and buried by Millie Lee, nee Davenport, in 1826 and was reimbursed by the Overseers of the Poor. While it has a few loose ends, I think Miss Rachel's statement ices the cake in so far as corroborating our identification of and the final locales for Julius and Mary. 3. Miss Rachel's claim that her parents, namely Thomas, son of Julius, and Permelia, daughter of Henry, yet unmarried, came to Washington County on a visit with their brother and sister, identified as Osborne Davenport, brother of Thomas, and Molly Davenport, sister of Permelia, who were likely married, given the lack of a marriage bond or record, in Buckingham County shortly before 28Mar1797, because Thomas and Permelia were married in Washington County on 28Mar1799. Miss Rachel asserted that her parents visit "was protracted about two years before they married." Osborne Davenport was tax listed in Washington County, 1794-1798, consistently, and thereafter variously until he moved to Kentucky in 1812. Connecting the dots, Osborne traveled from Washington to Buckingham, 250 miles--we repetitiously emphasize the mileage because it was a major travel undertaking--not over the river and through the woods. In Buckingham, Osborne married his first cousin Molly Davenport, then returned to Washington accompanied by Molly's sister, Permelia. There, within two years, Permelia married Osborne's brother Thomas. This scenario fits the morally accepted behavior of the time. Thomas Davenport, son of Julius and Mary, was already in Washington County when Osborne returned with his bride and bride's sister. (We still cannot explain the presence of the two unmarried, alleged daughters of Julius and Mary, namely Lucy and Mollie, in Washington County in 1791, where and when both married with a six months period, except by the presence of Joseph Davenport, unidentified but closely associated with the Julius Davenport family for at least 14 years, namely, 1791-1803. The point being that single young women did not travel 250 miles from their homes without a chaperone or male protector in those days, and Washington County was still semi-frontier in 1791.) (We might also toss into consideration the observation that Julius was the maverick of the Thomas Davenport, Sr., family--he was unconventional and a roamer--left tracks all over Goochland, Cumberland, Albemarle, Prince Edward, Charlotte, and Buckingham, was improvident--lost two plantations to creditors, and was indicted for Drunkeness and Swearing in Charlotte County, but was not unique in that regard. As for the source of the name for his son Osborne, it possibly came from Osborne Keeling, a business associate or employer of Julius within the same time frame that Osborne, son of Julius, was born. The arrangement came a cropper for Julius ended up suing Keeling, who vacated Cumberland ahead of the Sheriff, and was pursued to Charlotte by Julius, where he got indicted by the Grand Jury. This time Julius was gone before the Sheriff came calling, and was the indictment was crossed off the Court docket as "not an inhabitant.) I'll have more on Washington County later, but this is enough to chew on for the moment. I'm basically digging in Bedford County at the moment. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

I received it. Dianne >From: "Jack" <nvjack@nvbell.net> >Reply-To: davenport@rootsweb.com >To: <davenport@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [DAVENPORT] A message from Doc >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:20:58 -0800 > >Cousins: > > > >Doc sent the message below to the list but never received confirmation that >it was received. I suspect that RootsWeb is having problems with their new >email program. > > > >Please let me know if you received Doc's message via the list. I can tell >you that I did not. > > > >Jack > > > > PAMUNKEY & OTHERS INTERESTED: > > > > Our thanks to Kyle Davenport for putting us straight in this regard: > > > > If you've got an Isaac Davenport marrying an Elizabeth Diggs in >Amherst >County, Virginia, in 1789, toss it out. Amherst Diggs/Digges Family >records >have parents for an Elizabeth, her birthdate, her marriage date, and her >death date. She married Isaac Darnielle. How Darnielle, even in extremely >illegible script could be taken for Davenport, we know not, but it was and >became Davenport gospel. > > > > We can affirm that no tracks have been found for an Isaac Davenport >among 18th Century Pamunkeys, in Amherst or elsewhere in Virginia, and are >appreciative in being able to cross him off the list of untraced family >members. > > > > So, if you have an Isaac Davenport in the list of children attributed >to >Joseph Davenport (c1740-1817?) of Amherst, eldest son of Richard Davenport >of Albemarle, who was the eldest son of Richard Davenport, Sr., of >Caroline, >who was the second son of Davis Davenport of King William, the Pamunkey >Patriarch, cross him out. > > > > Win a few, lose a few. > > > >John Scott Davenport > >Holmdel, NJ > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mk

I did receive the message. Mary Redmond **************************** Janet <monkey@getgoin.net> wrote: Hi jack Janet -------Original Message------- From: Jack Date: 12/08/06 07:39:34 To: davenport@rootsweb.com Subject: [DAVENPORT] A message from Doc Cousins: Doc sent the message below to the list but never received confirmation that it was received. I suspect that RootsWeb is having problems with their new email program. Please let me know if you received Doc's message via the list. I can tell you that I did not. Jack PAMUNKEY & OTHERS INTERESTED: Our thanks to Kyle Davenport for putting us straight in this regard: If you've got an Isaac Davenport marrying an Elizabeth Diggs in Amherst County, Virginia, in 1789, toss it out. Amherst Diggs/Digges Family records have parents for an Elizabeth, her birthdate, her marriage date, and her death date. She married Isaac Darnielle. How Darnielle, even in extremely illegible script could be taken for Davenport, we know not, but it was and became Davenport gospel. We can affirm that no tracks have been found for an Isaac Davenport among 18th Century Pamunkeys, in Amherst or elsewhere in Virginia, and are appreciative in being able to cross him off the list of untraced family members. So, if you have an Isaac Davenport in the list of children attributed to Joseph Davenport (c1740-1817?) of Amherst, eldest son of Richard Davenport of Albemarle, who was the eldest son of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline, who was the second son of Davis Davenport of King William, the Pamunkey Patriarch, cross him out. Win a few, lose a few. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.11/575 - Release Date: 12/6/2006 12:22 PM . ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Gen, Thanks for your reply. It has become apparent to me that everyone received Doc's message on the list. To the rest of our cousins: it is no longer necessary to reply to my original request. I appreciate all the reply's that I have received so far. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Nevada Jack -----Original Message----- From: Genevieve Randall Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 9:10 AM To: davenport@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] A message from Doc ********************* I received Doc's message. Gen Randall *********************************

I think it is safe to say the email from Doc has been received. Ed Crabtree - Missouri, USA familyhistorian@kc.rr.com All outgoing messages checked by AVG Anti-Virus Updated daily

Yes, I also received the email. Kathy Dunne Woelfel Jersey Co., IL Davenports