PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHERS INTERESTED: In celebrating the Fourth of July today remember and revere with pride our Pamunkey Davenport ancestors and near kin who made this day possible by their military service and public contributions to the Revolution. Let us recall the updated statistics of Pamunkey Davenport participation in the Revolution: Enlisted men, Continental Army = 18 Officers, Same = 3 Enlisted men, Active Duty as Militia = 10 Officers, Same = 9 Killed, Mortally Wounded, Died of Disease, All Services = 11 Mortality Rate = 27.5% Wounded, Survived = 2 Total Casualty Rate = 32.5% Continental Line Casualty Rate = 61.9% Provisioners, Continental, State Troops, Militia = 16 Public Officials = 3 Nurses = 1 Total Males = 47 Total Females = 2 (including Ann Graves, daughter of Davis Davenport, a provisioner) Total Pamunkey Davenports in Revolution = 49 (Military, Provisioner, and Public Service total in excess of 49 because some men contributed provisions as well served in the military and/or held public office.) We note that there were Pamunkey Davenports who participated in Captain Patrick Henry's Gunpower Foray, the Expedition against Quebec, in Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, Heights of Brooklyn, Saratoga, Charleston, Buford's Massacre, Camden, Cowpens, King's Mountain, Guilford Court House, Defense of the James River Valley against Benedict Arnold (who commanded the British raiders), and Cornwallis' Surrender at Yorktown as well as fighting in sundry skirmishes in the Chesapeake Bay-Norfolk area, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Three of us were Sharpshooters in Dan Morgan's famous assault regiment--all died. We were in numbers at Valley Forge, and lost Moses Davenport, fife major, of the 14th Regiment of Virginia Foot, to pneumonia there. Sixteen-year-old Francis Davenport, drafted shortly after his eligibility birthday, was sabered down at Buford's Massacre. Young Glover Davenport, son of Matthew, died after Yorktown fighting the British in South Carolina where the War lasted almost a year months after Cornwallis had surrendered. The figures speak for themselves. Pamunkeys own a piece of these United States by the blood we shed and lives we lost in making the Fourth of July what it represents today. Happy Birthday! John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ