FOR THOSE PAMUNKEYS WITH JOUETT ANCESTRY: Consider this a heads up on new light being shined on the relationship of the Jouett family to the family of James Davenport, Sr., wife Frances Jouett, particularly as to the Davenports and Jouetts in Albemarle County, Virginia, after the Revolution. Court records portray relationships between the Jouetts and Davenports diametrically opposed to what has been become legend among the Davenports. John Jouett, after the Revolution, was not in Charlottesville what he has been portrayed to have been. He appears consistently on the Albemarle County Levy as a supplier of candles. Both he and Henry Gambill had ordinary licenses in Charlottesville in the latter years of the Revolution, but had no such licenses by the 1790s. Nor did William Davenport, son of James, Sr., who was of much higher profile in Charlottesville than he has heretofore been credited. True, to a lesser extent, as to William's brother Jesse, also a Charlottesville resident, seemingly independent of his brother. William did not work for the Jouetts. Nor did Jesse. Perhaps William got a leg up from his Jouett cousins in getting established after the Revolution, but William was not in the Tavern business. He was a millwright, a carpenter, and/or a building contractor. By the mid-1790s, Robert Jouett, (best known as the Lieutenant in Captain Matthew Jouett's Company, 7th Virginia, Continental Line, who was wounded at the Battle of Germantown, as was James Davenport, Jr., and their Captain, Robert's brother killed, and who made deposition to the Governor of Virginia in 1787 to obtain a disability pension for James, Jr.) was appointed a Militia Colonel in 1795 and promptly died, owed major debts to both William and Jesse Davenport. Both Davenports took Jouett's estate to Court, being the first of many to do so, and won. Jouetts did not cosign for Davenports. Davenports did not cosign for Jouetts. William Davenport cosigned for Jesse and Joseph Kennedy (we'll get into the Kennedy presence in Albemarle later) as well as for a number of others. William had clout. The Jouett Court trend was consistently downhill in the 1790s, while the Davenport trend was consistently uphill. There remains seven years for William and two decades for Jesse to search in Albemarle Court records. So the trends may be reversed. But through the 1790s we have not found the Davenports playing second fiddle to the Jouetts in Albemarle as we long have been told existed back then. The Davenports and Jouetts most certainly were not one big happy family, if Court records have any validity. The Jouetts went to Kentucky. The Davenports of James, Sr., went to Georgia. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ