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