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 >