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    1. Re: [DAVENPORT] Identification of Wife of Thomas Graves
    2. Jason: Don't be so quick to assume that we are in error. While there may be one item that identifies a Thomas Graves with wife Eleanor, we have more than thirty items in the Further Pamunkey Chronicles that identify Ann as the wife of Thomas Graves, Sr., and tie both of them specifically to the same land and same children. That Ann was Ann Davenport is made by a strong circumstantial case which you are free to evaluate for yourself. We would note that we are engaged in dialogue with Graves Family Genealogists and Historians on the question of Ann's identification, and know that we have more and better documentation than they do. We believe that there are serious problems in so far as the Pamunkey Davenports are concerned with Mr. Dornan's claims. We take this matter up by specific items within the Further Chronicles, noting errors of omission, commission and interpretation, and present comparative documentations. We doubt not Mr. Dornan's credentials with Colonial York Watershed genealogical research in general, but question, with documentary evidence, his conclusions and identifications relative to the Pamunkey Davenports specifically. As we have asserted to the Graves Family people, we believe that our evidence, albeit circumstantial, relative to Ann having been a daughter of Davis Davenport and married to Thomas Graves, Sr., would stand up in a Court of Law just as well as being juried by Genealogical-Family History scholars. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

    10/22/2005 10:18:52