Who is a Pamunkey Davenport? I responded some time ago directly to Doc who had posed the question. My response was to the effect that a Pamunkey Davenport is one who shares the ancestry of Davis Davenport or the heritage through adoption, Marriage, etc. I note that life was often short in colonial Virginia, and we may well have a number of males that were “ready made family” when their widowed mothers remarried. The paucity of early Virginia information makes this difficult to separate by paper trail, and would tend to divide the family. Since that earlier submittal, I have come to understand that there are 3 definitions needed, for the Internet project, the Forthcoming Descendancy of Davis Davenport, and for the “Further Davenport Chronicles” book on CD. Each need only to be internally consistent. In a posting earlier than this, Bill Davenport has explained the criteria that he has used on his project website, DavenportDNA.com. The web page is clear. The definitions for the other two should be equally clear. I believe that what Doc had in mind was a definition for the forthcoming 6 Generation Descendancy and for the Chronicles. I submit my former comments as for them below. As for the Descendancy, Perhaps it should provide the descendancy as best understood by the paper trail, the Heritage Descendancy, but with footnotes as to what we have learned from the study of DNA. This would cover both the biological and cultural heritage of these individuals. My previous try as for the Chronicles was: As to who constitutes a Pamunkey Davenport, I do not have a strongly held opinion, but it seems to me that Pamunkey refers to the Pamunkey Neck, and those who lived there. To me, the issue would turn on whether we prefer to define the term so that Pamunkey Davenports are those of the yDNA of Davis Davenport as we currently understand it, or define it locationally as the family and extended family of those who lived c 1700 on the Pamunkey Neck in what is now King William Co., Virginia. The coining of the name led to “The Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles” about the records of people who were named Davenport, and affiliated people. From this line of reasoning I would say that the name might logically refer to “Those people named Davenport who once lived on Pamunkey Neck and their descendants, whether they obtained their name by natural inheritance or adopted it”. This would include descendants of females and persons of various degrees of color. Under this sort of definition yDNA is another matter, and people thought to have acquired their yDNA from Davis Davenport or his male line descendants can be referred to as “Davis Davenport yDNA Descendants”. Obviously some persons, such as Doc and me, fit into both categories. Obviously “Davis Davenport yDNA Descendants are a subset of Pamunkey Davenports. Another possible, but as yet undiscovered case, might be if we find yDNA very similar to that of Davis Davenport, but not descended from him, as would be the case if we find a James River Davenport or a Davis and the yDNA matches what we believe to be Davis Davenport’s. We can cross that bridge when we come to it. In that case Davis Davenport Descendants would become a subcategory of a previous defining progenitor of the family, e.g. a Davis or whatever. To summarize, I cast my one vote for the term Pamunkey Davenport as “all those having something to do with the Davenports Pamunkey Neck, and appropriate for inclusion in the Further Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles” (and retroactively to the original Chronicles). The chosen definition, whatever it is, should be mentioned in the beginning of the Further… As to how it should be presented on the websites, Nevada Jack’s and Bill Davenport’s DNA site. I think it would be nice but not mandatory to use the same definition. I have confidence tin their ability to describe things accurately. Bill’s site I believe is consistent with the definition above as he includes those who believe they have a paper trail back to Pamunkey Neck together with, and in the same color as, the DNA matched ones. In other words, my suggestion would be that there are Pamunkey Davenports, and some, or most of them are Davis Davenport’s direct yDNA descendants or trace their lines to him through female connections. Some others may trace back to Pamunkey Neck through a paper trail, and lacking or pending DNA evidence to another branch, they should be are presumed as adoptees and are best classified as Pamunkey Davenports, also. I would avoid any classifications or terms that would in any way give the slightest implication of any sort of stigma, whatsoever. I am keeping and open mind for other’s suggestions. I hope that this helps. Whit Davenport