So, I guess the short answer, is that there are two Albemarle Counties, and two Richard Davenports, and that the Richard Davenports of Albemarle NC are the Albemarle Davenports, and the Richard Davenports of Albemarle VA are the Pamunkey Davenports. Did I get that right? At 01:33 PM 6/27/2005, JSDDOC@aol.com wrote: >FOR THOSE CONFUSED ABOUT ALBEMARLE: > > ALBEMARLE DAVENPORTS take their identification from Albemarle Sound, >North Carolina, where Richard Davenport, wife Joanna, settled before >1680, first >on the North side, now Perquimans County, then on the South side, now >Washington and Tyrrel counties. > > Richard Davenport, Sr. (2), son of Richard Davenport, Sr.,(1), second >son of Davis Davenport, patriarch of the PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS, likely was >born >in King William County, Virginia, c1714, in that part of King William cut >off >as part of Caroline County in 1728. Circumstantial evidence suggests that >when his father married for a second time, in the mid-to-late >1730s, Richard >(2) was settled on a tract of land, allegedly 150 acres but actually 128, >that >straddled the Hanover-Louisa line when Louisa was cut off from Hanover in >1742. In the early 1750s, retaining ownership of the Hanover-Louisa land, >Richard (2) moved to newly erected (1744) Albemarle County, then located >on the >East side of the Blue Ridge and on both sides of the James River. >(Subsequently, Buckingham and Amherst were carved out of Albemarle, and >Amherst later >was divided to create Nelson.) >By the 1790s, Albemarle County, Virginia, was substantially what is today >and had Charlottesville as its county seat. Richard Davenport, Sr., (2) was >settled from his beginning in Albemarle on waters of Hardware River and >remained >in Albemarle throughout its shucking of Amherst and Buckingham. Albemarle's >original county seat was South of James River near where Buckingham Court >House is located today. > > Richard Davenports in Albemarle and Amherst need to be numbered, for >there were eight of them in the records by the second decade of the >Nineteenth >Century, all being PAMUNKEYS. > > No ALBEMARLE DAVENPORT identification conflicted with a PAMUNKEY >DAVENPORT identification for the first 150 years of their >mutual presences in >Virginia and the Carolinas. Thereafter, bonafides have to be established. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx