PAMUNKEY DAVENPORT & OTHERS INTERESTED: One of the happy circumstances in genealogy is when you identify one member of a family, it frequently leads to a second or more identifications. We have such a situation relative to James Davenport, father of Chappel Davenport (d. 1859) of Nelson County, Virginia. DNA analysis tells us that the two descendants of Chappel that we have among us are Pamunkey, i.e., Davis Davenport, descendants. Chappel was born in Prince George County, Virginia, per 1850 Census enumeration, in 1778-79, which logically led his descendants among us to believe they were Prince George Davenports, heretofore identified as a totally separate line of Colonial Virginia Davenports from the Pamunkeys. If a Prince George Davenport descendant has the same DNA as do descendants of Martin, Thomas, and Elias, sons of Davis Davenport, we have a whole new ball game in so far as the Pamunkey origin--and the Bastard Hypothesis goes out the window, i.e., we must consider that Davis Davenport had a common ancestry with the Prince George line, hence did not have a father of a different surname. However, before dumping almost seven years of work on the Pamunkey origin, we look for a missing James among Davis' descendants, who could have been the father of Chappel, and determine whether that James could have taken himself to Prince George County and out of the Pamunkey drift. We do know that James Davenport, father of Chappel, was in Bristol Parish (far west) and the Prince George Davenports were Martin's Brandon Parish (far east) in Prince George County record associations. In the Pamunkey Genealogical Chart we have not one James Davenport, identified as Pamunkey, who had disappeared from his family in the 1760s, we have (or had) two: (1) James of Henry, of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland, and (2) James of Glover, of Martin, Sr., of Hanover/Amherst. On the plus side, we had a James Davenport appear among the descendants of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, in Western North Carolina who did not belong to the Davenports there, but was employed by Davenport in-laws prior to the Revolution, was engaged on the patriot side during the Revolution, appeared in Court and swore out warrants against at least a dozen Tories, surely served in the Militia and likely was at the Battle of King's Mountain under Captain Martin Davenport. Following the Revolution this James married, then moved independently of the Pamunkey Davenports and their in-laws to Pendleton District (far west), South Carolina, and had no further association with the North Carolina Mountain Pamunkeys. Family historians and genealogists of the Mountain Pamunkeys have been clear that James Davenport was not one of them. We had heretofore suspected that James of the Revolutionary years in North Carolina was the missing James of Henry. We had considered that James of Glover had died because his last appearances in Amherst records (Court) were as a minor, once for allegedly joining in the killing of a cow belonging to a neighbor and stealing the meat (not guilty), and once for joining his mother in assaulting a Deputy Sheriff who was serving a writ (peace bond ordered both he and his mother). Taking heed of DNA and the fact that Chappel Davenport's father had been a James, we are testing the hypothesis even now that said James was James, Jr., eldest son in the first family of Henry Davenport, of Cumberland, a son of Thomas, Sr., and a grandson of Davis Davenport. James, Jr., (his Uncle James, of Cumberland and Halifax, was James, Sr.) got into debt troubles in Cumberland Court in the mid-1760s and absconded, i.e., skulked away hastily and secretly. (In those days every County had a Debtor's Prison, and those who did not pay Court judgments awarded against them could be arrested by the Sheriff, at the behest of the creditor or holder of the judgment, and put in Prison bounds until the debt or judgment was paid. Debtor's Prison was not a lockup with food and shelter provided at public expense. It was a specific area, laid out and clearly identified, generally one block or square centering on the Court House or the Sheriff's home, wherein the debtor was required to stay and to provide his own shelter and food until the judgment or debt was paid, the creditor or judgment holder relented, or the debtor pleaded Poverty before the Court, not easily done in those days when even scrap iron and old, decrepit chattel had value. Apparently James of Henry found the prospect of being confined to Cumberland Prison Bounds daunting and took himself out of the jurisdiction of the Sheriff, and went down the Appomattox River, which went through the middle of Bristol Parish before it joined the James River.) For a fast finish, having James of Henry assigned to Prince George County as a refuge from the Cumberland Sheriff, and, therefore could not have been the James who spent the Revolution among the North Carolina Mountain Pamunkeys, we now review our conclusion that James of Glover had died and align him with the Mountain folk. A quick circumstantial identification has resulted, for James Davenport of the North Carolina backcountry worked for William Wiseman (wife Sophia Davenport) and William White (wife Mary Davenport), both of wives being daughters of Thomas Davenport, eldest son of Martin, Sr., of Hanover. Thomas' only son was Captain Martin Davenport. Thomas had a grandson named Davenport Wiseman, and he had a great grandson named Glover Davenport Wiseman. Glover Davenport Wiseman was the son of Thomas Wiseman, son of William Wiseman and Sophia Davenport, and his wife Cordia Ann White, who was the daughter of William White and Mary Davenport. For the Wiseman-White identifications, we check to Maribeth Lang Vineyard in her book, "William Wiseman and the Davenport" (1997). The James Davenport identification is ours, for why would Glover Davenport, second son of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, get a namesake in the North Carolina Mountains if there had not been some contact by a member of Glover's family. Glover Davenport Wiseman was born in the Mountains at least ten years after Glover Davenport had died in Franklin County, Virginia, a far piece from Burke County, North Carolina. We think we've found a rationale in James Davenport, "who was not one of us," having been the missing James, son of Glover. This one appears to be a slam dunk. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ