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