I'm a little muddled here. Did the Pamunkey Davenport's go to Albemarle? We know, from the DNA, the Pamunkey and Albemarle Davenport's are not related. At 07:01 AM 6/27/2005, JSDDOC@aol.com wrote: >FOR THOSE AWAITING PUBLICATION OF PART ONE, >FURTHER CHRONICLES OF THE PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS: > > We had planned to have Part One, Beginnings and North of the James >River, ready for release via Web Site by July 1, but that's not going to >happen. >We have encountered a Mother Lode of heretofore undiscovered Davenport data >in the Court records of Albemarle County after 1791, the depth of which we >have not yet plumbed, but surmise, considering the multiplicity of >Davenports, >Gambills, Kennedys, and others involved, that it will extend to the death of >Jesse Davenport, son of James, Sr., grandson of Martin, Sr., >great-grandson of >Davis, in the early 1820s. > > Squeaky wheels get the grease, and Line Only research of Pamunkey >Davenports heretofore has distorted the Family History mightily by >failing to put >family members into their true historical perspective. The story of James >Davenport, Sr., for example, heretofore has emphasized Ogelthorpe County, >Georgia, and developments from there, with a nod of recognition to Virginia >beginnings, particularly Hanover, Louisa, and Spotsylvania >counties. Because >William and Jesse Davenport, younger sons of James, Sr., did not go to >Georgia with >their father, their Virginia story was apparently unworthy of research, >beyond the fact that William died childless in 1802, and Jesse's family >moved to >Georgia after his death, given the incentive by James, Sr.'s widow, nee >France Jouett, of making Jesse her principal heir conditional on his >relocation >from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Ogelthorpe County, Georgia. We do not >claim >a precise knowledge of what occurred beyond the fact that the Jesse family, >he having died, relocated and claimed the legacy. Our limited knowledge is >that Jesse died in Virginia, but is buried in the family plot in Georgia. >Shared data relative to William and Jesse in Charlottesville, Virginia, >has been >cryptic. They were both in the tavern or inn business at the Albemarle >County seat, we have been told. > > Because we assumed that the Albemarle records had been searched, >considering the prominence that James, Sr., research has had in Pamunkey >Davenport >identification for at least seventy years prior to the beginning of the >current project, we left Albemarle records research until last, expecting >to have >only touching up to do. A tactical error in retrospect. > > Fact: Starting in 1791, the year before James Davenport, Sr., wife >Frances Jouett, son James, Jr., wife Dicey Kennedy, sold out in Hanover, and >relocated to join son John, who had gone to Georgia immediately following >Revolutionary War service in the Continental Line and had become a >Magistrate of >Ogelthorpe County, there began a Pamunkey Davenport presence in Albemarle >County >public affairs, wherein Thomas Jefferson lived and was of the highest >profile, that was the largest and most active Davenport presence in any >Virginia >county in the Nineteenth Century. > > Heretofore, the Georgia Davenports have honored the Jouett presence in >Charlotteville, proudly noting the John "Jack" Jouett had made the famous >ride, rivaling Paul Revere's, from Cuckoo Tavern in Louisa County to >Charlottesville in 1781 to warn the Virginia Assembly, then in refuge >from the British >Army's burning and pillaging in the James River Valley, that Tarlton's >Cavalry >had left the British Lines to make a sortie to Charlottesville to capture >the >patriot legislators. Jouett's warning enabled the Assembly to move to >Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley before Tarlton's cavalry arrived. > > Without going into extensive detail, as being done in the "Further >Chronicles," the Davenports own story in Albemarle has gone untold while >Davenports have been proudly extolling their >Jouett connection. According to Court >records, the Davenports were considerably more active in Charlottesville and >Albemarle Court affairs than were the Jouetts. There were not only more >Davenports and close kin involved, they were considerably more active, say a >20-t0-1 ratio conservatively. > > What we found compared to what we have been led to expect is so >radically different that we must spend the time necessary to cull the >records >completely. > > Not only were William and Jesse Davenport active in Court affairs, > their >first cousin Henry Gambill, Jr., who was also an uncle, being married to >Catherine Jouett, youngest sister of Frances, wife of James, Sr. (who was >the >youngest of the sons of Martin, Sr.), often appeared in Court service. Then >too, there were John Gambill and Richard Gambill, surely sons of Henry. >(Henry, a millwright and a tavernkeeper, was the son of Henry Gambill, >Sr., and >Mary Davenport, eldest daughter of Martin, Sr. Henry had taught Jouett >Davenport, eldest son of James, Sr., and Jack Smith Davenport, son of >John, Sr., the >millwright trade and built the post-Revolution Albemarle Court House and >Jail--disastrously, but that's another story.) > > A totally unexpected Albemarle Court presence was that of Joseph >Kennedy, eldest son of Davenport Kennedy, who exhibited a >whimpy. semi-failure >presence in Louisa records, where he owned land. In Albemarle, Joseph >had a Court >profile, not the slightest whimpy--exhibited a similar high profile to those >of William and Jesse Davenport and the Gambills, sued and was sued, but most >often served as a juror, frequently as Jury Foreman, reflecting a stature >totally different from that portrayed by Louisa Court records. Joseph was a >brother-in-law of William and Jesse Davenport, their brother James, Jr., >being >married to Dicey Kennedy, Joseph's eldest sister. The Kennedys were cousins >to both the Davenports and the Gambills in some regard, but their father's >parentage is yet enigmatic. Davenport Kennedy either had a Davenport father >and a Kennedy mother, or vice versa. He was not the son of Charles >Kennedy and >Crotia Davenport, daughter of Martin, Sr., as long accepted. > > Now, all of this Albemarle Davenport talk thus far has focused on >Martin, Sr.'s descendants. In Albemarle from the early 1750s forward was >Richard >Davenport, Sr.(2), formerly of Louisa, likely eldest son of Richard, Sr.(1), >of Caroline, a younger brother of Martin, Sr. Richard, Sr., of Albemarle, >died in 1792, but his widow Elizabeth lived until 1820, having a life >estate in >Richard's real and personal property. Davenports of Richard, Sr., in >Albemarle concurrent with Davenports of Martin, Sr., were Richard, Jr., >Martin, a >sister married to Thomas Jones, and another sister unmarried in >1792. Richard, > Jr., moved to Georgia shortly after the Revolution, but returned to >Albemarle after his father's death and remained there. Eldest son >Joseph Davenport >was in adjacent Amherst County. Son Charles Davenport, a man of stature, >and >son John, married to a granddaughter of Davis Davenport, were in Abbeville >District, South Carolina, and youngest son William Davenport was in Mercer >County, Kentucky. All of these, in one manner or another, because of that >lifetime hold that the Widow Elizabeth had on Richard, Sr.'s >estate, figured into >Albemarle affairs, until Elizabeth died c1820 (hard date to come). > > All of these Davenports were further connected in some regard, for >Davenport Kennedy occupied Richard, Sr. (2)'s land in Louisa County until >his >death in 1782. [One hypothesis of Davenport Kennedy's ancestry is that >he was >the son of Joseph Davenport, brother of Richard, Sr.(2), who died as a >British >soldier in the War of Jenkin's Ear.] The Louisa tract was sold after >Richard, >Sr.'s death to Tarlton B. Luck, who was married to Crotia Cassity Kennedy, >youngest daughter of Charles Kennedy and Crotia Davenport. (There are >wheels, >within wheels, within wheels, in sorting out the Pamunkey Davenports.) > > Back to the microfilm reader. > >John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ > > >============================== >Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx