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