PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS OF THE KENNEDY LINE: While we have tied off data entry for Part 1 of the Chronicles, research continues for identification of Davenport Kennedy, our family genealogical my stery. We have acquired two new (to us) facts or alleged facts concerning DK: 1. At least a half dozen Kennedy genealogies posted on GEDCOM and/or accessible in the Ancestry data base state that DK was married to Mary Edwards in Mar1783 in Spotsylvania County. The problem with this claim is that DK died and was probated in Louisa County on 11Nov1782, per Court records. But there is enough circumstantial evidence to prevent rejecting the identification completely, for there was a Mary Edwards, widow of Augustine Edwards of Spotsylvania, located close to DK's plantation beginning in 1771. We have strong evidence that DK's widow Mary was not the mother of his eight orphans. (Incidentally, there was no son Samuel--it was a clerk's error, who wrote Samuel when he should have written Sarah. Both fore and aft of the Samuel error in the records, the name is clearly Sarah, and the sex was female. But the erroneous Samuel appears in a number of genealogies and has been baptized and endowed by the Mormons.) James Edwards, father of Augustine, was the second of that name in sequence, had a plantation on the north bank of the North Anna in Spotsylvania County from 1741 until his death in 1788. Most importantly, he was the son of the James Edwards of King William County who had patented the land whereon Davis Davenport's plantation was located in 1701. James Edwards, Jr., had grown up with the Davis Davenport family as the next door neighbors North (Captain Thomas Terry was the next door neighbor South). James, Jr., relocated up the Pamunkey/North Anna to settle on 400 acres adjoining Thomas Graves, husband of Ann Davenport, daughter of Davis. The Graves north bank land was no more than a mile up the North Anna from Martin Davenport, Sr.'s patent on the south bank in Hanover County. The Edwards plantation was within two miles of Davenport Kennedy's plantation--owned by Richard Davenport, which straddled the Hanover-Louisa County Line. You will find that James Edwards, Jr., appears often in the Chronicles, 1741-1789, with multiple associations with the Davenports and their Arnold cousins. Edwards married the widow of Benjamin Arnold and made her children his principal heirs. The point of all this is that Mary Edwards, widow of James Edward's son Augustine, was a viable, plausible candidate for having been the widow of Davenport Kennedy also. The location for the marriage would fit, but the date does not. (We suspect that James Edwards, Jr., married a daughter of Davis Davenport, considering the Graves and Davenport associations in Spotsylvania County. DK was part of the same social milieu.) 2. As to the first wife of DK and the mother of his eight children, scratch a daughter of Thomas Montague as a prospect. Montague was still unmarried when he took DK's indenture as an apprentice to learn Carpentry in 1752, could not have been the father of DK's first wife, married c1758, for Dicey, DK's first child and the ancestress of a large number of Pamunkey Davenports, was born in Jun1759. More grist for the mill. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ