Viola: Thomas Davenport, Jr., son of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland, was the grandfather of Thomas Davenport, of Halifax County, Virginia, who served in Congress, 1825-1834. Thomas, Jr., was variously a planter, a storekeeper, a magistrate, a presiding justice, a sheriff, a coroner, a militia captain, and a self-taught physician. He became alienated with Cumberland County when he was denied a commission either as a Captain of Foot or as a Surgeon in the early days of the Revolution. Georgia, which raised most of its Continental Line troops in Virginia, commissioned him a Captain-Surgeon in the 3rd Battalion, Georgia Line, and he went South in 1777. He left a will directing his family to leave Cumberland and move to Halifax on pain of disinheritance. Serving in Georgia, he was captured twice by the British. The second time he was held on a prison hulk in the Savannah River below Savannah where he died in the Spring of 1780 as a prisoner-of-war. His estate was awarded two large land grants in Georgia for his service. His grandson Thomas (IV) was a Congressman, not a Senator, was born either in Cumberland or Halifax in 1781-82. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ