PAMUNKEY KINFOLK & OTHERS INTERESTED: A cousin has asked if the Pamunkey Davenports had an association with Patrick Henry of "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" fame. Our Davenports had several roles relative to Governor Henry: 1. Prior to the Revolution, beginning in 1761, Henry, an itinerant lawyer residing in Hanover County, appeared often in Cumberland Court where Thomas Davenport, Jr., grandson of Davis, was one of the presiding justices. On at least three occasions, Henry appeared as the attorney for the litigant opposing a Davenport. If he ever represented a Davenport, record of such has not been found. 2. Prior to the Revolution in 1768, Henry was the attorney of record for the Estate of Thomas Graves, Sr., late of Spotsylvania County, Decd. Graves, Sr., was the husband of Ann Davenport, only known/believed daughter of Davis Davenport. The Graves, you'll recall, had 15 children and played a stellar role in Davenport affairs on the North Anna, i.e., Hanover/Spotsylvania/Louisa. 3. In 1775, David Davenport, son of William and grandson of Martin, Sr., was a member of Captain Patrick Henry's Hanover Company of Gentleman Independents who marched on Williamsburg to confront Royal Governor Dunsmore, who had taken public gunpowder from the magazine at Williamsburg to a British ship. The militia march was abortive, was halted in New Kent County when messengers from Colonel (then by British commission) George Washington and others advised Henry he was being premature. Henry was posturing politically, for he was Captain of the Company only for this sortie, the elected Captain of the Gentleman Independents having stepped aside in deference to Henry's celebrity status (he had already done his "Give me liberty or give me death!" bit). As a soldier, Henry left much to be desired, a fact he soon recognized. Two months after the Gunpowder March, he was chosen Colonel commanding the 1st Regiment of Foot, originally recruited as a state unit, subsequently assigned to the Virginia Continental Line. "Colonel Henry's political abilities exceeded his military talent" and his unit was passed over by the Committee of Safety in favor of the Second Regiment, which did the early Revolutionary fighting. Henry resigned in February 1776 and returned to the political arena and soon became Governor. Strangely, although he was single and not yet 30, David Davenport had no further recorded service, military, civil, or provisionary, in the Revolution, but his foray with the Gentleman Independents under Captain Henry would be sufficient to qualify his descendants, if such exist, for the DAR or SAR. His only son, William Patrick Henry Davenport, born when David was age 70, was still single in the Census of 1850, has yet to be traced thereafter--a matter currently being pursued. After his years of public service, Henry retired to a manor plantation in southwest Charlotte County and was admitted to practice before that Court in 1788 Captain Richard Davenport, son of John the Bankrupt and grandson of Martin, Sr., of Hanover, who moved to Charlotte from Buckingham in 1779, qualified socially and economically as a Gentleman, became a Gentleman by law when appointed to the Charlotte Court, and sat in judgment on matters concerning Henry's estate after Henry's death in 1799. We basked in Henry's glow, were not mainstream with the Patriot. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ