Whit & Hockster: By relating findings in Cumberland, Powhatan, and Campbell counties, Virginia, with extensions into Washington County, a family history is developing that looks rather different from the one long portrayed by reliance on Ann Pemberton Davenport's unsuccessful application for a Revolutionary Widow's Pension in 1840 and Miss Rachel Davenport's recall pronouncements of 1892. First, we deal with Wilson Davenport, only son and eldest child of Henry and Ann, and his Pemberton connection. He was definitely older than credited by the list of births allegedly taken from the family bible by Ann and attached to her pension application. Evidences now found suggest that the Cumberland/Powhatan Pembertons were not movers and shakers--the exception being William Pemberton of Goochland, who attained stature by five years of cavalry service during the Revolution, progressing from Ensign to Captain of Continental Light Dragoons, and gained wealth by a Bounty Land grant of more than 5,000 acres in Kentucky and Ohio--which he sold and bought a manor plantation (today a B&B) in Goochland. (William is the only Pemberton, all Thirteen Colonies, certified by the DAR as a Patriot.) William, son of William of Cumberland/Powhatan, I now believe, was a brother to Ann, wife of Henry Davenport, Sr., of Cumberland/Buckingham. Certainly, it was no coincidence that William Pemberton of Goochland held the mortgage on Wilson Davenport's slaves, law library, and most valuable chattel when Wilson died. James Pemberton, in Campbell records, 1795-1811 (possibly later), I now believe, was a younger brother of Ann Davenport, likely from a second family by their sire. James appears to have been an employee or agent of Scott & Davenport and Scott & Company, which terminated with Wilson's death, whereafter he became a Campbell Deputy Sheriff. (Not researched past 1811.) I have been surprised at the scarcity of Pemberton mentions in the records of both Cumberland (prior to 1777) and Powhatan (1777-1810)--no jury service--grand or petit, no road surveyors, no constables, no law suits, yet they were there. Considering that Ann Pemberton married Henry Davenport, Sr., in 1770 and died in late 1840. She was surely no more than 20 when she married, and Henry was at least 50--he took title to the land he sold in 1789 in 1741. My point is that Wilson, their oldest child and only son, was born at least several years before Henry, Sr., and Ann were allegedly married--appears to have been older than Henry Davenport, Jr., Henry, Sr.'s youngest son by his first wife. By social mores of Colonial times, Henry, Sr.'s and Ann's union appears to have been rife with irregularities, not found among aristocrats and the gentility given the age disparity. Let's leave the Pemberton connection for the moment and sort out what we now know about Wilson Davenport, Lynchburg attorney and member of the Virginia Assembly for Campbell County when he died suddenly in Richmond in Jan1807. Work is needed, but a substantial framework is already in place by blending data from Cumberland, Powhatan, and Campbell. The principals, likely in order of importance, were (1) William Terry Davenport, merchant and son of William Davenport, Sr., also a merchant, and a grandson of Thomas Davenport, Sr., tobacco planter--and a first cousin to Wilson; (2) Samuel Scott, a merchant and partner of William T. Davenport in the firm Scott & Davenport, that appears to have started in Powhatan and terminated in Campbell; (3) the merchant firm of Scott & Davenport which did business on the Upper James River Basin at least to the Blue Ridge; and (4) Wilson Davenport, who was closely associated with William T. Davenport in Scott & Davenport business from the beginning sometime in 1793-94, and was actively engaged in Powhatan Court activities concurrent with Scott & Davenport law suits in 1794-96. The Scott & Davenport business center shifted from Powhatan to Campbell (Lynchburg) in 1797, concurrent with Wilson Davenport's being licensed as an Attorney in Campbell, Samuel Scott settling there, and William T. Davenport appearing on the Lynchburg Personal Property Tax List for 1797 along with Wilson. But William T. moved around, was to be found in Cumberland, Powhatan, Campbell, likely Buckingham, and had an office in Richmond. The point is that Wilson Davenport was not in Powhatan County because of his Pemberton relatives--he was there as either an agent for or as a silent partner in Scott & Davenport. He surely read Law in Powhatan where he got considerable Court experience, but did not become an Attorney until Aug1796, when he admitted to practice before Campbell Court. He was surely the attorney for Scott & Davenport until the death of William T. in 1803, whereafter he was the attorney for Scott & Company, Merchants. The seemingly unending litigation between Scott and Wilson's executors strongly indicate that Wilson had a financial interest in both Scott & Davenport and in Scott & Company. William T.'s estate was so intermingled with Scott that no one would undertake execution of his will (long, long story). William T.'s affairs were also mixed up with his brother Alexious. They had a partnership that was, in present day terminology, a debt collection agency. They bought debts at a discount or collected debts for others by assignment for a percentage. After William T.'s sudden death, Alexious had 42 collection suits in one Cumberland Court session. Alexious was still chasing debtors when he died in 1829 in Powhatan. In essence, I now discount a Pemberton role in Wilson's having become an attorney. Wilson was surely influenced by William T. Davenport and Samuel Scott, became a participant in their business affairs, which had a constant need for an attorney. His executors were still waiting for umpires to sort out what Scott owed Wilson's estate ten years after Davenport died. Now, add Molly Davenport to Joseph Davenport as the earliest Pamunkey Davenports in WCV who need to be identified. There is no Molly in Ann Pemberton's bible record of her and Henry's children. Did both Joseph and Molly belong to Julius and Mary Noell? Or were they more of the first family of Henry Davenport, Sr., by wife Sarah Terry? John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ