Whit: I've finally completed my review of the data you sent relative to the children in the family of Julius and Mary Noell Davenport and of the copy of Miss Rachel Hendricks Davenport's memoir of 1891 you kindly replaced for me. Several items therein corroborate deductions and identifications we've offered previously, but are new in the sense that we are now looking at them meaningfully. First, as to Miss Rachel: 1. My e-mail earlier today provided my contribution to the identification of the Hendricks involved in the naming of Miss Rachel and her brother Lilburn. Thomas Hendricks, son of James Hendricks of Orange County, North Carolina, and Ninety Six District, South Carolina, was of Russell County, Virginia, as was the Thomas Hendricks identified by Miss Rachel. His wife was Rachel Lea. 1. From Washington County Personal Property Lists (PPLs) we have concluded that Julius Davenport and wife Mary Noell, contrary to previously held conceptions that they had lived out their days and died in Buckingham County, were both in Washington County as early as 1795, that Julius likely died there c1797. Miss Rachel said in 1891: "My grandfather moved to Washington County and bought a farm on North Fork River, which took the name of Davenport's Bend from him. He died there and was buried there, and my grandmother was buried there." Fact: Miss Rachel's grandfathers were Julius Davenport and Henry Davenport, brothers. Her grandmothers were Mary Noell, wife of Julius, and Nancy Ann Pemberton, wife of Henry. Henry Davenport died in Buckingham County in December 1791, 250 miles northeast of Washington County. Nancy Ann Pemberton Davenport died in Buckingham County in late 1840, same distance from Washington County. That leaves only Julius and Mary as Miss Rachel's grandparents who could've died and been buried in Washington County. We know that a Mary Davenport appeared on the Washington PPL for 1798 with assets attributable to what Julius had been assessed for in 1796, and we know that an aged, indigent Mary Davenport was cared for and buried by Millie Lee, nee Davenport, in 1826 and was reimbursed by the Overseers of the Poor. While it has a few loose ends, I think Miss Rachel's statement ices the cake in so far as corroborating our identification of and the final locales for Julius and Mary. 3. Miss Rachel's claim that her parents, namely Thomas, son of Julius, and Permelia, daughter of Henry, yet unmarried, came to Washington County on a visit with their brother and sister, identified as Osborne Davenport, brother of Thomas, and Molly Davenport, sister of Permelia, who were likely married, given the lack of a marriage bond or record, in Buckingham County shortly before 28Mar1797, because Thomas and Permelia were married in Washington County on 28Mar1799. Miss Rachel asserted that her parents visit "was protracted about two years before they married." Osborne Davenport was tax listed in Washington County, 1794-1798, consistently, and thereafter variously until he moved to Kentucky in 1812. Connecting the dots, Osborne traveled from Washington to Buckingham, 250 miles--we repetitiously emphasize the mileage because it was a major travel undertaking--not over the river and through the woods. In Buckingham, Osborne married his first cousin Molly Davenport, then returned to Washington accompanied by Molly's sister, Permelia. There, within two years, Permelia married Osborne's brother Thomas. This scenario fits the morally accepted behavior of the time. Thomas Davenport, son of Julius and Mary, was already in Washington County when Osborne returned with his bride and bride's sister. (We still cannot explain the presence of the two unmarried, alleged daughters of Julius and Mary, namely Lucy and Mollie, in Washington County in 1791, where and when both married with a six months period, except by the presence of Joseph Davenport, unidentified but closely associated with the Julius Davenport family for at least 14 years, namely, 1791-1803. The point being that single young women did not travel 250 miles from their homes without a chaperone or male protector in those days, and Washington County was still semi-frontier in 1791.) (We might also toss into consideration the observation that Julius was the maverick of the Thomas Davenport, Sr., family--he was unconventional and a roamer--left tracks all over Goochland, Cumberland, Albemarle, Prince Edward, Charlotte, and Buckingham, was improvident--lost two plantations to creditors, and was indicted for Drunkeness and Swearing in Charlotte County, but was not unique in that regard. As for the source of the name for his son Osborne, it possibly came from Osborne Keeling, a business associate or employer of Julius within the same time frame that Osborne, son of Julius, was born. The arrangement came a cropper for Julius ended up suing Keeling, who vacated Cumberland ahead of the Sheriff, and was pursued to Charlotte by Julius, where he got indicted by the Grand Jury. This time Julius was gone before the Sheriff came calling, and was the indictment was crossed off the Court docket as "not an inhabitant.) I'll have more on Washington County later, but this is enough to chew on for the moment. I'm basically digging in Bedford County at the moment. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ