Kyle: As to Davenports in Augusta County, VA, there were few, if any, in the 18th Century, but Augusta originally covered a vast amount of the present US east of the Mississippi, but shrunk rapidly after the French & Indian War (mid-to-late 1750s). I know of only one Davenport alleged to have been in Augusta. Having not researched the County myself, I cannot give any credence to this factoid, but I have among my notes that there are records in Augusta concerning Gideon Davenport. The only Gideon Davenport yet found in 18th Century Virginia records was the third son in the second family of Richard Davenport, Sr., of Caroline County, second son of Davis Davenport, the Pamunkey patriarch. When Richard died in 1775, his sons Gideon and Reuben apparently inherited some of his land, for they joined in a deed to Melchezeck Brame, possibly a brother-in-law, in 1777 of land that could only have come by inheritance from Richard, Sr. (All of the records of Caroline County, except for Court Orders, prior to 1865 have been destroyed. So we have grantor-grantee records that deeds were proved, but we have no deeds, mortgages, powers of attorney, etc, i.e., no specifics.) We estimate that Gideon was born c1750, know that he married Mary Goodall of a prominent Hanover family c1776 and fathered a son Richard 1778, and was in extreme disfavor with his father-in-law Parke Goodall of Hanover by 1784. By that year, Father-in-law Goodall deeded two slaves to a Caroline trustee for the benefit of Mary Davenport, wife of Gideon Davenport, and her son Richard Davenport, solely for the personal use of said Mary during her natural life and then to Richard Davenport, " without being subject to the power and control of her present and future husband." One gets a sense that Gideon had taken off, may or may not have been dead, but Parke Goodall, soon to be Hanover Sheriff, wanted his hands kept off of Mary's assets--if they were in Mary's name, they belonged to Gideon. Gideon appears on no annual Caroline Personal Property Tax List, which begin in 1782, or on any Personal Property Tax List of any County adjacent to Caroline or adjacent to the adjacent to Caroline. The factoid relative to Gideon in Augusta County is of a post-Revolution time continuum. If there was a divorce, it has not come to my attention, surely would have been found by now. I also have the factoid among my notes to the effect that Gideon Davenport died in Chesterfield County. Chesterfield is on the south side of James River, over against (across from) Henrico County, which then included the City of Richmond. I looked for Gideon on Chesterfield Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782-forward, found nothing. Here's what I have in annotation to the Gideon Davenport-Mary Goodall marriage in Part 1 of "The Further Chronicles of the Pamunkey Davenports" --to wit: Gideon apparently led a nomadic life, although his wife and son remained in place in Caroline County. A deposition filed with the Augusta County Court Apr1799 relative to a bond posted by Gideon Davenport “of Spotsylvania County, ” stated that Gideon had lived either on the upper end of Caroline County or lower end of Spotsylvania about 1779 and then owned slaves, and that he had died in Chesterfield County in 1788, having no property. (The source providing this information offered no documentation.) Here's a place to start if you take on Augusta County. I believe you will digging in records heretofore only slightly investigated. I know not whether the Gideon Davenport factoid was found there as the search object, or encountered serendipitously in another search. Gideon is a Pamunkey loose end that I have had to leave so, for I have had my hands full with the Pamunkeys east of the Blue Ridge. Mary Goodall Davenport raised her son Richard in Caroline County. Richard married in Caroline in March 1803, probated Mary Davenport, surely his mother, in May 1803, was enumerated in the Census of 1820 as head of a Caroline household that included one male and three females, all of teen ages, as well as a female of his age, likely his wife Polly Brown. Beyond the fact that he served in the War of 1812 as a Corporal, I have researched him no further. Reuben, young brother of Gideon, served in the Virginia Continental Line during the Revolution, returned to Pamunkey Neck and lived out his life in King William County, no more than ten miles southeast of where Richard of Gideon lived. Reuben was an overseer, owned no land nor slaves, but was listed virtually every year on the King William Personal Property Tax List, charged either solely as a poll or as poll who owned a horse. But Reuben engaged in a ploy relative to his assets not unlike what Parke Goodall had done relative to the slaves he gave his daughter Mary. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ