Hi List, I need some help, does any of the Davenports out there have any connections to the Sorrells/Sarrels family? As some of you may know, my husband Duane Davenport is the 3rd G-Grandson of John and Nancy (Burnett) Davenport of VA.,KY.and IN. Duane's DNA still does not match any Davenports tested yet but, he does match three Sorrells/Sarrels family members. He is one away on James Thomas Sorrells of N.C. on 25 marker (James has not taken the 37 marker) He is two away on 37 marker matching John Sarrels of Texas, John's ancestors moved to Burnet, Burnet Co.Texas from Haywood Co.,N.C. sometime before 1880, the next match is a Neale Sorrells, I don't know where Neale lives and we are told he matches Duane 36/37, we don't know for sure on Neale because we were not notified of the match between him and Duane, we have been missed, being notified on two matches that we know of and have no idea on the ones we don't know of. We were told of the two matches by someone else. For all we know there may be Davenport matches and we haven't been notified, there is a match 4 of 37 to a number, the person has chosen not to give their name so how is one to know if there is not a name attached. I think that person is real interested in finding out who his ancestors were!!!! The only connection we have found to N.C. for any of Duane's family is old Elisha and we think he is the Elisha Devenport/Davenport that is on the 1800 Surry Co.N.C. census, I think Surry Co. is just below and west of Patrick Co.Va. We have never been in that area but looks close on the map. We think Elisha probably went down there just before John and Nancy Davenport went to Wayne Co.Ky. Any help would be appreciated, Hope all of you have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a WONDERFUL NEW YEAR !!! Bettie and Duane Davenport ----- Original Message ----- From: davenport-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport-request@rootsweb.com> To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:43 PM Subject: DAVENPORT Digest, Vol 1, Issue 38 Today's Topics: 1. A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) 2. Re: A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country (haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>) 3. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) 4. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>) 5. Re: Zacariah Not a Newberry! (steven perkins) 6. A Belated Obituary: Dr. Frederick Parks Davenport, 1916-2006 (JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com>) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:30:34 EST From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> Subject: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Cc: TLAS@aol.com<mailto:TLAS@aol.com> Message-ID: <c46.9562d02.32b1769a@aol.com<mailto:c46.9562d02.32b1769a@aol.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI Possibly a brand new finding: On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. Hey, Deja! We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with Zacariah Davenport. Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have no expertise in that regard. To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train before doing depth research on those links. As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and curiouser." John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:06:12 -0500 From: <haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country To: <davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <20061213160612.IEKP24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net<mailto:20061213160612.IEKP24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Doc. I hate to break your Newberry bubble, but Zacariah Davenport is a proven Albemarle Davenport . >The proof is both paper and DNA. Zacariah( Also spelled Zechariah)b. 1774-1856, is the son of Jacob b. 1736-d.1815 , his father was Richard Davenport b.1699-d.1773, his father John Davenport Sr. b. 1677-d.1749 and his father Richard R. Davenport b.1642-1714. Richard R. Davenport was a Great Wigston Davenport from Leicestershire, England. D. Harold Davenport - an Albemarle Davenport > From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed AM 10:30:34 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> > CC: TLAS@aol.com<mailto:TLAS@aol.com> > Subject: [DAVENPORT] A Newberry Found in Kentucky Pamunkey Country > > NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS PLEASE COPY, PAMUNKEYS FYI > > Possibly a brand new finding: > > On 10Oct1799 a Zacariah Davenport married a Jean Douglas in Washington > County, Virginia. By and large, after 1790 Washington County, Virginia, was > Pamunkey Davenport country--hugely so as the years progressed. But we have > not heretofore been able to identify Zacariah. Excepting for the second > family of Richard Davenport of King William/Caroline by wife Keziah Davis, wherein > siblings Absalom, Gideon, and Reuben thrived, 18th Century Pamunkeys did not > bestow overly biblical given names on their issue. No Melchezedek, > Epaphroditus, Ephraim, Zacariah or such among us. Richard, we remind, was the > second son of Davis Davenport, and died in Caroline in 1775. > > There being two enduring lines of Pamunkeys in Washington County, > namely and predominantly of Julius (of Buckingham/Washington) and Henry (of > Cumberland/Buckingham), sons of Thomas of Cumberland (Thomas being the third son > of Davis Davenport), and namely and tokenly of Glover (of Bedford), son of > Martin of Hanover (Martin being the eldest son of Davis Davenport), we have > been nonplused in identifying Zacariah, but suspected the line to be Glover by > his son Joseph. Glover had a Matthew, James, Joseph, Moses, Joel, and > John--and a nonbiblical William, all heretofore identified the hard way. Glover, a > man who started at least three land ownership ventures but completed none, > left no will, death record or assets to fight over. Sons Joseph, William, and > John are believed to have been settled in Washington County, well away from > the other Pamunkeys, by the early 1790s. John's descendants are still there, > and at least one, now living in Michigan, is among us on this Rootsweb. > Hey, Deja! > > We know that Anthony Simmes Davenport, a son of Abraham Davenport of > Berkeley County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) was settled in > Washington County for four years in the 1780s, but he moved on to take up > bounty land for his Revolutionary War service in the Virginia Military District > of Ohio (between the Little Miami and Scioto rivers) well before the Pamunkey > Davenports arrived. Anthony Simmes belonged to the Altona Davenports, > unrelated per DNA to the Pamunkeys or any other Davenport cluster. Now, forget > about him, for like the Pamunkeys in Washington, he had nothing to do with > Zacariah Davenport. > > Quickly coming to the point, Zacariah can be traced easily, for he is > enumerated in Whitley County, Kentucky, in every Federal Census, 1810-1850. We > haven't checked 1860. Not hard to find. He's was the only Zacariah or Zack > Davenport enumerated in the South in those Censuses, and was the only > Davenport in Whitley County in 1810, and spawned a large family there by 1850. > > Zachariah, according to his 1850 enumeration, was born 77 years earlier > in S.C., i.e., c1773 in South Carolina. And that cements the identity, for > the only Davenports in South Carolina before the Revolution were Newberrys, > the sons and grandsons of Isaac Davenport, who died in North Carolina c1750, > and whose family moved on to Little River of Saluda (Newberry County after > 1787), South Carolina, in the late 1760s, early 1770s. Today they are identified > as Newberry Davenports because they originally clustered tightly together, > all in Newberry County, until the late 1790s. These Davenports did go in for > second level or semi-extreme biblical given names (depending on your taste). > Heretofore, their traced migrations from Newberry County were to further > west in South Carolina and Georgia. Their drift was South and West, but I have > no expertise in that regard. > > To our knowledge, for we have not pursued Newberrys like we have pursued > Pamunkeys in our research, no Newberry has heretofore been found as far > north as Kentucky. Southern Kentucky, but Kentucky, a border state, nevertheless. > > Back in the 1960s at a social affair in Cincinnati, that included the > immaculately white suit attired Colonel Saunders of Fried Chicken renown, I > encountered another John Davenport. We exchanged pleasantries and ancestries. > He claimed old Whitley County, Kentucky, ancestry, said that unlike most > Kentuckians, his ancestry was Northern, that his Davenports who settled Whitley > were from either Pennsylvania or New York, as I recall. We were both wrong > in our ancestral identifications. Back then, having done no research, I > claimed New England and the Reverend John Davenport, founder of Yale. (If you > gotta go, go first class.) He was the closest to being right. > > If we now have Zacariah of Whitley identified correctly, his descendant > John of Whitley Davenport's ancestry backtracked from Kentucky to Virginia, > to South Carolina, to North Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and to New > Jersey, thence to England. Whether proofs, documented or circumstantial, > have been accomplished for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, we know not, but we > have long held the opinion that they exist. We got off the Newberry train > before doing depth research on those links. > > As Alice said in Wonderland, "Thing's keep getting curiouser and > curiouser." > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:36:44 EST From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <573.985bf04.32b1b04c@aol.com<mailto:573.985bf04.32b1b04c@aol.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" D. Harold: You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:03:02 -0500 From: <haroldns@bellsouth.net<mailto:haroldns@bellsouth.net>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: <davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com>> Message-ID: <20061213230302.YVWZ24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net<mailto:20061213230302.YVWZ24660.ibm65aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Doc. Clyde McCall Davenport of Knoxville, Tenn has published a book titled "The Davenport Families of Sevier County, Tennessee, Whitley County, Kentucky and Tyrrell County, North Carolina" which traces the family and especially Zacariah Davenport from Tyrrell County through to Whitley County, Ky and his descendents on to Tenn. As for the S.C. birth in the 1850 census, it is a mistake. You are correct about the Albemarles staying home. However, we now find that after the Revolutionary War the younger ones began to move west. Some moved only as far as western N.C. but others, such as Zacariah, moved the first year to Abingdon Va. then the next year over the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Zacariah was married to Precilla Spruill first but it looks like she died in Abingdon of child birth or other circumstances. He then married Jean Douglass on October 10, 1799. His first child by Jean Douglass was William born May 31, 1800 in Whitley Co. Ky. The 1815 tax list for Washington C! ounty N.C. still lists Zacariah Davenport as owning land but under the guardianship of his brother. Clyde Davenport has done extensive research in North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee on this branch of the Albemarle Davenports and would be able to shead more light on Zacariah Davenport than can I. My family would be related to Zacariah via my third great grandfather John Davenport who would have been Zacariah's father's first cousin or first cousin once removed. Harold > > From: JSDDOC@aol.com<mailto:JSDDOC@aol.com> > Date: 2006/12/13 Wed PM 02:36:44 EST > To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! > > D. Harold: > > You didn't break my bubble. I'd ran Zacariah down in Family Search.com, > came up with Jacob identification, which didn't seem right to me, given what > John of Whitley told me forty years ago, so I ran the S.C. birth claim up > the flag pole and rationalized. But I don't argue with DNA. What's your > rationale for the S.C. birth place per 1850 enumeration? By and large, the > Albemarle's were a stay-at-home lot, but I know less about them than I do > Newberrys. Whatever, he's out of the Pamunkey barrel. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:18:22 -0600 From: "steven perkins" <scperkins@gmail.com<mailto:scperkins@gmail.com>> Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Zacariah Not a Newberry! To: davenport@rootsweb.com<mailto:davenport@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <da404fe10612131718y7db5d482ob0a4ba7e1e4caf1b@mail.gmail.com<mailto:da404fe10612131718y7db5d482ob0a4ba7e1e4caf1b@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello; Is there any relationship between Zacariah and John Davenport and Nancy Burnett of Wayne Co., KY and Indiana? John and Nancy were married in Patrick Co., VA. Thanks, Steven C. Perkins To contact the DAVENPORT list administrator, send an email to DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com>. To post a message to the DAVENPORT mailing list, send an email to DAVENPORT@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT@rootsweb.com>. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:DAVENPORT-request@rootsweb.com> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. 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