Russ, As no one has replied to your message below, I will try to. As your wife and I are both descendents of Thomas of Dorchester we have something in common. Also monitoring this channel are others who carry Thomas blood. Mine is through Jonathon the second son. I have never visited the Davenport homes you refer to and would appreciate more detail. In respect to your query on the English connection, there has been little real progress beyond suppositions until yesterday. As has been discussed here, the last DNA analyses show clearly that Thomas was a close relative to the Reverend John Davenport of Boston and New Haven. As we know that the reverend was a known descendent of Orme Davenport of Cheshire we can thus deduce that Thomas was too. There is much to do yet before the fog clears, but this is real progress. Regards Bob Davenport San Diego ----- Original Message ----- From: "notrya" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 3:56 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Thomas Davenport > Ran across this Davenport spot the other day. I had done, in the eighties, the research on my wife's Davenport line back to Thomas of Dorchester. We saw the historically-designated four Davenport homes in Milton, MA, and even went through the John Davenport home built in 1706. > I've always wondered whether anybody had been able to find material on Thomas's origins back in England. Today's email made some reference to that, but is there more informayion available? Russ Ayrton > > > > > > > > > > homes in Milton, MA, even went through son, John's > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >