Hello Everyone, I have been travelling and working alot and haven't done much re any families, except my Bentley family little group got going again. I'm visiting my daughter in Charlottesville before returning to Alexandria after another trip to the Ozarks where my brother lives. Yesterday, she was tied up so i decided to trek to the Library of Virginia and start going through York Co. records for Bentleys, checking out books, etc., catching up on known documents I didn't have (obits, deeds, etc.) Anyway, last night I was reviewing the books I checked out and found this in one of several very recent books (most of which LVA has on order) that have just come out abstracting York Co. records beyond Dorman's 1690s series: York County., VA Wills, Inventories and Court Orders, 1743-1746 by Mary Marshall Brewer. Publisher Colonial Roots, Lewes Delaware. Court held 19 November 1744 Page 36: "The grand jury made the following presentments....Joseph Davenport for not listing his son Bedford Davenport." Follows preceding tithable "lapse" by another...THEN a Joseph & William Kennedy appear to have lapsed also in presenting their tithables. I personally believe the above establishes at least ONE blood relationship between Joseph & a Bedford in York. Given the date 1744, I would project this Bedford could be between 16 and roughly 25, when he'd probably have left home, thus born about 1718-1728. Yes, I do realize there was an earlier Bedford, the lawyer in York Co. FYI, I did review the list archives for the last two years, and the only relationship of a Bedford was to a James Davenport as son. Further in York County, Wills, Inventories and Accounts, 1760-1783 by F. Edward Wright, published by Colonial Roots, is the will of Joseph Davenport. I don't have time to give whole excerpt but it is signed 19 December 1760, proven 17 Aug 1761. Names "wife" (no given name), son Matthew, dau Frances Anne Wright now in England, son Joseph, son James, my sons George and....(several lines unreadable -- sigh). Wit: William Waters, William Hunter, William Holt. Now, I regularly hounded Doc a few years ago but gave up about the Joseph Davenport of York Co. and the Bedford present there being Pamunkey related and was assured that he wasn't a Pamunkey. LIKEWISE, I have regularly hounded him and conveyed to the list my feelings about the Island Creek Community Davenports in 1700s Granville County NC being Pamunkeys, given the presence of Terrys, Davis, Glover, Barnett, etc. as immediate neighbors (Sarah Crotia Barnett!) -- regardless what the "Newberry" DNA might say. Richard Davis' will was probated there even though it says "of Caroline County". I feel this is correct though there may be two different Davenport families. In our Amelia County Bentley research the Samuels Johns and Williams of Amelia were totally confused until we started realizing there were way to many in the 178s tax lists, that some lived 40 miles from the others, found some chancery cases, court records far and away in two directions geographically and on tim! eline. So, I am on the run, but wanted to share the tithe case and the will. At LVA the films are unreadable, so I gave up my Bentley quest on film for a later trip to the Rockefeller Library in Williamsburg (which has indexed the York County records up through late 1700s at least but won't SHARE the index with any other libraries. FYI, there are tons of Davenport, Graves, etc. references in the books I checked out from LVA. Once I get settled again will try to report more. Best Regards, Janet (Baugh) Hunter -- ever believing in the CROSHAW connection for the Pamunkeys. . freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ ~tmark/RichardDavisWill.html