PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS & OTHERS INTERESTED: Nevada Jack and Judy will soon have a working copy of the First Five/Six Generations from Davis Davenport available for your view on the Internet. Jack will tell you when. The Working Copy is far from finished, will require your help to flesh out your lines. You will be able to inspect the Five/Six Generations as far as I could take them, whereupon you should send corrections and additions to Judy Russell, editor of The Further Pamunkey Chronicles. Judy, _jgr@russell.com_ (mailto:jgr@russell.com) , will make the necessary changes on the Master Copy, transmit a copy of the updated version to Jack, who will replace the Internet version with the new version. Judy will release the updates as often as she deems necessary. Jack will advise via Rootsweb when an updated version has been posted. I have taken the Five/Six Generations project to the point where it is has become a bigger task than I can manage while finishing the Chronicles, and we recognize the constant solicitation by various family members to make the Family Chart available. This now becomes as much your project as it has been ours. You will find a new arrangement of the children of Davis Davenport, a number of additions and several deletions, for many lines were missed or misidentified by earlier Davenport searchers. The additions far exceed the deletions, for we have found at least one heretofore missing child or line in virtually all of the early families. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ

Having watched in awe as John Scott Davenport has systematically reduced the chaos of our family's history to manageable proportions, I am loathe to correct him about anything. But since he has dragooned ... er ... drafted ... er ... convinced me to serve as the editor for The Further Chronicles, it's now officially my job to correct things I stumble across that aren't accurate. And that begins with my email address. It's: jgr@jgrussell.com NOTE: you WILL get a challenge email when you send to that address (that means you have to go to the web address identified in the email and prove that you're a real person and not a spammer). I apologize for the need to use a challenge system but it's the only system I've found that really works to keep that email address from being overrun by spam. As the new kid on the Chronicles project, let me tell you all a little about myself. I'm a former newspaper reporter (among others, the NY Daily News) turned lawyer (federal prosecutor and private defense attorney) and now law editor (hence my role as editor for the project) and part-time law faculty member (Rutgers-Newark). I'm also a double Davenport, descending from (1) Davis -> Martin -> Dorothy m. Thomas Baker -> David Baker (b VA 1749 d NC 1838) and (2) Davis -> Martin -> Thomas -> Mary m. William Wiseman -> Dorothy Wiseman (b SC 1765 d NC 1855) who married her cousin David Baker. From there it's David and Dorothy Wiseman Baker's son Martin Alexander Baker (b NC 1797 d TX 1868) -> Martha Louisa Baker (b NC 1832 d TX c 1918) m. George W. Cottrell -> Martin Gilbert Cottrell (b TX 1855 - d TX 1946) -> Clay Rex Cottrell, my grandfather (b TX 1898 d VA 1970). -- Judy