Cliff: I think that you find that there were Pamunkey Davenports in Oregon by 1848. Jesse Davenport, Jr., of Boone County, Indiana, son of Jesse, Sr., and his wife Elizabeth Fentress (Quaker family), and Jesse, Jr.'s sister married to a Jones, were in one of the first wagon trains to take the Oregon Trail. Their party was headed by Jacob Jones, Sr., who was settled on the Michigan Road in Eagle Township, Boone County, before uprooting and going West. Jesse, Jr., never married, but he was quite an Indian fighter, was pensioned by the United States Government for his service in fighting Indians in Oregon in the 1850s as a militiaman. In later years, several of the Boone County Davenports, including two who were tuberculars seeking salt air, went to Oregon. Coos Bay region, Roseburg, if I recall correctly. Edward Davenport, barber, brother of Jesse, Jr., and Milton S. Davenport, tanner, son of Henry and cousin of Edward, both of Boone County, Indiana, went to Iowa in the Winter of 1852--and nearly died in a blizzard. Uncle Milton came back, never had a good word for Iowa thereafter, and never considered moving again--dying at age 96 in Zionsville, Boone County in 1926. (Uncle Milton is renown in Indiana annals for having had three wives, and having been married to the first for 60 years.) Edward came back from Iowa too, stayed in Indiana until after the Civil War. Then he moved to Iowa for good. Later, either he and some of his children, or just some of his children, moved on to Oregon in the 1880s or 90s. I really haven't checked Edward's line out, except for son James, who died in the Civil War--this is family legend. John Scott