To Randall East, Dan Crumpton, and other Greenville Co., SC researchers: After many years of research I have concluded that at least 85-90% of the Greenville Davenports came from Newberry County. As for James Davenport, b. 1786, the evidence is strong that he was the son of Joseph and Margaret Floyd Davenport who moved to Greenville from Newberry County, SC shortly before 1800. He made his will in Greenville on Apr. 11, 1804 but was still living when he sold his 250 acre tract on Little River in Newberry County in January of 1805. He named nine children including James who may have been the oldest. There is sufficient evidence to assert that Joseph was the Joseph Davenport who fought with the British at the Battle of Kings Mountain in the Revolutionary War and I have estimated his birth to have been in the early 1760's in Granville County, NC. Joseph came with his father, David Davenport, to the county now known as Newberry no later than 1771 and perhaps as early as 1769 when his grandfather, Joseph Davenport became the first of four brothers to migrate from Granville Co., NC to Little River, a branch of the Saluda River in SC. Old Joseph was likely the oldest of the sons of Isaac Davenport who died in 1749 in Granville Co., NC, the other sons being Francis, Isaac, and William. I descend from Isaac, son of Francis, who died in 1816 in Newberry County. This Isaac's son, Willis Davenport and his wife, Mary Scott Davenport also settled in Greenville County in the 1810's after the death of his father. There is also evidence that Isaac, son of Francis, had a brother, William, who moved to Greenville County and descendants indicated he was married to a Pheobe Gross. There was a William Davenport who was a witness to Joseph's 1804 will in Greenville. Presently I am not ready to identify the William Davenport who was married in Benton Co., AL although he appears to have come from Greenville Co., SC. R. L. Guffin Tuscaloosa, AL I