Nancy in Georgia: The only evidence that I have that William, son of John of Laurens County, SC, and grandson of William Davenport and his wife Ann Arnold, of Spotsylvania County, VA, was disowned by his father is the fact that William was cut off in his father's will, probated in 1807. Thomas and William, sons of John, apparently left home against their father's wishes, suffered his wrath, were cut off from sharing his estate. Beyond that I have not searched. I know that Thomas's and William's elder brother Ransome apparently went off also, married in Ogelthorpe County, Georgia, but returned to Laurens thereafter and made a certain degree of peace with his father, for Ransome was in the will on a conditional basis. I also ran across Ransome's tracks in Northern Illinois. He got a land bounty for military service during the War of 1812 that was located near later Monmouth, Warren County, Illinois, which he sold from Laurens County, SC, in the mid-1820s, if I recall correctly. I would be interested in any light you could shine on what happened to William of John of Laurens and his brother Thomas. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ