Many thanks, R.L. I have made a copy of your reply for my Davenport file. Thanks for sharing your many years of work on the Davenports. I have the children of James Davenport, born 1786 and Elizabeth Crumpton, if you would like for me to send them to you. Sincerely, Dan Crumpton -----Original Message----- From: Guffin, R. L. <rguffin@stillman.edu> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, February 20, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Greenville Co., SC Davenports >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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >