For What It's Worth: Jonas Davenport was one of the earliest Indian Traders on the Pennsylvania Frontier. He was a colorful, hard drinking character who broke just about every rule of order that the Quakers of Penn's government established, and was prosecuted several times for the harsh manner in which he treated his indentured servants. He particularly gaulled the Friends by his exploitation of the Native Americans in trades--although they too took advantage of savage ignorance by the Walking Purchase. Jonas appears often in the Pennsylvania Archives, Series I. I didn't trace his genealogy, forward or back, for he did not have any Virginia connections. I've always suspected that the Jonas Davenport, early in Kentucky, was a direct descendant of Jonas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, although the Kentucky Jonas was a merchant of probity, civic stature, and religious fervor, whose son or grandson, if I recall correctly, founded Jubilee College (long defunct) in Illinois. (The campus and shell of the building is now a small Illinois State Park out in the corn fields, west of Peoria as I recall, but I'm not sure. If it isn't West, it's East between Peoria and Bloomington. I was there fifty years ago and remember that there wasn't much to see. Jubilee was one of Illinois' earliest institutions of higher learning, but had a short life. Methodist, I think.)