KINFOLK AND OTHER INTERESTED: After five years, we appreciate that some of you are getting impatient relative to the release of the "Further Chronicles of the Pamunkey Davenports," but we're facing both quantity and quality challenges. Part 1, "Beginnings and Settlement North of the James River," left Doc's hands a month ago and is now being edited by Dr. Judy G. Russell, a Davenport-Baker Pamunkey who is a professional book editor--meaning Part 1 is getting a thorough edit and vetting, which takes time, for Judy has a full-time job in book publishing and also teaches Law at Rutgers University. She has no deadline, will move Part 1 along as rapidly as possible. Hopefully it will be ready for publication sometime before 1July2006. Part 1 took almost two years longer than initially expected because we encountered so much error in earlier research that we had to go back to scratch and start over, documenting as we went. In addition to required error correction, we found the Pamunkey Davenport Family to be larger than we thought--and it was big already--meaning we had new lines to identify and take through the Colonial and Post-Revolution years. However, because of out-migration we were able to cut off Part 1 neatly at 1820 with only a few items thereafter. Part 2, "Settlement South of the James River," is now getting Doc's full attention. It has few of the error problems encountered in Part 1 because little research has been done and even less has been published concerning Southside Virginia Pamunkeys. If less has been published, then less has been misinterpreted or erroneously hooked onto, meaning less overburden. The worst errors we have encountered are pasted together marriages (Henry Davenport, Sr.'s totally missed first family of eight was an omission, not an error), but those wronged marriages are easily rectified although some Mormon baptisms of the Dead should be redone. Where we had scads of errors to overcome in Part 1, we had and have scads of original record research to do for Part 2. We mistakenly concluded eighteen months ago that once we had Part 1 done with all its difficulties and record losses, that Part 2 would be downhill, no burned counties other than Buckingham--which we could work around. Not so, while we did what we thought was a thorough search of the records of Cumberland, Halifax, Charlotte, Powhatan, and Buckingham (such as it is), we now know that we must give Campbell and Bedford a thorough vetting if we are to maintain our quality level. Further, we need to take the research as far forward as 1850 in some instances, for the Pamunkey Davenports squirted from Amherst (north of the James) into Campbell and Bedford, back and forth between Campbell and Charlotte, between Cumberland and Powhatan, Powhatan and Prince Edward, Prince Edward and Buckingham, and Prince Edward and Halifax after 1805. Where Part 1 included movement to South of the James in Virginia, it primarily noted movement out of Virginia to the Carolinas, Georgia, and Kentucky, Part 2 includes movements within Virginia for decades before out migration. Then too, we had the large accumulation of Pamunkeys in far southwest Washington County, Virginia, who proliferated mightily then exploded in migration in all directions but East. We've delegated those folk to Whit Davenport, a California-born WCV (Washington County, Virginia) Pamunkey, who is doing his kin as Part 3 of the Chronicles. Where Whit is in terms of completion, we know not, for he, too, has encountered errors in research that have become vested with tradition and cousins that tend towards intractability. In short, Part 1, almost 800 pages, should be ready by mid-year next. Part 2, now 674 pages with much research yet to be done, should be ready by mid-year 2007. Part 3 of at least 180 pages, Whit's job, ready when he says so. Part 4 concerns Elias Davenport, fourth son of Davis Davenport, and settlement in Northeastern North Carolina and Georgia, all compiled from secondary sources, can be released anytime, but has the lowest priority. That's where we are at the moment. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. John Scott "Jersey Doc" Davenport Robert L. "Billy Bob" Davenport Nevada Jack Ralph Judy G. Russell Whitley "WCV" Davenport