If they were from Indian des. how are they related to the Bolling. I have friend who is bolling. janet -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 10:45 AM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re:George Davenport and Samuel W. Davenport >Pamunkey Kinfolks: > > Both the George Davenport and the Samuel W. Davenport cited in various >messages exchanged today (W.T. Davenport) etc were sons of Thomas Davenport >and his second wife Lettitia (Lettice) Wharton of Laurens (not Lawrence) >County, SC. Thomas, son of William Davenport and Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania >County, Virginia, served in the Virginia Continental Line during the >Revolution, made a homestead on his father's land in Spotsylvania and married >a neighbor girl Susannah Partlow. In 1795, he moved to Randolph County, NC, >where he joined his brother John (settled there since 1779). In 1796-97 both >he and John uprooted from North Carolina and moved to Laurens County, SC. >After being mother to two known children, a boy and a girl, Susannah died >(either before or soon after the move to South Carolina), whereupon Thomas >married Lettitia, daughter of Colonel Samuel Wharton, a hero of the >Revolution in the Carolina backcountry. The count is still in doubt, but it >appears that Thomas and Lettice had at least three sons, possibly as many as >eight daughters before Thomas died in 1815. Whatever, the lines for both >George and Samuel Wharton Davenport back to Davis Davenport are clear. They >had a brother Pleasant G. Davenport (named for Uncle Pleasant G. Wharton) who >was working the steamboats on the Mississippi in the 1840s, living as I >recall near two or more of his sisters in Laurderdale County, Tennessee. >Edgar Byer III can tell you a lot about these families--he descends from one >of those eight sisters. > > I was intrigue by the suggestion in the W.T. Davenport biography that the >Davenports had Indian blood going back to Pocahontas, which has a ring of >probability insofar as a Pamunkey Indian connection is concerned. The >Pamunkey tribe was the largest and most powerful of the Powhatan >Confederation which gave the English so much trouble. Powhatan as Chief of >the Pamunkeys exercises suzerainty over a number of subordinate tribes. The >Pamunkey Davenports do not descend from Pocahontas, for her genealogy is well >established and recently tightly revised. But we cannot reject Indian >ancestry out of hand, for Davis Davenport, the first Pamunkey Davenport and >the family patriarch, first appeared in extant records in 1696 with a >plantation in an Indian Reservation. That fact alone means nothing insofar >as ancestry is concerned, but extant records speak of English-Indian >alliances in Pamunkey Neck from the early 1600s forward. Whether the W.T. >Davenport claim to Indian ancestry was based on now lost family legend or on >some biographer's whimsy we know not, but the seed falls on fallow ground. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Send all subscribe and unsubscribe requests to: >DAVENPORT-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you're in mail mode) >DAVENPORT-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you're in digest mode) > >============================== >Free Web space. ANY amount. ANY subject. >RootsWeb's Freepages put you in touch with millions. >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >