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