Mary: George Davenport, I suspect, was the immigrant ancestor of the Prince George Davenports, but you've got a choice. There were two George Davenport headrights used to pay for land who were regionally associated with Prince George County: (1) George Davenport, whose headright was used, along with others, on 28Oct1702 for a Patent to William Williams for 600 acres in Isle of Wight County, on the south side of Blackwater Swamp. (Virginia Patents 9:474) (2) George Davenport, whose headright was used, along with others, on 13Nov1713 for a Patent to Benjamin Evans for 375 acres of New Land in Isle of Wight County on the south side of the Main Blackwater Swamp, beginning on the north side of Nottaway River, at the lower end of Black Walnut Tree field, and down Nottaway Swamp. (Virginia Patents 10:120) Both tracts of land were in present-day Southampton County, were some distance south and a trifle east of where George Davenport, planter, died in 1739 in Prince George County, having been located there by 1717 at least: 14Aug1739 - Probate: Estate of George Davenport, late of Martin's Brandon Parish, King George County. Thomas Davenport, eldest son of Decedent, appeared in Court and declared that his father has died without a will, and petitioned the Court for Letters of Administration. So ordered. Holmes Boisseau, Richard Warthen, Wm Heath, and John Jones, or any three of them, appointed to appraise estate. (King George County, VA, Court Minutes 1733-1792, 311) Given the closeness of the two patents as to location of the lands granted, both headrights were possibly for the same man. Everytime a person left Virginia for anywhere and returned, a headright could be claimed. Sea captains who sailed regularly between England and Virginia claimed headright for themselves and those earned by their crews (50 acres for each head or person, slaves includes) for every trip, which is why so many ship captains ultimately left the sea to become Virginia planters. Then too, George Davenport may have paid his own passage or passages to Virginia and sold both of his headrights. There were no Davenports, to my knowledge in the records of Colonial Isle of Wight or Southampton County (cut off from Isle of Wight in 1749). The patriarch of the Prince George Davenports appeared in Prince George records as married and of the planter social class as documented by the LW&T of Matthew Marks (1717), who devised a parcel of land to his daughter Mary Davenport. Estate papers of Matthew Marks (not seen by me, but researched by others) included George Davenport among the Settlement distributees. (Prince George County, VA, Wills 1713-1728, p. 358, 470) Whether these George Davenports were one and the same man will required more depth research than I have done, or know of having been done. George Davenport [Jr.?] of Amelia County, obtained land there in 1745 on waters of Nottaway, which he sold in 1749 and then bought a larger tract nearby shortly thereafter, the deed for which was witnessed by a Thomas Davenport (who was not Thomas, Sr., or Thomas, Jr., of Cumberland to the north and slightly west). George [Jr.?] died in 1773 in Amelia (now Nottaway County). Prince George Davenport lines from him forward are traceable, but have not been formally laid out to my knowledge, but are being worked on. Allen F. Craig of North Carolina is active in this regard. There is a great deal of Davenport data in Prince George records which has not been extracted. I have bits and pieces: George & Mary Marks Davenport, 1717-1720; George & Thomas, 1739; George [Jr.?], 1745, 1749, 1772, 1773 [I do not include George's children, their marriages or migrations here]; George [Jr.?] & Thomas, 1749; Edward, 1759, 1760, 1791; David, Nancy, 1784; James, 1787; David, 1787; Daniel & Elizabeth Ledbetter Davenport, David, 1787; David, 1789; Daniel, Betsey (Prince George), Matthew (Charlotte County), relative to Edward, 1791. My correspondents tell me that there is a mass of Davenport data in Prince George County records yet unmined, for no Davenport family searcher to my knowledge or theirs has heretofore undertaken the job of extracting and abstracting a Total Family panorama. Unfortunately for present day needs, searchers in the past have worn Line Exclusive blinders, did not have a Family Inclusive perspective, likely because they did not have the luxury of being able to take a big picture approach. The data now in my files was given me by searchers working other families who thought that I might be interested in Davenport data they had encountered in their own quests. I have had most of it for twenty years or so. I have started a Prince George Davenport file, which I work on sporadically and plan to give to Nevada Jack one of these days so he can include it as a separate web page in his Virginia Davenport collection. There's nothing here to hang your hat on, but it's a beginning of some sort. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ