Pamunkey Davenports and Others Interested: Augustine Davenport, Sr., son of William Davenport and Ann Arnold of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, the first of that given name, was born c1748, hence could not have been the father of a James Madison Davenport, b. 1743 in Halifax County, Virginia. There was no Halifax County until 1751, and no known Davenports in the County until 1763 when James Davenport, eldest son of Thomas Davenport, Sr., of Cumberland County, moved there from either Cumberland or Prince Edward. Augustine Davenport, Sr., wife Mary Harris, settled in Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina, before 1769. His son James was one of his youngest children, was not born until the mid-1780s. James Davenport, son of Augustine, left North Carolina c1807 and went to South Carolina, where he married, then by 1815 was in Wayne County, Indiana Territory, working for his brother Jesse at Davenport's Mill on Elkhorn Creek. James is believed to have died in the Cholera Epidemic of 1832, either in Wayne County or adjoining Preble County, Ohio. His eldest son James, born 1812 in South Carolina, settled in Marion County, Indiana, fathered a large, distinguished family, and died there at a venerable age. There is a lot of baloney concerning a James Madison Davenport born before the Revolution in circulated genealogies of both the Newberry and Pamunkey Davenports. The Newberry 'James Madison' has been certified by the DAR as a Patriot. A DAR membership-seeking descendant massaged the name and appropriated the service record of Pamunkey James Davenport, Jr., of Hanover County, Virginia. The Newberry 'James Madison' instance was a matter of taking liberties with a person of record--also a matter of getting a Tory ancestor certified as a Patriot. The Pamunkey James Madison cited relative to Halifax County appears to be pure fiction, contrived by someone who had problems with genealogy, geography, and history. I know of at least two proven James Madison Davenports, but both were born after 1810, one was Newberry, one was Pamunkey. There is now a mass of proven Virginia Davenport Genealogy readily available that should put a halt to circulation of some of this garbage which has been passed around freely for the past several decades. At the present, there exists a fairly good sort between the knowns and the unknowns in the Pamunkey family. We do not have all the answers by any means, but we are a lot further down the pike than we were two-and-a-half years ago before the Pamunkey Davenport Family Association started functioning. I descend from Augustine Davenport, Sr. (son of Martin, Sr., of Hanover), of Rowan County, North Carolina, as well as James Davenport (son of Thomas, Sr., of Cumberland), of Halifax County, Virginia. I have researched both in depth over the past thirty years, will be happy to separate the wheat from the chaff, to the extent that we've thrashed the harvest, for kinfolks with an interest. John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ