HISTORY OF BURLINGTON AND MERCER COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY. 1883 p 277 DAVENPORT-----Francis Davenport, of Whittington, in Derbyshire, England, came to Burlington in 1683, with his wife, Sarah, and three daughters born at Whittington,---Sarah, Anne, and Bridget. He located on a tract of seventy-seven acres of land on Crosswicks Creek, adjoining and to the east of Thomas Foulke's, about three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Crosswicks. On it he built his cabin, not far from the third ford of the creek. Here he opened a store, receiving his goods by water from Burlington, where he doubtless disposed of the produce received from the settlers and the skins, etc., from the Indians. We find in Revell's "Book of Surveys," page 90, 1st mo. 1691, "Surveyed there for Francis Davenport one parcell of land adjoining to his former settlement, containing seventy-seven acres, the two tracts contayning together 677 acres besides allowance for Highways at five acres per hundred." These tracts surveyed as one were bounded by lands of Samuel (formerly Joshua) Wright's, John Bunting, George Nicholson, and Thomas Foulke. He took a leading part in the religious and political affairs of the community, and his name may be found in many public matters of public interest whereby the welfare of the settlement was to be advanced. In religious matters he was a consistent and faithful member of his profession. He was one of the three signers to the preface of the Friends' first book of records of Chesterfield. In these records are numerous notices of his being appointed and important committee, among which was to contract for the building of the first frame meeting-house at Crosswicks in 1691. In 1688 he, along with Andrew Robison, Samuel Jennings, William Biddle, Mahlon Stacy, and others, was a member of the Council of Proprietors for the government of West Jersey. He was also one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace for Burlington County in 1700. In 1692, Sarah his wife, died, and he was again married, and in 1707 he died, and was buried at Crosswicks. He had children born in this country by his first wife,--Francis, Abigal, and Hester; by his second wife he had Isaac and Rebecca. At this date (1882) the once numerous family of Davenports have become nearly extinct.