Cousins, I am re-sending Jersey Doc's article without the "forward marks" that preceded each line in the message I sent earlier. Hopefully, this will make it easier to read. Nevada Jack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pamunkey Davenports: Glover Davenport, first found in Louisa County (VA) Court Orders on 8Aug1743 when Matthew Jouett was ordered to pay him a one-day witness fee in Jouett's suit against Richard Brooks, has long been a problem for Pamunkey Davenport identification. By the mid-1760s he, in association variously with sons Matthew and James, appeared in Amherst County Court records, and after 1769, he appeared in Bedford County, having moved south of The James. Tracing him in land records heretofore has largely been unsuccessful beyond a 30Jul1766 mortgage in Amherst County wherein one James Bush described the land he was mortgaging as "adjoining 373 acres that James Bush bought of Glover Davenport and where John Berry lived." If anyone heretofore has located that land, they have not shared the discovery. Largely because of proximity of the Davenport and Jouett families, including the marriage of James Davenport, son of Martin of Hanover (d.1735), to Frances Jouett, daughter of Matthew Jouett of Louisa County (Louisa Courthouse was and is on his large land patent), Glover Davenport has been tentatively identified as a son of Martin also, the identification being circumstantially reinforced by the fact that additional Glover Davenports appear among Martin's descendants--and nowhere else among the Virginia Davenports. The fact that Glover Davenport's likely eldest son was named Matthew, the only recorded Virginia Davenport possessing that given name prior to the Revolution, suggests a relationship between Glover and Matthew Jouett of more than casual acquaintance. Matthew of Glover died a young man c1767, leaving two sons: Glover and John, both of whom apparently moved with their widowed mother and her new husband to Rutherford County, NC, shortly before or during the Revolution. Glover of Matthew, who did not survive the Revolution, appears to have been the Glover Davenport cited among the South Carolina Patriots. [Of all the Davenports in South Carolina during the Revolution, only two, namely Glover and Francis Davenport (a Newberry), have been certified as South Carolina Patriots]. The tracing of family lines relative to Glover [Sr.], his son Matthew, his son Glover [Jr.], and Glover [Jr.]'s brother John is crucial to Glover, Sr.'s identification, for Glover, Sr., appears to have died intestate c1785 and without having perfected title to his 220-acre tract, which apparently lay on Maggodee Creek, a draught of Staunton River, in that part of Bedford County that went into Franklin County in 1785. A suit to clear the title to the tract was brought in Franklin County Court by John Campbell in 1803 against Glover Davenport and John Davenport, sons of Matthew Davenport, Decd. Under Virginia law at the time of Glover, Sr.'s death, the eldest son was heir-at-law to all real estate. Matthew, said eldest son being dead, the heir-at-law rights fell to his eldest son, apparently Glover [Jr.], the South Carolina patriot. Glover [Jr.], being dead and without issue, the heir-at-law rights descended to his brother John. It was no wonder that Campbell instituted suit to get a clear title. More research needs to be done in Bedford and Franklin County records to clarify this state of affairs, but the framework is roughly evident. That's enough groundwork, let's look at where it all started. The reason that previous seachers have not found Glover's earliest land was because they were looking in the wrong county. Amherst County was erected out of Albemarle County in 1761. Glover's earliest land record was in "Albemarle County, VA, Surveyor's Plat Book 1, Part 1, p. 327," to wit: 30Mar1755 - John Staples, surveyor, platted 180 acres for Glover Davenport on Huff's Creek, adjoining Wheeler, Braxton, and Ambrose Porter. Huff's Creek is draught of Buffalo River of The James and is located today in east central Amherst County, draining the east slope of Tobacco Row Mountain and flowing southwest to northeast two or so miles from Amherst Court House (VDOT Road Map, 1997) The abounding Wheeler tract is of interest, for it was apparently the tract that most likely was the tract that Glover Davenport sold James Bush before 30Jul1766 (see above), to wit: 10Sep1755 - Virginia Patent: John Wheeler, 374 acres in Albemarle County, on Huff's Creek, adjoining John Graves. For L2. (Virginia Patents 31:606) Bush said the tract was 373 acres. The patent was for 374. This was the only patent in that neighborhood of that size, 1755-1765. The citation of John Graves as an adjoining landowner is seminal, for a John Graves, was the eldest son of Thomas Graves and Ann Davenport of North Anna waters, Spotsylvania County, (she a claimed daughter of Davis Davenport). Hence, John Graves of Thomas (of Spotsylvania), if our identification is correct, would have been a first cousin to Glover Davenport, presuming that he was a son of Martin of Hanover. We know that Thomas Graves of Spotsylvania had land in Albemarle, and we know that John Graves of Thomas ultimately settled in Granville County, North Carolina. Here's John's appearance on Huff Creek: 1Dec1748 - Patent: John Graves, 400 acres in Albemarle County on Huff's Creek, adjoining Benjamin Stennet. For L2. (Virginia Patents 27:12) Other early patents in the area demonstrate that some of the subsequent patentees were on the land five or more years before they perfected their titles by obtaining patents. To wit: 1Jun1750 - Patent: Benjamin Stennet, 400 acres in Albemarle County, near the Tobacco Row Mountain on north branches of Huff's Creek, near the top of a small mountain. For L2. (Virginia Patents 29:172) 1Jun1750 - Patent: James Stennet, 227 acres in Albemarle County, on branches of Huff's Creek, adjoining John Wheeler, John Graves, and Benjamin Stennet. For L1/5. (Virginia Patents 29:1770 Glover Davenport was obviously a latecomer to the area, with the choicest land had already been taken up. His securing of Wheeler's patented tract would have made good sense, for the patenting process was tedious and relatively expensive. Davenport obviously did not perfect his 180-acre survey into a patent, for no patent was forthcoming, and there was no mention of Glover Davenport as an adjoining landowner in subsequent surveys. (The fact that a given persons name was cited as a bounder on a survey was not evidence that the person still owned the land. Surveyors cited surveys, of which they generally had a file, did not keep up with changes in ownerships. John Graves, for example, appears to have sold out in 1751, but was still being cited as an adjoining landowner in 1756.) Analysis of early Albemarle land conveyances is needed to obtain a better definition of this situation. John Graves sold out and left Albemarle County in the early 1750s, to wit: 12-13Nov1751 - Lease & Release: John Graves to Thomas Sparks, both of Albemarle County, for L65 Virginia, 400 acres, adjoining Benjamin Stennet [rest of description all in survey measures]... /s/ John "X" Graves. Wit: None. Acknowledged by Graves in Albemarle Court on 13Nov1751. (Albemarle County, VA, Wills & Deeds 1:395) A month earlier a literate John Graves had sold other Albemarle land (apparently in now Fluvanna County), to wit: 10Oct1751 - Deed: John Graves, of Albemarle County, to William Gouge, of Hanover County, for L40, 350 acres in two parcels in Albemarle County, on the north side of James River, adjoining the Rock Ridge, John Morris, Paul Abney, William Randolph, Mountain Falls Creek, Charles Lynch, said Randolph... /s/ John Graves. Wit: John Morris, Francis "X" Graves, Mary "x" Morris, William Gooch, Jr. (Albemarle County, VA, Wills & Deeds 1:366) The illiterate John Graves was the one of Huff's Creek. Further analysis is required to establish whether he was a cousin to Glover Davenport. None of the other surnames associated with land in the area seemingly had prior Davenport associations. Whatever, it was from Huff Creek waters, near later Amherst Court House that Glover Davenport was settled c1755-c1766. This is only a partial tracking, but it is a beginning. John Scott Davenport (aka Jersey Doc)