Pamunkey Cousins: Here is the latest information from Jersey Doc. Nevada Jack -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: nvjack@intercomm.com <nvjack@intercomm.com> Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 11:03 AM Subject: Earliest Glover Davenport Land Found in Albemarle Records >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)