Hi, I am working on Davenport's in Tyrrell Co.NC. Davenport's and know of a few other people working on Davenport's in Tyrrell and Washington Co. NC .Let me know what you have and see if we can put something together. Ellen Kroll ----- Original Message ----- From: <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 12:28 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re: William being of the ALBEMARLE Davenports > Nancy: > > By the beginning locale of your William Davenport, he was likely one of > the ALBEMARLE Davenports, descendants of Richard and Joanna Davenport who > appeared first in Perquimans Precinct, Albemarle County, North Carolina, > c1680, whose descendants moved from the north side of Albemarle Sound to the > south side, now Tyrrell and Washington counties in the early 1700s. This was > a large, prosperous plantation family which spread south, towards Pamlico > Sound--into later Pitt County and adjacent. They were, for the most part, > homebodies. Your line into Georgia and another line into Illinois are the > only two instances that have come to my attention where the Albemarle > Davenports ventured away from the Sound and adjacent. Several searchers have > claimed Tennessee settlement by the Albemarles--which would have been a > logical North Carolina extension, but to my knowledge these folk have failed > to make the connections backwards. > > Someone needs to compile the massive amount of Davenport data relative to > Albemarle Sound to bring order out of chaos. It will not be a difficult job, > for the most of the records survive, but it will take a lot of time and > effort because of the sheer volume of data available. I worked on the > Albemarles briefly when I started Davenport research thirty years ago, but > dropped them when I realized they were not my line. I also encountered them > constantly in 1994-95 when I was researching the Albemarle > Hendrickson/Hendricks, a family that arrived in North Carolina shortly after > the Davenports and was in the same records with them for almost 100 years. > > I'll put this on the DAVENPORT-L Rootsweb in hopes that any other > Albemarles thereon will contact you and share what they have. I know the > Illinois extension is present. You're the Georgia extension. Possibly the > several Tennessee possibles are on also. Good hunting. > > John Scott Davenport > Holmdel, NJ > > > ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== > Visit the Davenport Genealogy Page at > http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport > > ============================== > RootsWeb.com now offers UNLIMITED Web space for FREE! > Sign up today for RootsWeb's Freepages program: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >