Barbara: I have been following the Davenports for months...........once you asked if I knew anything about Newberry Day. I think there is a connect with this SC family.......Newberry is a county! -----Original Message----- From: Guffin, R. L. <rguffin@stillman.edu> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 11:07 AM Subject: [DAVENPORT] Newberry Loyalists >Newberry Davenports > > Many of us who work on South Carolina families >are familiar with the major reference work on patriots >in the American Revolution from South Carolina written >by Professor Bobby Gilmer Moss of Limestone College. > His latest work was recently found by regular >contributor to this site, Adrienne Morrison, and it >is entitled ROSTER OF THE LOYALISTS IN THE BATTLE OF >KINGS MOUNTAIN (1998, Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC). >Using pay abstracts now in Surry, England, he has >indicated that DAVID DAVENPORT, ISAAC DAVENPORT, and >JAMES DAVENPORT each served under Capt. William Hendricks >and Major Patrick Cunningham from June 14, 1780 in the >Little River Militia. Each was listed as participating >in the battle of Kings Mountain, each was reported to have >evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H. Cruger >and each was reported to have been with Maj. Cunningham >at Dorchester on August 23, 1781. > JOSEPH DAVENPORT is reported to have served six months >under Maj. Patrick Cunningham in the Little River Militia, >was under Ferguson in the battle of Kings Mountain, and was >with Lt. Col. Cruger in the evacuation of Fort Ninety Six. > > There is little doubt that David, Isaac, and James >Davenport, mentioned above were sons of Francis Davenport >who migrated from Granville Co., NC to Little River in SC >no later than 1771 and I concur with John Scott Davenport >that the above mentioned Joseph was a grandson of old Joseph, >older brother of Francis, who was settled in the Little River >region by 1769. The younger Joseph was the only son of >David Davenport, in turn the only son of the older Joseph. >The younger Joseph did move from Little River in Newberry >County to Greenville County, SC around 1800 and died there >approximately 1804. He was married to Margaret Floyd. > >R. L. Guffin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >View the Cousins Directory at >http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport/others.htm > >============================== >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 > >