I just found out that I am Davenport. My Davenport married Wiseman. my web page is www.angelfire.com/mo2/janetsgenealogy Are we related? janet -----Original Message----- From: mcguire <mcguire@infinet.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, November 18, 1999 8:34 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Newberry Loyalists >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 >> >> > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Having problems with this mailing list? >Write to: DAVENPORT-admin@rootsweb.com > >============================== >FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! >Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >