Hi I was wonder if you ever hear of Mary Davenport who married William Wiseman. Mary was born 17 Jun 1741 in Hanover Co.Va. died in Burke Co. NC 17Jun 1796. I was told her parents were Thomas and Dorothy Davenport. Thomas was som Martin SR and Dorothy Glover Davenport. Martin was Davis Davenport son. I know William married Mary Davenport, its her lineage I wonder about janet -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Davenport wives' ancestry--Cumberland County, VA >Mabry Benson and Any Others Interested: > > I don't have much hard data on the Davenport wives you mentioned, but >I'll be happy to share what I've gleaned. All of the wives you mention were >associated with the family of Thomas Davenport, son of Davis Davenport. [I >descend from Thomas and Grace via their eldest son James Davenport, who died >in Halifax County, Virginia, in 1780, and James' daughter Rhoda, who married >William Boyd, of Boyd's Ferry of Revolutionary fame, with their eldest >daughter Sarah Boyd marrying Joel Davenport, son of Augustine Davenport, Sr., >of Rowan (now Davidson) County, North Carolina. Augustine, Sr., son of >William of Spotsylvania, was a grandson of Martin Davenport, eldest brother >of the Thomas Davenport who married Grace Terry. Hence I have a double line >from Davis Davenport.] > > Here's what I have currently: > > GRACE TERRY DAVENPORT, the primary wife of your search and mother of the >sons who married the other wives you desire to know about, has been >identified circumstantially by the number of Terry given names among her >grandchildren. To my knowledge, other than myself no one has ventured an >identification of Grace's father. I have tentatively identified her father >as Captain Thomas Terry, a colonial Indian fighter, planter, and public >official, who we subsequently have identified as having had a plantation in >King William County, Virginia, no more than a half mile south of Davis >Davenport's plantation. But there were also in King William at the same time >James Terry and Stephen Terry, both of whom were also planters in King >William. Both of these Terrys appear to have been sons of Captain Thomas, >who in addition to having served as a Justice of the Peace for King William >County, was a Churchwarden of St. Margaret's Parish, both appointments of the >Royal Governor. > > The Terry presence in colonial King William, Hanover, Louisa, Cumberland, >and Halifax counties, Virginia, was high profile, but is undermined in >documentation by the lost records of New Kent, King & Queen, King William, >Caroline, and Hanover which discourage making provable identifications. The >primary evidence is gone, and we are left with bits and pieces of a confusing >jigsaw puzzle. Do not expect definitive answers to your early Terry >connection questions, given what exists in extant records and genealogical >literature. If you cannot accept identifications based on circumstantial >evidence you should look elsewhere for genealogical satisfaction. > > The Thomas Davenport problem is repeated with Richard Davenport of >Caroline, believed to have been a younger brother of Thomas, who, too, likely >married a daughter of Captain Thomas Terry. Too much expository space and >time are required to go into the rationale, but by a number of circumstantial >factors, Thomas Davenport and Richard Davenport both were likely married to >daughters of Captain Thomas Terry. When Thomas Davenport moved from Caroline >County (cutoff in part from King William in 1728), he migrated in association >with Daniel Terry, James Terry, and Joseph Terry, who had Hanover as well as >Caroline connections. They were either Thomas' brothers-in-law or nephews or >a combination thereof. The Terrys began to take up land south of the James >River in now Cumberland (then Goochland) County in 1734. Thomas Davenport >and his large family of sons moved there in 1740, obtaining most of their >land from Daniel Terry. By 1750, the Terrys had become major frontier >political figures and land speculators in South Central Virginia and >virtually moved en masse thereafter from Cumberland to join in the erection >of Halifax County on the North Carolina border in 1752. Thereafter, the >centers of Terry prominence were in Caroline County (Old King William >portion), Hanover, and Halifax and Pittsylvania (Pittsylvania was cut off >from Halifax in 1768). The Thomas Davenport family assumed the prominent >role in Cumberland County that the Terrys had vacated. James Davenport and >Thomas Davenport, Jr., sons of Thomas, Sr., and Grace Terry, followed the >Terrys to Halifax in the early to mid-1760s. James Davenport appears to have >been on Terry land in Prince Edward County in the mid-1750s. > > ANN PEMBERTON DAVENPORT was the second wife of Henry Davenport, son of >Thomas, Sr., and Grace Terry. She married Henry c1770, who had at least >three daughters and possibly two or three sons by his first wife, whose name >is unknown. Nor are we sure just who his sons were, but one, who died during >the Revolution while in the Virginia Continental Line, appears to have been >named Martin. What little we know about Ann comes largely from her petition >for a Revolutionary War pension, made from Buckingham County in the 1830s, if >I recall correctly. Heretofore, it has been accepted that Henry went back to >King William County to marry Ann, because in her statement for a pension, she >said that she and Henry had been married by having their bans read in King >William. However, the Pemberton family, according to Bishop Meade, was a >Huguenot family, and eastern Cumberland County in 1770 was in King William >Parish, which had been erected by the Established (Anglican) Church >especially to serve the French-speaking Huguenots. Whether the King William >Parish records survive, I know not, but it is a new direction in which to >look, and puts a new perspective on Ann's identification. If Henry and Ann >had been married in King William County, their bans would have been read in >either St. John's or St. David's parish. > > MARY ------ DAVENPORT, wife of Julius Davenport, son of Thomas, Sr., and >Grace Terry. Julius is the most enigmatic of Thomas, Sr.'s sons, for while >he was behind James, Henry, and Thomas in appearing in public records, he >surely was the first one married, for he had a son Thomas, who was old enough >to be married to Mary Noell, and have a son Claiborne born in 1759. James >Davenport, documented as Thomas, Sr.'s eldest son, did not marry until >c1747--and his eldest son and child Bedford was born in 1748. Julius' son >Thomas was surely born no later than 1743 (making him a tender age 16 when >his son Claiborne was born). There were three male Davenports in Cumberland >Court records in the mid-1760s--namely Philemon, James, Jr., and Joel, who >were variously associated with Julius Davenport and his brother Henry, and >were likely their sons in some combinations. All three had financial >problems from which they apparently fled--absconded in Court terms. None >appeared further in connection with the Cumberland Davenports--are currently >still lost to Pamunkey Davenport identification. Julius and Henry Davenport >had been variously either a security or a garnishee in Philemon, James, Jr., >and Joel's financial problems. Henry managed to survive the debacles. >Julius did not. First, he lost the plantation that he had obtained in the >1750s. Then his father gave him 100 acres that was the homeplace, which >Julius immediately mortgaged and then lost, selling it to satisfy debts >immediately after his father's death in 1775. By 1776, Julius was no longer >a freeholder in Cumberland County, was either renting land or was living on >one of his brothers tracts by sufferance. In 1779 or 1780, he moved west >into adjoining Buckingham County, where his freeholder status is unknown, >Buckingham County having had four court house fires. Julius appears on >Buckingham Tax Lists, I understand, into the early 1800s. He was >subsequently joined in Buckingham by his brother Henry, his son Thomas, and >his grandsons Claiborne and Osborne. Henry died within a few years of moving >to Buckingham. Thomas and his sons moved shortly thereafter to Washington >County, Virginia, but there was back-and-forth traffic between Washington >County and Buckingham County for many years thereafter. The only thing we >really know about Mary, wife of Julius, is her name, because she had to >release her Dower rights on the two tracts that Julius lost in his financial >ruin. We do not know whether she was a first or second wife, what her >surname was, or when she died. There has been very little analytical >research on the Julius Davenport family that has come to my attention--and I >have looked. Most who have pursued Julius genealogy are name collectors, are >looking only for a name to paste to another name. Few are serious students >of the family history--before Thomas, son of Julius, and his wife Mary Noell. > Once the family got to Washington County, there is great family history >interest thereafter. > > MARY NOELL DAVENPORT, wife of Thomas Davenport, son of Julius. I am >currently researching the Noell family (double 'l' spelling was used by the >early Noells) in its South of the James years. The Noells moved to >Cumberland County in the mid-1750s from Essex County. Inasmuch as most all >of the early Essex records have survived, a Noell descendant should have >little difficulty in tracing the family back. In Cumberland County, the >Noells owned land in the same Little Guinea-Tear Wallet creek neighborhood >where Thomas Davenport, Sr., and all of his sons were located. Because Mary >is the easiest to trace, I have done the least on her and backtracking the >Noells is not a line of my interest. But I will know more about the Noells >as my analytical research in Cumberland after 1780 continues. > > All in all, I haven't given you much more definitive information on the >wives than you already have. If others on the DAVENPORT-L Rootsweb have >more, I trust they will share. Perhaps, however, I have put these Davenport >wives in a family history context that may be helpful. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Visit the Davenport Genealogy Page at >http://Jack.Ralph.org/davnport > >============================== >Discover your ancestors and trace your family tree today at Ancestry.com. >You are invited to search our massive collection containing over 500 million >records, in over 1800 databases. Visit >http://ads04.focalink.com/SmartBanner/page?16226.4 >