THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I have found Davenport as well as Wiseman in Missouri. William Davenport son of George and Mary Weemes Davenport and their other son Lafayette Davenport in a book call " Reminiscent History of The Ozark Region. In a Census dated 1850 Lecade, Mo a Daniel and William T Davenport with their families janet -----Original Message----- From: JSDDOC@aol.com <JSDDOC@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:46 AM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT] Mary Davenport, wife of William Edward Wiseman >Janet: > > According to the working paper-booklet "The Pamunkey Davenports of >Colonial Virginia" (Hopkinsville, KY: The Pamunkey Davenport Family >Association, 1998), p. 14, MARY DAVENPORT (A3e), was the daughter of Thomas >Davenport (A3) and his wife Dorothy, surname unknown. Thomas, in turn, was >the son of Martin Davenport (A) and his wife Dorothy Glover. Martin, who >died in Hanover County in 1735, was the eldest son of Davis Davenport of >Pamunkey Neck, King William County, VA. The Glover identification for >Martin's wife is circumstantial, is based on the number of Glovers as a given >name among Martin's grandsons. > > There was also a Glover Davenport in colonial Louisa, Amherst, and >Bedford County records who was likely another son of Martin, but there exists >some discomfort among some family searchers as to Glover's place in the >Martin line. Dorothy, wife of Martin, lived for at least 45 years after his >death, moved from Hanover to Cumberland County with her son David in the >1760s. There is some sentiment among Pamunkey family searchers that Thomas, >being the eldest of Martin's sons, had another mother, an earlier wife of >Martin's than Dorothy. Martin left Thomas, Richard, and Glover, all in some >degree believed sons, out of his LW&T as well as all of his daughters, naming >only his five youngest sons. > > The Davenport ancestry you cited relative to Mary appears to be State of >the Art, which is largely circumstantial--strong circumstance, but subject to >all of the shortcomings of that uncomfortable, but necessary situation, given >the massive loss of public and church records. > >John Scott Davenport >Holmdel, NJ > > > > >==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== >Please Help Support RootsWeb! Learn how at >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > >============================== >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 >