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