Mr. Guffin, Thank you very much for your concise statement on our Loyalist Davenports. It does little good to wish they were not Loyalists--they lived as they thought best, and did what they thought was right. I do believe they never considered themselves TRAITORS, but rather the more loyal of the two groups-- they undoubtedly felt the Patriots were rebels against the King, and therefore the ones who were wrong. Don't misunderstand me--I am a patriotic American and am grateful for the outcome of the Revolutionary War. It's just that we have to accept the good of our ancestors, who or what they were, and forgive them for what they did that we disagree with. Pauline McConkie Derhak Guffin, R. L. wrote: > > 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