Hi, My 8th Great Grandfather was Captain Richard Davenport who came over in 1628 with John Endicott. In 1629 he married Elizabeth Hathorne. They settled in Salem of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Elizabeth was the sister of William Hathorne that came over with her. Williams son John was the Judge at the Salem witch trials in 1692. John was Nathaniel Hawthornes ? great grandfather. He changed the spelling on his name to further himself away from the trials. The Hathornes were quite wealthy in England. She could be the one he was talking about. Capt. Richard was killed by lightening when he was Captain of the arsenal at Castle Island in Boston Bay in 1665. Elizabeth died in 1678. Hope this helps, Janice Davenport Todd PS....one of the people that John Hathorne had hung was Rebecca Towne Nurse. My 8th Great Grandmother from another line. ----- Original Message ----- From: <BGROENHOUT@aol.com> To: <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 4:38 PM Subject: [DAVENPORT] re: Hawthorne's Davenport - curious > Can anyone identify the Davenport that is referenced in Nathaniel Hawthorne's > book, The House of Seven Gables? The reference is in Chapter Five, May and > November. It states as follows: "Your great, great, great, great grandmother > had these cups, when she married," said Hepzibah to Phoebe. "She was a > Davenport, of a good family. They were almost the first tea-cups ever seen > in the colony; and if one of them were to be broken, my heart would break > with it." > > My daughter was reading this book and said that Hawthorne wrote about "real" > people. She knows more about literature than I, so I assume it is true. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Angela Groenhout >