This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5DA01842916 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's a new genealogical book about Virginia. Thought it might be of interest to some Maupins researching other names. Denise --------------5DA01842916 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from 207.172.4.23 (207.172.4.23 [207.172.4.23]) by ms04.mrf.mail.rcn.net (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA FastPath) with ESMTP id AMQ59261; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:29:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from mx06.mrf.mail.rcn.net (mx06.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.55]) by mr04.mrf.mail.rcn.net (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id ASF95481; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:29:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com ([207.40.200.39]) by mx06.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #4) id 18X8ah-0002qu-00 for [email protected]; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:29:31 -0500 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists2.rootsweb.com (8.12.4/8.12.4) id h0ANSO92008861; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:28:24 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:28:24 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Jan 10 16:28:24 2003 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:28:25 EST Old-To: [email protected] Old-CC: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: AOL 8.0 for Windows US sub 230 Subject: [DAVENPORT] Newly Published Book a Research Treasure Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1721 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Pamunkey Davenport & Terry Cousins: Ann K. Blomquist's "The Vestry Book of Southam Parish, Cumberland County, Virginia, 1745-1792" has just been published by Willow Bend Books, 65 East Main Street, Westminster, MD 21157-5026, in soft cover, 307 pages, every name indexed, at $28.50 plus postage and handling ($6.00 in my case). I don't mind giving it a plug because it is an extremely well done transcription and editing and has an introduction that is historically complete, well researched, and scholarly in its presentation. Since Janet Baugh Hunter alerted me to the upcoming publication--then by the Library of Virginia--a year or so ago, I have been eagerly awaiting this new original records resource for Davenports and Terrys of Colonial Southside Virginia. About half way into the publishing cycle at the LofVa last year, Commonwealth budget woes virtually shut down their book publishing function, leaving Mrs. Blomquist high and dry. However, she withdrew the manuscript and put it with Willow Bend Books, and now it's out and available. One of the reason we missed this in our early survey of available records was that Southam Parish went with Powhatan County when it was erected out of eastern Cumberland in 1777, and when the Anglican Church was disestablished after the Revolution in Virginia and faded out or down, Southam Parish was one of those to fold. By some good fortune, the Vestry Book ended up in the files of the Clerk of Courts of Powhatan County, where it has been well preserved--but somewhat hidden from those seeking Colonial church records. Whatever, it's now available. My copy arrived UPS this morning. I finished a fast reading by 1700 Hours today. It exceed my expectations as to Davenports. With evidence therein, I think we have to include Philemon Davenport, who died in an accident in 1764, as another son of Thomas Davenport, Sr. My expectations as to Terry data were satisfied, but I would liked to have seen more of a Daniel Terry presence. James Terry dominated the Vestry 1745-1751, Joseph Terry had a high profile, and Henry Terry and Zacariah Terry (eldest son of James) got mentions. Daniel Terry was present for one land processioning, and was ordered to do another processioning two years later--which he apparently did not do. (He and James Davenport were given an assignment in 1758 by the Antrim Parish Vestry, Halifax County--which they completed in 1763, which was his only church-related action there.) Thomas Davenport, Jr., was not only a Militia captain, Magistrate, Court Judge, Sheriff, Coroner, self educated physician, storekeeper, and had his brother-in-law operating a tavern out his (Thomas, Jr.'s) home, all in Cumberland County, but he also succeeded James Terry as the Clerk of the Southam Vestry in 1751 and held the office until 1772. In addition, he was a Vestryman for ten years, and a Churchwarden for two years, simultaneous with his service as Clerk until the Executive Council put a stop in 1760 to double dipping inside the same Vestry. At the outset of the Revolution, Thomas, Jr., unable to get Virginia to recognize his self-styled medical status, died as a British prisoner-of-war on a hulk in the Savannah River in early in 1780 as a Captain & Surgeon, 2nd Battalion of Foot, Georgia Continental Line. James Terry was a Reader at Tear Wallet Chapel, near the Terry-Davenport Settlement, Goochland-Cumberland, 1745-1751 (and he didn't miss a stride in becoming the first Reader appointed in Antrim Parish, Halifax County, in 1751). For those unfamiliar with a Reader in the Anglican Church, it was a lay member who read from the Book of Common Prayer when there was no minister present and members wanted a prayer meeting. Mrs. Blomquist has done us a great service/ John Scott Davenport Holmdel, NJ ==== DAVENPORT Mailing List ==== For instructions on unsubscribing or searching the list archives visit: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nvjack/davnport/group.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --------------5DA01842916--