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Mott, Jane Elizabeth (b. 1655, d. 1712)

Note: May be Elizabeth Mott
Death: 1712
Change: Date: 19 DEC 2002
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Davenport, Richard (b. 1713, d. 1792)
Note: Not Named in Will of Martin Davenport SR.

Married Elizabeth mnu abt 1734
Children
Martin Davenport b: ABT 1755 in Albemarle Co., Virginia
Joseph Davenport b: ABT 1736
Charles Davenport b: ABT 1738
Mary Davenport b: ABT 1742
Richard Davenport b: ABT 1740
William Davenport b: ABT 1745
John Davenport b: ABT 1748
Sarah Davenport b: ABT 1758

[There is much work to be done in Albemarle, Amherst, and Nelson counties on this family. Richard apparently was deeded a parcel of Martin Davenport's 400-acre patent of 1727 in Hanover (in Louisa after 1742) which Richard's heirs conveyed to Luck/Kennedy cousins in the mid-1790s.] Children (Order approximate):
Death: 1792 Albemarle Co, VA
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
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Hamner, Elizabeth (b. , d. ?)
Note: Widow of Robert Hamner, maiden name unknown Robert Hamner died 1750
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
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Davenport, Martin SR (b. 1682, d. 1735)
Note: Will: 24 May 1735 St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, VA 
Residence: Hanover County, Virginia

Martin Davenport served in the Rev War as a Lieutenant of the militia
His wife died of Smallpox during the rev war. His son, Colonel William Davenport, was a benefactor of Davenport Academy in Lenoir, NC

Martin Davenport and Davis Davenport are listed in titheables for King William Co, Va 1704

Land Grants: 10 Dec 1778 Burke Co., North Carolina 
Military: 1778 Served in Revolutionary War 
Misc: 9 Feb 1779 Wilkes Co., North Carolina 
Probate: Jan 1823 Burke Co., North Carolina 

Martin may have had a first wife married abt 1704 in King William County, VA. If this is the case Mary, Crotia, Thomas and Richard would be issue of this marriage. The other eight children would be the marriage with Dorothy Glover, which may have been as late as 1714 in King William County.

William and Mary Quarterly 63
May 24, 1735. --- Martin Davenport's will. Sons David, James. Martin & Wm Davenport (best land in King Wm) my father Davis Davenport dec'd. Wife Dorothy Davenport administrator, security Paul Harralson.

Not Mentioned in Martin's Will
Heretofore, none of the foregoing children and families have been identified by Davenport searchers as posterity of Martin Davenport because they were not mentioned in Martin's Will in 1735. But researchers for corollary families -- namely Gambill, Kennedy, Baker, and Venable -- have been assertively claiming the relationship for at least thirty years. The Compiler suggests that weight of circumstantial evidence now makes the case for all five above -- plus Glover Davenport and Lucy Davenport -- who were so intimately associated with the five sons named by Martin Davenport that credulity must be discarded if the claims of their descendants are denied. There is uncertainty as to the order of all of these births, but there must be a high degree of possibility that the five above and Glover and Lucy (identified below) belong among Martin's issue. For those who find discomfort in a family of twelve children -- and only five named in the Will, be reminded that multiple wives were not unusual in colonial times because of the high mortality rate associated with childbearing, and omitting certain children in disposing of property after death was relatively common. The first four of the foregoing children may have been children of a wife preceding Dorothy, who appears to have been a Glover -- possibly a daughter of William Glover and his wife Mary of King William County.
Death: 1735 King William, VA
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
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Unknown, Sarah (b. , d. ?)
Change: Date: 25 OCT 2002
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DAVENPORT, Davis (b. Abt 1660, d. Bef 1735)
Note: Lancelot DAVENPORT lived between 1618 and 1639 - not proven as ancestor. Davenport line information from Judy BRAY, 1991. Her info from Julia Fetters, 1976, Will of Martin DAVENPORT, book - "The LEWIS Family in America", numerous records from different Counties, letter from James W. DAVENPORT dated 1976, Will of John DAVENPORT.

The following Davenport data is a brief extract taken from "The Pamunkey Davenports of Colonial Virginia", a working paper compiled by Dr. John Scott Davenport of Holmdel, NJ, as appearing on the PAMUNKEY DAVENPORT GENEALOGY by Jack W. Ralph. and copyrighted 1998 by The Pamunkey Davenport Family Association, Robert L. Davenport, coordinator. For the link to this website go to the bottom of this page. (I think it is GREAT SITE. Please go and look at it. I give all my thanks to Jack and Dr. John Scott Davenport for all their hard work. THANK YOU AGAIN ,Janet)

The following quoted material is re-published with permission of the author.

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The descriptor "Pamunkey Davenports" (a term coined in January, 1998) is used to identify all those Davenports who trace back to Pamunkey Neck, Old King William County, Virginia, which in 1704 included present-day King William County, the southwestern fourth of Caroline County, and the most southern portion of Spotsylvania County. Old King William was sixty miles long with an average width of nine miles. After Spotsylvania County (1722) and Caroline County (1728) took portions of Upper Pamunkey Neck into their jurisdictions, King William was reduced to its present dimensions--thirty-two miles long with an average width of eight miles.

Pamunkey Davenports include all those descendants, by surname or corollary (daughter) lines, who trace back to Davis Davenport, who first appeared in the King William Quit Rents of 1704, either by proof (son Martin) or by circumstantial evidence (daughter Ann, son Thomas, son John, son Richard, and son Elias). In essence, Pamunkey Davenports can all prove that they trace back to Pamunkey Neck, but in most part cannot yet prove -- and possibly never may be able to do so -- that they trace back to Davis, although circumstantial evidence heavily supports the conclusion that they do. Hence, they can identify themselves collectively as "Pamunkey Davenports" comfortably -- without pretense or need for qualification.

For those unfamiliar with Virginia geography, Pamunkey Neck is that long finger of land running northwest to southeast between the Pamunkey-North Anna River and the Mattaponi River, ending at their confluence to form the York River. Prior to 1701, Pamunkey Neck was the reservation of the Pamunkey, Chickahominy, and Mattaponi Indians as well as a few even smaller tribes. (Both the Pamunkeys and Mattaponis still have small reservations in King William County today.)

Until we identify a Davenport ancestor for Davis Davenport, speculation about his mother being a Davis from New Kent County, has no better legs than our bastardy hypothesis. Those New Kent Davises, who we have investigated and tentatively rejected because there were a half a dozen Davis candidates in closer proximity to our ancestor, were located on the far side of Pamunkey Neck from Davis Davenport's plantation and landing of 1696. The Pamunkey Davenports trace back to Davis Davenport, first in evidence in 1695 in Pamundey Neck(now King William County) which was then and Indian reservation. the most tenable scenario for moment is that Davis was the bastard son of Ann Davenport and a Thomas Davis, both indentured servants, who were in Virginia records in terms of time and place as to make them viable candidates as Davis's father. Few are happy with this speculation, but descendants increased exponentially via sons, Martins, Thomas, John , Richard, and Elias, and daughter Ann. We use the term "Paumdey Davenports" to cicumstantial evidence. Davis might have been a descendant of Lancelote, but there is nothing in terms of time of place relative to Colonial Virginia to make that more than wishful thinking.

DAVIS DAVENPORT, b. c1660, m. ?, d. before 1735, King William County. [First found with son Martin in King William Quit Rent Rolls of 1704, but a Davenport Plantation and Landing existed on the Mattaponi River in Pamunkey Neck in 1696. Last found as a mention in Martin's will in 1735.] Children (Order approximate):

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The following was extracted from Dr. Davenport's work, but it has been modified by the WebMaster of this site. The Pamunkey Davenport Family Association does not vouch for it's completeness, accuracy or authenticity.

Descendants of Davis Davenport

1 *Davis Davenport b: Abt. 1650 d: Abt. 1735 Age at death: 85 est.

A Martin Davenport b: MARTIN DAVENPORT, b. c1682, Pamunkey Neck?; m. (1?) ?, c1704, King William County; (2?) Dorothy Glover, c1714?, King William County; d. 1735, Hanover County. Children: (Order uncertain. His Will names only five sons, but circumstantial evidence indicates the possibility of eight sons, four daughters, as follows):

A/1 Mary, b. c1706, King William County; m. Henry Gambill, c1728, Hanover County; d. ?, Wilkes County, NC? [Henry Gambill, according to a deposition given by his brother-in-law Thomas Baker who was with him on a venture, died and was buried in the Welsh Tract, PeeDee River waters, SC, in the mid-to-late 1760s. When Mary Gambill and several of her children moved to Western North Carolina in the mid-to-late 1770s, other children and their families from South Carolina joined them there.] Children (Order uncertain):

A/2 Daughter [Claimed by some to have been Crotia or Crosha, who was Charles Kennedy's widow, but recent research indicates that Crotia was much too young to have been mother of Kennedy's eldest children], b. c1709?, King William County; m. Charles Kennedy, c1731, Hanover County; d. Before 1758, Louisa or Hanover.

*A/3. Thomas, b. 1711, King William County; m. Dorothy ------, c1732, Hanover County; d. 10Nov1809, Burke County, NC. Children: (Order approximate)

A/4. Richard, b. c1713, King William County; m. (1) ?, c1734, Hanover County; (2) Elizabeth ------, widow of Robert Hamner, Albemarle County; d. 1792, Albemarle County.

A/5. Dorothy, b. 2Nov1716, King William County; m. Thomas Baker, c1734, Hanover County; d. 1790, Burke County, NC. [Thomas Baker manufactured gunpowder for the Continental Army during the Revolution, was killed when his factory in Culpeper County blew up in 1777.]

* Thomas and Dorothy Davenport children:

1/A/3/1 Sophia, b. c1733, Hanover County; m. William White, Culpeper County; d. Nov1818, Burke County, NC.

1/A/3/2 Lucy, b. c1735, Hanover County; m. Richard Graves (C5), 1750, Hanover County; d. ?, Culpeper County?

1/A/3/3 Dorothy, b. c1737, Hanover County; m. John Browning. c17- 57, d. ?

1/A/3/4 Martin, b. c1739, Hanover County; m. (1) Hannah Baker, c1767, Culpeper County; (2) Jane Browning, c1779, Wilkes County, NC?; d. 1815, Burke County, NC.

1/A/3/5* Mary, b. 17Jun1741, Hanover County; m. William (*Edward) Wiseman, c1761 ; d. 17Jun1796, Burke County, NC. Children (Order certain): Thomas Wiseman; Dorothy who married David Baker (A5h) [their daughter Dorothy married David Davenport (A3c)]; William E. Wiseman, Jr.; Mary who married John Puett; Davenport Wiseman; Martin Wiseman; James Wiseman; John Wiseman; Celestial Wiseman; Susannah who married Thomas Baker; Robert Wiseman; and Nancy who married David Hunt. *WILLIAM WISEMAM MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THE MIDDLE NAME EDWARD.

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1/A/3/6 Jerusha, b. c1744, Hanover County; m. James White, ?, Culpeper County, VA; d. ?, Natchez, MS.

1/A/3/7 Rachel, b. c1747, Hanover County; m. William Cole, Culpeper County, VA (to Jeffrey's Creek SC, then to Burke County, NC); d. ?

B. Thomas Davenport of Cumberland County

B1. James, b. c1712, King William County; m. Catherine [Jenkins? Glenn?], c1740, King William County; d. 1780, Halifax County. Children (Order approximate):

B2. Henry, b. c1715, King William County; m. (1) ?, ?, ?; (2) Ann Pemberton, 12Dec1770, King William County; d. 9Dec1791, Buckingham County? [Henry was much older than most of his Twentieth Century descendants have credited. Family legend claims that he was born in the mid-1730s, and that Henry's (second) family (where they ignore a first family) was born and raised in Buckingham County. Public records, however, heavily document that Henry and his first and last family lived in Cumberland County.

B3. Thomas, Jr., b. c1721, King William County; m. Lucy Ransome, 28Apr1750, Cumberland County; d. 1780, Cumberland County. [Thomas Davenport, Jr., was a Militia Captain, Justice of the Peace and Presiding Magistrate, Sheriff of Cumberland, and was a key member of the Cumberland Committee of Public Safety during the early days of the Revolution, but had largely shifted his plantation operations and slaves from Cumberland to Halifax when he died in 1780.]

B4. Drusilla, b. c1717, King William County; m. Gideon Glenn, c1737, King William County; d. ?, Halifax County?

B5. Julius, b. c1719, King William County; m. Mary -----, c1737, King William County; d. ? [Last found Buckingham County, 1782, enumerated as 1 White poll, 0 Black polls.]

B6. William, b. c1725, King William County; m. Ann Foster, c1756, Cumberland County; d. cMar1793, Cumberland County.

B7. Stephen, b. c1727, King William County; m. Mary (Molly) Slaughter, c1756, King William County?; d. 1763, Cumberland County.

B8. Joseph, b. c1732, King William County; Unmarried; d. 1773, Cumberland County. No Issue. [Joseph's land was sold after his death in 1771 by his eldest brother James who was the intestate Joseph's heir-at-law.]

C. Ann Davenport Graves of Spotsylvania County

C1. John Graves, b. 1716, King William County; m. (1) ----- Herndon, ?, ? : (2) Isabelle Lea, c1752, ?; d. 18Jan1792, Caswell County, NC.

C2. Thomas Graves, b.c1718, King William County; m. Isabelle Susan Bartlett, ?, ?; d. 18Nov1801, ?

C3. Solomon Graves, b. c1720, King William County; m. Sarah Win- field, ?, ?; d. c1785, ?

C4. William Graves, b. c1722, King William County; m. Mary -----; ?, ?; d. ?, ?

C5. Richard Graves, b. c1724, Spotsylvania County; m. Lucy Davenport (A3a), 1750, Hanover County; d. after 1788, Culpeper County?

C6. Susannah Graves, b. c1726 ?, Spotsylvania County; m. William Pettus, ?, ?; d. ? C

C7. Rice Graves, b. c1729, Spotsylvania County; m. Jane Young, ?, ?; d. 1814, Louisa County.

C8. David Graves, b. c1731, Spotsylvania County; m. Agnes Holloway, ?; d. 1808, Shelby County, KY.

C9. Nancy Graves, b. c1733, Spotsylvania County; m. William Lea, ?; d. ?, ?

C10. Rosanna Graves, b. c1735, Spotsylvania County; m. John Spencer, ?; d. ?, ?

C11. Eleanor Graves, b. c1737, Spotsylvania County; m. Thomas Kimbrough, ?, ?; d. ?, Caswell County, NC.

C12. Louisa Graves, b. c1739, Spotsylvania County; m. Thomas Pulliam, ?, ?; d. ?, ?

C13. Robert Graves, b. c1741, Spotsylvania County; m. Jean -----, ?, ?; d. ?, ? (Lived in Anson County, NC, and Chesterfield County, SC.)

C14. Jonathan Graves, b. c1743, Spotsylvania County; m. ?, ?; d. c1768, Spotsylvania County.

C15. Mary Graves, b. c1745, Spotsylvania County; m. ----- Campbell, ?, ?; d. ? .

D. John Davenport of Henrico County

E. Richard Davenport of Caroline County

E1. Richard, Jr., b. c1722, King William County; m. Kesiah -----, Caroline County, c1744?; d. ? [Last found when he and wife Keziah sold out and left Caroline in 1765 -- not found elsewhere.] Issue unknown.

E2. David, b. c1725, King William County; m. Mary -----, c1747, Caroline County; d. cFeb1778, Caroline County. [One Caroline history gives a Daniel Davenport as having died in 1778. This was a misreading of the name David, as recourse to the Caroline Order Book clearly demonstrates.] Children (Number, Order uncertain):

E3. Absalom, b. c1736, Caroline County; m. Elizabeth Steger, c1764, Cumberland County, d. cOct1821, Powhatan County. [Absalom took an indenture from the Caroline Court in 1760, was in Cumberland County south of the Appomattox River by 1762. Cumberland south of the Appomattox was joined with the western half of Chesterfield County to become Powhatan County in 1777 -- hence Absalom spent the last sixty years of his life in the same neighborhood.]

F. Elias Davenport of Bertie County, NC F1. Dorrel, b. c1733, King William County?; m. Amy -----?; d. Nash County, NC, 1785. (Appears with Elias in Bertie County, NC, records in 1760s. Then appears with John in Edgecombe County, NC, and finally in Nash County, NC. The latter was not a move -- the western half of Edgecombe was set off as Nash County in 1777.

F2. John, b. c1735, King William County; m. Lucy Harrell?, c1762, Bertie County, NC; d. ? First found cited in Bertie deed in 1765 as a patent holder near the Hertford-Bertie County line. [All early Hertford records were lost in a courthouse fire.] Last found in 1783 when he sold all of his land in Nash County and apparently moved. Not located in either North or South Carolina in the Censuses of 1790 or 1800 (Georgia enumerations for both years were destroyed by British in 1814 when they burned Washington City

F3? Joseph? (A Joseph Davenport was enumerated in Bertie County, NC, in the Census of 1790, who could have been a son or grandson of Elias. Prior to 1791 there are a number of Joseph Davenport mentions in Bertie Records, but none thereafter.)

F4? James? (A James Davenport appeared briefly in Bertie County records before 1791. He possibly moved before the Census of 1790, which was taken in North Carolina in the first six months of 1791

In Virginia, the Colonial Pamunkey Davenports left their surname for a time on a number of landmarks such as: Davenport Landing, now called Whiteoak Landing, and Davenport Plantation adjoining, both on the Mattaponi River next above Major John Waller's "Endfield" plantation, King & Queen (now King William) County, 1696; Davenport Path, apparently a well-traveled trail crossing Pamunkey Neck from Davis Davenport's plantation on the Mattaponi River to son Martin Davenport's plantation on or near the bank of Pamunkey River -- cited as a benchmark in three survey descriptions immediately after Pamunkey Neck ceased to be an Indian reservation in 1701; Davenport Ford across the North Anna River between Hanover and Spotsylvania counties. (The Spotsylvania side was in Upper Pamunkey Neck.) Martin Davenport, Sr., owned the land on the Hanover (south) side by 1725. His son William Davenport took title to the land on the Spotsylvania (north) side in 1736. Both sides were sold out of the family in 1791; Davenport Bridge across Davenport Ford, off and on from 1765 until now -- depending in earlier days on whether it was taken out by the spring freshets -- but now permanent, built of reinforced concrete and well known as a historical landmark which in its old wooden character was the site of several skirmishes in both the Revolutionary and Civil wars; Davenport Branch, a fork of Tear Wallet Creek, a fork of Little Guinea Creek of the Appamattox River in Cumberland County, before 1750, likely so named because Thomas Davenport, Sr., and his sons James Davenport, Henry Davenport, Thomas Davenport, Jr., William Davenport, Stephen Davenport, and Joseph Davenport all held land in the area. Around 1765, David Davenport, son of Martin Davenport, Sr., joined the group when he married Stephen Davenport's widow and gained title to her husband's plantation. Davenport Road between the Appamattox and Willis rivers in Cumberland County, 1765 -- named for Thomas Davenport, Sr., son of Davis; and -- Davenport Bend on the Holston River in Washington County, 1795 -- named for Thomas Davenport, son of Julius and a grandson of Thomas, Sr. In North Carolina, Davenport Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains on the North Carolina-Tennessee border was named in honor of Colonel William Davenport, son of Martin Davenport of Thomas (of Martin, Sr.), who led the survey crew that established the State boundary in 1821. Colonel Davenport, for many years the highly respected Clerk of Courts of Wilkes County, was badly abused as a 10-year-old boy by marauding Tories (Americans actively loyal to the King) in 1780 during the Revolutionary War. Coming upon the Martin Davenport's mountain homestead while Martin was away, Tories seeking to capture him took out their frustration on young William, his eldest son. According to Professor Lyman C. Draper, the noted Frontier historian, in his authoritative Kings Mountain and Its Heroes (1881), William's beating was one of the incidents that so enraged the Over-the-Mountain Men, who had spent five years in constant warfare with the Cherokees and Shawnees sent by the British to attack the Frontier Settlements, that they gathered together and marched southeast over the mountains to totally defeat and capture the British and their Tory adherents at Kings Mountain (8Oct1780). The year had been a desperate one for the Cause of Independence. The Continental Congress had lost most of its Southern Army at the Surrender of Charleston (19May1780), then had lost most of what was left -- as well as bottom-of-the-barrel replacements scraped from the North -- at Gates' disgraceful Defeat at Camden (16Aug1780). The Kings Mountain victory restored flagging Patriot spirits and marked a turning point in the Revolution. William's father Martin Davenport was one of those Patriots who distinguished himself at Kings Mountain, and in its aftermath is credited for assuring that those Tories who had mistreated his son were properly punished. At a quickly convened drumhead court martial, the culprits were convicted -- and summarily hung. Also in North Carolina, Davenport Mountain in Henderson County stands between Johnson's Mill Creek and Shaw Creek, and surely was named for Colonel William also

(From the files of Janet Green Ariciu http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~janet/)
Death: Bef 1735 King William, VA
Change: Date: 21 SEP 2003
Time: 12:50:32

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DAVENPORT, Mary (b. Abt 1706, d. ?)
Note: Not Named in Will of Martin Davenport SR.
Residence: Oct 1751 Louisa County, Virginia
Residence: After. 1751 Culpeper County, Virginia
Residence; After. 1761 South Carolina
Residence: After. 1774 North Carolina

1. Henry Gambill, Jr.
2. William Gambill
Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 153
Text: "Bounder Henry Gambill was married to Mary Davenport, eldest daughter of Martin, Sr

Henry Gambill, according to a deposition given by his brother-in-law Thomas Baker who was with him on a venture, died and was buried in the Welsh Tract, PeeDee River waters, SC, in the mid-to-late 1760s. When Mary Gambill and several of her children moved to Western North Carolina in the mid-to-late 1770s, other children and their families from South Carolina joined them there
Death: --Not Shown--
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PIGG, Edward Jr. (b. , d. ?)
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DAVENPORT, Thomas (b. 1711, d. 10 NOV 1809)
Note: Not Named in Will of Martin Davenport SR.

Residence: Hanover, Virginia 1
Residence: 1755 Culpeper County, Virginia 1
Residence: After. 1755 Bruke County, North Carolina 1
Children:
1. Martin Davenport

Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001 Page: 109
Text: "An equally strong case exists for Thomas Davenport, who was born in 1711 in Virginia, moved to North Carolina from Culpeper County with...in the late 1770's, and died in 1809 in Burke County, North Carolina, and whose only son was Martin Davenport of The Battle of King's Mountain fame"
Individual:
In North Carolina, Davenport Gap in the Great Smoky Mountains on the North Carolina-Tennessee border was named in honor of Colonel William Davenport, son of Martin Davenport of Thomas (of Martin, Sr.), who led the survey crew that established the State boundary in 1821. Colonel Davenport, for many years the highly respected Clerk of Courts of Wilkes County, was badly abused as a 10-year-old boy by marauding Tories (Americans actively loyal to the King) in 1780 during the Revolutionary War. Coming upon the Martin Davenport's mountain homestead while Martin was away, Tories seeking to capture him took out their frustration on young William, his eldest son.

According to Professor Lyman C. Draper, the noted Frontier historian, in his authoritative Kings Mountain and Its Heroes (1881), William's beating was one of the incidents that so enraged the Over-the-Mountain Men, who had spent five years in constant warfare with the Cherokees and Shawnees sent by the British to attack the Frontier Settlements, that they gathered together and marched southeast over the mountains to totally defeat and capture the British and their Tory adherents at Kings Mountain (8Oct1780). The year had been a desperate one for the Cause of Independence. The Continental Congress had lost most of its Southern Army at the Surrender of Charleston (19 May 1780), then had lost most of what was left -- as well as bottom-of-the-barrel replacements scraped from the North -- at Gates' disgraceful Defeat at Camden (16 Aug 1780). The Kings Mountain victory restored flagging Patriot spirits and marked a turning point in the Revolution. William's father Martin Davenport was one of those Patriots who distinguished himself at Kings Mountain, and in its aftermath is credited for assuring that those Tories who had mistreated his son were properly punished. At a quickly convened drumhead court martial, the culprits were convicted -- and summarily hung.

Also in North Carolina, Davenport Mountain in Henderson County stands between Johnson's Mill Creek and Shaw Creek, and surely was named for Colonel William also.
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Subject: [DAVENPORT] Re: DAVENPORT SPRING
To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com
Sept 28, 2000
Hi all,
Two Hundred and Twenty years ago today 1100 militia men came from the Watauga Settlement( present day Elizabethton, TN) marched over the mountain at the Yellow Mtn Gap known as "Bright's Trace" down Roaring Creek to the Toe River and went on down river. "About noon they refreshed themselves at DAVENPORT SPRING on the Toe River" They would meet 300 other militia from Burke and Wilkes Counties at Quaker Meadows. On Oct.7, 1780 at King's Mountain on the now NC/SC line. These men would win and turn the losing tide. Thomas Jefferson called it one of the most important wins that led to our freedom."

A wild cherry tree grew up inside the spring and the carefully laid stones that circled it are pushed about, but still there. The spring still flows about 40 feet from the banks of the Toe River.

Today, I had the privilege of sharing the significance of this section of the OVERMOUNTAIN VICTORY TRAIL as it was dedicated by the U.S. Park Service. Here's to Thomas who the Spring was first named for and his son Martin who built his home here c 1790. They are buried nearby in Bright's Cemetery with Robert SEVIER. Robert, the younger brother of Col. John SEVIER was wounded at the Battle of King's Mountain and died 9 days later on his way home to TN. He got as far as present day Avery County NC.
Elaine in Avery
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Subject: [DAVENPORT] Another Davenport War Story, Not as Valorous as King's Mountain
To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com
Sept 29, 2000

Elaine's story about the gathering of Over-the-Mountain Men at Davenport's Spring of Toe River in the Early Fall of 1780, and the Davenport role in the Battle of King's Mountain (8Oct1780) is well documented in Lyman Draper's "King;s Mountain Heroes."

Anyone who has read the history of the American Revolution has encountered King's Mountain, for the American total defeat of the British there (only one Englishman present, the British commander, who commanded a force composed of New Jerseyans serving in the British Army and South Carolinians detailed from the King's Loyal Militia) ended a disastrous year for the Patriots' Cause. The Fall of Charleston and Gates' Defeat at Camden had virtually wiped out the Continental Lines of the Southern States, as well as what was left of Congress' Southern Army, and had severely dampened the enthusiasm for the Revolution.

There was a Davenport presence, too, in the "Expedition to Chicago," a venture by the State of Indiana during the Blackhawk Indian War (1833) which, while not comparing to King's Mountain, was a military venture that should titillate our interest by its contrast.

When Blackhawk proclaimed his defiance of American authority and sent his warriors on the war path, President Jackson called for volunteers to subdue the savages. Illinois, having Blackhawk and his warriors raiding in the Northwest corner of the State from his chief town in Iowa, quickly organized volunteer companies, one of which was commanded by Abraham Lincoln, of Salem, and had troops marching towards the Northwest as soon as they could be put in the field. Illinois troops participated in what little fighting there was.

Not being in imminent danger but more than willing to help, the Indiana Governor called for volunteers for one Regiment. The response was overwhelming and over powering. Every politician in Indiana saw an opportunity to get himself a war record, and every one wanted to be an officer, including Augustine (Austin) Davenport of Boone County, then a member of the State Legislature. During the War of 1812, Austin, although age 16, has served in Captain John Ramsour's Company, Atchinson's Regiment, North Carolina Militia, federalized to repel the British in Chesapeake Bay. Nineteen years later (1833), having been a Sheriff and then elected a State Representative (representing three counties), and having the current status as Captain of Davenport's Mounted Riflemen, Boone County Regiment, Indiana Militia, Austin applied for a commission in the Blackhawk regiment.

There were so many politicians with more clout than he who wanted to be officers that the best Austin Davenport could do was the appointment as Third Sergeant in Captain Henry Brenton's Company.

Finally organized, equipped and ready to go, the Hoosiers were ordered to march to Chicago where the Regiment would be mustered into Federal Service. Thereafter, Indiana would join Illinois and other States' in putting down Blackhawk's uprising.

Finely uniformed and equipped, abounding in enthusiasm for the fray, feeling their oats, the Indiana Volunteers expected a big party in Indianapolis before they marched north. They got one, and, thereafter, they got a big welcome and party at every stop as they marched up the Michigan Road towards South Bend. Word of their coming preceded them, and it became a matter of pride for each successive town to show more hospitality, approbation of the volunteers, and patriotic fervor than had been shown by the town just left.

By the time the Hoosier Regiment got to South Bend, where they were to turn West to go to Chicago, having been more than two weeks in transit and partied steadily, they had to take a breather, get sobered up, and rest up for the fighting ahead.

Make a long story short, when the Indiana Regiment finally got to Chicago, Blackhawk had already surrendered to Colonel George Davenport, the Indian agent at Rock Island, the War was over, and the Illinois troops had all gone home. The Indiana regiment was never mustered into Federal Service, but that did not keep the Hoosier politicians from claiming Blackhawk War service and flouting their short lasting, well celebrated "Expedition to Chicago."

When, in 1852, Milton S. Davenport and William M. Davenport, sons of Austin Davenport, made a Federal Bounty Land Claim for their father's service in the War of 1812 and the Blackhawk Indian War, both services documented by discharges. They got 50 acres for the War of 1812 and a horse laugh for the "Expedition to Chicago."

I wonder how many descendants have claimed Blackhawk War service for a Hoosier ancestor, and did not bother to find out what that service was, or was not. It was one hell of a party, that's for sure, but it didn't earn anyone bounty land.

John Scott Davenport
Holmdel, NJ

Sources
Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 109 & 124
Text: "whose only son was Martin Davenport of the Battle of King's Mountain fame."

"Dorothy, was the mother of one son, Martin of King's Mountain fame"

"Thomas died in the home of Martin, his son, in Burke Co, NC at age 98. It was said Thomas had a cheerful disposition. He had land grants on Johns and Toe Rivers, NC on June 11, 1778 granted 180 acres of land in Burke Co, NC. He was probably born in the Rappahannock River area of Va and probably moved to NC before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War."
Death: 10 NOV 1809 Burke County, North Carolina
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 21:11:39

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DAVENPORT, Dorothy (b. 2 NOV 1716, d. 1790)
Note: Not Named in Will of Martin Davenport SR.

Married Thomas Baker
Children:
1. David Baker
2. John Baker
Death: 1790 in Morganton,Burke County,North C
Burial: Morganton cemetery
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 21:12:39

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DAVENPORT, William (b. Abt 1715, d. 1798)
Note: William Davenport died in 1798 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. He was born INT 1716 (Abt 1716 (twin of Dorothy Davenport) in King William Co., Virginia. Martin Davenport Sr. devised 20 acres of the land in King William County that his father Davis Davenport had willed him to his son William.

He was married to Anne ARNOLD about 1735 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. William DAVENPORT and Anne ARNOLD had the following children:
+94 i. Mary DAVENPORT.
+95 ii. Martin DAVENPORT.
+96 iii. James DAVENPORT.
+97 iv. Augustine DAVENPORT.
+98 v. Sarah DAVENPORT.
+99 vi. John DAVENPORT.
+100 vii. David DAVENPORT.
101 viii. Nancy DAVENPORT(1) was born in 1755 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia. Nancy Davenport was living when her father made his will in 1795, but no further data is available.
+102 ix. William DAVENPORT.
+103 x. Thomas DAVENPORT.
+104 xi. Delphia DAVENPORT.

Believed to have served as Colonel in Rev War

Residence: 1738 Louisa County, Virginia
Residence: 1751 Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Property: 1755 Two plantations
Death: 1798 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 21:15:33

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DAVENPORT, John (b. Abt 1717, d. Abt 1773)
Note: After. 1753 bankrupt tavernkeeper of Spotsylvania

Residence: 1746 Louisa County, Virginia
Residence: Bet. 1752 - 1767 Spotsylvania, Virginia 1
Residence: After. 1767 St. Martin's Parish, Louisa County, Virginia

Children:
1. William Davenport, Jr.
2. John Davenport, Jr.
3. Martin Davenport
4. Jack Smith Davenport
5. Richard Davenport

John Scott Davenport - Davenport Roots-L 6/25/2001

Jack Smith was either the second or third son of John, Sr, who himself was one of the five sons mentioned in Martin, Sr.'s will in 1735 (three sons and five daughters were omitted). John, Sr., was a tavernkeeper in Spotsylvania and a wheeler-dealer of sorts on both sides of the North Anna, apparently to his own detriment, for he spent the last 20 years of his life, Court records document, moving from county to county evading Sheriffs who had judgments, writs, attachments, executions, and such to serve upon him. Only his brother David exceeded him in Court records presence,
Death: Abt 1773 Spotsylvania Co.,Va
Change: Date: 9 APR 2003
Time: 14:00:01

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DAVENPORT, Glover (b. Abt 1719, d. Abt 1785)
Note: Not Mentioned in Will of Martin Davenport SR.

First found in Louisa County in 1743 associated with Matthew Jouett, Sr. Last found in Bedford County in 1784 when he and wife Ann witnessed a will.]

Residence: 1769 Bedford County, Virginia
REsidence: About. 1745 Louisa County, Virginia
Residence: About. 1755 Albemarle County, Virginia
Property: Amherst County, Virginia

Children:
1. Joel Davenport
2. Matthew Davenport
Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 169
Text: "Glover had land in Amherst County, which he apparently sold in the late 1760's and moved to that part of Bedford County that was set as a part of Franklin County,"

Another Son Not Mentioned in Martin's Will
Glover Davenport first appears in Virginia records on 9Aug1743 when Matthew Jouett was ordered by the Louisa County Court to pay him for being an evidence (witness) in Jouett's behalf against Richard Brooks. Matthew Jouett's daughter Frances married Glover's brother James, and Jouett's daughter Charlotte married Glover's first cousin Henry Gambill, Jr. Appearances by Glover exist in Louisa records through 1761 when he began appearing in Amherst County records. Then in mid-summer 1767 or shortly thereafter, Glover moved south of the James River into Bedford County--where he began to appear in records there. When the southernmost portion of Bedford was cut off to become part of newly-erected Franklin County in 1785, Glover's plantation fell into the new county. He apparently died intestate around this time.
Glover's inclusion among the sons of Martin is based on the fact that there were a number of Glover Davenports among the posterity of Martin Davenport of Hanover, and best evidence now indicates that Martin's wife at the time of his death was Dorothy (nee Glover). Considering that Glover's eldest son was named Matthew -- a given name used by no other Pamunkey Davenports, possibly Glover's wife was also a Jouett. No Ann appears in lists of Matthew Jouett, Sr.'s children, but research on the Jouetts has not been vetted. Like Glover, she too may have been either left out of the will or been another of those colonial daughters lost in the limbo of a "no record" identity.
Death: Abt 1785 Bedford/Franklin Co,VA
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 23:02:31

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DAVENPORT, Martin (b. Abt 1720, d. 1816)
Note: [Tax assessed in Hanover County in 1782. Apparently moved to adjacent Henrico County, in or near Richmond City, thereafter as Martin signed his daughter Nancy's marriage bond there in 1790.] Children (LARGELY SPECULATIVE, Number, Order uncertain):

Martin of Martin appears to have married late. He was living with his Mother Dorothy, along with his brother David and his family, on the old homeplace in Hanover until the mid-1760s [Court evidence]. When David illegally mortgaged the property in 1767, which apparently resulted in joint devisee brother James Davenport's repossession of Martin's plantation, Dorothy, having participated in David's action by releasing her dower interest and life estate, moved to Cumberland County to join David. Martin having married, had his own household, and was apparently required to move elsewhere in Hanover. In 1782, his household there was enumerated as consisting of seven (7) Whites, no Blacks. Unless he obtained land in Hanover after 1765, Martin was landless as well as slaveless, was either a tenant farmer or following a craft or trade. If he was the Martin Davenport who made the casket for Thomas Graves, husband of Ann Davenport (C), in 1769, he was a carpenter.

Residence: 1799 Spotsylvania, Virginia
Residence: 1760 Hanover County, Virginia

Will of Martin Davenport, 1816
from DeAnna Fisher

I Martin Davenport of Adair County and State of Kentucky being in a low state of health but sound in my mind and perfectly in my senses, recollecting that death is the lot of all men and not knowing the time nor place do ordain this my last will and
testament in manner and form following; Viz, I lend to my daughter, Nancy Martin Davenport for her lifetime a negro boy by the name of Carter, now in the hands of Capt. Lemuel Williams of Cumberland County and also a negro girl by the name of Emmily,
now in the hands of Mr.Cleaver Harrell but if she should die without having lawful heirs of her body that then the said Carter and Emmily are to dissolve upon her surviving brother and sisters by an equal division.

Item: I leave and bequeath to Paul Pigg, who married my daughter Betsey, Two Dollars, he having already received nearly his proportionate part of my estate.

Item: I leave and bequeath to my daughter Malinda Wheeler during her life a negro boy by the name of Lewis now in the hands of Mr. Cleaver Harrell and after her decease to dissolve upon the lawful heirs of her body.

Item: I lend to my daughter Polly Cambell during her lifetime and after that to the lawful heirs of her body a negro woman by the name of Patty, with her increase, the said Patty is now in the hands of Mr. Cleaver Harrell.

Item: I lend to my daughter Jinny Bird during her lifetime and after that to the lawful heirs of her body a negro boy by the name of Sam, now in the hands of Mr. John Stotts.

The residue of my estate both real and personal I leave and bequeath to
my son George Davenport and to my daughters Jinny Bird, Polly Cambell and Malinda Wheeler by an equal division. I have already given my son George Davenport a negro boy by the name of Frank (?) as part of his legacy-- I leave and bequeath to Thomas
Bird my wearing apparel and saddle and bridle.
Lastly it is my will and desire that all my just debts be paid before any division of the residue takes place and I do hereby appoint John Stotts and Robert Rayburn as executors to this my last will and testament. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal this 15th day of May, 1816.

Martin Davenport (Seal)

Signed, Sealed and Acknowledged in the presents of;
Jesse Smith
William Stotts

At a County Court continued and held by the County of Adair at the Courthouse in Columbia on Tuesday the 3rd day of September 1816, This Last Will and Testament of Martin Davenport, decd. was proven by the oath of William Stotts, a subscribing witness
thereto and said Will was further proven to be in the handwriting of the said Davenport by the oath of John Grissom and William Scott and ordered to be recorded and on the motion of John Stotts and Robt. Raybourn Executors named in said Will the
execution thereof was granted them, they having given bond in the (illegible) sum of $5,000 and taken the oath required by law.

Wm. Caldwell
(Illegible)
Death: 1816 Henrico Co, Va
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 23:16:14

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DAVENPORT, David (b. Abt 1721, d. 1803)
Note: Residence: 1765 Moved to Cumberland County, VA 
Residence: 1753 Hanover County or Spotsylvania County, VA 
Residence: 1756 Hanover County, Virginia 
Residence: 1759 Orange County, Virginia 
Occupation: 1754 Carpenter 
Occupation: 1760 Carpenter & Planter, Honover County 

from: John Scott Davenport - Rootsweb - L 6/25/2001

David lived at least twenty-five years longer than John and was thrown in Debtor's Prison at least four times, likely because he sued as much as he was sued. (David had an active Court presence from 1745 until a month before he died in 1802.)

Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 100
Text: "David Davenport, son of Martin Davenport of Hanover."
Death: 1803 Cumberland Co, Va
Change: Date: 26 OCT 2002
Time: 08:17:46

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DAVENPORT, James (b. 1725, d. 1803)
Note: With brother David inherited the Martin Davenport old homeplace in Hanover, but moved to Albemarle County in the the late 1750s. Returned to Hanover County to reclaim the property when David illegally mortgaged it in 1767, took possession of the property, and sold it out of the family in 1790 prior to moving to Georgia.]

Residence: 1754 Hanover County, Virginia
Residence: Bet. 1754 - 1767 Albemarle County, Virginia
Residence: 1767 Hanover County, Virginia
Residence: 1791 Moved to Georgia
Military Service:15 Feb 1776 the 7th Virginia Regiment.

Children:
1. James Davenport, Jr.
2. Jouett Davenport
3. John Davenport
Death: 1803 Ogelthorpe County, GA
Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 23:37:35

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Davenport, Thomas (b. 1688, d. 1775)
Note: Residence: Cumberland County, Virginia
Residence: 1714 King William County, Virginia 
Residence: 1739 Caroline County, Virginia 

Of Cumberland -- info from John Scott Davenport, NJ.
Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 125
Text: "joined there by Thomas Davenport, Sr., of Caroline and his seven sons and one daughter"
Death: 1775 Cumberland Co, VA
Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 08:41:13

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DAVENPORT, John (b. Abt 1698, d. ?)
Note: Residence: Henrico County Virginia 1

Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 124
Text: "an older brother of John of Henrico"

All we know about John is that being of "King William County', He bought 230 acres south of the James River in Henrico County on 10 Oct. 1736. By 1749, the track was in Chesterfield County, and by 1777 it was in Powhatan County. He may have been childless inasmuch as Alsalom of Richard was the only Davenport enumerated in Powhatan county in 1783, or those yet unidentified Davenports in Goochland County before the Revolution may have been his descendants.

May have married a Mary Smith
Change: Date: 9 APR 2003
Time: 14:00:35

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DAVENPORT, Richard (b. Abt 1704, d. 1776)
Note: Residence:1752 Caroline County, Virginia
Residence: About. 1760 Cumberland County, Virginia (Powhatan County 1777)
Jury: Nov 1735 Grand Jury, Caroline Court, Caroline County, VA

Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 114
Text: "Richard Davenport, believed to have been a younger brother of Thomas, was married to Keziah Davis, daughter of Richard Davis,"
Death: 1776 in Caroline County, Virginia
Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 11:54:49

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DAVENPORT, Elias (b. Abt 1712, d. 1767)
Note: Title: The Pamunkey Davenport Cronicles Working Paper, Version A, March 2001
Page: 101
Text: "Possibly he was another of Martin Davenport's older sons who was not mentioned in his Father's Will."

"Elias is tentatively identified as a younger son of Davis davenport, possibly making him a younger brother of Martin of Hanover, and providing a rationale as to why he witnessed a deed to Martin's next door neighbor

"This is the only appearance of Elias Davenport yet found in Virginia records. In this instance he signed as witness to three documents: the lease, release, and receipt of the consideration. His next appearance in Colonial records yet found was in Bertie County, North Carolina, in the 1750's where he was quickly joined by Dorrel Davenport, his son, and John Davenport, apparently another son."
P.101 Pamuankey Davenport Cronicles by John Scott Davenport

Children:
1. Dorell Davenport
2. John Davenport

The 1704 Quit Rent List for King William County, semi-alphabetical, identified these four freeholders in sequence: Elias Downes, 200 acres; Davis Davenport, 200 acres; Sampson Dorrell, 5000 acres; Martin Davenport, 100 acres. Elias Downes and John Talbot obtained the 1667 patent (for more than 1600 acres), which either included the land where the Davenport Plantation and Landing identified in 1696 were located, or was adjacent thereto. Sampson Dorrel's patent was on the Mattaponi River several miles above Davenport Landing. The Dorrels were an early great planter, aristocratic family, but apparently died out or moved from Virginia, for the surname does not appear in either the 1790 Census (North Carolina) or the Tax List substitutes (Virginia). There was a wealthy Dorrill family in South Carolina in 1790, and there is still a Dorrel Creek, a southwest draught of Herring Creek, in King William County. If Elias Davenport had married a Dorrell, none of the wealth apparently came his way, for he was not a freeholder when he died and apparently did not have an estate sufficient to warrant a probate. Dorrell, like his father, was illiterate.

[First found in 1734 in Spotsylvania County joining Thomas Ballard Smith in witnessing a deed for land immediately across the North Anna (Upper Pamunkey) River from Martin Davenport's plantation in Hanover, to Richard Phillips, Martin's neighbor in Hanover. Apparently illiterate -- signed with an "X". Possibly a namesake of Elias Downes, an adjoining landowner in 1696 to the [Davis] Davenport plantation on Mattaponi waters of King & Queen County (King William County after 1701). Last found apparently as tenant on a 250-acre tract in Bertie County, NC, in 1762.] Children (Number, Order unknown):

There may have been unknown daughters born to Elias Davenport.
Death: 1767 Bertie Co. NC
Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 08:38:23

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