Terry, Grace (b. 1693, d. ?)

Change: Date: 25 OCT 2002
Time: 20:33:36

Note: Last found Buckingham County, 1782, enumerated as 1 White poll, 0 Black polls.] Children (Number, Order uncertain There may have been daughters born to Julius.

Apparently to satisfy the debts of Philemon, James, Jr., and Joel -- as well his own, Julius sold his 337-acre plantation in Cumberland in Sep1767. (He was the only one of Thomas, Sr.'s sons who lived over the ridge to the west on the waters of Willis River of the James -- Thomas and all of his other sons lived in a cluster on waters of the Appomattox.) Julius was landless thereafter until his father gave him title to the Old Homeplace and 100 acres in 1772, subject to Thomas, Sr.'s life estate. Apparently still hard pressed financially, Julius sold his rights to the homeplace in Jun1772, three years before his father died (1775).

While Julius is present in Cumberland records until 1780, he appears to have moved to Buckingham County in 1776. (Buckingham, where all early records have been lost to a series of courthouse fires, is the next county west of Cumberland.) He was tax listed in Buckingham in 1782 in a household that contained one White Tithable, no Blacks. No further traces of Philemon, James, Jr., and Joel, believed sons of Julius, have been found. Their flight from debt most likely would have been towards the Mountain Frontier of Southwest Virginia. They may have preceded their brother Thomas to the Holston River country of later Washington County, and have been ancestors of those East Tennessee Davenports whose origins are still unidentified.

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 10:00:53

Note: 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, where all of his children were born -- except possibly his youngest. Only a few years before his death, in May1788 he and Ann sold the Cumberland plantation where they "now lived" -- and then apparently moved to another plantation that Henry owned in adjacent Buckingham County on the Appamattox River. In Feb1789, Henry was back in Cumberland to convey slaves to his eldest son (second family) Wilson. When Henry died, Wilson, not yet 21-years-old but by then -- or soon to be -- an attorney, in Feb1792 was appointed guardian to his six younger sisters by Cumberland County Court -- which was passing strange if the family was resident in Buckingham County. There is no question that Ann lived fifty years and more of widowhood in Buckingham, and likely raised Henry's second family there.] Henry's Children:

Death: 9 DEC 1791 Buckingham Co, VA

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 09:09:50

Note: There may be more children.

Death: --Not Shown--

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 09:47:54

Note: 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.] Children (Order certain):

Death: 1780 Cumberland Co, Va

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 09:39:31

Note: Children (as listed in William's Will);

Death: MAR 1793 Cumberland Co, Va

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 10:03:18

Death: 1780 Halifax Co,VA

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 08:43:23

Death: 1763 Cumberland Co, Va

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 10:24:28

Note: [Joseph's land was sold after his death in 1771 by his eldest brother James who was the intestate Joseph's heir-at-law

Death: 1773 Cumberland Co, Va

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 10:34:54

Change: Date: 3 OCT 2002
Time: 11:28:28

Note: 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. Children (Order approximate):

Death: OCT 1821 Powhatan Co, Va.

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 12:09:07

Note: 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.

Identification of this family is based largely on circumstantial evidence. Gideon and Reuben, previously landless, joined in conveying Caroline land after David's death. Francis, Janey, and Mary were specifically identified as orphans of David Davenport requiring a guardian (Mary, likely their mother) by the Caroline Court in May 1778. Joseph is included because no other viable father prospects exists, presuming he was local. Only Reuben (King William County) and Richard of Gideon (Caroline) have been found in extant records after the Revolution -- both were present beyond 1810.

Death: 1778 Caroline Co, VA

Change: Date: 1 NOV 2003
Time: 12:07:17

Change: Date: 3 OCT 2002
Time: 11:28:28

Change: Date: 3 OCT 2002
Time: 11:28:28

Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 21:16:58

Change: Date: 3 OCT 2002
Time: 11:28:28

Note: [Moved to Georgia in late 1780s, but returned c1799.]

Death: 1821 Albemarle Co, VA

Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 19:52:04

Note: . [Last found in Amherst County, 1804.]

Death: Abt 1810 Amherst Co, VA

Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 19:44:58

Death: 1798 Abbeville Dist., South Carolina

Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 12:59:29

Note: [Charles was a Justice of the Peace and Sheriff of Culpeper County during the Revolution, was a Justice and Magistrate in Abbeville District, SC, after moving there in the mid-1780s.]

Death: 1807 Abbeville Dist., South Carolina

Pedigree: adopted

Change: Date: 31 OCT 2003
Time: 19:51:13