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  1. 1.  David Wallace was born on 1 Mar 1802 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana (son of Whitington Wallace and Lucy White); died after 1803.

    Notes:

    Wales, David (Witenton of Baltimore & Luce Whit of N. Carolina) b 1 Mar 1802 (SM Ch v 6, 1018)

    Wallace, David (Witenton Wales of Baltimore, living on Bayou Vermillion & Luce White of North Carolina b 1 Mar 1802, bt 12 Nov 1810. Pats: Not listed; Mats: John White of Virginia & Sara Gambel of Virginia. Spons: William Wales & Celestine Wales. Fr. Gabriel Isabey (SM CH v 6 #1018)


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Whitington Wallace was born about 1776 in Baltimore Co, Maryland (son of Thomas Wallace and Rebecca Machain); died after 1806 in of, Bayou Vermillion, St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.

    Notes:

    also Witenton Wales
    Wallace, Whitington (signs of Whitington) from Baltimore in Maryland (maj son of Thomas Whihngton & Rebeca Machain) m contract dated 2 Jan 1795, Lucia Whitte (signs as Lucy White) from Virginia ("Juan & Cere" (John & Sara) Gambell). Wits: Whilliam White, Jesse White her brothers, Dautilly Bertin, Simon Meisonier, Francisco Caso Y Luengo (SM Ct. Hse: OA Vol 16 #128)

    White, Lucie of Virginia (Juan & Cere (Sarah) Gambell) m contract dated: 2 Jan 1795 Whihngton Wallace (signs as Wallace Whitington) of Baltimore, Maryland (maj son of Thomas & Rebeca Machain) Wits: William White, Jesse White - her brothers, Dautilly Bertin, Simon Missonier; Francisco Caso Y Luengo (SM Ct. Hse: OA-v. 16, #128)

    Abigail possible sister to Whitington(?):
    Jansonne, Francoise of Acadia (dec Charles & Marie Rose Braseaux) m 23 Jan 1798 James Clark, a Catholic of the U.S. (Joseph & Abigail Walles (Wallace)). Wits: Jean Jeansonne, Baptiste David. Fr. Pedro de Zamora (Opel Ch v. 1-A, p 79)

    Whitington married Lucy White on 2 Jan 1795 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana. Lucy (daughter of John* White and Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill) was born about 1776 in Virginia/North Carolina; died after 1816 in of, Bayou Vermillion, St.Martin Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Lucy White was born about 1776 in Virginia/North Carolina (daughter of John* White and Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill); died after 1816 in of, Bayou Vermillion, St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.

    Notes:

    White, Luce (Jean & Sara Gambel) m Wales Witention (SM Ch)
    White, Luce (Jean & Sara Gambel) m Jusue Artlay (SM Ch)
    Note: Could Timothy be Jusue Artlay's child?
    White, Lucie of Virginia (Jean & Sara Gambel) m 2 Jan 1795 Whitington Wallace of Baltimore, Maryland (SM Ct. Hse: OA-16-128)

    (per Temple)
    After Wallace died, Lucy entered into a housekeeping contract with Reuben Barrow (Richard Barrow & Mary Godienne (Goodwin) . Reuben was widower of Mary Jane Johnson (bt 7 Jan 1802 Opel); both had small children. The contract stipulated that she while she would care for the children, she and Reuben would rear all the children together. This arrangement ended in 1815 when Reuben married the widow Green. Lucy married John Clark. Later Reuben married Fannie Kennedy in Georgia.

    Note: Which Mary Jane Johnson? Which John Clark? Which Green?

    Children:
    1. Timothy Witenton Wallace was born in Feb 1795 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died after 1796.
    2. Celestine Wallace was born on 20 Jul 1797 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died after 1798.
    3. William Wallace was born on 20 Dec 1798; died after 1810.
    4. 1. David Wallace was born on 1 Mar 1802 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died after 1803.
    5. John Wallace was born on 7 Jan 1805 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died in 1870 in Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Thomas Wallace was born about 1750; died after 1795.

    Thomas married Rebecca Machain about 1770. Rebecca was born about 1750; died after 1795. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Rebecca Machain was born about 1750; died after 1795.
    Children:
    1. 2. Whitington Wallace was born about 1776 in Baltimore Co, Maryland; died after 1806 in of, Bayou Vermillion, St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.

  3. 6.  John* White was born in 1744 in Orange Co, Virginia (son of James* Taylor White and Elizabeth* Powe (Poe) (Pou)); died on 8 Jan 1807 in Attakapas Co, Orleans Territory, Louisiana.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: Abt 1766, Cheraws Dist, South Carolina
    • Other-Begin: Between 1772 and 1778, Burke Co, North Carolina
    • Residence: Between 1780 and 1781, Washington Co, North Carolina; tax rolls
    • Residence: May 1782, Natchez, Mississippi
    • Possessions: 17 May 1782, Natchez, Mississippi

    Notes:

    Said to have descended from emigrants from the Isle of Wight on the southern coast of England. Registered a cattle brand for himself and son William in 1790.

    White, Jean (Jacques & Elizabeth Pou) m Sara Gambel (SM Ch.)
    Possibly sons George (1801) & Henry (1805) but Sarah would be too old if b 1745.
    The family moved from North Carolina to Natchez, Mississippi, somewhere between 1780 and 1784. They then moved to Louisiana, probably St.Martinville, before 1787.

    living on Bayou Vermillion in 1810

    Other-Begin:
    1772-78 - John White and James White received land grants in Burke Co., NC but they did not stay long. [Gifford White]


    Residence:
    1780-81 - John White and James White appeared on the property tax rolls of Washington Co., NC, now part of Tenneessee.
    White, James 5 horses, 8 neat cattle 447.10.0
    White, John 3 horses, 5 cattle 107.10.0"



    Residence:
    1782, May - John White and James White arrived with their families in Natchez Terr. on the lower Mississippi River. James dies here c1783. The Spanish record here lists the families that arrived in May, 1782 in Natchez. [Natchez Court Records 1767-1805]

    Relacion de familias americanas, signed Carlos de Grand-Pré, Natchez, July 6, 1782 AGI, PC, leg. 193-b.
    13 familias como sigue:
    Individuos Esclavos (slaves)
    Thomas Green, wife & children 11 32
    Thomas Marston Green, wife & son 11 3
    Cato West, wife and son 8 3
    Guillaume Duelt, wife and children 3 23
    David Smith, wife & children 5 7 Guillermo David & wife & children 4 2
    Juan White, wife & children 8 1
    Tiago White, wife & children 11 1
    Ricardo Gooden, wife & children 5 2
    Thomas Ethridge, wife & children 4 -
    Xphal Ryer & wife 2 -
    Guillermo Barland 1 -
    ------
    Pasageros y enganchados: 7 72 88
    Total: 79

    note: Guillame Duelt is probably William Dewitt who had married Catherine White, the daughter of William White, just before the voyage.
    Juan White is John White.
    Guillaume White is William White brother to both Juan and Tiago (James) White.


    Possessions:
    17 May 1782
    ... appeared John White, who sells to Widow Anne McIntosh, here present and accepting, a negro woman named Jane, aged 18, native of Virginia, for $440 which seller acknowledges to have recived in cattle from purchaser, in the presence of Daveid Smith and Richard Gooding, who signed with seller.
    1 June 1782
    ... appeared James White who sold to Widow Anne McIntosh, resident of the post, a negro woman "Bretha", native fo Barbadoes, aged 40; consideration $300, which sd. purchaser has paid in cows and horses. Witnesses: Francois Farrell and Silas Crane. Signed James White." [Mc Bee]
    http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/white.jt.html

    John* married Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill about 1765 in Virginia or South Carolina . Sarah (daughter of Henry* (John) Gambill and Mary* (Sarah) Davenport) was born about 1748 in Culpeper Co, or Hanover Co, Virginia; died on 20 Feb 1828 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 7.  Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill was born about 1748 in Culpeper Co, or Hanover Co, Virginia (daughter of Henry* (John) Gambill and Mary* (Sarah) Davenport); died on 20 Feb 1828 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.

    Notes:

    Sarah was a midwife. According to article, there were nine children.
    Sarah Gambil - parents listed as John Gambil & Sarah Dempot, all of Virginia, as mats in bt. of grandson James White in 1801.

    Gary Barr (gbarr@compuserve.com)
    Davenport, Gambill, White, Comstock

    Children:
    1. William "Guillaum" White was born on 17 Dec 1766 in Burke Co, North Carolina, or Cheraws Dist, South Carolina; died before 14 Sep 1824 in Lafayette,St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.
    2. Nancy* Ann White was born about 1770 in North Carolina; died about 1834 in Duncan Woods, Orange Co, Texas (maybe).
    3. 3. Lucy White was born about 1776 in Virginia/North Carolina; died after 1816 in of, Bayou Vermillion, St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.
    4. John Jesse White was born on 15 Sep 1778 in North Carolina; died before 3 Apr 1813 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana.
    5. Mary "Polly" White was born on 9 Sep 1780 in North Carolina; died on 25 Jul 1821.
    6. Sarah White was born in 1784 in Natchez District, Mississippi; died on 10 Apr 1828 in Mountville, Louisiana.
    7. Elizabeth White was born about 1787 in Louisiana; died in 1810 in Louisiana.
    8. James Taylor White was born on 28 Jul 1789 in St. Martinville, St. Martin Parish, Louisiana; died on 5 Mar 1852 in Turtle Bayou, Chambers Co, Texas; was buried in White's Cem, Chambers Co, Texas.
    9. Susanna White was born on 2 Nov 1791 in St.Martin Parish, Louisiana; died after 1812.


Generation: 4

  1. 12.  James* Taylor White was born in 1710 in Orange Co, Virginia (son of James Taylor* White (Whyte)); died before 1785 in Natchez, Spanish Louisiana.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Other-Begin: 23 Feb 1743, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Other-Begin: 24 Feb 1743, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Other-Begin: 24 Nov 1743, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Other-Begin: 26 Apr 1744, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Other-Begin: 27 Mar 1746, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Other-Begin: 23 Mar 1748, Orange Co, Virginia; road orders
    • Property: 1749, Culpeper Co, Virginia
    • Property: 29 Mar 1757, PeeDee River area, Craven Co, South Carolina
    • Property: 14 Jan 1758, Craven Co, South Carolina
    • Other-Begin: 25 Oct 1760, Cashaway Baptist Church, Craven Co, South Carolina
    • Other-Begin: 20 Jul 1762, Culpeper Co, Virginia
    • Other-Begin: 20 Jun 1767, Cashaway Baptist Church, Craven Co, South Carolina
    • Other-Begin: 15 Aug 1768, PeeDee River, Mars Bluff, Craven Co, South Carolina; The Regulators
    • Other-Begin: 15 Aug 1770, Craven Co, South Carolina; re Mars Bluff incident
    • Residence: 1777, Burke Co, North Carolina

    Notes:

    White, Jacques Telleurs m Elizabeth Pou (SM Ch)

    George Hume Jr. of Culpeper Co. 220 A. on throughfare of Beaver Dam, Hazle R. in said Co. Surv. George Hume Sr. Adj. James Taylor Whyte, on Rich Mt., George Roberts, James Whyte. 15 july 1760.

    - Norther Neck Land Grants.

    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=juuledwards&id=I1

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    JAMES TAYLOR WHITE OF VIRGINIA, by Gifford White" James Taylor White" is first recorded in Orange County, Virginia when he and William White made bond for Rebecca Chissum to be administratrix of John Chissum, deceased. William White was a constable for Orange County in 1740. On January 23, 1745 James Taylor White was appointed one of the overseers of road gangs from Hazle Rivers upwards to the Great Mountains`. Culpeper County was formed from Orange County in 1748. The following year James Taylor White was paid 154 pounds of tobacco for attending court as a witness in Orange County for coming nine miles here from Culpeper County`. Two land records from Lord Fairfax are recorded on June 26, 1749 for 217 acres on Gourd Vine Fork and Hazel River. The second was on October 8, 1750 also on Gourd Vine Fork in the County of Culpeper. Indian trouble in western Virginia in the 1750`s caused many settlers to leave. This may be the reason James Taylor White moved to Craven County, South Carolina. Land records dated March 29, 1757 gives James Taylor White 300 acres in the Welch Tract, Craven County. Another record records 300 acres in Craven County dated November 8, 1757. November 18, 1761 James and his wife, Elizabeth Powe sold 200 acres to Malachi Saunders.From the Cashaway Baptist Church Record Book 1756-1778` at Furman University Library, Greenville, South Carolina: Sat 25 Oct 1760 . . . Mr. James White for excess drinking be suspended from this church until satisfaction be given . . . 20 June 1767 . . . on Cashaway Neck on Pee Dee in Craven County. The names of all the members . . . Elizabeth White . . . gone`
    Prior to the Revolutionary War, trouble with the British caused many people to leave South Carolina. The White family moved to Burke County, North Carolina. All of the Whites appear on lists of witnesses against Tories in trials that were held in North Carolina about 1782."
    Marriage 1 Elizabeth POU b: 1710
    Children:
    William WHITE b: 1730
    Reuben WHITE b: 1734
    James WHITE b: 1736
    John WHITE b: 1744 in VA
    Elizabeth WHITE b: 1745

    http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=keithwlms&id=I7997

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    Very closely related to the Davenport family. James Taylor White's sons William and James were married to Davenport sisters, Sophia and Jerusa, respectively,
    daughters of Thomas Davenport. John* White's wife Sarah* Gambell's mother was the sisters' aunt Mary "Sarah" Davenport Gambill.


    Other-Begin:
    23 February 1743, O.S. p. 51
    Ordered that James Taylor White be Appointed Overseer of the Road from Bever Dam to Thorntons Mill in the Roome of Jonas Jenkins & that the former work under him on said Road.

    Other-Begin:
    24 February 1743, O.S. p. 56 On the Motion of Robt Eastham Gent Ordered that Laurence Broadley James Taylor White & John Strother or any two of them Do view & Lay off the Road from Thorntons Mill to Bradley.s former Plantation & Ret to next Court.


    Other-Begin:
    24 November 1743, O.S. p. 25We Present the Overseer of the Road from the Devils Run to Thorns mill by the Information (?) of James Taylour White being the Road that goes Between Daniel Browns and Samuel Fargussons, Francis Brown Overseer.

    Other-Begin:
    26 April 1744, O.S. p. 100 On the Motion of Robert Eastham Gent That a Road formerly layd off from Thorntons Mill to Bradleys Plantation by Lawrence Bradley & James Taylor White Its Ordered That the said James Taylor White & Francis Brown & their Gangs do Clear & repayr said Road & that they be exempt of four Miles Labour below sd. Precincts, which the adjacent Overseers below them are Ordered to repayr instead of the sd. White and Brown.

    Other-Begin:
    27 March 1746, O.S. p. 461 Ordered that the Road from FT to the Great Mountains be Divided into two Precincts and thatthe Gangs on the said Road from the said FT to Hazle River do Attend James White who is by the Court appointed Overseer of that Part of the said Road and obey his Directions in clearing and keeping the same in repair and that the Gang on the Road from Hazle River upwards to the Great Mountains do attend James Taylor White their former Overseer who is continued in his said Office and obey their Directions in clearing and keeping the same in Repair and that the said Overseers cause Posts of Directions to be set up where Necessary.

    Other-Begin:
    23 March 1748, O.S. p. 176Robert Traurick Coleman Brown Robert Stuart & Lawrance Bradly are exempted from workingon the Road whereof James Cotton is Overseer & it is ordered that they work on the Road whereof James White is Overseer.
    The establishment and maintenance of public roads was one of the most important functions of the County Court during the colonial period in Virginia. Each road was opened and maintained by an Overseer of Highways appointed by the Gentlemen Justices yearly. He was usually assigned all the Labouring Male Titheables living on or near the road for this purpose. These individuals then furnished all their own tools, wagons, and teams and were required to labour for six days each year on the roads.

    Property:
    1749- "Lord Fairfax to James Taylor White of the County of Culpeper...land in the Gourd Vine Fork in the said county ... corner of a former survey of said White's ...corner Joseph Collins... 220 acres... 8 Oct 1750".
    [ book G, Northern Neck Grants, Virginia State Archives. ]

    Gourd Vine Fork, Hazel River of Thornton's line, 217 acres, 26 June 1749, in Culpepper Co. Virginia. [Book G, Northern Neck Grants, Virginia State Archives] [White, Gifford. James Taylor White of Virginia, p.3]


    Property:
    c1750's Indian trouble caused many to leave Virginia for the Carolinas. A land grant exists for James Taylor White in 1757, Craven Co. South Carolina by the colonial government. [White, Gifford. James Taylor White of Virginia, p.3]

    1757- Land grants were given by the colonial governments to family members in Craven Co., South Carolina, an old but extinct county with it records in many places. Sometimes records of the PeeDee River area can be found in conjunction with St David's Parish. [Land grant records are in the Archives at Columbia, South Carolina]

    29 March 1757 "To James Taylor White, 300 acres in the Welch Tract, Craven Co., pursuant to an order dated 1 March 1757" [Pre-Revolutionary Plats, vol. 6, pp 256]

    Property:
    14 Jan. 1758. "To James Taylor White, 300 acres in the Welch Tract, Craven Co., [Memorial Book No. 7, p 163]


    Other-Begin:
    1760, - The Records of the Cashaway Baptist Church show that On "Sat 25 Oct 1760 ... Mr. James White for excess drinking be suspended from this church until satisfaction be given..


    Other-Begin:
    1762 -July 20- James Taylor White, father of Elizabeth, settles his debts in Culpepper Co. Virginia before leaving for South Carolina. Elizabeth's brothers may have stopped in North Carolina due to marrying into families of that state. [White, Gifford. James Taylor White of Virginia, p.4]


    Other-Begin:
    20 June 1767 .. on Cashaway Neck on Pee Dee in Craven County. The names of all the members... Elizabeth White .. gone." [Cashaway Batpist Curch Record Book 1756-1778]


    Other-Begin:
    1768- August 15 -reported an incident near Marr's Bluff, on Pedee River. An armed company of Regulators, "headed by one Gideon Gibson, on the 25th past, near Marr's Bluff, surrounded a constable and twelve men, who were sent to bring one of the villans before a Magistrate, and after a short skirmish, where two of the Constable's Party were mortally wounded, and one shot thro the shoulder, took the Rest Prisoners, whom he discharged, after ordering them 50 lashes each." [South Carolina Gazette, August 15, 1768]


    Other-Begin:
    1770- Aug. 15 - William White and James Taylor White submit their cases to the Commons House of Assembly for South Carolina based on the Marr's Bluff incident reported above. William had been a constable in South Carolina for years before this and took his job very seriously although he was a "cooper", barrel maker, by trade.
    (see attached pdf)


    Residence:
    by 1777 - The entire White family had moved to Burke Co., North Carolina. [Gifford White]

    James* married Elizabeth* Powe (Poe) (Pou) in 1730 in Orange Co, Virginia. Elizabeth* was born about 1710 in Culpeper Co, Virginia; died before 20 Jun 1767 in Craven Co, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 13.  Elizabeth* Powe (Poe) (Pou) was born about 1710 in Culpeper Co, Virginia; died before 20 Jun 1767 in Craven Co, South Carolina.

    Notes:

    referred to as Elizabeth Spars in bt of her gandchild Marie (dau of John).
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    1772 -Pre-Revolutionary Plat Books, So. Caro. Archives Dept.
    There are a several land records for Craven county that list members of the White family. Another interesting connection my be with the District Surveyor on several of these is Thomas Powe. We still do not know if this person is related to Elizabeth above.
    21-424 James White, 200a Craven County Polk swamp, adj. John Baxter, John Hollowy, 10 Oct. 1772. Thos. Powe, D. S.
    21-431 Reuben White, 600a Craven in fork of Little Pee Dee Drownding Creek on Bell Swam, 10 Dec. 1772. John McCall, D. S.
    Same page, Reuben White, 500a Craven N. side of Little Pedee adj. Hugh Thomapson. Thos. Powe, D. S. 14 June 1773.

    21-433 Reuben White, 300a Craven on the Beaveer dam, waters of Jeffereys Creek adj. John Ward, Connels land, Reuben White and vacant land. 9 Oct 1881 Thos. Powe, D. S.


    http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/white.jt.html

    Children:
    1. William White, Esq. was born about 1730; died on 7 Nov 1818 in Burke Co, North Carolina.
    2. Capt Ruben White was born about 1733 in Orange Co, Virginia; died in Oct 1776 in Burke Co, North Carolina.
    3. James White was born about 1736 in Orange Co, Virginia; died in 1784 in Natchez District, Mississippi.
    4. 6. John* White was born in 1744 in Orange Co, Virginia; died on 8 Jan 1807 in Attakapas Co, Orleans Territory, Louisiana.
    5. Elizabeth White was born about 1745 in Culpeper Co, Virginia; died on 31 Aug 1817 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
    6. Jane White was born about 1747; died in Sep 1821 in Burke Co, North Carolina.

  3. 14.  Henry* (John) Gambill was born in 1710 in Virginia (son of Thomas* Gambill and Ann* (..) Gambill); died before 1768 in Brumfield Parish, Culpeper Co, Virginia.

    Notes:

    Information provided by Helen Roche, Correspondence Secretary for Wilkes Co. NC Genealogy Society, 1997

    Henry Gambrell (Ca 1700 - By 1768) married Mary Davenport around 1735. Legal records indicate that Henry resided in Louisa, Spotsylvania, Albemarle, Hanover, and Culpeper Counties in Virginia. He was a legal witness for Martin Davenport, his wife's father, in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1735, and purchased 175 acres of land on Little Rocky Creek in Hanover County, Virginia during the same year.
    In 1753, Henry purchased 900 acres of land in Culpeper County from Thomas Kennerly of South Carolina. John Minor of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in his will executed in 1754, even refers to "land lately bough of Henry Gambrell in Culpeper".
    Henry and Mary had at least seven children - six sons and a daughter. Their children were: William, Benjamin, Henry, John, Thomas, Martin, and Sarah.
    This family probably lived in an area known as Gambrell's Mountain in Culpeper County, Virginia. Various court and service-connected records were recorded for Gambrells in the Culpeper region during the 1750-1780's era.
    Benjamin, Henry, John, and William are listed as witnesses in the 1764 Culpeper Court minutes, which was the only book preserved before 1798. Henry and John were sergeants in the Culpeper Militia under Colonel Thomas Slaugher. This group orgaed in August, 1755. For their service of approximately one year, Henry and John were each paid 1,710 pounds of tobacco in April, 1756. A David Gambrell also received pay on 5 Oct 1775,for service under Lord Dunmore. A payment was made to Thomas Gambrell, aninfantry soldier, on 24 July 1786. James and William were listed as Virginians in the Revolution. Matthew and Henry were noted living adjacent to the Albemarle Barracks in 1781. In fact, there were numerous Gambrells in Albemarle County, Virginia, in the mid to late 1700's. The Gambrells in the Albemarle County, Virginia area were even listed in the historical aspect when the county was formed in 1745. Richard was a long time Tobacco Inspector at the Henderson's Tobacco Warehouse. John was listed as a member of the Orthodox Reformed Presbyterian Church Congregation who hired Rev. Samuel Black on 29 March 1747. Henry (maybe Jr.) built the second jail in the county around 1783, and was on the 1785 Virginia Taxpayer List as a head of a family of 10. As late as 1796, Matthew Gambrell received a land grant of 25,798 acres of land in Albemarle, Orange, and Rockingham Counties. Hence, the Gambrells appeared to migrate to western Virginia or to western Carolina during the late 1700's.
    (Researched by Karen Paramore, November 1, 1995 in Claiborne County Library, Tazewell, Tennessee.)

    Henry* married Mary* (Sarah) Davenport in Oct 1735 in Hanover Co, Virginia (probably). Mary* (daughter of Martin* Davenport, Sr and Mrs. (1st wife of Martin)* Davenport) was born about 1706 in King William Co, Virginia; died before 1775 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 15.  Mary* (Sarah) Davenport was born about 1706 in King William Co, Virginia (daughter of Martin* Davenport, Sr and Mrs. (1st wife of Martin)* Davenport); died before 1775 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.

    Notes:

    The identity of the Mary who later married Henry Gambill as a Davenport is clear from the baptismal record of a grandchild, Susanna White, in St. Martin's Church, St. Martinsville LA, dated 2 Nov 1791. That record identifies the child's mother as "Sarah Gambill, daughter of Henry Gambill and Marie Davenport, Virginians.

    Excerpt from "Pioneer Lewis Families, rev Jul 5, 1992"
    MARY DAVENPORT, m c 1735 Henry Gambill (Gamble), b early 1700s d between 1762 and 1775. Lived the last part of his life in Brumfield Parish, Culpeper County Virginia. Of their sons was William Gambill (father of Mary Gambill who married Fielding Lewis)
    Children of Henry Gambill and Mary Davenport are:
    William Gambill, Sr., born 1740 in Louisa County, VA; died 1779 in Wilkes Co, NC; married mary Johnson Wash; Benjamin Gambill; Henry Gambill; John Gambill;Thomas Gambill; Martin Gambill; Sarah Gambill.

    Children:
    1. Benjamin Gambill was born about 1736; died in 1839 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.
    2. John Gambill was born in 1751 in Culpeper Co, Virginia; died in 1839 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.
    3. William Gambill, Sr was born in 1740 in Hanover, Louisa Co, Virginia; died in 1779 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.
    4. Thomas Gambill was born about 1742; died after 1786.
    5. Captain Martin Cleveland Gambill was born on 9 May 1750 in Culpeper Co, Virginia; died on 20 Feb 1812 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.
    6. Henry Gambill was born about 1746; died after 1790 in Albermarle Co, Virginia or Giles Co, Tennessee.
    7. 7. Sarah Davenport "Sally"* Gambill was born about 1748 in Culpeper Co, or Hanover Co, Virginia; died on 20 Feb 1828 in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.