- OBIT:
"The Star" newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina.
"Communication"
"Died on the 10th of December. 1809, at the home of Martin Davenport in Burke County, Mr. Thomas Davenport, in the 98th year of his age. He injoyed his health until a short time before his death. Mr Davenport was remarkable for a chearful disposition and for benevolence of heart,;it is said he never was involved in a law suit but once, and then by being security for a debt, he was sued and compelled to pay the money. In the latter part of his life he appeared to injoy the comforts of religion in a high degree.
He raised six daughters and one son. His oldest daughter Sophia, the wife of William White,esq of the Mulberry in the county of Burks, hath at this time upwards of one hundred of posterity living; and it has been ascertained that from Thomas Davenport, counting him as the first, there are more than forty of his posterity now living of the 5th generation. Thomas Davenport's five younger children each raised large famillies, and it is computed that the posterity of of those five now living amount more then three hundred"
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- THE PAMUNKEY DAVENPORTS OF THE COLONIAL VIRGINA"( Hopkinsville, KY" The Pamunkey Davenports Family Association, 1998) page 14 Mary Davenport( A3e), was the daughter of Thomas Davenport(A3) and his wife Dorothy, surname unknown. Thomas, in turn, was the son of Martin and Davenport(A) and his wife Dorothy Golove. Martin, who die din Hanover County in 1735, was the eldest son of Davis Davenport of Pamunkey Necking King William County, Va. Dorothy, wife of Martin, lived for at least 45 years after his death, moved from Hanover to Cumberland County with her son David in the 1760's.
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Thomas Davenport died in December of 1809, his obituary was published in the Raleigh paper and named Martin as his only son with six daughters. One daughter named was Sophia, wife of William White. By then his daughter, Mary, who was William Wiseman's wife, had died in 1796. His daughter, Dorothy, was married to John Browning, whose sister Jane was Martin?s second wife. It is believed one daughter was Rachel, wife of William Cole, mother of Alexander who moved with them and got land close by. One can only speculate why they moved up here, possibly his youngest daughter had met and married Samuel Bright, who had children under 16 on the 1800 census. That would explain why he shared his "homestead" land with people who were related to Thomas or one of his sons-in-lawa. Martin was also a hunter, guide and soldier.
It seems they, the Davenports, Brownings, Wisemans, Coles, Whites, and Jones, all left the John?s River area after Martin?s first wife Hannah died of smallpox and he remarried. Whether a Bright was married to a Davenport is unknown, but these people all knew old Thomas. His sister Dorothy Baker, mother of David, who Bakersville is named for, and Mary Gambill, mother of the Ashe, Wilkes and Watauga Gambills, came to North Carolina because of him. Samuel Bright had a brother William who came and settled near him in the Altapass area and seems to have stayed on. Samuel left before the 1810 census and sold his land to David Tate, who was very well known in Morganton. He was so well known that on the tax list of 1815, both William Wiseman and Martin Davenport's homes are listed as "by Tate's".
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