Martin* Davenport, Sr

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 30 Mar 1704, King William Co, Virginia
• Residence: 8 Nov 1721, St. Margaret Parish, King William Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 24 Mar 1724, North Anna River, Hanover Co, Virginia
• Property: 7 Feb 1726, North Anna River, Hanover Co, Virginia
• Will: 2 Oct 1735, Hanover Co, Virginia

Notes:

Researched by Karen Paramore, Nov 1, 1995 in Claiborne Co Library, Tazewell, TN.

THE DAVENPORTS (Deavenports)
Leased 100 acres of land in King William Co, VA in 1704.
Martin Davenport, Sr. (16__ - 1735), a landowner in Virginia, and his wife, Dorothy Harralson, had several children. They were: Martin, Jr., William, David, John, James, Mary, and maybe more since no daughters were listed in Martin, Sr.'s . Legal records can be found for this family in various Virginia Counties-Hanover, Louisa, King William, New Kent, and Spotsylvania. Either Martin Jr. or Sr. obtained a 400 acre land grant in Hanover County, Virginia on 7 Feb 1727.

Residence:
Martin Davenport was on the 1704 Quit Rent Rolls list for King William County, assessed for 100 acres

Residence:
On 8 Nov 1721, Martin Davenport Sr. lived at St. Margaret's Parish, King William County, VA. Fragments of a lease and release executed by Martin Davenport identify his residence as of 1721. (Source: John Scott Davenport, 'The Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles').

Other-Begin:
A survey of land at this time for one Captain Thomas Carr located that tract by reference to land of Martin Davenport along the North Anna River in Hanover County. That land wasn't patented to Davenport at the time but must have been surveyed and marked in order to be used as a benchmark for someone else's survey. (Source: John Scott Davenport's 'Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles').

Property:
On 7 Feb 1726/27, Martin Davenport Sr. lived at Hanover County, VA. Martin Davenport's patent for 400 acres along the south side of the North Anna River was issued. (Source: John Scott Davenport's 'Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles').

Will:
He left a will on 24 May 1735 at St. Martin's Parish, Hanover County, VA. Martin Davenport executed his will in Hanover County. (Source: John Scott Davenport's 'Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles') The will only named five sons and did not leave property to all of them (several were contingent beneficiaries only). This strongly suggests that other arrangements had been made during Martin's lifetime for other older children and the children benefiting from the will were only his youngest.

Martin, Sr.'s will was written on 24 May 1735 and proved on 2 October 1735 in Hanover County, Virginia. The provisions were:
I Martin Deavenport of Hanover Co., St. Martains Par. being very sick and weak in body but in perfect mind and memory do made this my Last will and Testament. I give my soul into the hands of God and my body I recommend to the Earth to be bud in a Christain like and Decent manner at the descretion of my Exors.: I give to my well beloved sons David Deavenport and James Deavenport 150 acres whereon I now live to be equally divided between them as follows: David Deavenport the plantation whereon I now live and 75 acres thereto joyning and remainder to my son James; in case my son, David dies without heir then his part to my son Martin Deavenport; if son James dies without heirs then his part to my son, John Deavenport; to my well-beloved son Wm. Deavenport 20 acres of land in King William Co., part of 100 acres left me by my Davis Deavenport and I do appoint my well belov'd wife, Dorothy Deavenport and my well belov'd son Wm. Davenport, my Exors.
Martin (X) Deavenport

Wit: Garrott Connor, John (I) Sersay, Henry Gambill
2 Oct. 1735 proved by oaths of witnesses hereto

ADMIN.BOND We Dorothy Deavenport. Paul Harralson are farmly bound unto Nicholas Meriwether Gent. Justice in the Commission of the Peace for Hanover Co. in the sum of L50 sterling. 2 Oct. 1735 Condition: if above bound Dorothy Davenport Execx. of the last will and Testament of Martin Deavenport dec'd. do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all the goods, Chattels and Credits of the sd. Dec'd obligation to be void.
Dorothy (D) Deavenport
Paul Harralson
2 Oct. 1735 ack. by Dorothy Deavenport and Paul Harralson

Martin* married Mrs. (1st wife of Martin)* Davenport before 1706 in King William Co, Virginia. (1st was born about 1682 in of, King William Co, Virginia; died before 1716 in King William Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary* (Sarah) Davenport was born about 1706 in King William Co, Virginia; died before 1775 in Wilkes Co, North Carolina.
2. Thomas Davenport was born in 1711 in King William Co, Virginia; died on 10 Nov 1810 in Burke Co, North Carolina.
3. William Davenport was born about 1717 in Hanover Co, Virginia; died in 1795 in Spotsylvania Co, Virginia.

Martin* married Dorothy (Glover?) before 1716 in King William Co, Virginia. Dorothy was born on 1 Jan 1690 in King William Co, Virginia; died in 1767 in Hanover Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dorothy Davenport was born on 2 Nov 1716 in King William Co, Virginia; died about 1790 in Burke Co, North Carolina.
2. John Davenport was born about 1717 in King William Co, Virginia; died after 1735.
3. James Davenport was born about 1719 in King William Virginia; died on 25 Dec 1803 in Oglethorpe Co, Georgia .
4. Glover Davenport was born about 1719 in King William Co, Virginia; died about 1785 in Bedford Co, or Franklin Co, Virginia.
5. Martin Davenport, Jr was born about 1720 in King William Co, Virginia; died after 1735.
6. David Davenport was born about 1724 in King William Co, Virginia; died in 1803 in Cumberland Co, Virginia.
7. Crotia "Crosha" Davenport was born about 1727 in King William Co, Virginia; died after 1747 in of Hanover Co, Virginia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 30 Mar 1704, King William Co, Virginia

Notes:

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THE DAVENPORTS (Deavenports)
The Davenport name was one of the earliest surnames in Britian, dating back to the conquest of William I when he awarded them land titles. Actually, Davenport is an English place named from Davenport, Cheshire, England. Various Davenports ented America, as early as the 1600s. The early history pertaining to this line of Davenports is unclear at this time. By 20 July 1639, a Lancelot Davenport was granted land in James City, Virginia. Furthermore, on 10 December 1668, a Jno Davenport was transported to New Kent County, Virginia. In 1677 and 1683, Richard and Edward also were transported to the same county. By 1701, Susannah, George, William, and other Davenports were also being transported to this area. Davis or David Davenport (16 ) was located in King William County, Virginia on the 1704 Quit Rent Rolls where he leased 200 acres of land. One of his children, Martin Davenport, Sr., also leased 100 acres of land in the same county and time period.

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Note bef 1660 According to John Scott Davenport of the Pamunkey Davenports website: 'The major problem relative to identification of Pamunkey Davenport ancestry before Davis Davenport today lies in the family having emerged from a Seventeenth Century record limbo of an Indian reservation into a Twentieth Century Virginia records void. The [... early] records of New Kent, King & Queen, King William, Caroline, and Hanover counties, crucial to Pamunkey Davenport identification, have largely been destroyed by courthouse fires of one sort or another. ... Yet we know, by Virginia Patent records, that there was a Davenport presence (female) in the Pamunkey Neck as early as 1650, ... that as soon as the Neck ceased to be Indian in 1701 and King William County was created, there was a Davenport Path of some antiquity noted in several surveys, and that Davis and his son Martin were listed as small acreage freeholders (land owners) there in 1704. ... [T]he evidence is that Davis Davenport and his son Martin, whose presence in the Neck are proven, were of the pioneer yeomanry, who achieved by their own labor, and not of the Cavalier, great planter aristocracy who had indentured servants and slaves to do their work.'

Birth c 1660 Davis Davenport was born c 1660. According to John Scott Davenport's Pamunkey Davenport Chronicles (see website: http://www.pamunkeydavenport.com/ The two Davenports appearing by Time and Place in Virginia records most likely to have been Davis' immigrant parent were apparently single women, namely Hannah, transportee of 1650, or Anne, transportee of 1658. ... As uncomfortable as the thought might be -- although the America of the Twenty-First Century is more amenable in its judgmental morality to accepting such a possibility -- the Pamunkey Davenports may descend from a female immigrant ancestor, whose son became the patriarch of a family bearing the Davenport surname although his father may have had the surname of Davis. ... The possibility that Davis Davenport was the bastard child of either Hannah Davenport or Anne Davenport, given the lack of a male parental candidate, is real. If Martin was age 21 in 1704 (his appearance on a Quit Rent List was prima facie evidence that he was an adult), he was born 1683 or before. If Davis is accorded the same minimum of 21 years of age (25 years is accepted in formal genealogical estimates) before fathering Martin, then Davis himself was born c1662 or before. This scenario would fit Anne of 1758 comfortably. Assume older ages for both Davis and Martin, and the scenario would fit Hannah comfortably. The problem with both of the most viable male candidates for the honor of having been Davis' father is that each appears in the records uncomfortably late for either of the Davis-Martin age scenarios of John Davenport in 1668, Richard in 1677. Labored rationalization is required to force a fit for either. ...[T]he practice of giving bastard sons their fathers' surnames as given names also existed -- particularly where the father acknowledged the child. Hence, Davis Davenport, if born out of wedlock, may well have had a Davis father (there were a number of Davis possibilities early in or near the Neck in proximity to Hannah and Anne). ... We would note that Graves Family descendants claim Anne Davenport, born c1696, and who married Thomas Graves, as their matriarch, and believe and claim that Anne was a daughter of Davis Davenport. (Thomas Graves and his wife Anne play major roles in the Pamunkey Davenport chronology that follows.). Then too, Anne Davenport, transportee of 1758, was associated with land no more than four miles from where Davis Davenport first appeared in Virginia records thirty-eight years later (1696). The Bar Sinister scenario is speculative, but must be advanced as one hypothesis of Pamunkey Davenport origin.1'
http://www.pamunkeybakers.com/p18.htm

Residence:
Davis Davenport was listed on the 1704 Quit Rent Rolls for King William County VA, assessed for 200 acres

Davis* married Ann* Woodruff about 1680. Ann* was born about 1660; died after 1710. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]