Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy married John Browning before 1770. John was born in 1746 in Virginia; died in 1818 in Giles, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 1778, Burke Co, North Carolina

Notes:

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".

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I10227

Property:
1778 Burke Co.,NC Thomas Davenport granted 120 acres "on Toe River" is the mouth of a small creek.


Died:
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"

Thomas married Mrs. Dorothy (M.?) (..) Davenport in 1732 in Hanover Co, Virginia. Dorothy was born in 1712 in King William Co, Virginia; died before 1810 in Burke Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

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]