I've included some information four Davenport cousins have compiled over the last several years on John and Margaret and their four known
children trying to document our Davenport line. Please check the
references. Some has been handed down by earlier relatives, some we've found in family genealogies in Lancaster county's Mary Ball Library, abstracts, etc. Personally, I think more information might be found in Richmond County. The land old John Davenport owned seems to be more in Richmond county than in Lancaster as well as some in Middlesex that was part of Lancaster at one time.
I included the Grigg will below as one researcher with website indicates that Margaret was a Griggs and that the proof comes from Mr. Griggs'
will.
If there is the term "love and affection" in Simon Murphy's will
referring to John Jr & George, we've been told by a respected researcher in Northumberland county, that there is usually a family relationship.
It would be wonderful if you have the key to Margaret ? Davenport's parentage or another link for old John.
There should be other Davenport researchers on the Lancaster list and you may hear from them as well.
Husband: JOHN DAVENPORT
Birth: Before 1637 Place: England 17
Death: Before 12 March 1683/1684 Place: Lancaster Co Will Probated
Marriage: Before 1672 17
Wife: MARGARET UNKNOWN
Birth: Before 1653 17 Place: England
Death: After 1679 17 Place: England or Virginia
Children...
1. M Child: JOHN DAVENPORT
Birth: Before 1671
2. M Child: GEORGE DAVENPORT
Birth: Circa 1673 17 Place: Lancaster Co., VA
Death: 3 March 1734 17 Place: Richmond Co., VA
Spouse: RUTH SYDNOR
Marriage: Before 12 April 1693
3. M Child: FORTUNATUS DAVENPORT 17
Spouse: SUSANNAH 17 ?
4. M Child: WILLIAM DAVENPORT
Death: About 9 January 1716 17 Place: Lancaster Co. Will Recorded 220 Spouse: RACHEL WOOD
Husband's Notes...
Notes:
DEATH: 1683 THE PAYNES FROM VIRGINIA P 482
DEATH:
Library of Virginia
http://eagle.vsla.edu.egi.bin/torrence/html
Death: will probated 12 Mar 1683/1684
will written 14 Mar 1683/1684 17 (This is incorrect; have
not corrected in data)
Lancaster Co. Orders 1656-1666 court 4 Feb 1656 court to Mr. Rowland Lawson for transport of "John Davenport & Peter Bayly. 27
Lancaster County Deeds Book #4 page 60 Rowland Lawson of Parish of
Christ Church, Lancaster Co. gave his younger brother, Henry Lawson, i/e plantation which Mr. John Davenport is now possessed with, 13 Feb 1668/9 wit. Fortunatus Sydnor & Edward Carter, recorded 15 Feb 1668/9 27
Lancaster County Order #3A1666-1680 27
Court 9 May 1666
Page 2
Nicholas George discharged as constable an Ralph Horton appointed; Hugh Brent discharged and John Davenport appointed
page 238 Court 15 Nov 1672 27
Certificate to John Davenport for the transport of Anthony Dalbye,
Richard Bennbell, William Reynolds, Lewys Rice, James Garpot, Wm.
Robinson, Knight Richison, George Kersupp, Rebecca Gregory, Anne
Jefferie, Alice Child, Margaret Cherber, and Patience Wain
Lancaster County virginia Wills 1653-1800
Willbook #5 pg 92 Will Feb 1683/4 Dec 15 March 1683 27
John Davenport, with the consent of his wife Margaret, of the county of Lancaster for 5,500 pounds tobacco sold land to Richard Barber. South side of Rappahannock County three miles from the river and near
Occupancy Creek. 8 June 1671 (old Rappahannock Co., Va Deed Book
1668-1672, pg 231 41
[Pullen010502.FTW]
Robert Griggs, the father of Ruth Mottrom, was a justice of the peace for Lancaster County in 1669 and other years. His will dated 23rd Jan.
1683-84, was proved 12 March 1683-4, and an abstract is as follows: WILL OF ROBERT GRIGGS Gives 2000 pds of tobacco to those that are truly
poore, due me in this parish. Such persons that hat a charge of children now, and are honest painstakers, which I leave my said executors to judge & c. Legacies to John Davenport and Rowland Lawson whom he stood for, and to William Carter and Elizabeth Russell. Mulatto woman name Molley to be free, to have a heifer and three bbls. of corn upon her freedom, and afterwards a cotton suit and house and ground to live and plant upon during her continuance and living with her husband; frees his negroes; Son Mitchell to have 1/2 pt. of his estate in Virginia, and the other half to go to his daughter Ruth Mottrom and her heirs; Said Ruth to have all my land at Winter harbor, Gloucester County; his child! ren failing to survive, one third of his property to go to the parish where he now lives, and the rest to Elizabeth Carter, the daughter of Col.
John Carter, dated 23, Jan. 1683, and proved 12th Mar. 1683.
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=timmychew&id=
I031623#s3
Reference Note 17
rufus barnes3.FTW 6/20/99
Reference Note 27
Heale, Davenport, Luttrell file
Reference Note 41
Genforum post of Rick S. Thomas 3/11/2001
Reference Note 220
Abstracts of Lancaster County, Va, Wills 1653-1800
Ida J. Lee, The Dietz Press, Richmond, Va 1959
Hope this will yield some clues. Old John's will has not been
transcribed by us. I have a copy from Lancaster Courthouse but....Mr.
Stretchley, the clerk, has handwriting that is horrible and it appears that the ink wasn't dry on the opposite side of the paper when he put the will in the the records. It's slow work...we can read easily his wife Margaret, and four boys.
P M Cantrell
[Notes on George Davenport]
1704 Richmond Co, VA OB4:p. 107 / Ordered that Charles DODSON, William SMOOTE and George DEVENPORT or any two of them sometime betweene this and the next Court held for this County do meet att the house of James GILBERT, deced & do then and there Inventory all and singular the estate of ye sd deced and make report of theire proceedings therein to the said next Court under theire hands in writing. Capt. John TARPLEY is requested to administer an oath to Mary, the wife of the said James, as also to the Exr. of the said deced for the true discovery of the said deceds Estate as also the persons above named for theire true inventorying ther. (Extracted by Michael Ule from Richmond County Order Book Number 4, 1704-1708 (VA County Court Records, Antient Press, McLean VA 1996, http://www.usgennet.org/family/smoot/va/richmond/richmond-1.html)
The will of Matthew Marks of Martins Brandon Parish, dated Aug. 15, 1719 and probated at Merchants Hope Oct. 13, 1719, leaves land to Edward, son of Edward Marks; to John Robyson; to Israel and Edward Robinson; to John Marks, son of Israel marks; to his daughter Mary Davenport; states that Robert Norden (the Baptist Minister mentioned above) is to have a room reserved for him in the house as long as he remains in Virginia and is to have the plantation until Edward Marks comes of age; and appoints Robert Norden and John Avery executors (D. & W. HM., 1713-28, p. 358). An account of the estate in 1720 shows that the daughter was the wife of George Davenport, and mentions a parcel of books "belonging to the Baptist ministcr, not belonging to Marks (p. 47m). It is unfortunate that the will mentions no relationships except the daughter, Mary Davenport.
http://jrshelby.com/rfotw/robinson.txt
http://jrshelby.com/rfotw/robinson.txt
The will of Matthew Marks of Martins Brandon Parish, dated Aug. 15, 1719 and probated at Merchants Hope Oct. 13, 1719, leaves land to Edward, son of Edward Marks; to John Robyson; to Israel and Edward Robinson; to John Marks, son of Israel marks; to his daughter Mary Davenport; states that Robert Norden (the Baptist Minister mentioned above) is to have a room reserved for him in the house as long as he remains in Virginia and is to have the plantation until Edward Marks comes of age; and
appoints Robert Norden and John Avery executors (D. & W. HM., 1713-28, p. 358). An account of the estate in 1720 shows that the daughter was the wife of George Davenport, and mentions a parcel of books "belonging to the Baptist ministcr, not belonging to Marks (p. 47m). It is
unfortunate that the will mentions no relationships except the
daughter, Mary Davenport. However, it seems practically certain that the Marks and Roberson legatees were grandsons. The legatee, Edward Narks, was the son of an Edward Marks who died prior to 1714, his widow Martha in that year being the wife of James Bell (O.B. 1714-28, p. 6).
She was a sister of William Santain, whose Will, dated Dec. 31, 1716 and probated May 14, 1717, mentions his wife; Iames Bell and martha hfs wife ("my sister")i and her children, Edward Marks and James Bell (D. &
W. Bk. 1713-28, p. 162). John Marks, the other Marks legatee, was the son of Israel Marks who died in 1718, and his wife Elizabeth, who was a daughter of Richard Pigeon, who also died in 1718 (D. & W. Bk. 1713-28, pp 258 & 288). Edward Marks, Sr. and Israel Marks were almost certainly sons of Matthew Marks. The names Israel and Edward Roberson among the legatees, the fact that Israel Roberson's eldest son was named Matthew, and the fact that the three Roberson brothers were left together 200 acres of land (the same as Edward Marks and the daughter Mary
Davenport), indicate very strongly that their mother was a daughter of Matthew Marks, who had predeceased her father.
[Southwark Parish Petition signed by George Davenport, 1717]
[Surry County, Virginia, Historical Society and Museums, Inc.]
[http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaschsm/S2000v2n4p3.html]
These are to certifty whom it may concerne that the house of Thomas Sorby in the parish of Southwark in the county of Sury in Virginia being in the Northern part of America in the west Indiaes and in the Dioces of John Lord Bishope of London Is designed to be set Apart and Appointed for Aplace of Religeous Worshipe for prodistant desenters from the Church of England calling themselves Baptissess as wittness our hands this sixth day of May Anno Domoni: 1717
Robert Norden & {
Thomas Harrison {ministers
Mathew Marks
Israell Markes
John Averey
William Dredge
Richard Winckles
George Davenport
Regred Sept 20th 1717
Notes on Martins Brandon
Symon Sturges, John Sadler, & Richard Quincy of London Merchants
Augt. 5, 1643. 4,550 acres. Commonly called and known by the name of Martin Brandon lying betwixt Chippokes Creek and Wards Creek.
http://www.robertson-ancestry.com/1-gs.htm
Holtzclaw writes that 11 John, 12 Israel, and 13 Edward Roberson were "grandsons of Matthew Marks of Martins Brandon Parish, Prince George Co." John Ewen received land for "...the Importation of Seven persons to dwell within...[the] Colony of Virginia whose names are Matthew Markes, Mary Markes, Edw. Markes, John Markes, Israel Markes, Sarah Markes, and Wm. Townsin...," and the Marks will establishes that Mathew Marks'
daugher, Mary, married a man named Davenport.
Lawne`s Creek which flows into the James River just below Hog Island.
George Davenport
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cabyers/margaret e keisling/a9.htm George DAVENPORT, son of John DAVENPORT and Margaret (DAVENPORT), was born about 1660.
George Davenport Will, NFP, 22 Sep 1734, 3 MAr 1734/35
He had an estate probated on 3 Mar 1735 in Richmond Co., VA
[One Simon Murphey died about 1673 and left estate to George Davenport and his brother John, Jr. Later, another Simon Murphy is b. abt. 1690 in Surry Co., had plantation in 1720 Surry, and is in Albermarle Parish records beginning 1730's.
Albermarle Parish formed from Southwark & Lawnes Creek Parish- What is the connection? -mm]
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