Re: Thomas Davenport (d -1685)
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Re: Thomas Davenport (d -1685)
8/04/00
Hi, Jerry, that's a very good website you have. We share about 20 or so families on your list. My Davenport connection is through Hannah (b.1742), wife of George Wood,daughter of Eliphalet4 (Thomas3, Jonathan2, Thomas1) Davenport and Ann Devol.
My source, Benjamin F. Wilbour's "Little Compton Families" doesn't show a Samuel5 (John4) either, but you never know, the record-keeping was often sloppy, Tiverton's records were particularly inept at the time.
Wilbour has Edward6 Davenport, same d.o.b., with the notation "moved to Utah." Did he go to Utah before he moved to Oregeon? He had a brother, Jeremiah6, with the notation "perished at sea" and his half-nephew, Peleg Burroughs7 (Peleg6, Rev. Jeremiah5 etc.), born 1836, who died at the battle of Fredericksburg.
I grew up in Little Compton and so have an interest in the early families there. Jonathan2 Davenport, our mutual ancestor, is buried in the Old Commons cemetery. He was a carpenter, and built a "stone ender" at the corner of Brownell Rd. and Long Pasture Rd, which unfortunately was torn down about 1870; his may have been the last to survive in the town. This architectural form was unique to Rhode Island; the chimney formed one entire gable end of the house, and thus the name.
One more little tidbit of architectural connections is that Robert1 Taylor, a ropemaker, grandfather of the wife of John3 Davenport,owned the land at Ochre Point in Newport where "the Breakers" mansion now stands.
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