Date |
Record |
Source |
| 1665 Oct 3 | Mrs.
Rachel Davenport, as attorney to her husband Mr. Humphrey Davenport and
in her right as heir of Major William Holmes, sued Thomas Little
£600
for "detaining estate of lands and building on them."
(Thomas Little had bought farmland in Marshfield which had belonged to Major William Holmes, deceased, and the court ordered in 1662 that in view of his many improvements of the land, if anyone should show better title in the future, such person would have to pay him for his improvements.) On 1 May 1666, the court ruled that Little should pay Davenport £15. |
Plymouth Colony Records. 4:16, 4:113, 4:119-20, 7:126-127. |
| 1667 Aug | "Mrs Rachell
Dauenport being convicted of Playing at Cardes and Suffering others to
play at Cards in her house and for enterteineing Elisha Bridges
unseasonably is Adjudged to pay for her offene therein 50s to
ye Publ: Treasury." The following October, Elisha Bridges was found guilty of setting fire to his master's house, playing at cards, and "lasciuious & prophane writing to Mrs Rachell dauenporte." |
Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Minutes. Volumes 3 and 4. 1663-1687, 1697. Helen Schatvet Ullmann, ed. NEHGS. Boston, MA, 2005. |
| 1668 Sep | Humphrey Dauenport sued by John Plumbe and Hugh Roe for moneys due for service. | Hartford County, Connecticut,
County Court Minutes. Volumes 3 and 4. 1663-1687, 1697. Helen Schatvet
Ullmann, ed. NEHGS. Boston, MA, 2005.
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| "DAVENPORT Humphrey, Dorchester, came from Barbados, m. Rachel, d. of Thomas Holmes, had Richard; rem. to Hartford, there had William; and in 1667 his w. was convict. of playing cards. They rem. to New York, where greater laxity might be indulg. in." | Genealogical
Dictionary of New England Settlers by James Savage 1860
No sources |
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| "DAVENPORT William, Hartford, s. of Humphrey, left by his f. to care of Capt. Thomas Watts, was a carpenter, had w. Elizabeth." | Genealogical
Dictionary of New England Settlers by James Savage 1860
No sources [Note: Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Minutes refers to a child "giuen unto Capt Tho. Watts as his own child or to be grought up by said Watts as his owne child." The child, son of Tho: Harris, died soon after the death of Captain Thomas Watts and the estate was sued by Thomas Harris for breach of covenant in 1684.] |
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| 1669/70 Mar | "The Court appoynts the Secretary in the name of the Court to write to Mr [Umphry] Dauenporte of New Yorke to excite him to make payment of Twenty five Pounds due to John Plumb." | Hartford County, Connecticut,
County Court Minutes. Volumes 3 and 4. 1663-1687, 1697. Helen Schatvet
Ullmann, ed. NEHGS. Boston, MA, 2005.
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| 1684 Feb 14 |
William Davenport witness to will of Elizabeth Watts. | A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District 1677 to 1687. Manwaring, Charles William, 1906. |
| 1695 | "William Davenport, of Hartford, first wife Elizabeth Nichols. She died February 19, 1697, aged 27. By her he had one child only, William." | Genealogical Notes or
Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of
Connecticut and Massachusetts, Nathaniel Goodwin. 1856.
No sources |
| 1698 Dec 27 | William Davenport bought land from James Watson. | Hartford Land Records. Book 1, page 184 |
| 1702 | "Ann Edwards married
William Davenport, first of Hartford,
Conn., then of Stonington, Conn., and afterwards, of Coventry, Conn."
|
Genealogical Notes or
Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of
Connecticut and Massachusetts, Nathaniel Goodwin. 1856.
No sources |
| 1704 | William Davenport relaid the church floor. | Commemorative exercises of the First Church of Christ in Hartford: at its two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, 1883 |
| 1706 May 20 | William Davenport sold land to Richard Seamor. | Hartford Land Records. Book 1, page 398 |
| "Children of William Davenport
of Coventry, Hartford, CT: William, b. 1696 |
From various pedigrees. No sources |
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| 1742 | "Mr. William Davenport died in Coventry, June 29, 1742, in the 77th year of his age." | Genealogical Notes or
Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of
Connecticut and Massachusetts, Nathaniel Goodwin. 1856.
No sources |
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