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Descendants of Edward Davenport


Generation No. 2


2. FRANCIS2 DAVENPORT (EDWARD1) was born 1651 in Salford, Cheshire, England, and died February 01, 1706/07 in Burlington, New Jersey. He married (1) ALICE QUICKSALL February 08, 1670/71 in Hault, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England. He married (2) SARAH BROWNE February 08, 1677/78 in Leicester Friends Meeting, England. She was born Abt. 1650 in Probably Derbyshire, England, and died April 14, 1691 in Burlington, New Jersey. He married (3) REBECCA WHITTEN August 12, 1692 in Burlington, New Jersey. She was born 1654, and died July 29, 1705 in Crosswicks, Burlington County, New Jersey.

Notes for FRANCIS DAVENPORT:
*From Colonial & Revolutionary Lineages of America, Vol 9, p165,
The Family In America
Francis Davenport, son of Edward and Ellen (Newton) Davenport, was born, probably in Cheshire, England in 1651, and died, probably in New Jersey, about 1707, He was a member of the Society of Friends and lived, for some years, in Whittington, Derbyshire. As early as 1689( 1684 he was in Census Index, Colonial America at Chesterfield) he settled in Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey. He evidently was held in esteem by his neighbors and friends, as his name is frequently found as a trustee of estates, and as executor or overseer of wills, and was also appointed guardian several times. He was a member of Lord Cornbury's Council in New Jersey. The following is from Besse's "Sufferings of the Quakers": 'Anno 1677. For a meeting held in the house of Francis Davenport on the 17th of Month called February, this year, goods were taken by a Warrant from Francis Burton, Justice....From Francis Davenport, £8-10." NOTE: (Compiler yesterday, 29th day of October 1999 was able to see and read page 143, Chapter ten, Volume one, DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND of Joseph Besse' two volumes of 1753 "Sufferings of the Quakers" and found this meeting should read "ANNO 1677 at the house of Francis Davenport AT WHITTINGTON, on the 17th etc.) (Alice Quicksall, 1st wife of Francis Davenport had most likely died by then as Francis married at DERBYSHIRE, England, Sarah Browne shortly thereafter.) Francis was 26 years old at that time and they were still in Derbyshire until at least 1682 when the 3rd child was born there.
Francis Davenport married (first) at Hault Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England, August 2, 1671, Alice Quicksall. He married (second) at Leicester Friends Meeting, England, 8 mo, 30, 1678, Sarah Brown, who died 4 mo, 14, 1691. He married (third), 7 mo, 1, 1692, Rebecca (Whitton) Decow, widow, of Isaac Decow, of New Castle County, Pennsylvania.
* FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, VOL XXVll, p 340-343.
FRIENDS AND THEIR MEETING HOUSES AT CROSSWICKS, NEW JERSEY BY JOSEPH S. MIDDLETON The next that arrived was the "Shield," from Hull, which came up the river and landed at Burlington in Tenth month, 1678.
A large portion of these passengers were Friends from England, who settled in Pennsylvania and adjacent parts of West New Jersey.
Thomas Foulke, Samuel and John Bunting, Francis Davenport, Thomas Gilberthorpe, Thomas Lambert, William Satterthwaite, William Black, Samuel Taylor, and others, migrated eastward from the different landings and formed a settlement among the Indians on the Cross-weeks-ung, or divided creek (Crosswicks).
The Friends established a crossing on the farm of Francis Davenport, now occupied by Walter Bird, known as the David Rulon or Job Sutterly farm. This was called "Davenport's crossing," or the upper ford, the lower ford being near where the Camden and Amboy Railroad crosses the creek below Yardville, near the junction of Doctor's Creek with Crosswicks Creek.
In 1684 the meeting was held at the house of Francis Davenport. Prior to the erection of a meeting-house it was the custom to hold meetings for worship in the house of some Friend in the neighborhood.
On the "2nd of ye 8th mo., 1684," the monthly meeting was established and held at the house of Francis Davenport. The record is signed by John Wilford, Francis Davenport and William Watson, and recorded as "Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Friends," by which name it is known at the present time.
"At a monthly meeting held at the house of Francis Davenport, ye 7th of ye 11th mo. 1685 it was directed that deeds of Trust for the burying ground at Chesterfield be made from Thomas Foulke, Grantor, to Francis Davenport, Samuel Bunting, John Bunting, Thomas Gilberthorpe, Roger Parks and Robert Wilson."
CHESTERFIELD MM. Pg 15 - "7th day 12 mo 1687 - Friends appointed John Horner, Robert
wilson, Francis Davenport, Edward Rork, San Bunty and John Bunty to
attend the Quarterly Meeting."
At ye meeting held at Francis Davenport's ye 7th of ye 11 mo. 1691, Francis Davenport, Samuel Andrews, William Wood, Samuel Bunting and Thomas Gilberthorpe, are appointed to treat with carpenters about building a meeting house at or near the Grave Yard in Chesterfield
At a monthly meeting held ye 7th. of ye 1st. mo. 1706 it is considered at this meeting that it is necessary that a meeting house be built, and pursuant thereunto, this meeting appoints Francis Davenport and William Wood to care about the letting of Forty thousand bricks to be made in order thereto. They reported ye 2nd of ye 3rd mo. 1706 that they agreed with William Mott for 40,000 bricks for 40 Pounds, and John Farnsworth for 200 bushels of lime. At the meeting in the 11th mo. Samuel Bunting, Francis Davenport, William Wood, John Tantum, Thomas Lambert, and Robert Wilson were appointed to agree with some carpenter for doing ye carpenter work of ye meeting house proposed to be built."
William Wood was appointed to give notice to workman that Friends are ready to treat with them about ye bricklaying, &c, and Friends appointed to make agreements are Samuel Bunting, Francis Davenport, John Tantum, William Wood and Thomas Lambert.

CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP HERITAGE, BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY. 1964. Crosswicks, Chesterfield and Sykesville. p20.
Francis Davenport md. (1) Sarah Brown
(2) Rebecca (Whitten) Decou, wid Isaac of Burlington City,
N.J.
ch Sarah md. Gervas Hall, school teacher
Anne md. Isaac DeCou, Jr.
Bridget
Francis d before 1721 md. 1708 Martha (Newbury) of Boston.
Abigal md. Thomas Spicer
Hester
Isaac
Rebecca
Thomas
Francis Davenport was certainly the most outstanding leader. We find his name 33 times in early wills as Executor, witness, inventories, guardian of minor children, etc. Chesterfield meetings before the Meeting House was built were held at his home. The first meeting books and some historians say he organized the Chesterfield Meeting at Crosswicks in 1682. He was one of the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey, Justice of the Peace & one of the Governor's Council 1702.
In his will he provided for the schooling of his children and a legacy to the Meeting House. In the inventory, a silver tumbler, silver buttons, eight silver spoons were listed, indications of wealth for those days. Another item " debts due by Indians" listed 23 pounds, 16 shillings, 5 1/2 pence , showing his generosity. Thirteen years later, an auction showed among other items that Nathan Allen bought a servant, Robert Dale for 13 pounds. Debts were 601 pounds. By 1727 an account of the estate showed administrator costs at 398 pounds which the administrator relinquished saying " left with the widow for her use which I could not in humanity, divest her of, being so necessary to her and children.
*FROM A PHOTOGRAPHED COPY OF A CERTIFICATE CONSISTING OF TYPEWRITTEN ENTRIES ON A PRINTED FORM. NUMBERED 274 AT THE LEFT AND S.R. 75339/27 AT THE RIGHT, READING THUS: - "Whereas the agreement and intention of marriage between us ffrancis Davenport of Whittington, in the County of Darby Millener, and Sara Browne, dt. of Ann Browne of Broughton of the County of Leicester, hath been several times openly published in the churches unto which we belong and no objection made against us. Now the said ffrancis and Sarah have this day openly and solemnly as in the presence of the Lord and in the Assembly of his people taken each other in marriage to live together as man and wife ought to do according to God's divine ordinance and appointment. And for a testimony thereof we have hereunto set our hands this thirtieth day of the eighth month in the year one thousand six hundred and seventy eight, ffrancis Davenport Sara Browne
Certified to be an Extract from the Register or Record numbered 1209 B. Leicester Marriages Births and Burials formerly kept by the Society of Friends at the Monthly Meeting of Leicestershire and to be a true copy on an entry contained in the General Register Office under....An act for enabling Courts of Justice to admit non-Parochial Registers as evidence of birth or baptism, deaths or burials and marriages. Given at the General Register Office, Somerset House, 23rd day of Dec. 1927....Justice Collection, D Vol 7-9; Davenport.
Francis Davenport, son of Edward and Ellen (Newton) Davenport, b 1651; aged 13 in 1664. d. ca 1707. The ancestry is covered for several generations.
*HISTORY OF BURLINGTON AND MERCER COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY. 1883 p 277
DAVENPORT-----Francis Davenport, of Whittington, in Derbyshire, England, came to Burlington in 1683, with his wife, Sarah, and three daughters born at Whittington,---Sarah, Anne, and Bridget. He located on a tract of seventy-seven acres of land on Crosswicks Creek, adjoining and to the east of Thomas Foulke's, about three-quarters of a mile east of the village of Crosswicks. On it he built his cabin, not far from the third ford of the creek. Here he opened a store, receiving his goods by water from Burlington, where he doubtless disposed of the produce received from the settlers and the skins, etc., from the Indians. We find in Revell's "Book of Surveys," page 90, 1st mo. 1691, "Surveyed there for Francis Davenport one parcell of land adjoining to his former settlement, containing seventy-seven acres, the two tracts contayning together 677 acres besides allowance for Highways at five acres per hundred."
He took a leading part in the religious and political affairs of the community, and his name may be found in many public matters of public interest whereby the welfare of the settlement was to be advanced. In religious matters he was a consistent and faithful member of his profession. He was one of the three signers to the preface of the Friends' first book of records of Chesterfield. In these records are numerous notices of his being appointed and important committee, among which was to contract for the building of the first frame meeting-house at Crosswicks in 1691. In 1688 he, along with Andrew Robison, Samuel Jennings, William Biddle, Mahlon Stacy, and others, was a member of the Council of Proprietors for the government of West Jersey. He was also one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace for Burlington County in 1700. In 1692, Sarah his wife, died, and he was again married, and in 1707 he died, and was buried at Crosswicks. He had children born in this country by his first wife,--Francis, Abigal, and Hester; by his second wife he had Isaac and Rebecca. At this date (1882) the once numerous family of Davenports have become nearly extinct.
*DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF NEW JERSEY, VOL 23,
CALENDER OF WILLS, VOL 1 1670-1730
DAVENPORT, FRANCIS, of Chesterfield, Burlington Co.; will of. Sons---Francis and Isaac (under 21); daughters---Sarah Hall, Anne, wife of Isaac Decow, who has son Joseph Decow, Abigal, Esther and Rebecca Davenport, the last not yet 18, daughter-in-law Susanna Field; legacies to the Meeting House, Jno. Leeson, Tho: Miller and Moses Pettit. Son Isaac to go to school for one year. Son Francis sole executor with the assistance of Thomas Lambert and son-in-law Isaac Decow. Home farm at Crosswicks Creek, lot in Burlington; silver buttons, a small silver tumbler. Witnesses--John Bunting, Samuel Butcher and Joseph Reckless. Proved April 16, 1707.
1707 15th d. 2d m. (April). Inventory of the personal estate, £1692.-13.41/4 incl. a silver tumbler of 2 3/4 oz. weight £1.2.-, 2 do. cups, 8 do. spoons and some broken plate, in all 411/4 oz. £16.10.-, 3 old bibles, bills and bonds £373-9.1, book debts £601.16.ll, and debts due by Indians £23.16.51/2; made by Peter Frettwell, Isaac Marriott, Edward Rockhill and John Tantum.
1720 Nov 14 and 15. List of goods of, sold at auction by Isaac Norris, the administrator of the estate, to Edward Beak, Josiah Key, Thomas Foulke, Robert Mongomery, 14 head of neat cattle £26, Nathan Allen the servant man Robert Dale £13.10, Robert Rowe, a young mare £5.11, Wm. Satterwait, Thomas Lambert, John Lawrence, Robert Chapman, Anthony Bunting, John Laning, Gabrall Still, Daniel Beach, James Dunbdein, Samuel Bunting, Jacob Large, Gerrard Eddge, Richard Ellison, Henry Nailbord, William Wood, Tho: Wetherell, Tho: Shreve, John Middleton, Joseph King, Wm. Thorn, A'm Cook; the sale bringing in £199.19.9.
1727 Aug. 8. Account of the estate,£434.7.ll, by the administrator, Isaac Norris, who charges himself with same, Left w'th the Widdow for her use, which I could not in humanity Divest her off, being So necessary to her & Children," and is himself a creditor of the deceased to the amount of £398.19.ll.
*EARLY CHURCH RECORDS of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol 2 p44
3rd da, 2nd mo, 1707. Francis Davenport deceased.
WILL OF FRANCIS DAVENPORT:
Chesterfield the 15th of the dwelfth month 1706 I Francis Davenport of Chesterfield in ye county of Burlington & Province of Nova Cesaria being weak of body but of sound & perfect memory praise be therefore given to Almighty God do make and ordain this my present last Will & Testamt in Manner & form following, yt is to say first & Principally I give my Soul & Spirit to God yt gave it & my body to be buried among ye People caller Quakers: with whom I am in true Unity.
*And as touching ye Disposition of my Temporal Estate which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me I give & dispose thereof as followeth.
Imprs I will that all my just Debts & Funeral Expenses be discharged by my Ezecuts hereafter named.
Item I give to my Son ffrancis Davenport ye Plantation where I now dwell beginning at Crosswicks Creek & so back into ye Woods till it Contain three hundred Acres: & fifteen acres of Meadow out of that called ye great meadow to be Surveyed in one place with all ye buildings & Improvements & Orcharss belonging to ye aforesaid three hundred & fifteen Acres of Land & ye remaining pt of ye Land on ye other side of ye creek not given to Sarah Hall & one small tract of Land lying between Tho: Wright & Robert Wright's, containing ab: twenty Eight Acres as by ye Survey & one small tract of Land lying by Joseph Stewards adjoining to ye Scotch line containing fifty Six Acres more or less: all which I give to him his Heirs & Assigns forever.
And what Land falls to me by Virture of Propriety not yet taken up I give to my two Sons equally to be divided: to them their Heirs & Assigns forever.
Item I give to my son Isaac Davenport ye remaining pt of ye Tract of Land where I now dwell containing five hundred Acres more or less & one small lot lying in Burlington to him his Heirs & Assigns forever.
Item I give my two Sons each a set of Silver buttons which I commonly wear.
Item I give to my daughter Sarah Hall a Tract of Land on ye other side the Creek whereon they now dwell containing One Hundred & fifty Acres more or less with a p'cell of meadow joyning on Tho. Gilborthorps containing Eight Acres more or less to her Heirs & Assigns forever & all those goods she had of me soon after she was Married & also all ye Debt in my book as it now stands amounting to seventy-five pounds fifteen shills & nine pence & forty shills p. annum during her life to be pd by my Executs out of my plantation.
Item I give to my daughter Ann Decow fifty four pounds one shilling & ninety-five pounds nineteen shills she hath already had as by my books appears which makes up one hundred & fifty pounds to be pd twelve months after my decease & five pounds p. annum during her life all to be pd by my Executs & I give my grand Son Joseph Decow twenty pounds to be pd when he shall attain ye age of twenty one years.
I give to my three daughters Abigal, Esther & Rebecca each one hundred & Seventy five pounds & to my daughter Rebecca ye bed & furniture & set of Drawers ye were her Mothers all to be pd by my Executs hereafter named as they shall attain ye age of twenty one years, & my will is yt my daughter Rebecca live with Isaac Decow or with such other as my Executs may see meet & she be satisfied with & she find her all necessaries, for which she shall have eight pounds p. annum till she attain ye age of Eighteen to be pd by my Executs out of ye interest of her portion.
Item I have subscribed twent pounds towards the Meeting house wch I would have pd provided it be carried on as proposed.
Item I give my daughter -in-law Susannah Field five pounds to be pd within a year after my decease.
Item I give to Jno Leeson all ye debts he oweth me in my Books to this day: I give Tho: Miller Forty shills & Moses Petit thirty shills. And my will is yt my Son Isaac Davenport go one year to School & ye charges to be pd by my Executs & if his brother & he do not agree to live together then my Will is that he be put out to some Convenient trade such as his brother with the Executs in trust may think fit.:
I give my Son-In-Law Isaac Decow one small Silver Tumbler.
Item I give ye rest of my Real & Personal Estate be it what or where it will I give to my two Sons Francis & Isaac to be equally divided between them, my son Isaac Davenport not to be pd his pt till he Attain ye age of twenty-one years. And in case any of my children dye before they attain ye age of twenty-one years their part to be equally divided among ye Survivors. And for the just Execution of this my last Will I do make & ordain my beloved son Francis Davenport full & sole Executr of this my last Will & Testament & do desire my trusty & well beloved frd Thomas Lambert & my son-in-law Isaac Decow to assist my Executr.
In the Execution of this my last Will & further my will is yt Tho. Lambert & Isaac Decow shall be pd for their Time & Trouble yt they shall be at on yt acct. & I give each of them five pounds to be pd within a year after my decease. And my desire is that my Son may not act in any matter of weight without ye advice of Tho. Lambert & Isaac Decow & ye rest of Friends.
(signed)
cis
ffran Davenport (seal)
The Davenport Seal
NOTES CONTINUED FROM FRANCIS DAVENPORT SR:
FROM: A HISTORY OF TRENTON 1679-1929, VOL TWO PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY PRESS 1929, P 51, "THE COLONIAL PERIOD."
Vl. STACY AND TRENT--TWO HISTORIC NAMES
The names of Stacy, (Mahlon) the pioneer of Trenton who owned all
the land in what was for many years the old city, and William
Trent, the patron of the old town, are indissolubly linked
together in the history of this city. Both men were rich and owned and left slaves. In the inventory
of Stacy, appraised April 15, 1704, and filed in the office of
the Secretary of State, amounting in all to £1034 os. 6d., the
appraisers being Abel Janney, Samuel Beakes, Will. Beakes, and
ffrancis Davenport
An Early Court At Burlington." In 1701 the justices of
Burlington County were Mahlon Stacy, Francis Davenport, William
Biddle, Thomas Gardner
The Society of Friends----1684
By Marc P. Dowdell
THE ORIGINAL CHESTERFIELD MEETING
By August 1684, temporal affairs were sufficiently advanced for
the Friends to meet together for worship at the home of Francis
Davenport, their spiritual leader, at Chesterfield or Crosswicks
as it is now known, and to establish the Chesterfield Monthly
Meeting of Friends...This declaration was probably written by Francis Davenport and is
signed by him and by John Wileford and William Watson...On the occasion of this first meeting of Friends Davenport's
house was selected as a place of worship and for the transaction of the business of the monthly meeting until otherwise ordered,
the day chosen being the first Thursday of each month... Witnesses at the Bunting wedding numbered most of the original settlers. They were:Sarah Davenport Francis Davenport (among others)

On January 5, 1691, it was proposed that two meeting houses be built, one at Chesterfield and the other at the Falls. . On November 11 of the same year definite action was taken and Davenport, Samuel Andrews, William Wood, Samuel Bunting and Thomas Gilberthorpe were appointed to secure estimates on the cost of building the proposed structure. At the same time Davenport reported that he had paid 6s. 8d. for the lime used and had £4 11s. 1d. left in his hands.Early in 1707 Francis Davenport died and the meeting lost its first leader. Samuel and John Bunting thereforth were to hold joint possession of the records, and by implication, to assume the leadership of the meeting.
FRANCIS DAVENPORT, however, was the original of the famous "Pooh Bah" of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, holding at one and the same time the offices of high sheriff of Burlington County, justice of the peace of Somerset, Essex, Bergen, Gloucester, Burlington, Salem, Cape May, Monmouth and Middlesex Counties.
He was also an assemblyman at various times, and a judge of the higher courts, thus serving continuously in several important offices until his death.



More About FRANCIS DAVENPORT:
Source: Council of Proprietors http://www.pym.org/exhibit/archives/1687to1717.html

More About FRANCIS DAVENPORT and ALICE QUICKSALL:
Marriage: February 08, 1670/71, Hault, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England

Notes for SARAH BROWNE:
NOTES CONTINUED FROM FRANCIS DAVENPORT SR:
FROM: A HISTORY OF TRENTON 1679-1929, VOL TWO PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY PRESS 1929, P 51, "THE COLONIAL PERIOD."
Vl. STACY AND TRENT--TWO HISTORIC NAMES
That there were non-Quaker settlers in the community at least as
early as 1686 is established by the fact on April 4, 1686, Alice
Fulwood asked the monthly meeting to grant her permission to wed
a non Quaker. This was reluctantly given and Mary Andrews and
Sarah Davenport were appointed to see that the Friends ceremony
was used. The wedding took place on May1, 1686, but Alice was
too staunch in her upbringing to be comfortable and on June 5,
following she confessed in Meeting to an uneasy conscience for
her act.


More About FRANCIS DAVENPORT and SARAH BROWNE:
Marriage: February 08, 1677/78, Leicester Friends Meeting, England

Notes for REBECCA WHITTEN:
FROM THE GENEALOGY OF THE DECOU FAMILY.
MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF FRANCIS DAVENPORT AND REBECCA DECOW
Francis Davenport of Chesterfield in the County of Burlington in the province of West New Jersey Widower and Rebecca Decow of Burlington aforesaid, Relict of Isaac Cecow, having declared their intention of taking each other in marriage before several publique meetings of the People of God called Quakers in the County aforesaid according to the good order used amongst them whose proceedings therein after a deliberate Consideration were approved of by the said meeting, they appearing cleard of all others and having consent of all concerned.
Now these are to Certiffe all whom it may concern That for the full accomplishing of their said Intentions this twelth day of the Eighth month called October In the year One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety Two. The said Francis Davenport and Rebecca Decow appeared in a publique meeting place in Burlington aforesaid and according to the Example of the Holy men of God Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth in a solemn manner he the said Francis Davenport taking the said Rebecca Decow by the hand did openly declare as followeth That in the presence and fear of God and in the presence of you his people he did take his Friend Rebecca Decow to be his Wife promising, as the Lord Shall enable him. to be a faithful and Loving Husband till death shall Separate them.
Rebecca Decow in like manner taking Francis by the hand declared that in the Presence of God and before His people She did take her Friend Francis Davenport to be her husband promising to be a faithful and loving Wife until death Shall Separate them.
And for further Confirmation of their said Marriage the said Francis and Rebecca have put their names and we whose names are Subscribed as Witnesses both to the Solemnization and Subscription the day and year above written.
Francis Davenport
Rebecca Davenport


Marriage Notes for FRANCIS DAVENPORT and REBECCA WHITTEN:
Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee

The De Cou family in New Jersey trace their origin to the French Huguenots who fled from their country at the time of the persecution of the Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and found homes in Holland, England, and subsequently in America. The progenitor of the family in this country was Isaac De Cou, who sailed from England in the ship "Shields," and settled at Burlington, New Jersey, more than two hundred years ago. The earliest official account of the family is taken from the records of the Friends' Meeting: "The twelfth day of eighth mo., 1692, Francis Davenport and Rebecca De Cou, widow of Isaac De Cou, were married at Burlington."

Know all men by these presents that I ffrancis Davenport of ye Township of Chesterfield in ye County of Burlington within ye prvince of West Jersey yeoman am holden and firmly bound unto the Honorable Governor Andrew Hamilton over West New Jersey in ye full & Just Sume of five hundred pounds currc Silver Money of ye prvince of West Jersey to be paid to ye sd Governor or his lawful Successoure in his sd Office to ye which payment well & truly to be made I bind myself & my Heirs & Exect Adm firmly by these psents sealed with my Seal. Dated ye tenth Day of November Anno RR Guilielmi tertii Anglia & nono Annoque Dom' 1697.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas Susannah Decoo ye daughter of Isaac Decoo late of ye county of New Castle in ye province of Pennsylvania yeoman deceased Came & appeared before his Majes Justices for ye peace for ye County of Burlington aforesaid upon ye eighth day of this Instant November Anno 1697 and then of her own Accord & by ye consent of her Mother Desired yt ye said Justices would appoint ffrancis Davenport to be her Guardian which ye Justices granted.
cis
ffran Davenport
Davenport, Francis
Married: Oct. 12, 1692 in: Burlington, NJ
Gender: M Source: County Court Records Film number: 0848872 - 0848873
Spouse name: Decow, Rebecca Spouse gender: F

DAVENPORT, Francis, of Chesterfield (widower), and Rebecca Decon, of Burlington, relict of Isaac, at Burlington      12th 8th mo. 1692

More About FRANCIS DAVENPORT and REBECCA WHITTEN:
Marriage: August 12, 1692, Burlington, New Jersey
Marriage bann: 8-3-1692
     
Children of FRANCIS DAVENPORT and SARAH BROWNE are:
3. i.   SARAH3 DAVENPORT, b. August 20, 1679, Whittington, Derbyshire, England.
4. ii.   ANNE DAVENPORT, b. November 21, 1680, Whittington, Derbyshire, England.
  iii.   BRIDGET DAVENPORT, b. December 09, 1682, Whittington, Derbyshire, England; d. July 19, 1704.
5. iv.   FRANCIS DAVENPORT, b. December 26, 1684, USA; d. Abt. 1720, USA.
  v.   MALE DAVENPORT, b. September 30, 1686; d. September 30, 1686.
  vi.   THOMAS DAVENPORT, b. December 29, 1687; d. December 29, 1687.
6. vii.   ABIGAIL DAVENPORT, b. January 26, 1688/89.
  viii.   HESTER DAVENPORT, b. April 13, 1691; m. THOMAS GILBERTHORPE, JR.; b. May 17, 1689.
     
Children of FRANCIS DAVENPORT and REBECCA WHITTEN are:
7. ix.   ISAAC3 DAVENPORT, b. May 17, 1693, Burlington, New Jersey ?; d. 1749, Granville, North Carolina.
  x.   REBECCA DAVENPORT, m. JOSIAH KAY, May 14, 1713, Burlington, New Jersey.
  Marriage Notes for REBECCA DAVENPORT and JOSIAH KAY:
Davenport, Rebecca
Married: May 14, 1713 in: Burlington, NJ
Gender: F Source: County Court Records Film number: 0848872 - 0848873
Spouse name: Kay, Josiah Spouse gender: M

KAY, Josiah, of Gloucester County, and Rebecca Davenport, of Burlington County, at Chesterfield      14th 3d mo. 1713

Witnesses--John, Elizabeth, Joseph, John, Jr., Benjamin, Sarah and Sarah Kay, Jr., Francis, Isaac, Martha, Abigail Davenport, Samuel Taylor, John Abbott, Joseph Reckless, Isaac Decow and others


  More About JOSIAH KAY and REBECCA DAVENPORT:
Marriage: May 14, 1713, Burlington, New Jersey


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