Person:Francis Davenport (3)

Family of 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."

• 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.

Francis Davenport and Sarah Browne

• 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 Francis 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.

Francis Davenport and Rebecca Decou

• 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 Decow, 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

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. One World Tree (sm). (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.).

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2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Colonial and revolutionary lineages of America: a collection of genealogical studies, completely documented, and appropriately illustrated, bearing upon notable early American lines and their collateral connections. (New York, New York: American Historical Co., 1939-1961)
   Vol. 9, Page 165.

   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.

3.   Besse, Joseph. A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers: for the testimony of a good conscience, from the time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650, to the time of the act, commonly called the Act of Toleration, granted to protestant dissenters in the first year of the reign of King William the Third... (London: Luke Hine, 1753)
   Vol. 1, Chapter 10, Page 143.

   DERBYSHIRE, ENGLAND of Joseph Besse' two volumes of 1753 "Sufferings of the Quakers" - "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.

4.   The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania)
   Vol. 27, Page 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."

5.   Chesterfield Township heritage, Burlington County, New Jersey. (1964).
6.   Woodward, Evan Morrison, and John Frelinghuysen Hageman. History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey, with biographical sketches of many of their pioneers and prominent men. (Sanford, North Carolina: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1983)
   Page 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.

7.   William Nelson. Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol 23: Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730
   Page 129.

   DAVENPORT, FRANCIS, of Chesterfield, Burlington Co.; will of. Sons - Francis and Isaac (under 21); daughters - Sarah Hall, Anne, wife of Isaac Decow (De Cou), who has son Joseph Decow (De Cou), 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.

8.   Meldrum, Charlotte D. Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey. (Westminster, Maryland: Family Line, 1994-1995)
   Vol. 2, Page 44.

   February 03, 1707. Francis Davenport deceased.

9.   Patrick Hogue (Samples). The Samples / Semples Family.
   
10.   DeCou, S. Ella. The genealogy of the DeCou family: showing the descent of the members of this family in America from Leuren des Cou of the Sandtoft Colony, a Huguenot settlement in Lincolnshire, England, founded about 1630. (unknown: unknown, 1910).

    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