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Facts and Events
Revolutionary Military Service
- Loyalist in the British Army
- Guffin, R. L. wrote
- "Many of us who work on South Carolina families are familiar with the major reference work on patriots in the American Revolution from South Carolina written by Professor Bobby Gilmer Moss of Limestone College. His latest work was recently found by regular contributor to this site, Adrienne Morrison, and it is entitled ROSTER OF THE LOYALISTS IN THE Battle of Kings Mountain (1998, Scotia-Hibernia Press, Blacksburg, SC).
- "Using pay abstracts now in Surry, England, he has indicated that David Davenport, Isaac Davenport, and James Davenport each served under Capt. William Hendricks and Major Patrick Cunningham from June 14, 1780 in the Little River Militia. Each was listed as participating in the Battle of Kings Mountain, each was reported to have evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John Harris Cruger and each was reported to have been with Maj. Cunningham at Dorchester on August 23, 1781.
- "JOSEPH DAVENPORT is reported to have served six months under Little River District Loyalist Militia led by Maj. Patrick Cunningham. And, was under Patrick Ferguson in the Battle of Kings Mountain, and was with Lt. Col. Cruger in the evacuation of Fort Ninety Six. There is little doubt that David, Isaac, and James Davenport, mentioned above were sons of Francis Davenport who migrated from Granville Co., NC to Little River in SC no later than 1771 and I concur with Dr. John Scott Davenport that the above mentioned Joseph was a grandson of old Joseph, older brother of Francis, who was settled in the Little River region by 1769. The younger Joseph was the only son of David Davenport, in turn the only son of the older Joseph. The younger Joseph did move from Little River in Newberry County to Greenville County, SC around 1800 and died there approximately 1804. He was married to Margaret Floyd".
- see The NEWBERRY DAVENPORTS .pdf Extracts & Abstracts from Primary Sources Relating to Davenports in the Carolinas. Compiled by Dr. John Scott Davenport. Current authority on this Newberry Branch of the Davenports is R. L. Guffin.
- see Major “Bloody Bill” Cunningham
- see Lt. Col. Patrick Cunningham
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