Person:Jesse Davenport (3)

Research Notes

• Orange was a meeting of Friends in Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana. Meetings were first held in 1814. It was organized as a preparative meeting in 1819 under Whitewater Monthly Meeting.

1.   Jesse Davenport, in Young, Andrew White. History of Wayne County, Indiana from its first settlement to the present time: with numerous biographial and family sketches; embellished with upwards of fifty portraits of citizens and views of buildings. (Cincinnati, Ohio: R. Clarke, 1872).

   p 22 - ... An early settlement was also made in 1806 about 4 or 5 miles southeast of Richmond by Jesse Davenport, his father-in-law Jacob Fouts, and his sons William and Jacob and his son-in-law Thomas Bulla, natives of NC, but immediately from OH. By the formation of Boston Twp. the land of Davenport was taken into this township. ...
   
   p 80 - ...The first court in Wayne County was held Feb. 25, 1811. The names of the jurors for that trial included Jesse Davenport. ...
   
   p 87 - ... Appointments made after the adoption of the state constitution of 1816 includes the following: Jesse Davenport.
   
   p 154 - ...Jesse Davenport built a grist mill on the falls of the Elkhorn Creek, believed to have been the third one in the county. A few years later he built a saw mill at the same place. ...

2.   Jesse Davenport, in Fox, Henry Clay. Memoirs of Wayne County and the city of Richmond, Indiana: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Wayne County. (Madison, Wisconsin: Western Historical Association, 1912).

   Vol 1, p 77 - ... The first term of the Wayne Circuit Court under the State Constitution was held at Salisbury, Mar. 17, [1817]. John Test was judge and William McLane and Jesse Davenport, associates. ...
   
   Vol 1, p 233 - With the exception of the Wassons, Irelands and Flemings, who were Kentucky Presbyterians, the majority of the settlers in and about Richmond were North Carolina Quakers, from Guilford County near Clemen's Store, Beard's Hatter Shop, Deep River Settlement of Friends of Dobson's Crossroads. ... One of the first settlements was that of what is now Boston Township. Here we find families from Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia. Among the early settlers were Thomas Bulla, Jacob Foutz, and Jesse Davenport, who came out in 1806. ...
   
   Vol 1, p 253 - ... There were two associate judges and in connection with the Circuit Judge, or presiding judge, as he was called, constituted the court. They were seldom members of the bar and too often had but a very scant knowledge of the law, and as the two associate judges constituted a majority, there were numerous cases in which they overruled the opinion of the presiding judge whose superior knowledge of the law ought to have decided the case. Such was true in the trial of Hampshire Pitts for murder in 1822. In Order Book #1, we find that Associate Judges William McLane and Jesse Davenport overruled the objections of Presiding Judge Eggleston and granted Pitts a new trial, notwithstanding the fact that the evidence all pointed to his guilt. ...
   
   Vol 1, p 271 - ... County and Associate Judges for 1817: Jesse Davenport and William McLane. ...

3.   Jesse Davenport, in Yount, Beverly Wynn (Beverly Lou Wynn). Tombstone inscriptions in Wayne County, Indiana. (Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1968-1969).

   ... Burial: Unknown, Orange Cemetery, Wayne County, IN. Cause of death: Killed in barn raising. ...
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   [unknown source: ACCORDING TO: John Scott Davenport, genealogist. "Jesse Davenport was one of the first Justices of the Peace in Wayne Co., Indiana Territory, and continued to serve until 1817 was the state of Indiana was formed. Then, Jesse, who had a merchant mill on the Elkhorn River, became one of the Associate Judges of the Wayne County Court. He was notoriously renown in early Indiana bench and bar legal annals for " never having allowed facts to influence his opinion." Jesse died in 1826 when drunken neighbors at a barn raising dropped the center beam on him and killed him instantly."]