Person:Josiah Davenport (1)

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Lt. Josiah Davenport
b.18 Dec 1727 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
 
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m. 3 May 1722
  1. Elizabeth Davenport1722/23 -
  2. Dorcas Davenport1724 -
  3. Mary Davenport1725/26 -
  4. Lt. Josiah Davenport1727 -
  5. Abiah Davenport1729 -
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Name Lt. Josiah Davenport
Gender Male
Birth[5] 18 Dec 1727 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[6] 24 Dec 1727 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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Josiah Davenport

  • An Officer who Served in the Pennsylvania Regiment A.D. 1758 1759.
Josiah Davenport ran the trading post at Fort Pitt for several years in the 1760s.
Josiah Davenport. Indian agent at Fort Pitt who apparently followed George Allen in 1760.
References
  1.   From Benjamin Franklin to Josiah Davenport, in National Historical Publications & Records Commission. Founders Online: Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States
    14 February 1773.
  2.   Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Franklin, in National Historical Publications & Records Commission. Founders Online: Correspondence and Other Writings of Six Major Shapers of the United States.
  3.   Stephenson, R Scott. Clash Of Empires: The British, French, And Indian War, 1754-1763. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center, 2005)
    Page 70, 2005.
  4.   Museum Highlights, in Senator John Heinz History Center.

    On display at the Fort Pitt Museum is a pewter writing desk inscribed with “Fort Pitt Province Store 1761” that belonged to Josiah Davenport, who was Ben Franklin’s nephew and a local fur trader authorized to receive American Indian captives returned to Fort Pitt at the end of the French & Indian War.

  5. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800: Twenty-fourth report of the Commission. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894)
    p. 181.

    Josiah Son of James and Sarah Davenport, [Born] 18 December 1727.

  6. ↑ "Brattle Square Church", in Dunkle, Robert J., and Ann S. Lainhart. Records of the Churches of Boston and the First Church, Second Parish, and Third Parish of Roxbury: including baptisms, marriages, deaths, admissions, and dismissals: (1600s-1800s). (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001)
    p. 60.

    1423. Josiah Davenport. 24. Decem. 1727. [Son of] James Davenport [baptized].

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