Paul Davenport (1683 - 1754)

Born 30 Jan 1683 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Adams) Davenport — married 1709 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1754 at age 71 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut

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Close Marriages

There are several close marriages in Canterbury Connecticut. On pages 175 and 176 of the Canterbury Vital Records index you can see Abigail Davenport (Paul's Sister) marrying Thomas Adams Feb 23 1714/15 while on the facing page Paul Davenport marries Abigail Adams (sister of Thomas Adams) June 28 1709^[1][2] Also worth noting is that the area around Boston, where the Adams and Davenports lived in the 1680's is becoming urbanized and these families seem drawn to the more rural lifestyle of subsistence farming. Enter: Canterbury Connecticut, established in 1703 with many new farm sites safely tucked into Eastern Connecticut. It should come as no surprise that both families relocate Canterbury at the same time.

Biography

Paul Davenport was born to Charles Davenport and Waitstill Smith in the town of Dorchester Massachusetts Bay 1683^[3][4][5][6] Paul married Abigail Adams, Daughter of Samuel Adams on the 28th of July 1709 at Canterbury Connecticut ^[7][8]. Paul and Abigail had five children at Canterbury:

1. Abigail Davenport (1711-1801)
2. Charles Davenport 1717
3. Mary Davenport 1720
4. Samuel Davenport 1721
5. Paul Davenport 1724

He died on the 10 Oct 1754 in Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut^[9][10]

Paul's siblings are:

• Paul Davenport (1683-1754) ^[6]
• Eunice Davenport(1679 - 1759) ^[6]
• Desire Davenport(1679=?) ^[6]
• Sarah Davenport (1681 - 1734)^[6]
• Thomas Davenport(1695-1748) ^[6]
• Waitstll Davenport (1689 - 1736) ^[6][11]
• Abigail Davenport (1693 - 1733) ^[6]
• Charles Davenport (1700 - 1779)^[6]
• Mary Davenport(1705 - 1737)^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original Data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
2. ↑ Adams, Andrew N. Space:Henry Adams Genealogy (n.p., 1898) p 89-90
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDC-6ZT : 15 January 2020), Paule Davenport, 1683.
4. ↑ Description Title: Births, Marriages Deaths, 1631-1844; Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook) Page 76
5. ↑ Volume and Year: Volume 016 (1862); Ancestry.com. The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New England Historic Genealogical Society. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. page 80
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 6.8 6.9} Hall, Dorothy D., Davenport Ancestry in America and Descendants of John Pope Davenport and Edward Wilcox Davenport, (Edward Wilcox Davenport Family Organization, 1962), p.4.
7. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG15-ZZ1D : 21 September 2019), Paul Davenport, ; citing Marriage, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272229.
8. ↑ Chapter Name: Canterbury Vital Records 1703-1850; Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Volume 1, page 120
9. ↑ "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG15-ZZ1K : 21 September 2019), Paul Davenport, ; citing Death, , Compiled by Lucius A. and Lucius B. Barbour, housed at State Library, Hartford, Connecticut; FHL microfilm 008272229.
10. ↑ Chapter Name: Canterbury Vital Records 1703-1850; Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Volume 1, page 131
11. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZDC-48W : 10 February 2018), Waitstill Davenport, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 833,385.