HISTORY AND GENEALOGY

OF

THE DAVENPORT FAMILY,

IN

ENGLAND AND AMERICA, FROM A.D. 1086 TO 1850.

COMPILED AND PREPARED FROM ORMEROD'S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY
OF CHESTER; COLLECTIONS FROM THE HARLEIAN MSS.;
PAROCHIAL AND TOWN RECORDS IN ENGLAND

AND AMERICA, ETC., ETC.

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BY A. BENEDICT DAVENPORT,

(OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH GENERATION,)

CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

"Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of

their fathers."-JOB viii. 8.

NEW YORK:

S. W. BENEDICT, 16 SPRUCE STREET.

1851.

4842055.7

14375+27

1885. Apie 4, By exchange.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1851, by
A. BENEDICT DAVENPORT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the
Southern District of New York.

TO THE

DESCENDANTS OF

REV. JOHN DAVENPORT,

THE FOUNDER AND PATRIARCH

OF

NEW HAVEN, CT.,

WHO CHERISH THE PRINCIPLES, EMULATE THE VIRTUES,

AND ILLUSTRATE THE EXAMPLE

OF THEIR DISTINGUISHED ANCESTOR,

THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY

THE AUTHOR.