William Davenport

1770 - 1859  (88 years)

• Name	William Davenport
  Born	12 Oct 1770	Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	19 Aug 1859	North Carolina
  Person ID	I38842	Yatesville History & Genealogy
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Martin Thomas Davenport,   b. 23 Jun 1742, Virginia ,   d. 10 Oct 1815, North Carolina  (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F12663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Last Modified	18 May 2022
  Family ID	F12660	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Davenport, William, philanthropist, b. in Culpepper county, Va, 12 Oct., 1770; d. in Walnut Fountain, Caldwell co., N.C., 19 Aug, 1859. About the close of the Revolutionary war he went with his father to what is now Mitchell county, N.C. He represented Burke county in the legislature in 1800, and was state senator in 1802. He was also justice of the peace, county surveyor, and a colonel of militia. Col. Davenport was the chief founder of Davenport female college, at Lenoir, N.C. He married the widow of Maj. Charles Gordon, one of the heroes of King's Mountain. Source: Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887