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SUPPLEMENT
THE HISTORY AND GENEALOfTY
THE DAVENPORT
ENGLAND AND AMERICA, FROM
A.
UmU
D.
1086
TO
I85C.
COMPILED AND PKKPARED FROM ORMEEOD'S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF CHESTER COLLECTIONS FROM THE HARLEIAN MSS. STATE PAPER OFFICE, LONDON PAROCHIAL AND TOWN RECORDS LOCAL HISTORIES IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, ETC., ETC.
;
PUBLISHED IN
1.'')1:
AND
CONTINUED TO 1876.
BY
AMZI
:
BENEDICT DAVENPORT,
(OF
ORHESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL CIETY LIFE MEMBER OF THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
'Inquire, I pray thee, of the foriuer age, and prepare thyself to the search of their lathers." Job viii. 8.
1877,
by
DESCENDANTS OF
REV. JOHN
DAVENPORT,
NEW HAVEN.
WHO CHERISH THE
PRINCIPLES.
OT.,
RESPECTFT^LLY INSCRIBED BY
THE AFTHOE.
INTRODUCTION
It
is
now
and Genealogy of the Davenport Family was published by the undersigned. But few works of the kind had, at that period, been Since then they have been undertaken. greatly multiplied, and their importance generally recognized as tending to illustrate the
history
of the
first
and
in
As
offshoots,
quarter of a century,
print a
is
now proposed
to
Supplement
to the
volume then
issued,
lines of de-
and additions as have come to the hands of the writer, or which he may have been able
to gather.
The former
years
edition having
now
its
for
some
been
nearl}' exhausted,
editor has
11
INTRODUCTION.
to re-write the
work,
ail
enlarged form.
for
the
period
for
others
who
may come
ate a
after
in
work
been a pioneer.
It
of Rev.
to to
was hoped that copies of some letters John Davenport to Lady Digby, said exist in the British Museum, and supposed have been written about the time of his
first
sojourn in Holland, or
settlement of the
New Haven
ed for
this
work, but
procure them.
to in
my
John Waddington,
in the
ical
From
child,
we
learn,
lad,
that his
only
pany
ica
in
Amercare
1637,
but
kind friends in
in
the
in
of
Quinni-
INTRODUCTION.
piac,
ill
(New Haven,)
in 1639, "
placed
Continuous thanks are due to Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., for invaluable aid drawn,
both
in
"Historical Discourses," (published in 1839,) " On the completion of Two Hundred Years
from the beginning of the First Church in New Haven," a monument to the industry,
who
has stood,
as a successor of
John
Davenport,
and Assistant Librarian of Yale College, has recently read before the New Haven Colony Historical Society, a very interesting paper, upon " The Life and Writings of John Davennewdy gathered by him, from the records of Coventry and London which will soon be published by that Society. William L. Kingsley, Esq., also of New Haven, son of the late learned Prof Kingsley, is now preparing for the press, (in two large quarto volumes,) a history of Yale College, in the first chapter of which he shows most conport,"
containing
much
information
clusively,
IV
INTRODUCTION.
till
established
and efforts Davenport and even more than intimates that it should have received its name from
origin to the influence
;
him.
Another item of
interest
brought to light
is
the
Thomas
Bridgman,
"
New
in October, 1851,
body
ol
Mr
John Davenport
dec'^
tending to
statements of
Anthony Wood,
in his
Athenag Oxonienses,
in his
Magnalia Christ!
INTRODUCTION.
Americana, as to the relationship of Christopher Davenport, whose rehgious name was PVanciscLis a Sancta Chira, and our J. D.
Wood
were
brotliers,
and
makes each "son of John, by Ehzabeth Wolley his wife, and grandson of Henry," who was Mayor of Coventry. Wood's testimony for he was cotemporary with both, and is said to have had a personal acquaintance with Christopher
has
clusive,
Mather,
says,
''
who was
a gi"andson of Rev.
John
^^
was Mayor of Coventry, and that the Franciscan, "was not a brother, as a
his father
Mr.
Dexter,
before
above referred
Register
to, visited
among
other fami-
surnames, (Shakespeares included,) found the entry of the baptism of "John Daven-
port, son of
Henry, April
"
9th, 1597.''
also noted the Christopher Davenport, son of 1. 1590." and inferred that this
VI
INTRODUCTION.
might have been the famous Franciscan, although the date of his baptism was some
eight years earHer than that invariably assign-
ed
to his birth.
But from
my
Coventry pediI
gree, (Harl.
MSS. 1100,
fol.
109,)
;
was
at
once enabled to
for Christo-
was married
to
was Alderman of Coventry, and Justice of the Peace in 1619, and was the Christopher Davenport who was Mayor of Coventry
;
ther versus
a
Wood,
that "
John
famous
Christopher
"was
man."
John
is
named
had one son Christopher, and the evidence from the pedigree clearly indicates that the "khisman" was a nephew, (son of Barnabas,) although but one year younger than John. In the State Paper Office, in London, is a letter from John Davenport to Sir Edward
Conway, the principal Secretary to the King, dated Oct. 1624, a day or two after his elec-
INTRODUCTION.
tioii
VH
man
which he says ''Yea myne own Father and Vncle who are Aldermen of the citty
of Cov entry.
^^
Mayor who
had not previously filled the office of Chamberlain and Sheriff. The Ex-Mayors were, and are now, usually chosen to the Aldermanry-
The Leet Books and Annals of Coventry, show the election of Edward Davenport as
Chamberlain
in
1534, as Sheriff
in
1540, and
Mayor
in 1550.
Christopher Davenport was Sheriff in 1593, and Mayor in 1602. Henry Davenport was Sheriff in 1602, and
Mayor
in
in
1613.
Mayor
the
in
1641.
:
We
1st,
From
pedigrees,
that
Elizabeth
Wolley was the wife of John Davenport, the Puritan instead of his mother as Wood makes her and this is collaterly supported by her name on the tombstone. 2d. Both the baptismal Register and John's
VIU
INTRODUCTION.
the son of Henry,
while
issary of
4th.
a religions
em-
no
evi-
dence that there was another, except the erroneous statement of Anthony
occasioned
to
Wood
which has
the
the author,
and
his family,
numerical
loss
of one generation.
will
first
marked but one son in each yet the increase in the number of descendants for the past quarter of a century has been more than one
;
ser-
vice
to their country,
Christ.
acknowledgments
and
to those
who have
our
render double
thanks to
INTRODUCTION.
IX
Heavenly Father for the manifold blessiiiP-s bestowed upon us as a family and upon our
comm<^i^ country
till
this
Centennial Year.
Davenport
Eiclge,
Stamford, Conn.,
Oct. 30th, 1876.
P. S.
Just
as his delayed
manuscript was
printer.
(Jan.
come
sides,
and 55
on one side. The writing is finely condensed, and remarkably legible for a manuscript two hundred and fifty years old. The book
gilt
into
Abiel Holmes, D.
I).,
whose
Stiles,
wife
was a
daughter of President
of Yale College,
to
William A. Saunders,Esq., of
Cambridge. Mass., by whose kindly consideration and munificence it has been restored to
the family in the person of one
eldest
who
is
the
its
born,
living, lineal
descendant of
it
has fallen, in
an
INTRODUCTION.
humble way, to be the historian and genealogist of what may be denominated the New Haven and Stamford branch of the family. On the first page of this volume, Mr. Davenport has inscribed the Latin questions to
which he made response on his application, May 18th, 1625, for his degree of Bachelor of Divinity, which he had failed to receive since
he
his
left
study course,
years
before.
These
of Mr. Davenport,
Then
follows a controver-
Leighton,
some
sixty pages,
nearly sixty pages of notes, reaching to about the period of his leaving his charge in Cole-
man
ing
:
street,
"
Grounds whereupon
is
of con-
formity
of y'
,
built,
it
together
and
may
non-conformist.
Reference
to
made
in the
body of
this
work.
INTRODUCTION.
XI
Among
may be mention-
ed the receipt of valuable information, obligingly furnished by Mr. Wm. Geo. Fretton,
who,
in
History of Coventry.
Mr. Fretton has generously furnished, from the original painting in St. Mary's Hall, a
lithograph engravhig of Christopher Davenport, the luicle of
John,
of
Coventry, in 1602,
Engraved for this work. Through this source, the Author is enabled to correct some errors into which he was led, in previous edition, in
regard to the free school said to have been
founded by
this
Christopher Daven))ort.
is
No
separate foundation
now
life
time supported a
entering into
for
6s,
poor
for
its
children,
an
agreement
charged
perpetuity,
which he
yearly.
his estate
with 13,
in
8d.,
hundred merged
Free
It
is
years,
in
when
English
School.
1794,
it
became
the
Department of the
that a change
Grammar
should be noted,
which
will
appear
in
the
Xll
INTRODUCTION.
to
Coventry line, from about 1375. This branch is herein given as descended, not from Richard, as shown in previous volume, but from Christopher, of Woodford,
descent
the
named
of
in the
Ormerod pedigree
was the
first
as
'
'
ancestor
Edward
who
the father
Covenof Mayor.
of the
try
office
This
second son,
Sir
makes the descent from Nicholas, the (instead of Thomas the first,) of John Davenport, No. 38.
are thus enabled to account for the fre-
We
quent occurrence of the name of Christopher in the pedigrees of these two branches, and which is not found in any other.
That
writer,
this
was the
is
in
many years since, by the late Rev. W. Davenport Bromley, whose son Bromley Davenport, Esq.,
liament, and in
tates
is
now
(1877,) a representative
in the British
Par-
whom
is
Bromley and Davenport, in the Counties of Warwick and Chester, the former of which descended to him from his father, and the latter from his grandof the families of
father, the late
P..
INTRODUCTION.
111
Xlll
we
gain, numerically,
another
lost
It
one
opening of the present year, (1877,) the Rev. Edward E. Atwater, a descendant of David Atwater, one of the original settlers of Quinnipiac, has read before the
New Haven
upon
"
Colony
The Voy-
that
John Davenport and his company to New England in 1637. Mr. Atwater had recently returned from England, where his researches had added, somewhat, it is believed, to the
copious extracts already gathered
from the
am
ter
also supplied
from Mr. Davenport to "My Lady Yere which in he tenders her Christian consolation and sympathy upon the death of her husband, whose eminence both as a Christian and a soldier bore no small resemblance to that of our
let"
modern Havelock.
f
Office reveals
most forcibly
XIV
INTRODUCTION.
ing
how
who were
con-
and seeking to
and during his sojourn in Holland, unby the force of circumstances, us well as his own well formed convictions, he, who before had so long labored to discharge his duty both in his civil and ecclesiastical connectland,
til
ions,
and a Puritan^ and sought to found .an hide'pendent State and ChMxch on the shores of
Ainerica.
A. B. D.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1877.
)
PLftN
OF THE
GENEALOGY,
in the line The Arabian figures mark the number children the number letters Roman The descent.
of of
a family.
To
bian
trace
backwards the
Ara-
number prefixed to any name, and number of the person whose issue is there
repeat the same
(42) ni. shows
Sir
refer to the
given,
and
:
thus with each preceding generation, of son third the be to John Davenport
38, John Davenport, No. 38. Turning to to shown is generation ninth John Davenport of the of the No. 21, Davenport, Thomas be the third son of
No.
Sir
FAMILY OF DAVENPORT
Annx
of Davenport.
On
Magisterial Sergeancy.
FIRST GENERATION.
1.
the
Ormus de Daiinei:)orte, born in 108G, and assumed local name in the County of Chester, England.
)
This
the
is
British
Museum, and by
the Bramhall
pedigree,
made
He
witnessed a charter
William
II.,
or
Henry
I.*
* The family name of Davenport is of local origin. The township of Davenport is situated in a sequestered part of the Hundred of Northwich, County of Chester, England and is about twenty-five miles from the ancient city of Chester. It stands on high ground above a range of rich meadows, through which the river Dane flows rapidly, with a winding and irregular course. The banks on each side are remarkably lofty those on the Davenport side are a series of verdant slopes, bearing evident marks of having been covered with timber at some former period the opposite ones have been broken by the force of the currents and are more precipitous. These features of the circumjacent landscape constitute some of the most pleasing scenery of the hundred and they are backed by what must have had no ordinary charms for the ancient chief s of Daven; ; ;
20
SUPPLEMENT TO
SECOND GENEEATION.
Issue of
Oemus de Daunepoete.
(No. 1.)
(2.)
I.
whom
Hugh
by charter
Norman
grantee of Kinder-
This Richard de
This township
noticed in the
Domesday
survey, and
was
held, to-
From
Domesday account, it who lived at the time of Edward and who was grandfather to Marwas heir
garet Venables,
vorite sports
The manorial
England, the descent of a family in one uninterrupted male line from the Norman Conquerors of the palatinate, possessing at the present day the feudal powers with which the local sovereigns of that palatinate invested it, and
rare occurrence even in
preserving in
the proofs of
F. A. S.,
its its
unbroken descent.
S.,
from which
21
Norman
them
to
THIED GENEEATION.
Issue of Richard de Dauneporte, (No.
2.
(8.)
I.
in the time
of
Henry
or before 1189.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Issue of
Thomas de Davenporte,
(No. 8.)
(I.)
I.
Richard de Davenporte, to
whom
Randle
acquit-
by charter
Hundred
Court, for
FIFTH GENERATION.
Issue of Richard de Daa'enporte, (No. 4.)
(5.)
I.
of
Abbacy
Randle
of Dierlacres
(().)
II.
whom
Blundeville, Earl of
by Charter the
Grand
*0f the Marton Estate, Manor and Hall, which has passed through successive generations, to its present proprietor, Bromley Davenport, Esq., M. P. we shall speak hereafter.
3
22
field,
SUPPLEMENT TO
also acquittance of
juris of
He
It
daughter
of
Bertrand
de
grand
his
seru-ill^
and
vivaries of Maccles-
which the
earl
The powers
of this office
it
and
At
this
period the
first
illusive crest
of
the
to
Davenports
is
said to have
been adopted,
and
and
the
peram-
peak
hills,
tjie
forests of Leek
a) id Macclesfield, to the
terror
of
numerous gangs of
ivild districts.
There
is
thorne, a long
who were
them
From
this
it
ber was
2s,
companions
12 pence each.
also
23
and the
(7.)
fees thereon.*
III.
Walter
Davenporte,
second
son,
had
lands in
(8.
)
Somerford Booths.
IV.
Harl.
MSS.
2119.
SIXTH GENERATION.
Issue of Vivian Davenporte, (No.
C.
)
(9.)
I.
Roger Davenporte
of Davenport,
who mar-
with
whom
also a part of
By
year of
Edward
I.
(1288,)
it
is
Hundred
of
Mac-
On
the roll
a note
:
by the
tirst
Davies Davenpirt, of
great,
Woodford, Esq.,
the roll
is
and though
The same gentleman, who afterwards bore, by royal license, letter to tha name of Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley, adds in a "Though the office of grand sergeancy the compiler in 1850 comparatively obsince the time of Queen Elizabeth has been
:
as
father succeeded to the estates and I remember The roll of names of persons beheaded still the old steward. exists, and I think the names are visible." Davenport, Esq., M. P., the present proprietor of
when my
Bromley
24
sergeants
shall
SUPPLEMENT TO
(one
a horseman) to keep the peace,
who
have
come
at the king's
summons,
at their
own
cost in
when
the}' shall
The same
He seems
II.
in 1272,
He assumed
Edward de Davenport de Newton, living the name of Newton, and beof the
Newtons
of
Newton.
III.
er of
Somer-
ford Booths.
(12.)
IV.
in
1272
he
of the
Law^tons of Lawton.
(13.)
V.
VI.
Thomas de
Davenj:)ort.
the joint estates of Bromley and Davenport says in a letter as late as Feb. 8, 1877: "The old robbers roll' still exists, and was
'
an object of great interest to the person employed by the Historical Commission, to examine my MSS. and papers, bnt besides losing the practical right of putting any body we pleased to death, (for tlieoreiically it still exists, and in all legal documents I am described as the hereditary Grand Sergeant and Chief Forester of the forests of Macclesfield and Leek with the formidable powers belonging to that position) we have by disuse also lost the advantages, iohate\eY they were, of claims on Waifs, Estravs, and Mortuaries."
25
SEVENTH GENEEATION.
Issue of
Kogee de Davenpoet,
(No.
9.
(15.)
I.
without
(IG.)
issue.
II.
Sir
Thomas
1st,
Daveni:>ort
of Davenpoat,
knight, married,
Maccleslield,
1287.
mother of
daughter
of
his
liam de Brereton.
Thomas died
in 1320,
and
his
in 1322.
III.
da,
whom
he had
is-
sue, Richard.
(18.)
IV.
Ellen Davenport,
to
V.
Henry Davenport
married,
of ^larton,
who
also
had lands
Roger,
in Macclesfield
1st,
;
in 1292.
He had
one son,
who
Mainwaring de Peover
and
widow
of
Thomas de Swettenham.
EIGHTH GENEEATION.
IssTJE
1G.
(20.)
I.
Sii-
26
of Sir
SUPPLEMENT TO
wife,
daughof his
ter of Sir
issue.
Ralph Vernon.
Sir
Jolm Davenport,
in the reign of
Edward
III.,
(1343,)
in
The present
small
spile, j^orch,
aisles, is
which
The
same
materials,
and
in
some
of the
1
here,
worthy
of notice, are to
two
the
much
curved.
The hands
head
are
clasped in prayer
Davenport
crest,
couped
the rope
is is
the
27
more
it
has
to
be
About a quarter
of a
is
the
timber and
plaster.
the front
in the cen-
open
to a hall in
;
suspended
*
on the
left is
The
MSS.
2151,
p.
54,
monuments
and Vivian [Urian] his sone, who founded the Chappell of Merton, and they lie buried there." In the painted glass was a kneeling armed figure, with surcoat, quarterly, 1 and 4, a chevron between three martlets 2 iind li, Davenport. In the windows also arms of Davenport, Siddington and barry of 4 sable and argent, the second and third indented. (The Siddingtons, as far as can be judged from their coat of
Daveni^'t
;
family,
The Davenports had estates in Siddington as early as the time of Edward I., 12721307.) Among the Davenport deeds is a grant from Sir John de Davenport, knight, to Robert de Bradshaw, etc., of 4 messuages, and 60 acres of land, with the appurtenancs in the woods and wastes and all other profits in the ville of Merton, Ac, of the one part, and Yeaton on the other, to maintain a fit juiest celebrating mass in the Chapel of Merton, for the souls of himself, his parents and successors, and all faithful people deceased
forever
;
and he
also grants to
till
them common
of pasture in all
;
pastures in Merton,
and
if
any heir of Daveniiort should contradict his will and they should incur God's indignation. Witnessed, 1390.
grant,
28
SUPPLEMENT TO
Behind the
name
to the township,
the site of a
II.
to
whom
his father
&c., &c.
,
Marton
who became
also Capesthorne. )*
He
married
who
III.
Roger Davenport,
All these townships, except Coventry, are situated within a few miles of each other in the County of Chester, and not far from
is
in
branch of the Davenports I, between 1250 and 1300, from which descended the collateral branches of BromhaU, Henbury, Coventry, Woodford and Calveley. Woodford, about six miles from Davenport, is noticed in the reign of King John, between 1199 and 1216. In 1356, the manor and appurtenances were granted to John Davenport third son of Thomas of Wheltrough. Capesthorne Hall, about the same distance from Davenport, has long been the seat of the inheritors of these ancient estates which have descended from Nicholas Davenport living in 1400, to Christopher living in 1421 John d. before 1477 Nicholas,
seated themselves in the reign of
which
Edward
John, d. 1575 William, d. before his father, 1570 Christopher, 1593 William, d. 1632 John, d. 1653 William, d. 1656 John, d. 1686 Monk, d. 1735 David,
d.
9,
before Feb.
;
1522
b. 1696,
29
IV.
Denton
(24.
in 1329.
V.
in
Whit-
tington,
(25.)
(2().)
by
VI.
Mallicent Davenport.
VII.
Roesia Davenport.
NINTH GENERATION.
Issue of Sir John Davenport, (No. 20.)
(27.)
I.
Thomas DavenjDort
first
of
Davenport,
in 1343,
who
and
wife Matilda
to
Eve
He
died in 1380
of
1758,
whose
son Davies Davenport, of Woodford, Marton and Capesthorne, Esq., and of the Inner Temple, b. in Red Lion Sqiiare, London, Oct. 2, 1724, married Phebe, daughter and co-heiress of Richard Davenport, of Calvelej' and Davenport, which latter estate he settled on his daughter Phebe, who became the wife of Eusibius Horton, Esq., and whose descendant. Sir Robert Wilmot
Horton, now holds it. Davies Davenport, son and heir of the last mentioned Davies, was b. Aug. 29, 1757. Was member of Parliament for the County of Chester, from 1806 to 1830. He dying, in 1837, was succeeded by his eldest son. Edward Davies Davenport, Esq., to the
estates of
etc.
He
died in 1847, leaving Arthur Henry, son and heir, who dying in 1867, was succeeded bj^ his cousin, now Bromley Davenjiort, Esq., M. P., son of the late Rev. W. Davenport Bromley, who
also of the
has since been the possessor of the Cheshire estates, and now Bromley estate, in Warwickshire, and who may be accounted one of the largest landed proprietors of the Com-
moners of England.
5
30
SUPPLEMENT TO
the
side of
Dane
Church
his father
and several
married,
were patrons.*
Sir
He
1st,
Johanna, daughter of
Henry
His second
wife
Sir
Davenports of
In 1380, Sir
to serve
King Rich-
a year
He
died
in 1383.
son and
(30.)
(31.) (32.)
heir,
IV.
V.
VI.
Roger Davenport,
living in 1350.
VII.
who
The Church is a neat buikling of brick, with a tower and side aisles, the former of which forms an interesting object in
several romantic views along the
:
The Harl. MSS. '2151 68. have notes of this Church. On the windows are many ligures, arms, &c. On one is this inscription "Of yr charitie pray for Bond ell Mainwaring and Margaret and Ellen his wyves, which made this window A'no
:
of Davenport,
and Davenport
31
Calveley.
He was
slain
on the part
Shrewsbury,
1408.
(84.)
VIII.
whom
descended
of Clarendon.
IX.
Isabella
(No. 21.
(86.)
I.
Alice,
and
who became
haU,
(
Brom-
18G().
88.
III.
Sir
John Davenport,
to distinguish
him
name,
be-
who
of
Henbuiy.
He
married Eliza-
and co-heiress
of Peter
Legh
of Betch-
IV.
John de
Hvdes
of
Urmetson.
32
SUPPLEMENT TO
TENTH GENERATION.
Issue of Sir John Davenpoet, (No. 38.)
^
(40.)
I.
Leghes,
(41.)
Jr.
II.
euports of Henbuiy,
1366,
named
1st, in
the
Henbuiy
entail,
and
3d, in the
Woodford
entail, 1371.
He marwho was
Hugh
Venables,
John Davenport,
living in 1366.
IV.
Woodford,
&e.,
Hving in 1371,
as
by indenture
in 1413 in Bredbury,
He
V.
ELEVENTH GENERATION.
Issue of Nicholas Da\'enport, (No. 43.)
(45.
I.
est son
and
Oxton
in Wyrhall,
Henry
V, (1421).
of
He
Hugh Arderne
Henry
dated 2
33
TWELFTH GENERATION.
Issue of Christopher Davenport, (No.
4.5.
(46.
I.
John
Daveni:)ort, of
Edward
Marri-
ed
Alice,
(47.)
Rev. Randolph
Davenport,
parson of
145(5 to 1500.
III.
Charles Davenport.
Nicholas
(49.)
IV.
Davenport,
maiTied
Agnes,
THIRTEENTH GENERATION.
Issue of John Davenport, (No.
40.
(50.)
I.
Nicholas Davenport,
9,
of
Woodford, who
1522.
1490.
Surviving
12,
in
Wood-
ford, granted
(52).
III.
Davenport
had
lands
in
in
34
SUPPLEMENT TO
FOURTEENTH GENERATION.
Issue of Nicholas Davenpokt, (No. 50.)
(53.)
I.
John
Davenj^oi-t of
of
ried Margaret,
daughter
William
Bramhall.*
May
12th,
33
He
and
heir.
54.
II.
He
of
maiTied
Emma
daughter and
heii'ess of
John Blunt,
Benton-
of-Trent,
County
of Stafford
about
midway between
2094.
Harl.
MSS.
18
His
set-
Nicholas Davenport,
Heniy
VIII.,
(1527.)
(
56.
IV.
in a feoff-
ment from
[Woodford,] for
July
5,
1519
living in 1553.
FIFTEENTH GENERATION.
Issue of Christopher Davenport, (No.
.54.)
(57.)
I.
Edward Davenport,
of Coventry,
pewter-
*We
its
Company
a few
months
since.
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
er,
35
who married
of that city.
a davigliter of
man
of City Chamberlain,
and
In 1550, he was chosen Mayor of Coventry, and during his Mayoralty overruled
all
the
county.*
LIxf.
Led
Warwickshire
is
and
in the
It is principal-
strong, tine woods with sends six members to Parliament, two from Coventry, two from Warwick and two from the County. The City of Coventry is situated about ten miles north of Warwick, and 90 miles from London, containing about 25,000 inhabitants. It was founded at a very early period, probably while the Romans inhabited Britain.
a feeding
land
It
much
In 1016,
entry
is
Norman
Earl of Chester,
who
The city and certain villages in its vicinity, as a mark of si:)ecial by Henry VI. in 1451, an entire county l)y
held quarter sessions in the same manner, and with the same
large.
The
any member
to Parlia-
The
Edward
I.,
for the
two members to Parliament, the election to be vested in such freeman as have served seven years apprenticeship, to one and the same trade in the city and the suburbs,
city to return
,<.
^J> /=Wl_i
36
SUPPLEMENT TO
SIXTEENTH GENEKATION.
Issue of
(58.)
Edward Davenport,
(No. 57.
who married
His second
Thomas
of Gloucester-
He was
and do not receive alms, having been sworn and enrolled. The voters thus qnalilied amount to about 14()(). Coventry has been frequently the temporary residence of Henry VI was here in 1450, when he made the iirst rojalty. Sheriff. In 1458 a Parliament was held in the Chapter House of the Priory, which passed attainders against the Diike of York, the Eaiis of March, Salsbiiry and Warwick. King Edward IV, and his Queen, kept their Christmas at Coventry in 1465. In 1499, Henry VII, and his Queen visited the citj', and in 1510, Henry VIII and Queen Katharine were there, when there were three pageants put forth. Queen Elizabeth visited the city in 1565; James I in 1617, and in 1687 James II was there. The trade of the city, as early as 1436, was principally in the manufacture of cloths, caps, etc., which continued till 1696, when it was changed to the manufacture of worsteds, and so famous was it for its dj^e, that "true as Coventry blue" became a proverb.
The most noted churches are St. Michael's and that of the Holy Trinity, both vicarages in the patronage of the Bishop of Coventry and Litchfield. St. Michael's steeple is one of the most beaiitiful in the kingdom. It was begun in the reign of Edward III, in 1372. and was finished in twenty years. The body of the church was erected The height of the steeple and the in the reign of Henry VI. length of the church are the same, 303 feet, and the width of the last 104 feet. The Church of the Holy Trinity would in any other situation be considered a most beaiitiful edifice, but Monies Counties. is eclipsed by its vicinity to St. Michael's.
37
was
whom
he succeeded to
as late as
beinp;^
was Alderman
of the city
that station
who had
previously
been Mayors
many
of our
American
cities at
of the
follows
"Arms
ly estates in Cheshire,
is
at
Bag-
"f"
Heniy Davenport's
to have
ecclesiastical connection
appears
of the
Holy Trinity
in which
*0f the present Aldermen, six are past Mayors, one the pres.Joseph Edge Banks, Esq., and three only have not served the office of Mayor. Communicated by Wm. Geo. Fretto7\,
ent Mayor,
Jan. 1877.
t
The
I.,
Baginton Hall was long the seat of the Bromley family. estate was purchased by the family in the reign of James and the original Hall was built by Secretary Bromley. This
38
SUPPLEMENT TO
monument
of
live
hundred
rears, with
mate-
rial
We
of Mr. Davenport,
John,
was puritanically
inclined,
and
was influenced
to conformity
by
liis
own
personal ap-
thereto.
may be
John Davenpoi-t,
"that in 1611
was deep-
ly stirred
by a discussion
through
to
some laxness
be a custom
in the to
Church
authorities,
it
had come
;
commune
in a standing posture
but
gentleman was Speaker of the House of Commons during the Qneen Anne. In proof of the high estimation in which In he was held, the following circnmstance may be cited 1706, the family seat at Baginton was reduced to the ground by fire. Intelligence of this calamity was conveyed to the owner while attending his duty in the Hoiise of Commons, and a considerable sum was immediately voted by Parliament towards a restoration of the edifice. Dugdnlt^'s EmjlamJ and
reign of
:
Wales Delineated.
* The earliest mention of this Church is in 1291, and its first incumbent, wasHenrj'de Harenhale, 1298. Dugdale's Warwick-
shire, p. 110.
"
39
to the
Thus
early
knowledge
on a matter
jjoint of his
own
many
this city,
croachment
ceremonies.
ity,
liturgical
The
case of the
Church
of the
Holy Trin-
may be
cited in illustration.
communion
table
removed
or railed
in.
Puritan party
Daveni3ort,
among
and
his brother
and
they
after
Says a
city annalist,
"The com-
munion
mont of
made
altar
fashion
Grod
it
grant that
It
may
vestrymen then
communion
table,
40
SUPPLEMENT TO
of Parliament,
March
ter the
ly'
1,
money expended,
to al-
where
all
it
of
(59.)
Christoi^her Davenj^oi-t,
who married
He
is
named
the manuShei'ifl:'
facture
and dyeing
and Mayor
woolens
city.
He was
chosen
in 1602.
2 o'clock,
March
24th, 1603,
James
I,
King
of
Eng-
MSS.f
whom
father
Rev. John
Davenpori
Conway
in
own
and uncle
who
are
Aldermen
of the city
and ceremonies
of their
church.
offices be-
Sharpe's History of Coventry, Fretton's edition, 18(54. Nickson's MS. History says he "was proclaimed diiring the Mayoralty of Christopher Davenport, at Cross Cheaping, Coventry, by Alderman Rogerson, in the presence of Lord Berkley,
t
and others of good account." Communicated by George Eld, Esq., of Coventry, in 1850, to v/hom the writer was obliged for information gathered from the Leet Book and Annals of the city.
C*^r^-fto^^
JQ~o<-
( v\
5^
1602,
41
came much
whose behalf he
es-
tablished
his
free school,
to
which he contributed of
and entered
into
of the
ed
and
to this
end charged
his
estate
with 13,
This
school continued
1791,
when
to
its
separate establish-
ment
disajDjiears
and seems
28fh
Ji('j)o>i.
The
l)her,
fine outline
rei)resenting
him
with the
Company, was kindly forwarded by Mr. Fretton and has been reproduced by the Photo-Engraving Co., of
New
York.
The
original portrait
l)e
is
* Communicated by Mr. Wm. Geo. Fretton, who adds, "I have a fine etching by Aklerman Howlette, from a drawing by H. Jeayes, 1793, of the west part of the Free School pulled down in the year following. This shows the room where Davenport's school was carried on. I could possibly get it photographed. I would send you the plate itself, but I have no other and it
is
very rare."
led,
a sorrowful
Bablake, with which Mr. Davenport had no connection; for which correction Mr. Fretton will please accept hearty thanks.
42
SUPPLEMENT TO
also half length portraits
Queen
Elizabeth,
II., &c.,
of Charles
SEVENTEETH GENEEATION.
Issue of
Henky Davenport,
(No. 58.)
(60.
I.
Barnabas Davenport,
of
Coventiy,
who
he
whom
As we have
this
confidently
shown
in the Introduction to
work that
was
we
will
sketch of his
life
Wood and
many have
-John
:*
which so
Christoj^her
Davenport,
son
of
Barnabas,
and
Cov-
grandson
of
Henry,
was born
in the city of
there educated.
his
At about
he and
at
Merton Colbeginning of
one of his published works, *In a sketch of him now in my hands, reprinted in London in 1872. he is called
the fifth son of Henry whichif possible might make his relation to John so "intimate that each would lose his personality
;
43
battlers,
and
took of the cook's commons, but the warden, Savile, havmg received notice of them and
dition, dismissed
Su-
Henry
their con-
moners or students
relatives
ately
Christopher remained for a time longer, as Sir Henry was recalled to Eaton but upon liis return, he also
;
withdrew,
of a
Romish
went
to
priest,
fallen,
Douay,
and
among the Dutch there, in 1G17. Thence he returned to Douay in 1(518 and joined the
of the Franciscans,
He was
at
afterwards
Spain,
where
in a
a consum-
of the al)lest
He
was
made Doctor
University.
Afterwards he went into England under the name of Frcntci.^cus a Saiicta Clara, and at length was made one
of the chaplains to Henrietta Maria, the royal consort
of Charles
I.,
all
of his
44
profession,
SUPPLEMENT TO
and
of
many
He sometimes
appeared
at Court,
of his learning
many
of the nobility
and distinguished
fifty
years, he
labored incessantly to
disciples,
money among
carry
from
in printing
vancement
ual
ter
of his religion
to adminis-
among
his brethren,
and by tending
his services to
During the
civil
wars
life
of
those years
beyond the
seas,
sometimes
Loudon,
at times in the
when
became
He was
greatest
aifairs. 1st,
four times
its
pillar,
and
Among
his published
works were,
Paraphrastica
For some
45
Jesuits,
much censured by
it,
who
2d,
would
at
fain
have burnt
all
Rome,
further
rumor about
stoiDjoed,
de Mentis, kc. This book was dedicated to Charles L, and Prynne contends that the whole scoj^e of it, as
well as the parajDhrastical exposition of the articles re-
printed in 1633, were designed to reconcile the kinothe English Church, and the thirty-nine articles to the
to-'
Church
that
of
Rome.
of the
one
of
impeachment
against Archbishop
Laud was
it
Archbishop, "as Bishoi^ Heber, in by his "chaplain, Mr. Augustine Lindsell, as a person engaged in a work on the Operation of God's Grace, and a Defense of Episcopacy. " Laud had some conversation with him about his work, (Deus, Natura, Gratia, ) but denied in his trial that he had more than two or three conferences with Sancta Clara after this, and that he did not give him encouragement in his work, but remarked, "that the bishops of England were able to defend their own cause and calling, without calling in aid from Eome and would in due time." Zaud's Troubles and Trial, page 385. Bishop Heber suggests that the intimacy of Taylor with this
his Life of
to the
Jeremy Taylor,
tells us.
Franciscan, "whose friendship," he saj's, "could have been no disgrace to Taylor," probably afforded, in those suspicious times, a foundation for the report that Taylor himself had a a concealed attachment for the Romish communion. iee
of Tdijlor.
Life
46
SUPPLEMENT TO
men on both
sides,
than the substance of Divine Truth." The hst of Dr. Davenport's published works, bears
witness to his unwearied labors, and theological knowledoe.
at his
own
Monday, 1680,
age of eighty-two,
at the palac-
cording- to a wish expressed before his death, in a vault under the chapel of the Somerset House, but in the
)
Church
Savoy Hospital in
he acpriest-
the Strand.
it
is said,
religion, of the
hood and
]iimself a
of
to
this
his brethren
liiniself
to
all,
(61.)
n.
Edward Davenport,
Sarah,
who married
daughter of
man of
Coventry; by
whom
he had
Phillipa.
47
Christopher
Davenport,
who married
He
is
named
when
Book
as a clothier.
He was
elected Sher-
of
Coventry in
I.,
1632,
and Mayor
in 1641,
Charles
to the
Mayor and
Sheriff of Coventry,
demanding an
in-
The accompanying
fac-simile of his
autograph
in
is
Company,
the
AprU, 1623.
iSriV^mffrt
(63.) (64.)
IV.
V.
Henry Davenport.
John
DaveniDort, born 1597, and
at
pur-
sued
the Free
Grammar
After
School of Coventry.
ford,
He
1613.
joassing
two years
at
Hall, in the
short time,
when he became
After
officiating for a
tle,
ed service
some
five
years in
St.
Lawrence Church,
48
SUPPLEMENT TO
in
Coleman
of note.
'28th of
that year,
es-
and soon
after returned to
teemed a person
ed for some years,
ist,
and
Here he
labor-
becoming
a decided non-conform-
at St.
Stephen's in 1G88,
went
HISTOEICAL SKETCH.
(No. G4.
b}'
fifth
son of Hem*y,
and baptized
in the
Church
of the
Holy
Trinity, (Rev.
Aj^ril
The stone
ed to
its use,
and
is still
retains
its
almost
pillars of
the
of the father
tended
allusion
by the
in 1624, in
who were
other-
woman
of piety, but
was removed
by death, leaving
this
son in his
50
SUPPLEAIENT TO
service of God. dedicated him to the care and special relying on the divine with great fervor and faith, humbly
and gave
first
answer.
"
The
trace of
is
Ins
name among
Grammar School
founded
of Coventry, a
famous
and
of
of credit-
standing and
From a endowment. used for the piu-pose of the hope to almost might glance at the school room, one Davenport, very desk at which the young
identify the
of
is
nameso
by
perfect
a famous scholar, Dr. not a good disciphnarian, was liis translaPhilemon Holland, known even to us by and Plutarch and Xenophon and Livy,
tions of Pliny
it is
;
such an enthusiast,
classical learning, Davenpoi-t imbibed the taste for of the day, fashion which led him in keeping with the
and
of the school,
in Trinity Church."*
years since
Coventry a few *F. B. Dexter-wlio visited Chnrch. Trinity in service Sabbath and attended
51
of
In 1613,
lege in
tlie
lie
was admitted
member
Merton Colprevious to
University of Oxford.
little
that event, he
special influences
of God's g-race.
now
and
illustrations
famili-
the
first
mighty
in
the Scriptures."
of
the reference
the faith
which
first
was
in
him
also.
While
at the University,
life.
removed
Magdalen
Hall, in the
same
University, which he
nineteen years.
The
first
Durham.*
"The local historians all speak of the state observed at the Castle, and of its Chapel as a domestic place of worship, where The head of the house chaplains were alwaj's in attendance.
52
SUPPLEMENT TO
A good
sized
weU-preserved vohime,
containing
&c., and some Latin notes of lectures on pliHosophy, of sermons, written forty-three sermons, or outlines during his ministry delivered hand, and
with his
own
at the Castle,
his
Ct.,
was preserved by him, and descended to of Stamford, grandson, the Kev. John Davenport, DavenJames and was presented by his son, Hon.
Libraiy of Yale CoUege.
of
ume above
referred
to,
years previous to his Davenport's history, for the few of which by his permisssettlement in Coleman street
in this narrative. ion I shall avail myself beginning are book, he says: "nearest the
Of
this
two sermons
in
what
is
On
paragraph
of personal apology,
so many, (wherewith occasions of late have been that I have scarcely you have been acquainted,) as
of
some
thnoroiis
and
this, so great a work, at last almost afraid to undertake the resolution of an ancient happily I called to mind death should make him break father, that nothing but
in 1615, was a
young bachelor
and
of thirty,
alien-
cay." i^-
-B.
Dexter.
53
promise; whereupon I suddenly resolved with myself by the help of God to continue firm, hoping that his
power would appear in my weakness and presuming upon your courteous and kind acceptance, either upon
consideration of the paucity of my years, or the paucity
of of
my
which
dpubt not
will sufficiently
excuse me."
that these
two sermons,
might have been delivered by this youthful preacher on a single Sabbath, at the home
of his childhood, in the presence of
his kindred,
and
Next
is
sermon headed,
1,
Anno
Serto 35,
1615.
Sermon
which are
of J. D.,
upon Deut.
1.'
mons
after
follow in a regularly
five
numbered
series
up
Number
15
preached on
New
Year's Day.'
as
'
The sermons
you heard
are
by such references
in the
show
1616.
They
are,
fashion, in the
form of a
54
SUPPLEMENT TO
'
Grocl
spaks
all tliess
words,')
and siid
jier-
number
34,
which I have
much weakness
which most
in niyself
God's
Spirit,
giorifieth himself
by weak
my
Commandintro-
beyond the
is
patient hearers died without ever learning the full conclusion to which this 'preludium' tended."
"
Our
to
March
when Davenport
is all
but nineteen
at the Castle
years of age.
In what
l)ut
a little later)
pleased
God to make
and eminent.'
he comes
in
From
when
us,
Law-
rence Jewry
inform
Here
upwards
of five years
The Church
of
55
its
eaves of Guildhall, and but a stone's throw from Davenport's next parochial charge, St. Stephen's, Cole-
man
lies
Street.
Here he g-rew
on that side
(esiDecially,
it
work out
his evi-
to the vic-
St.
it is
Stephen's,
Coleman
as
privilege
own
from outside.
In 1624.
became
door.
*
a promotion
Street, Chea^jside, is among the London parishes. In the ohl Church, mentioned 1293, was buried Thomas Bolyn, Earl of Wiltshire, (d. 1471,) whose daughter Anne married King Henry VIII., and was the mother of Queen Elizabeth here lay also the remains of RichSt.
oldest of the
(d. 1469,)
from
whom
Warwick.
Church was destroyed by the great tire, 1G66, and the commenced by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1671, upon the same site. It has a tower 130 feet high, with, for a
old
The
present edifice
emblem of St. Lawrence. Here Tillotson was Tuesday lecturer, and here his remains were interred in 1694, three years after he was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury.
vane, a gilt gridiron, the
I
56
SUPPLEMENT TO
distasteful to the leaders in
was
Church and
State,
and
to those
we owe
the preservation of
some resulting
facts."
We
are
now come
to the time
was made to
ecclesiastical
In the Record
Domestic, Charles
of several letters
are copies
Conway
King James
I.,
so-
The
begins thus:
May
it
" It
will of
God
(against
my naturall
ministry,
jjublic
desire of privace
and retiredness)
to
make my
in
London,
and eminent,
w*"^^
me
my
sermons with
to endeavor of
and by
all
means
my
am
traduced (as
tan, or
Ma*^*" for a
Puii-
affected.
If
by a Puri-
tan
is
meant one
Government^
I profess (as
trary.
my
57
j)arish
I have
been a Curat,
in St.
Lawrence
in the
five yeares,
y**
dimng
w'=^ time,
and
in that place
(as alsoe
testify)
I have baptized
Sacrament
of
y''
vp^^out ye Surplice,
at w*"^
tymes also
Common
Prayer,
in forme
and manner as
conformity, yea
are
Aldermen
inclined
of the
;
and
w^ere otherwise
yea
my
my
resolu-
If
by puritanically affected
secx'etely
encourageth
men
in opjoo-
Government,
;
I profess a hearty
my
aimed
persuade
men
to give unto
As
for other
my
plain
in defense of
me some
opposition
from such
as disaflect them.
My
it
humble
please
Honor is,
on
that
may
you
to
Ma*^*^
my
be-
half, yt
such imputacions
may
and
to
nothing
58
SUPPLEMENT TO
cause him to discountenance
may
ble
my
person or pro-
may
wh'^'^
may
please to
testify
by admitting me
into
place whereunto I
am
be
lawfully
am my
con-
and Love,
till it
shall please
God
remove me
else whither.
For
w^'^'^
noble favor
(if
my
presumption be pardoned,) I
self
shall
acknowledge my-
ever
bound
to be.
at the
Throne of
JOHN DAVENPORTE.
(In Dorso.)
London whereunto he
The
aj^peal of
is
chosen.
May
it
please yr L'ip
of Mr. Davenport of
w'cli
The business
write yr letters to
difficulty in
me
it w'^l' I will be bold to acquaint yr h'i]) vfth all and then I shall be ready to doe the best I can to comply wth ye L'ips advise. Before this bixsiness was afoot, I had on order from his Matie to call Mr. Davenport in question, for some points of doctrine wi-'h he had preached at wcli many yt heard him were scandalized, and some getting so desperate yt they were in dan-
fol-
low in siich a case. Besides he was reported to be factious and popular [i. e. favoring the people,] and draw after him great
congregations and assembly's of
people.
59
my coming home
duty
to
my
make
found that he was chosen by apopular Coleman street, and therefore I thought stay in it until I might farther know his
I
Maties pleasure therein, rather than to admit him whom I not to stand so right as he should do in his Maties favor.
knew
Now I beseech ye L'ip advise me what you would have me doe in this business, and I will give you a true testimony of my Love and service wcli is and shall.be always at yr L'ips commandment, for I am your servant and heartly pray for your
health and happiness.
Yr L'ips
Oct. 14, 1624.
to
GEORGE, London.
(In Dorso.
To
Edward Conway, Rt
Principal
house
in
14, 1624,
which he
"my Lord
is
of
London" has
re-
turned to the
and
from him
to
sen,
to write
all
beg
these
as princijial favors,
:
1st.
effectual mediation,)
be
satisfied
be signified to the
That
if
may
60
SUPPLEMENT TO
in
agement thereby
my
reputation, or any
damage
in
In this request,
Lord-
my
man whom
more wornot lessen
may
my disam a licensed and and conformable Minand that my want of degrees proceedeth not from
nor be divulged to
of
me
my want
keep
me
longer at the
My
hope
is,
after I
am
settled in a certain
competency of means
which
lost for
want
I beseech
me
in this,
and
my reputation,
me
hurt
may
none that
traduce
me
The next
Conway thus
May
To
it
give
me
leave to
make
a suit to you,
which
did hope to
61
have done personally, and if I had had the happiness to have found your Lordship here, I Mould have strenthened my suit with the assurance of my Lord Buckingham's request, and with the approbation of his Majesty; which I hope to pursue so
ef-
fectually, as I trust I shall witness his Majesty's allowance, with his great contentment and satisfixction, in any doubts that he shall have of the conformity and orthodox doctrine
enport, for
whom
am an humble
you
will be pleased to take him give allowance, and admittance of don, to which he is chosen.
him
into a benefice in
Lon-
'
Lord, it would ill become me to countenance or move any that would oppose the ecclesiastical or civil government, in which points there is so little doubt of Mr. Davenport, as your Lordship may be confident. Both his public ministry and private conference would become witness, not
for
My
only of his conformity practiced in his doctrine and behavior, but of his endeavor to conform others, and among others
his
and uncle, who were entangled with the dislike of the ordinances of the Church, and are subject to the practice of
father
own
them now with all contentment. To this I may add, that in his ministry which he exercised in Ht. Lawrence parish in Old Jewry, he used the surplice in baptizing used the cross and administered to none but those kneeling, and this very pretense and desire of acceptation of a
;
may declare his purpose of conformity. I appeal now your Lordship's wisdom, what malicious artifice this is that would stain for a particular end, with the style of puritanibenefice
to
those persons who for singular gifts and graces in them, through the acceptance they have with the people, are able to do the most good, both in teaching the truth and the true duty of conformity to the ordinances of the Supreme Magistrate. I :lesire not that your Lordship should rest upon my bare testimony hear Mr. Davenport, examine his doctrine, his pracL-al,
:
tice,
ry
[
and if all this lift him above the ordinarank and merit of other men and the notice of his enemie,-, am sure they will need no other patronage of him than your goodness, nor no mediation of him but your wisdom, equity and
latural inclination to favor
still
his conversation,
But
good wheresoever yoii find your own knowledge and experience of him have
it.
in-
62
formed yon.
SUPPLEMENT
TO
I beseech you for the good of the Chiirch, for the advantage of his Majestie's service and at the instant request, and for the sake of your humble servant, take him into your favor and into your protection, admit him to the benefice he pretends for, and is chosen to, and countenance and favor him in the things he hath, that his credit and estate maj' not siiflfer by the {)ower of malice or misinformation, and the favor you shall do to him, I shall receive as so great an obligation done to me,
and I shall power my service to you for it forever. And although I will use all oi^portunities to declare my thankfulness, yet I know you will sooner have cause to repent yourself of the courtesy done to me, than of the goodness bestowed upon him. I beseech jonr pardon for my earnestness neglect not my suit, and make yourself master of all the powers and endeavors of your Lordship.
;
(In dorso,
The
following' day,
tlie
Oct.
17th,
knowledges
and blessing
My continued
prayers;
that
Bishop hath
finish-
but the
compass of which time, his Lordship expecteth to imderstand the performance of your noble resolution for
63
tiling
which
be assur-
peril of loss of
what
him
for sw^earing at
my Lady
Vere's,
which I marvelled
at,
know not.
My
humble
your Honor
is,
that
you would be
may
l)e
least,
make advantage
my
Sovereign
shall
be made
my good,
will
at
command two
sure
be written
him
of his satisfaction
wUl be but
small,) should
be
in all
shall
hear of
science
cy,
it,
and, which
is
worth
that
in con-
an act of mer-
God
as
when you
shall
be able to
sa}^
Nehemiah
did, 'Re-
64
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Grocl
member me O my
shall ever
concerning
to
this!'
and myself
be your Honor's
JOHN DAVENPOETE.
Dated 17
Oct. 1G24.
The next
day, Secretary
Conway
writes a letter to
who
and an emi-
nent and
ly
nances.
He
vailed with
and
uncle, both
Aldermen of
letter
his in-
entreats
for
him
by obtaining
him an expression
may be done
Honor with
whereby
the
"For your
clear proceeding
wherein, I
am
bold to
trouble your
names
of those that
were
in the Vestry,
it
may appear
that
by unani-
mous
consent, not of
some
factious people as
some have
From Conway's
;
Papers
Letter Book, p. 158 and Calendar of State Domestic, James L, (1624,) p. 357.
65
the other
will
named
else I
is
my
competitor.
I
riglit,
last
motion toward
the center
let
may
efitectual.
Now
your interest
dispersing these
mists, so shall I
JOHN DAVENPORTE.
P. 8.
I shall
this suit,
nor
(being
now
Majesty be
satisfied,
and be pleased
so
much.
King,
good
interest
the
so great
power
Duke
if
of
Buckingham, that
to
you please
me
to effect.
Let
it
because
Then
of 8t. Stephen's,
Coleman
meet-
animously elected
66
opponent, Mr.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Wilsonwith
list
of 70 parishioners
who
In
associated with Mr. Davenport, in the management of the Massachusetts Colony, and several others bear the
names
of those
or soon
list
is
Maurice Abbot, the brother of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom Secretary Conway had addressed
on the preceed-
ing day
leaning to Puritanism.
The name
list,
of
Theophilus Ea-
although he was
subsequently enrolled
among
his parishioners.
his final acknowl-
Nov.
8,
(l(i24),Mr.
Davenport sent
aid in
him
and that he
is
now inducted
man
street.*
parish,
erected in 1847, to the Eev. Josiah Pratt, recent Vicar of the whose missionary labors are personified by the Angel
67
consisting of
bound volume,
<S:c.,
which belonged to
On
a blank leaf,
found
own
Church-wardens.
incident
is
What adds
as witnesses to this
among
his
the
members
the celebrated
is
Assembly of Divines.
Its date
announcement
to Secretary
Conway,
had
environed him.
"Nov.
7, lfi24:.
John
Davenport,
street,
clerk,"
vicar of St.
Stephen's in Coleman
London,
did, this
day
bemg
in
number
3i), ])e-
and declared
his full
and unfeign-
in the
time of morning
Hindoo and New ZealanThe entrance gateway from Coleman street, has a very curious scvilptiire embodying tlie Last Jiidgment. Timbs' Curiosilles of
London.
present vicar (1876, ) to be a
.son of
I believe the
Eev.
J. Pratt.
68
his surplice,
SUPPLEMENT TO
according to the order prescribed by the
Church
of
names
Henry Wood,
William Spurstowe,
Saiwxtel Aldersey,
Church Wardens,
Richard Symonds, Thomas M.vston, John Wells, William Hill, Robert Holmes.''
pastor, not
self to
the
now twenty-seven years of age, devotes himwelfare of the people who had called him to
when Mr. Davenport, may be supposed to have become " settled in a certain competency of means to recover
the degrees," the opportunity for which he had not
availed himself
of,
1610.
We
own hand,
to,
not
tpiestions proposed,
occasion.
69
Anno
1625*,
1
.
Reconeiliatio per
I
mortem
Christi
sit
singulis
,'
i^
Medicina paratur
Sic voluit medicus.
Cur paucis
:
Uno
Itetamur merito
Vis morbi.
Cur hoc ?
non cura
patescit
Qufestis 2 da.
Quos
sibi
membra
vocavit,
Non
hos
divellit
mundi
satansBve protestas,
70
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Translation.
I
John Davenport,
Chi'ist reconciliation
man ?
Whether the
tirely fall
from grace ?
1st
Question
negative.
:
We
remedy
is
Why
it.
for
few?
Because so
we
re-
over
Wliy
is
this
so?
willed
shoiild not.
;
The
guilt indeed
was common,
j
2d Question Those
negative.
whom
members, those
the
Si^ii'it,
whom
can wrest from him, nor can the gates of hell prevail
against them.*
*
"May
22, 1623.
John's, Oxford,
Thomas
of St. David's. Reports the proceedings of a disiJiitation between Mr. Davenport and Mr. Palmer on the question whether the regenerated could finally fall from grace-"
71
With
which
this brief
dogma
of
John
labors
London,
entitled to write
On
and
new
scenes,
new
trials
field of labor.
city of
London
oft'
was
which swept
ted their
flocks,
and
fled
Mr. Davenport remained firmly at his post, and, planting himself on those promises of divine protection and
security'
in
of
His
him
to
all,
and on
is
now
to be
" That
refipect
pdins taken
gratuity, the
in
sum of 20."*
Of this
parish,
Great
graves,
Plagiie,
when he carried the dead and fetched the bodies with the Dead Cart and
(1665,)
72
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down
characteristic of
that people,
and
having heard, incidentally, of the opinions of Mr. Davenport as expressed to a certain Mr.
casion to challenge
f^mitli,
took occere-
him
to a discussion
upon the
mony
the
Mr. Davenport
this,
or any time,
of disputants, especially
upon
a subject which
life,
had
so
little
and
these
princi-
neverthe-
which no important
ple
was involved.
spirit
In what
what
may be judged
far placed
here be added, that this Dr. Leighton, afterwards, so himself in antagonism with the civil and ecclesiastical power, by his injudicious utterances against his Sovereign,
*
It
may
'
73
The
and Pastor
Coleman
street,
about kneeling
at the
Sacrament.
DE.
LEIGHTtN
LETTER.
To Mr. Davenport.
Sik:
Whereas
am
;
to
enter
the
lists
ing at the Sacrament the law requires that you should be the disputant because it is your practice. Affirmanti eifacienti hicumhit prohalio, the which being answered, I shall be ready to turn disputant but if you will have me to begin iirst, be pleased to answer these questions. Nam licet dispidantem inler;
rogari.
1.
or man, or whether
2.
Whether kneeling at Sacrament be the ordinance of God, it had not its first institution from Antichrist?
Whether kneeling
at
Sacrament be a thing
indifferent, or
no?
a religious worship, or no ? be a religious worship, whether the elements in the Sacrament be not objective a quo the motive of the worship ? Whether Christ and his Apostles after him, did not sit at 5. the Sacrament, as they did at their ordinary meals ? An answer to these shall facilitate the dispute and much clear 'the controversy, for the truth should be our aim, and not the
3.
Whether kneeling be
it
4.
If
answer any question, concerning the controversy, so I will desire nothing to be done biit what I will do. Lastly, I do expect that you will take your course in the dispute, and let me have arguments for arguments, and you shall have answers for answers,
victory.
If
you
and the ceremonies and practices of the Church, as to suft'er a torture and mutilation almost too fearful to relate, and too disgraceful for the records of any civilized nation. See Neal's
Puritans, Vol.
I,
74
SUPPLEMENT TO
propounded
to
be
legal, so I
expect an
answerable answer.
ALEXANDER LEIGHTON.
MR. Davenport's answer.
To
Dr. Leighton
Sir: When we
Eeformed Church,
these days,
we
shall
soon conisfa
seel
or-
Neither was
it
my
it
?
purpose
less
to enter the
much
questions as these
for
is
not work
Or,
if
enough to
dispute,
we must
were
it
who
Who
row and
how Atheism, Libertinism, Papism and Arminianism, both at home and abroad, have stolen in and taken possession of the house, whilst we are
fear observe
at strife
it ?
and
better
the
in
enemy
we busy
ourselves
of to
this body.
How much
in
would
beseem
us,
combine together
an holy
common
adversaiy, according to
:
(2
Sam. x
I,
11,) If the
resemble those
75
command
his fellow
of
of
which caught
by
the head, and thrust his sword into his fellow's side and
fell
down
together.
satisfaction,
(whose
scrui:)les
moved me
right
would
He, beyond
my
thought
at the time,
must
my
my
silence,
is
we
take things
or,
out
of a corrupt mind,
we dispense with
ourselves in those
Make good
our report
fore that I
?
either of these,
will believe
?
Who
fire
will
Where-
may
in time
quench
this spark,
and so pre-
sent a greater
Id
Question.
had
its
from Antichrist ?
Ans.
76
SUPPLEMENT TO
may answer
it
dis-
must be divided
Ques.
into
two questions.
of
God, or man
Ans.
1st.
If
it
it
must
be obeyed
(1
Peter
nor
b}^
necessary consequence,
of
crosseth any
com-
mandment
of
his
God.
But,
be an ordinance
Word
inward
use in
may
For
I take
:
it,
that
6,
me
God
and
so,
by consequence,
Lord's
Supper.
2d Ques.
Whether kneeling
had
;
at
?
from Antichrist
it
Ans.
1st.
If
it
it is
but
all
deny
it.
For
had
aught I can
find,
was
for the
vit
Honorias decre-
ut
cum
77
by others
it,
Whosoever invented
it,
we
disclaim
ded
2.
it.
(Jaes.
Whether kneeHng
no
'?
at the
Sacrament be a
tiling-
indifferent or
Am.
In
its
own nature
it is,
but being-
commanded
it is
by authority and allowed by the Word, I think ter done than omitted.
3.
bet-
Ques.
'?
Whether kneeling be
properly, kneeling
it
religious worship
or
no
Ann.
To speak
is
not
i^jse
cuUus,
in the
Sacrament
?
)e
not objective
(/uo the
An.^.
ive,
The elements are ohjectm a quo scil. signiticathe signs moving us to lift up our minds from the
bread and wine, to the
spirit-
object of faith,
is
the
of
Christ,
if
i^hich
far
from
idolatry, as
appear
you
bject.
5.
'f
(Jue.^.
Whether God
?
that worship
Ans.
78
that cause, the
this also,
6.
till
SUPPLEMENT TO
Ques.
Whether
sit at
?
Christ
and
ordinary meals
1.
We find
at supper,
which,
tion.
it
may
be,
was concealed
2d
XV "I.
t.
--
'y^
'
''^
9-
79
To show
sowing,
Davenport's con-
may be mentioned
who became
of
this time,
Kiffen,
Baptist denomination.
"
One
the
members
of
his
church in Coleman
six
street,
of Eaton's friends
him
all
in the ministry
controls
Being permitted
to follow his
own
preferen-
may be presumed
'
His father was Rev. Richard Eaton, who was descended from an ancient family in the County of Chester, near the original seat of the Davenports. He became vicar of the Church
Holy Trinity, Coventry, Jan. 12, 1590, and was the incumbent at the baptism of Christopher Davenport, Oct. 1, 1590, and of his brother, John Davenport, April 9, 1597.
of the
In the City Council Book, is the following note entry, " April 1598, Richard Eaton to have 6, 13s. 4d., anniially at Michpelmas in augmentation of his living during pleasure." He left several children Theophilus, a London merchant, who was for some time engaged in trade with Denmark and the ports of the Baltic Samuel, who also became a non-conformed minister, and came to America, and whose son, Nathaniel, was the first rector of what is now Harvard College, Cambridge. Mass.
14,
:
80
SUPPLEMENT TO
had something
and
fixing
him
there.
uninterrupted intimacy
their
names
Durmg
his ministry in
joyed the acquaintance, and esteem, of the most distingviished persons belonging to
Among
Cambridge.
him the
"
greatest pupil-monger
ever
known
deep
in
England.
He
James
I.
made him
himself,
chaplain to
and urged
On
the
young
king,
Buckingham.
office of
He was
office
and the
Lord Keeper
of the
in the State,
and
entitled the
These tempt-
means
of
Dr.
Bacon,
New Haven,
1838-
81
conscience, and could not be bought. He declined the proffered honors, and tirnily adhered to his principle.s.
ted
St.
man showed
Stephen's,
young
vicar
of
by leaving
his writings to be
care,
published
by
whom
accordingly
man street, an admirable preface from his pen ume of sermons of Rev. Henry Scudder, a
minister,
editions.
to a vol-
country
several
In the same year an association was formed in London, the design of which was, by certain measures in
connection with the Established Church, to promote throughout England an able and evangelical ministry,
and
its
measures seem
to have
Ithe people,
and
to have
promised usefulness.
in fact, a sort of
Home
Missionary Society.
Funds,
to
John Davenport, by Eev. J. W. M'Chire. copy of one of Dr. Preston's works printed in 1633, with a preface jointly signed by Kichard Sibbs and John Davenport,
*
Life of
now in the hands of the writer. This Mr. Davenport and descended to the library of his grandson, the Rev John Davenport of Stamford, Conn. and is now owned by Mr. Henry F. Taylor, of that
volume belonged
to
place!
who
descendant of Elizabeth Davenport, the youngest daughter of the Stamford minister, who became the wife of Rev. William Gaylord of Wilton, Conn.
is
82
SUPPLEMENT TO
and
faithful lecturers.
The
were
in trust."
These
feoffees of
number
four of
;
them clergymen,
four
;
whom
of
citi-
of
them
laywers,
of
whom
zens,
and four
of
them
one of
whom was
the
Lord Mayor
London.
became
vacant,
at
of
June
30th,
1628.*
"I
or,
of writing to
your Hon-
somewhat concernGommission
ing the
troubles.
But
have hoped
day we
are in the
same condition
now
is
in-
King or commonwealth.
Threatenings were
of
Lon-
don, Dr. Laud, even the next day after the conclusion
of their
session.
spirit
We
enraged
of the
two bishops.
Ours, as I
am
in-
p. 314.
83
my
pastoral charge in
Coleman
street.
But
am
in
God's
hand, not in theirs, to whose good pleasure I do contentedly and cheerfully commit myself.
will to
If it
be his
use,
have
me
laid aside as a
broken vessel of no
his will
served himself of
me hitherto. me
If
otherwise he be gra-
in
my
station
and min-
he
is
to him,
and
succeed on earth.
not deliver
mouth
evil
he wiU deliver
me
dom.
left
me
many
comforts,
among
membrance
your former
favors,
know
prevail
much
What were
alluded to
"
here
we
Davenport had
as a noto-
High Commission
other worthy persons in promoting a private subscription in behalf of the poor distressed ministers of the
exile
by the
84
SUPPLEMENT TO
'
J i I
religious persecutions of
Ferdinand
of
II.,
the papist
Em-
peror of Germany.
of Frederic V.,)
The Queen
who was
sister to
desired
The
Objections
faith of Christ,
brief
ed.
Sibbs,
a private subscription,
sum
of his offence,
toriovis
the
arm
see in
all-
still
greater good.*
* Under date, March 2d, 1627, is found a "circular letter of Thomas Taylor, Eichard Sibbs, John Davenport, and William Gouge setting forth the lamentable distress of 240 godly preach-
ers and several thousand private persons, cast out of their houses by the fury of merciless papists in the Upper Palatinate, and calling upon all godly Christians, to unite their hearts, and hands, for some present supply for them until some public means may be raised for their relief. " Copy endorsed by Bishop Laud. See Calendar of State Papers Letters and Papers Foreign
85
From
obligingly furnished
by Mr. Dexter, we
will
here
stop and
make
a brief record,
against
swer of Mr. Davenport, " to certain objections devised him by Timothy Hood, sometime his curate."
Tim Hood,
as Mr.
Davenport
calls
fleece
than the
flock,
and
being a factious person and disposed to shirk his duties was dismissed by Mr. Davenport from office.
against the
was addicted
to Puritanical
such as not reading the Litany on Sundays, not wearing the surpHce, and also administering the
Sacrament
wife of said
to those that
John Davenport.
He
de cmterh.
that "it
plice
To these complaints, Mr. Davenport makes defense: was the practice of his church to have the surworn
at least
er
church on
;
Wednesday and
churches."
and Domestic Published by the British Government, in 82 Vohimes. A set of these Volumes is found in the Library of the Long Island Historical Society, Brooklyn, N. Y., presented by the British Government, under the direction of the Master of Rolls, London, 1874.
86
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He
about 1400
many
he
is
pew
in
impossible
Many of these pews are so filled that it that many should receive it kneeling
it in,
whereby he
is
some
to
sit,
that might
conveniently kneel,
to
them.
Con-
own knowledge,
many
times, neither
had the
said
is
To what
is
hold
it
he
is
able to declare in
some with
;
whom
he has had
John Davenporte,
the contraiy
any time
hiin, of
j^^'^ctice in
any
He
87
had stood
aloof
from
his rector,
seldom
calling-
and that he
at his first
made
chamber
in his parish,
because there
;
is
a daily use of
him
in so large a parish
Hood
about half a
foUowed,
viz
that
their children
had
re-
at
hand
do these
offices;
and
I told
is
you
so he
must
of necessity
full for
A^-ill;''
follow his
When
content,
from
all
prayed
God
made
Mr.
Hood appears
it
have so
iar fallen
from
grace, as
tions;"
although
OS SUPPLEMENT TO
in the case,
was rendered
and
it
may
had used great moderation with Mr. Davenport, thinking that he had persuaded him and settled his judg-
ment."
But now
early part
we
find in the
renewed
Laud and
his ad-
Through the
influence of
Laud with
trustees,or feoffees,
were soon
demned
as
dangerous and
six
illegal
and the
feoffees
were
refer-
Chamber.
ever,
The unpopularity
of the proceedings,
how-
men were
threat-
never executed.
It
was on
Mr. Davenport
:
The business
of the feoffees
being
THE DAVENPOKT FAMILY.
earnestly that
89
God would
assist
may
Which see-
"1.
"
in
my
family.
To check my unthaukfnbtess.
to thankfubtess.
" 3.
more
ivatchfulness
for
the
Which
upon whose
faithfulness in
faithful in
Ms
my
covenant.
Amid
his
frequent literary
it
is
90
SUPPLEMENT
TO
apj)rove,
and which
John Coton a
He was now
to
London.
Mr.
to leave
his flock,
but
The
liis
views,
somewhat "staggered
in his conformity"
became
fully
to his
side.
The
bishoj),
all
scru-
conscience
in
these
mattei's,
Chamber,) said
in reference to
his
Mr.
but
had
settled
judgment
;"
found
himself
greatly mistaken
when he discovered
judgment
that he
had
openly
against conformity
his escape
which was
And
man who
afterwards, in a sj)eech
before the
House
Davenport as
thp:
davenport family
fled to
91
for the
New England
One
Abbot,
principal
event
wliich
undoubtedly brought
of
matters to a
crisis,
George
Archbishop of
as
known
Laud
to the
whose
increased
power
to crush him.
Answer
to
Prynne as given by Neal,l will throw on some points of history to which allusion has now been made. In describing the subsequent trial of Archbishop Laud, he says "The managers went on to charge the Archbishop with his severe persecution of those clergymen who had dared to preach against the dangerous increase of Arminianism and Popery, or the late innovations they instanced Mr. Chauncey, Mr. Workman, Mr. Davenport, and others some of whom were punished in the High Commission, for not railing in the communion table, and for preaching against images, and when Mr. Davenport fled to New England to avoid the storm, the Archbishop said his arm should reach him there They objected further, his suppressing afternoon sermons on the Lord's day. and the laudable design of luiying in impropriations which
brief extract from
light
: :
encourage such lectures, Laud replied that upon these men was the act of the High Commission and not his, and if he did say his arm should reach Mr. Davenport in New England, he sees no harm in it, for off'ences against good order should be dealt with by law. He [Laud] confessed that he overthrew the design of buying
was designed
to
ii.,
p. 282.
92
SUPPLEMENT TO
Previous to his embarkation for Holland, Mr. Davenport called together the principal people of his charge,
desiring their opinion and advice, v^^hen he acknowledg-
"
No danger
'which
their affec-
what he con-
God that he had destroyed be a plot against the Church, for if it had succeeded, more clergymen would have depended on the feoffees than on the king, and on all the peers and bishops besides, and he proceeded against them according to law, and if the sentence was not just, it must be the judges' fault and not
u])
it,
for
he conceived
it
to
was notorious to all men who had dared to take a stand against his proceedings, and put him in mind of many who had been forced into Holland and America, to avoid the ruin of themselves and family As to the imi^ropriations, there was no design in the feoffees to render the clergy independent of the bishops, for none were presented but conformable men, nor did any preach but such as were licensed by the bishop indeed the design being to encourage the preaching of the Word of God, the feoffees were careful to employ such persons as would not be idle and when they perceived the Archbishop was bent on their ruin, Mr. White went to his gracel and promised to rectify anj^thing that was amiss, if the thing itself might stand. But he was determined to destroy it, and by his mighty influence obtained a decree that the money should be paid into the Exchequer, by which an end was put to one of the most charitable designs for the good of the Church that has been formed these many years."
his.
The Commons
replied that
it
how
'
'
93
aware of their
loss,
own
safe-
a manuscript of
some
hand
seventy-five
;
and so
it,
far
had an opportunity
:
to
examine
I think
unquestionably his
if
so, it St.
his
fleeing
the
country.
The
is
'Christ's
is
Prefaced
an
beginning thus
Lord and
after a
his t[ruth],
of
you that
know
some
the reason
why
now am
sort [di-iven]
to speak to
you by
writing.
The earnest
desires of
of yovi [have]
me
to leave
behind
me
to
some
of
you charging
it
and conabovit
science
upon [me]
'
. .
in this treatise
'
I never
had the
:
light
nor liberty to
the
now
be
Lord hath
if
shown me
his truth, I
declare
cast
'
it
ofi",
known
said
am
of
you
:
One very
curious passage
;
helps to
in one place
it is
'hence
some
Jesuits, especially
he that writ
lately yet
St.
most
Clare that
"
94
SUPPLEMENT TO
but schismatics.'
"It is our old friend, Francis de St. Clare, otherwise
who pub-
on the Articles
phrastically considered
and explained
two centuries
later
of the
most adIn
('Apologeticall Reply,'
aftair
tliis
account of the
want
of information,
1,
my
whom my
his
hearty prayer
be
shall be,
day and
may
hound
in
the bundle
of
life
imth the
Lord
may
of the mid-
95
And
that the
Lord
mies with shame, but upon himself let his crown Jfour ish.
2,
thought there
the
manner of some
that I might
is.
3,
pamper
the Hesh.
not as one ashamed of the Gospel, to avoid witness bearing to the truth.
7,
in,
or
Magistrate,
beex-
whom
in all
my
life,
who prosecuted
against us.
ing about 17 years exercised a public ministry in London, (about 9 or 10 years whereof I was in a pastoral
in
much perplexed
which was
See Paper of F. B. Dexter on Life and Writings of John Davenport in Collections of New Haven Colony Historical Society,
Vol.
ii
p. 221-2.
96
SUPPLEMENT TO
districts,
when
an invitation
in
of his
countrymen residing
Holland,
November
1633.
tives of a Presbyterian
miles distant,
under the
i^astoral
whom
by
way might
to
yet be
opened
him
resume
his labors in
the metropolis
l^ut in
the next
month we
lowing record
vicarage
of
"
St.
letter,
rival in
Lady Vere
at the
Hague, throws
upon the
afflictive
state,
and
heart,
amid the
is
circumstances
now
sur-
In
Harris,)
though not
;
in
much
as her chaplain
the right
he To
assiu'es
the
Magna
Charta.
the
Noble Lady,
Lady
Hague
my
97
and fro,
it is
some comfort
that
membrance
of
me
all
in prayer.
know
freely to cast
upon me
will
way
but hitherto
it
my me
in
much darkness and many difficulties, to unbottom me wholly of the creature, and to reveal himself now
and events that
befall me.
Be
at
not
troubled,
much
less discouraged,
good minds,
any
my
present way.
The persecution
of both
of the
tongue
is
more
fierce
and
terri-
At
it is
this time I
have sense
whom
many that
than some
other, doth
most
afflict
me.
I pray
is,
God
it
be not
The truth
resigned
have not
forsaken
my
ministry, nor
my
am
place,
much
less separated
only absent a
cjuieting of
lie
God
if
in the settling
and
my
and
it,
die in prison,
the cause
may be advantaged by
my
else-
me
here.
What
98
SUPPLEMENT TO
or suffer,
is
now do
expose
practice or action
done or intended by
which may
me
to
of aiithority, out,
much
less
by a
desii'e of ease, as
some give
all,
having gotten a
to
by referring
my own
trust, for
pri-
my
the
public good.
My
estate,
want,
is
me without
a calling.
In
ac-
up my
God knoweth
that I
am
so far
my outward estate that my own particular, for the advanceI am ment of it. The only cause of all my sufferings is the alteration of my judgment in matters of confonnity to
from gaining by the business in
out of purse on
the ceremonies established,
these, as formerly I
whereby
cannot practice
sure those
who do conform
I did
nay, I account
of
many
of
them
faithful
God's glory,
now
do forbear.
my
uiirightness
my
light different.
In this action,
Let no
man
Rom
xiv.,
yet
you
it,
been taught by
of the
my God
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
99
is
Lord
small,
and
to despise a
too des-
You know
what an
evil it is;
good
of account for
me
an opportvmi-
make
men.
a large
and
of
all
Any
that
their
my
actions.
With much
advice,
many
all
done
of j)itcliing on that
glorified.
manifest
it
Mr.
Harris, I
know
fully,
;
and
do heartily
love.
He
is
very worthy
man
spiiit
man
is
not at
all
taken notice
of by the bishops.
He
weak and
sickly,
but you
but his
spirit
He
shall
is
veiy
fit
in all
You
for
he
is
It is
is set-
and others
b}^
Magna Charta
The
100
SUPPLEMENT TO
witJi the joys
obliged,
.
John Davenporte.
(twice each
Sunday
at
way
of
The
result
was a
little
about baptizing
all infants,
without assur-
on Paget
s side,
own
who
named
of
This committee of
Amsterdam
of
copy
Letters in Appendix.
t
p.
469
the
of
document is wrongly calendared (as of 1634-5, instead 1633-4,) owing to the confusion of the Old and New Styles.
101
piety,
commending Davenport's
his
erudition and
and approving-
examination of
Daven-
and Daven-
"Meantime another
side-light
is
thrown on these
his
home
in the
Roman Church
before
many
years.
own
family manifests
this Gofie
was a
curi-
whose
later life
was
so
Haarlem, sends
news
to a
Lonfol-
don
and
which
still
own hand.
From
this witness
we
I-
preaching
in
the
English
Church
at
Amsterdam.
December
been
to see
sor at
Amsterdam and
city,
102
SUPPLEMENT TO
in our day as one of
remembered
Dutch
philologists,
Eng-
Goffe reports
'
is
Yerj dan-
affairs, to
the troubling of
He
and which
excellent
shall not
lectures which
clear,
He
makes
it
however, that
will
not do to accuse
would be agreeable
wise, but that stress
must be
laid rather
on his carriage
tell the story of Hooker, who was not and asks Paget that the same questions may be propoiinded to Mr. Davenport for his embarrassment,and adds, that he (Mr. Davenport,) was a runaway out of the land, and that (as the Puritans themselves do glory,) many pursuivants and public writs being out against them." In this way, he
accejited there,
103
when
writs
in
February, claims
he
is
known
as a deserter,
(since
civil
England
we
shall for
be delivered from
England.'
this plague,
and he
Avill
make
New
On
the strength
was sum-
moned by
clear himself
by answers
to certain
questions of the
and
his reply
is
dated March
18,
1634,
is
preserved
It
among
Museum.
begins thus
'
Honorable
Sir,
When
I first
came
my purpose was
native country,
England my
in-
sinister
and slanderous
in
formation,
hopes
to
whereof I complained
[my]
last,
exasif
"who
he
more troublesome than Mr. Forbes." He then goes on to say that "My Lord Vere hath resigned
who
tells
me
and advise whatever I begin." G-oflfe then sends this letter, full of vanity as to himself, and bitterness towards Mr. Davenport, to William Brough, in London, who requests a Mr. Bray to
pass so
op,
much
of the letter as he
may
and "
Vossius."
104
SUPPLEMENT TO
and
bitter
mena[ces]
against
is
me
in the
made much
particulars,
many worthy
ministers,
and
some whereof
England as
and
faithful
now
in perfect peace
and
rest,
in several countries,
in
private persons,
are loyal
all sectaries,
as
Fami-
all of
which I
I could
have been
seciire of a safe
in
'
my
If that
way
upon
all
men,
me
will
be found,
in
some par-
to have
England.
of sitting,
used in
this
ment
upon
Luke
22: 27 to 31
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
that
it
105
over
may be
man
took offence
thereat,
but
this informer,
who was
discontented the
er-
week before
at a
ground an accusation.'
It
pp. 224-5.
now became
Mr. Paget and Mr. Davenport, on the subject of administering baptism to the children of irreligious parents,
He
therefore in April,
and opened a
own
were
The popularity
numbers
of his talents
soon collected
great
of hearers,
meetings
broken up.
A warm tractarian
controver-
First,
we have
knowledge, by one
the
Wm.
Best, of his
arguments before
Dutch
classis
from Mr.
;he
,jO
most
part,
106
SUPPLEMENT TO
Lady
Vere,
at
to her
suburban
she wel-
home
after,
comed and entertained the wife of Mr. Davenport, who returned to England nearly a year before her husband.
In this
also
letter
"
Myself
spirit of
who
to
all
addeth
that he hath
now
wherein he doeth
also injur}'^ to
at rest,
is
absent, and
own
church,
whom
prelates too
much
this I
am now
is
constrained
all my whom I
former weakness
trust that
strong, in
he
will
me
spirit as I ought.
prayers,
and
if
any speak
of
them know
good
that I
am
about to answer
It
if
may be
Lady
of
to j)revent
be preju-
107
suggestions against
till
they
may
peruse
but
that she
may
from
my
At Rotterdam,
months
as "
later,
(Dec.
2.5th,
1635,)
?"
Here he
jDublishes
" Apologetical
W.
B[est]."
spii'it
we may
touching
this work,
religious controver-
Addressing
the
Chnstian
of a
reader,
he
remarks
is
good conscience
all
of itself
the tribulations of
* The reference here is, undoubtedly, to Elizabeth, dowager Queen of Bohemia, (sister of Charles I.,) whose solicitation for
we have before siJoken of. As the time at or near the Hague, it would seem that Mr. Daveni^ort had removed to that city, and that she was an attendant on his temporary ministry there.
Palatinate of the Rhine,
Queen resided
at this
The Lady
aged
ert,
name
is
rightly
decij^hered,)
who
died in
London
1669,
who was
the
widow
Rob-
Earl of Leicester.
108
this pilgrimage,
SUPPLEMENT TO
and
of confidence in all
our apologies
man
;'
yet,
man
is
bound
to provide for
a good name,'
ointment.'
to
exercised
is
than our
own
much
to
answer to
his dignity
"
and eminency."
it is
Again,
tilled
when
it
exjctresseth
good con-
science
is
declared to
of goodness.
When good
the abimdance within, and are tilled with the Spirit, then
the words will express the delightful and amiable sweetness of those
'fruits of
which
and
delightful to
]\Iarv
good
poured
109
it
Thus an answer
is
well filled
when
exiDressetli
discretion,
man
to observe a
due proportion
to the
borne when a
friend be not
soft
that a
wounded
mend
Such
make
government
modern
times.
Thus
Mr. Davenport in
Holland
many
of
and
at the
end
of this
opening
he rejoinof
Lady Vere
For some
at
emigrating to America.
years, he
chiefly throvigh
New England.
He had
curement
of its charter.
He was
March
30, April 8,
August
28, 29,
and
those of
*
following.*
Prince's Annals.
110
Preparations
if
SUPPLEMENT TO
not previously commenced, were at
set-
New
tlieir
civil leader.
The
the
organization
of the
company, among
whom
Coleman
street j^astor,
" the
made ready
their provisions
and passengers,
both for the said voyage and plantation, most of them having thereupon engaged their whole estate.*
in progress,
Mr. Da-
much
allu-
his
Years
Laud,
'My arm
shall reach
him even
If
it
had been
ship
known
gaged
that those
who had
to
chartered
the good
Hector,' to carry
their
them
New
Stephen's as their
ed with as
little
had been.
at last, that
Davenport
"
Ill
the
had returned.
London,
The
vicar general
his
visitations
of
of
'
Bishop of
diocese,
rejiorting
the
March
6th.
Mr. Davenport
am
told that
he goeth in gray
infer
like a
tliis
country gentleman.'*
We may
from what
shown
himself
much
in public,
silence in refer-
New
As the names
of those
who embarked
in the Hector,
Loudon
sailed
in that year,
we conclude
port.
that they
may have
We know
latter
that several
llichard
Mather
and
Mr. At-
water however
says,
"T
am
from
London.
Femes and
The
of
company doubtless
April,for soon after,
this,
cases similar to
disor-
a proclamation
kingdom
into
America, and
be permit-
Calendar State Papers, 1637, p. 545. From paper of Eev. E. E. Atwater, on the Voyage of the
Hector, &c.
112
SUPPLEMENT
TO
and a
certificate that
commissioners. *
the
Red Sea
as
company
at
They arrived
Boston
Hector and
Among
oth-
who came
many
By his will,
in
New
England,
With
these
came
also
Lord Leigh,
humble and
jdIous,
to see
and
and more
tance was
now
seemed
at this time,
of
others,
of the churcli-
New
England, by Rev. A. W.
M'Clure.
VoL
ii.
p. 270.
113
Synod
in the
At the request
on the
have
text, Phil.
Ki
"Nevertheless,
whereto we
rule
;
attained, let
us walk by the
same
let
us
In
this discourse,
he declared
much wisdom
and harmony.
it
to unity
upon
a place of settlement.
intellectual
The
wealth,
this
worth of
emigrants,
made
it
very desiral)le
onies of
them
among them and to this end, very hberal offers were made them. But reasons existed in their own minds why these urgent invitations could not be comphed
with, "the refusal to accept which," says Mr. M'Clure,
who
was thought that Mr. Davenport's residence in Massachusetts might draw down upon that colony the
It
before.
When
114
shall
SUPPLEMENT TO
reach
him
there."
It
scat-
tering of those
Laud
into dif-
stretching
Although he ob-
by which they
his
were surrounded
arch (Charles
I.)
at
mon-
their
own power.
some
it,
They seemed
in
community
existed
some respects
;
from
any
that
elsewhere
sc7-iptural
system
con-
to Connecticut, to explore
They came
to a
up about
Long
Island Sound.
Its
Indian name
was Quinnipiac.
115
countiy, and
and
a desirable site
the establishment of a
was, therefore, fixed
commercial town.
This
place
upon
for
the location of
their colony.
On what is now the south corner of Church and Meadow streets, they erected a hut, in which a few men remained for the winter to make
commencement
of the settlement,
new home
in the wilderness.
After taking an
acre-
affectionate leave of
their friends
and gratefully
company
sailed
of their destination
" This
on the
March, 1638.
band
ture
New
is
Mr.
of age.
The next
Sabbath.
A drum
hasty encampment.
*
Seven
men were
(from
by Eaton, one of
Beacher,
whom
was Joseph Atwater. One of the party Mr. Atwater was a gentleman of distinction and opulence, and built himself a house on what is aow Fleet street, which has stood for more than two hundred years, and was occuiiied till lately by descendants of its origidescended)
died dni'ing the winter.
nal proprietor.
another
116
SUPPLEMENT TO
at this signal
under a branching
They meet to consecrate to Grod a new region reclaimed from heathen darkness. For the first time the
aisles
of
that
forest-temple
resounded
mth
the
praises of the
Most High.
and
women used
tree.
to
all
ish metropolis.
Why
?
Why
this
change in their
condition
Why
and suffering
in every
This tree stood near the present corner of George and College streets, and was standing till after the revolutionary war, when it is said to have been cut down by Mr. David Beech er (the grandfather of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,) and to have been burnt in his shop which stood in College street, near
George. On the 25th of April, 1838, was celebrated the second CenA protennial Anniversary of the settlement of New Haven. cession was formed at the State House, comprising the various classes of citizens and strangers, which proceeded to the intersection of College and George streets, at which place Mr. Davfore.
enport preached his first sermon, just two hundred years beHere the procession halted for religious exercises. The number of persons assembled around this spot was variously estimated from four to five thousand. Many roofs of the houses
were covered with people, and some had taken their station in the trees. After singing, an appropriate and impressive prayer; was offered on a stage which had been erected near the spotj
tree is sixpposed to
Eev. Frederick
W. Hotchkiss
117
form
It is
for conscience, to
it is
unspotted;
for posterity
["What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas ? the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine
!
holy ground, The soil where tirst they trod They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to loorship GOD!"]
Ay, call
it
!
text,
formed, and moving through George and State streets passed the place in Elm street where the houses of Gov. Eaton and
to
first
was Mr. Davenport, worship, and near which the first house of worship was erected. Here after singing and reading a portion of Scripture, prayer was offered by the present jjastor, Rev. Leonard Bacon, after which an historical discourse was delivered by Professor Jamas L. Kingsley, of Yale College, and the services were concluded by prayer, singing, and the See Appendix to Kingsley's Discoiirse 109 115. benediction. At this time there was a medal struck representing on the one side Mr. Davenport preaching under the oak, and on the other New Haven as it then appeared. There was in the possession of Mr. James Brewster, of that city, a large oil painting by Rossiter, giving the landing of Davenport and his followers, and representing him under the oak preaching his first sermon. Communicated by William A. Rey-
nolds of
New Haven,
in 1851.
During the same year (1638,) the eloquent pastor of the First Church (Rev. Dr. Bacon, delivered a series of Historical Discourses, which were published in a quarto volume of 400 pages, containing a mine of valuable information in regard to the To "first settlers," and the history of New Haven generally.
)
16
118
SUPPLEMENT TO
iv.
Matthew
'Then was
and
his subject
place,
Every
its trials.
In every place,
we have need
to
At the
close of
We
with a sketch from the graphic pen of Rev. Dr. Bacon. "In 1638, on the 15th of April, (Old Style,) that being the Lord's day, there was heard upon this spot
the voice of one crying- in the wilderness, Prepare ye the
way
of the
Lord
sky, bright
God
and mingled
of
who were present on that occasion,run back over two centuries that have passed, and bring up the
Sabbath
!
the smooth
in a wilder-
harbor of Quinnipiack.
ness.
It lies
embosomed
appear-
Life of
p. 276.
that
of Professor Kingsley,
the writer is greatly indebted for copious extracts made in preparing the present sketch of the Rev. John Davenport.
entitled "
(From the Stamford Advocate, Sept. 21st, 1677.) have just completed the printing of an interesting genealogical work The Davenport Family Supplementary Edition," edited by A. B. Davenport, Esq of Brooklyn. N. Y., and of Davenisort Ridge, Stamford, Ct. It is a volume of nearly four hundred and fifty images handsomely jirinted on highly finished tinted paper, and, we think, as a specimen of the "art preservative," is creditable to Stamford. It is the most extensive and inti'icate woik that has ever been attempted in this town, and it gives us pleasure to be assured that its mechanical execution is entirely satisfactory to the author and publisher. The book contains a vast amount of matter that must prove highly interesting and instructive to the numerous members of the Davenport famThe author has given its publication faithful and patient attention, ily. and has spared neither pains nor exi)ense to produce a history worthy of the honored family he represents a family, indeed, whose history is largely interwoven with the early history of our state. The research and correspondence necessary to get together the contents of this large volume cannot be understood or appreciated by the general public, and, in fact, is known only to those who have attempted similar tasks. It is a work that knows no remuneration, and must be performed, as in the present instance,
We
as ''a labor of love," or be left undone altogether. It is fortunate that the Davenports have had an historian in their ranks who has so faithfully devoted his time and given of his means to this work of putting into an abiding form a record of the family history for nearly eight hundred years. The book just issued is embellished by numerous illustraticms, and in the Appendix has a pedigree of the family from the time the Davenport name was assumed, A. D., 1086.
ily
(From the N. Y. Evening Mail, Oct. 17th, 1877.) Twenty-five years ago, the history and genealogy of the Davenport famwere compiled by Mr. A. B. Davenisort, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Such an undertaking, at that early day, was qTiite a iirogressive enterprise, although of late years the examiale has had a numerous following. In the interval between the original publication and the present time, there have been family changes and offshoots which seem to have justified the issue of a supplemental volume. Accordingly the saine compiler has continued the work, with all his con amore devotion and painstaking accuracy, and now sends it forth from the press of W. W. fiillespie & Co., of Stamford, Conn. As respects the mechanical execution and ajipearance of the book, it is simple justice to say that Messrs. Gillespie have turned out a piece of work which is a credit to Connecticut. Although, at first sight, it would appear as if the subject matter of this work cotild have btit a limited family interest, the fact is far otherwise, in that the Davenport family is closely linked with our earliest New England history. From the day of John Davenjjort. in the colonial period, the family tree has been frtiitful of patriots and liberty-lovers, whose jiraise is not only in the churches but in the high places of politics and legislation and society. It is such a family whose genealogy is in this volume traced
down from A. D., 1086 to 1876, and in a manner which combines graceful style and interesting incident, so daftly as to avoid the dry prolixity usual in such compilations. The author is to be congratulated on the successful completion of his labor of love, and the Davenport family and its connections may well take pride in having furnished materials for so honorable a record.
(From the Congregaiionalist, Boston, Jan. 23d, 1878.) Supplement to the Histor;/ and Genealogy of the Davenport Family in England and America, from A. D., 1086 to 1850, and continued to 1876, is the title of a neat 8vo. of 432 pages, which bears marks of good taste and tireless enthusiasm in its author, Mr. Amzi Benedict Davenport (of the 24th generation), and which has been printed lor the family at Stamford, Conn. As its name imports, it succeeds and supplements a former volume upon the same honorable and fruitful theme, garnering facts which have come to knowledge since the publication of its predecessor in 1851, or which were of necessity excluded from that. The central figure of the book is, of course, the great and noble man who had so vital a connection with the planting of the New Haven Colony, and whose fame is dear to all New England and a large amount of fresh and valuable detail has herein been added to what had become matter of record in the previous volume. Few American families can securely run a pedigree back nearly 800 years, but we see no reason to doubt the statement that Ormus de Dauneporte, born in 1086, was the ancestor of John, of New Haven and the first fifty pages are given mainly to the links between the two. One hundred and thirty-lour pages are next devoted to details of the life and history of the good isastor at New Haven and Boston, and the remainder of the volume is filled with memoranda of succeeding generations. It is a rich and reverent contribution to a kind of literature which exalts Qod while it honors good men, and stimulates a genuine patriotism.
1878.)
An exhaustive account of this well known family, the American branch of which is descended from the Reverend John Davenport, the editor styles the Founder and Patriarch of New Haven. Its completeness seems to leave nothing to be desired, and it is Well printed and illustrated in a pleasing manner. Its arrangement also is excellent, and we cheerfully commend it as a model to genealogists.
whom
(From the Xew England Historical and Genealogical Register, Jan. 1878.) This book on the Davenport Family is a reprint of a portion of the work issued in 1851 and noticed in the Register for October of that year. The quarter of a century which elapsed between the publication of the two books brought to the knowledge of Mr. Davenport many new facts and unpublished documents, which he has incorporated here, making the supplementary volume larger than the original work. Though called a " Supplement," the boek is comislete in itself, the omissions not effecting the continuity of the genealogy. It is embellished with numerous engravings, and is well printed and indexed. (From the New Haven Palladium, Feh. C. 1878.) Mr. Amzi Benedict Davenport, of Stamford, has published a supplement to his History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family, bringing the record down twenty-five years further, or to 1876, and embodying such corrections as have come to his hands. A steel-engraved portrait of Rev. John Davenport (1597-1670) serves as a frontispiece. Other ilhistrations are an outline engraving of a portrait of Christopher Davenport, Mayor of Coventry
a picture of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Coventry; cut repin 1602 resenting the service under the old oak, corner of George and College streets, this city, April 15, 1638 view of the Green in this city; view of the Davenport jjlace on Elm street steel portrait of Hon. Abraham Davenport (1715-1789) heliotype of Hon. John Davenport (1752-1830); view of Davenport Ridge, Stamford portrait of John A. Davenport of this city, (1783-1864); views of Congregational Church, Stamford; Church Hill, Kew Canaan; and summer residence of the author and portraits of Lady Mary Vere and William Davenport (1781- 1860). The Davenport family is one of the most prominent of the old New England stock, marked from the day it was transplanted by a large proportion of able, well-educated, and influential men as one can see by even a cursory examination of this book. The close connection of this family with this city, and the large space devoted by the author to a consideration of the life of Rev. John Davenport, both in England and after he had founded a colony on this spot with Theophilus Eaton, give the book a strong local character: and it is to residents of this city that the author is indebted lor the results of much research.
;
; ; ; ;
A Supplement to the History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family IN England and America. By Amzi Benedict Davenport. Printed
for the family.
This work is rather the history of the Davenports re-written than a supplement properly so called. Since the publication of the first edition, five and twenty years ago, not only has the family greatly multiplied, but much new and original information has been gathered by the able and industrious author. Commencing with Ormus de Dauneport, 1086, the Davenport genealogy is traced for twenty-six generations to the present time; and this not after the manner usual with American genealogists of accepting any statements they find in print, but with a due regard to evidence, and reference to the authorities for the information produced. More than this, there is a carefully prepared tabular pedigree, in which each individual is numbered, the numbers referring to his name in the body of the work, so that a full account may be easily found of him without the trouble of wading through the whole contents of the volume. This is a clear and ingenious plan, well worth the imitation of writers of family histories. The Davenports are conspicuous among the early settlers in America, in that they can prove themselves descended from a family in this country of whose title to rank as noble there can be no question. Their first ancestor who left England to found a family in the new world was the Rev. John Davenport, founder of Newhaven, a pious, learned, and eminent divine. He was born at Coventry, and baptized there 9 April 1597, being fifth and youngest son of Henry Davenport. Mayor of that city 1613, by Winifred, daughter of Richard Barnabit, and grandson of Edward Davenport, also Mayor of Coventry in 1550, who descended from the Davenports of Woodford. He was educated at Oxford, where he ijroceeded to the degree of B. D. Was curate of St. Lawrence Jewry, and after vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman street. In 1633 he fled to Holland to escape the opposition of the intolerant Laud, and resigned the living of St. Stephen's. Having in the meantime become a Puritan and Nonconformist, he sailed lor New England, and arrived in Boston in the Hector,' June 26, 1637. and in the following year settled at New Haven. Here he remained till 1667, when he removed to Boston, where he ended his days as pastor of the First Church, March 15, 1669-70. Eminent, alike for his piety and learning, the life of this good man, which is very ably written by his descendant the editor of this family history, cannot be read without pleasure and profit, especially by those fortunate enough to number so good a man among their ancestors, " whose grace chalks successors their way."
'
'
example of the founder of the American family has by no its influence on the lives and characters of his dewhom have been ornaments to the land of their adoption, and an honour to the country from whence it sprung. Colonel the Hon. Abraham Davenport, great grandson of the Eev. John Davenport, represented Stamford in the State Legislature for twenty-five sessions. He was State Senator from 176(5 to 1781. Judge of Probate for several years, and at his death Judge of the County Court. In 1776 he was sent to the army under Washington to assist in arranging it into companies and regiments. In 1777 he was one of the Committee of Safety for the State, and was always consulted by Governor Trumbull and General Washington as one of the wisest counsellors in those trying days. He was a man of vigorous understanding and invincible firmness of mind, of integrity, and justice unquestioned even by his enemies. Two instances of his firmness deserve to be mentioned "The 19th of May, 1780 was a remarkably dark day. Candles were lighted in many houses the birds were silent and disappeared the fowls retired to roost. The legislature of Connecticut was then in session at Hartford. A very genei-al opinion prevailed that the day of judgment was at hand. The House of Representatives being unable to transact their business, adjourned. A proposal to adjourn the Council was under consideration. When the opinion of Colonel Davenport was asked, he answered, I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment, if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.' " Whittier has chosen this incident as the subject of one of his most pleasing poems, which he concludes, speaking of Colonel Davenport, thus
'Wie bright
scendants, several of
'
"
And there he stands in memory to this day. Erect, self-poised, a rugged face, half seen Against the background of unnatural dark, A witness to the ages as they pass. That simple duty hath no place for fear."
"The other instance took place at Danbury, at the Court of Common which he was Chief Justice. This venerable man, after he was struck with death, heard a considerable part of a trial, gave the charge to the jury, and took notice of an article in the testimony which had escaped the attention of the counsel on both sides. He then retired from the bench, and was soon after found dead in his bed He died as he had long wished to die, in the immediate performance of his duty, November " 20th, 1789, in the seventy-fourth year of his age His sons, the Hon. John Davenport aud the Hon. James Davenport were both representative members of the American Congress, the latter during the Presidency of General Washington. Mr. Amzi Benedict Davenport, the author of this interesting volume, who is seventh in descent from the Rev. John Davenport, the emigrant ancestor, still possesses lands at Davenport Eidge, which have never been alienated from the family since they came into possession of the Rev. John Davenport, of Stamford, 170 years ago here he resides during a portion of the year, in a house erected by himself on the site of the old one pulled down some years ago. The book is well illustrated, and the Appendix contains several interesting letters from the Rev. John Davenport to Mary, Lady Vere (not " Lady Mary Vere " as she is miscalled by the editor), and others. Apart from its value as a genealogical book, interesting only to those who are members of the Davenport family, this History and Genealogy may be read with pleasure and profit by a far wider circle. It contains the lives of a remarkable number of good and wise men, whose actions will always remain a shining light to future generations.
Pleas, of
; '
119
anchored
in
few
tents,
up around them
of smoke, going
little
column
up
morning
all
air,
shows that
;
Yet
is
quiet
though
up, there
it is
is
ness
for
the Sabbath.
of a
vessels, a
there are
men
in armor,
each
What
a congregation
is
be gathered
in the
wilds of
New
and
England.
ments
of a court.
ches in London.
These
into a wilderness, to
new
the
temptations.
They look
of
of
murmurs
woods and
of the waves.
They look
to
God whose
120
SUPPLEMENT TO
faithfulness have
mercy and
of promise,
and
the echoes of these hills and waters are the voice of praise.
their faith
wakened by
opened; and
The word
of
God
is
before them, by contemplating the conflict and the victory of Him, who, in
ple,
all
was once
like
Soon
By
engaged "that
as in
all
public
offices,
which concei-n
officers,
civ-
and
making
of
them be
may be
civil
con-
stitution of the
It
New Haven
may
here be stated that the planters of this colothe immortal Penn, did not disregard the
ny, like
On this
point Dr.
Bacon says
in existence at
New Ha-
as
it
ought to
121
subsist bechased, and the relations thenceforward to detween the Indians and the Enghsh were distinctly
fined."
These
treaties
commenced
Agreement between Theophilus Eaton and John DaQuinopiocke, venport, and others, English planters at
Sachem on the one party, and Momaugin, the Indian Caroughood, Wesauof Quinopiocke, and Sugcogisin,
other party, cucke, and others of his council, on the concluded the 24th day of November, 1638,
interpreter," &c.
Here follow
and Dathe treaties, which are dvily signed by Eaton sister, by venport, and by the Sachem, his council and
their respective marks.*
in
good
faith,
by both parsecurity
lived in
tribes. from the hostile attacks of the surrounding By these treaties the Indians considered themselves under the protection of the Enghsh, whUe they retain-
ed the right
to
hunt
corn-fields streams, with the pledge not to disturb the trade. their interrupt or pastures of the English, or to
His"Copies of these Indian marks may be seen in Barber's first is a rude The 27. Haven, p. New of Antiqnities tory and The third resemblance of a bow the second of a fish hook. curve known to any nor of straight neither line, horizontal is a
*
;
-he
fifth may mathematicians. The fourth is a small block. The is imagined to stand for a war club. And the squaw's mark Hamwhich cloud the as pipe tobacco perhaps as much like a
let
showed
to Polonius,
was
'like a
ses, p. 335.
122
SUPPLEMENT TO
colonists
The
tives
of the na-
and enjoyed
a confi-
dence which
was ever
violated.
More than
was spent
in
to
the
fundamental
principles which
of civil polity.
During
this
Government
in a
is
Religion."
after, in
years
1B73.
was a vindication
the practice
mem-
for
mature delibera-
among men,
by
on the
or-
foui-th of
Newman, and
in formal
civil
manner proceeded
to the
ganization of a
government.
"No
reference, di-
rect or indirect,"
"was made
by those concerned
country
;
"
123
to have
supposed
constitute a
government
for themselves."
The
busi-
was
have
said to
"Wisdom hath
jdII-
" to
presence and fear of God, the weight of the business they met about, and not to be rash or slight in giving
their votes to things they understood not; but to digest
fully
to
sat-
and persuaded
in their
own minds,
to give their
answers in such
sort, as
and government
to
of all
men
in all duties,
perform to
God
in
and men
as well in families
and commonwealth as
they renewed
theii'
124
SUPPLEMENT TO
and
in all civil
mat-
the
"
Word
us,
"Mr. Davenport
of
government
men
xviii.
21; Deut.
7
and
1
;
Cor.
vi. 1. 6,
[viz.:
God
men
;"
of truth,
hating
"men
of
whom
the
of
them
in refer-
ment
consideration,
the
comjpany,
:
among
"that church
members
among
all
ing
the public
aftairs
;
of the plantation
of
;
dividing inheritances
arise
;
may
and doing
all
125
civil
New Haven
poHty estabHshed by the colonists and whatever may have been its im-
vorable
many
Having founded
their civil
On
the
Church
New
Haven.
ordained by the two or three of the lay brethren, though Mr. Hooker, and Mr. Stone, the reverend pastors of the
He was
hands
of
church
in Hartford,
made
the prayer.
Tliis
it
ticular church.
With an organization
a
minister,
so simj^le
and
scriptural
with
en-
and
piety
God
things
new and
old,
it is
126
SUPPLEMENT TO
enterpi'ise.
The ministry
was
abundantly blessed.
great unity during the whole period of his pastoral relation of nearly thirty years,
tions of those
who were
He was
to
larg'e,
strict in his
examination of those
who were
of the
consisting at
first of
en
pillars"
proceeded to
civil
constitute the
bod}' of freemen,
and
Mr. Da-
To
this
Governor
iel
Turner, and
Thomas
Fugill were
chosen Magis-
trates.
open
court,
from Deut.
i.
16,
17
"And
charged
127
your judges
tween your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is
with him.
Ye
judgment,
;
ye
God's
is
hear
it."*
to
j^reside
its
his death,
which occurred
in
January,
1658.
This good
it
to say:
"Some
sure
it
count
is
but I
am
while
we have our
life,
to use
it
well
and so when
all
that,
will
be an end to
our
all;
den
to every
On
came
who was
"The
sad."
*
He
repHed,
make me
New Haven.
128
said, "
SUPPLEMENT TO
To
speak.
He
came
ill,"
chamber
:
heard to groan
in to inquire
and
to
some
one,
who
instantly
how he
did,
and immediately
just
fell
asleep in Jesus.
His grave
is
behind the
joulpit
is
window
So intimately
Mr
life
of Eaton,
Moses
of
New
Haven, says
"He
whom
he
calls
carried in his
ed
and in
he was a mirror
for the
most inimitable
upon
him.
But
statt"
of the lame,
all
widow and
that
the
None
On
Bacon His.
DLs.
110.
129
;lie
on the other
side,
he was the
his
in
cotemporary, says
gifts
him great
and
as
;
nany excellencies
man
command16 had an excellent princely face and port, scholar, a good was a he .ng respect from all others
;
traveler,
steady and
spirit, not easily lushaken in his principles when once fixed upon, of
3ven
moved
to passion,
and standmg
:i.
profound judgment,
ais
full of
it
judicatures, so that
out,
was
orave him
and yet in
such
and
and
imong
friends, of
pleasantness of behavior,
such felicity
ly
and fecundity
;
be paralleled
but above
he was seasoned
witli
3n
be heard
in
life
God
and man."*
*
Coventry,
of
Governor Eaton, by will, disposed of his estates, both in this and "in the parish of Great Budworth, in the coiinty Chester, England:" and among other small legacies, gives "to
wife's son,
:
Thomas Yale, five pounds to my dear son-inMr. Hopkins, and to my revei'end pastor, Mr. John Davenport, to each of them ten i^ounds, as a small token of my love and respect"
my
law,
130
SUPPLEMENT TO
the day arrived for the election of a
When
new Gov
a^
ernor, Mr.
words
in
"Now
after
it
th<
t(
came
Lord spake
Nun
dead
al
my
servant
is
now, therefore
this people."
fell
arise,
go over
this Jordan,
thou and
of
the electors
of
th(
many
years Secretary o
belov
Mrs. Eaton, soon after her husbancVs death, returned to Eng and also her grandchild, Elihu Yale
old,
from
whom
The Rev. Samuel Eaton came to America with his brothe: Theophilus, and for a year two was Mr. Davenport's assistant He returned to England in 1640, with a view of collecting company of emigrants to settle Branford that tract of countrj having been granted him for such friends as he should brin^
over from England. But the temporary peace which he founc enjoyed by those who had before suffered from the persecu
ting spirit of the times, induced
a Congregational
him
to settle as a
teacher ovei
church in Duckenfield, in Cheshire, his na tive county, whence he removed, probably with some of his congregation, to the neighboring borough of Stockport. He was one of the two thousand ministers who, in 1662, were silencec He died on the 9th o; in one day, by the act of uniformity. June, 1665, at Denton, Lancashire, and was buried in th(
chapel there.
*
131
who
for
The
from Dr.
bviilt their
dwel-
the
intimacy begun
children,
is
and
prolonged
them
of
and
day pass by
The
voice of
might be heard
in the other.
upon one
was sure
imme-
the
full
strength of
manhood
in
which
These
houses
Eaton's stood
It
it
Governor were large and commodious. upon the north corner of Ehii and Orange streets.
a capital E,
Elm street, near State street, was built in the form of a cross, with the chimney in the centre. "That Mr. Davenport's house had also many apartments, and thirteen
posite side of
fire-jilaces,"
*'I
when
a boy, been
all
132
SUPPLEMENT TO
to venerable
;
age.
They
many and
various
trials
such as weigh
faint
;
heaviest
upon the
spirit,
but in
tion
;
all
tudes,
true.
the sympathy
of
kindred
souls, well-tried
and
gifts of nature,
the
endowments
upon
and Saviour
they were
and
love,
and
life.
of
good men.
Their
inti-
Godlike action."
The
so
fathers of
not professedly
separatists,
but non-conformists.
much
to
communion.
and
simplicity
Christ.
They
still felt
themselves in communion
witli
133
of
;
and
pious,
and especially
in
the former,
still
there
were many to
whom
their hearts
tian attachment.
A work
lished in
London,
"An Answer
of the
New
England, unto
views,
and those
New
epistle,
first
where we were
many
ful,
of us took
some things to be
and law-
sinful,
that
as things
we had no
such
it
things as a
;
man may
to
tolerate
when he
practiced
grief,)
we
(we speak
we
Qever took
whether they
184
of
SUPPLEMENT TO
tliem, which, nevertheless,
God amongst
when we
came to weigh them in the balance of the sanctuary, we could not find sufficient warrant in the Word to receive them as established there."
In closing this oj)ening address of the work, he says
;
and dissonant
to
the
for
our part,
unto us by you.
In the
sufi'er
mean
time,
we
justified the
ways of
rigfor-
we
destroyed, as those
who
separate from
by you
as
yourselves as no Christians.
ly,
but of
men
and
for ourselves,
we
sej)-
arating, as
from no
in
you are
it)
under God
to live as
our hearts
sundry of you
if
men
amongst
for these
many
135
we
and
we
still
bein
their
yet
churches have
j)urity,
still
and
till
Lord have
and public
of you,
worship.
As a pledge
sent
we have
shall
and
just
in
the Lord.
of our
Lord Jesus
purge
all
all truth,
and
and keep us
kingdom, through
rest."
Him
whom we
letters
both
in
progress there.
136
SUPPLEMENT TO
particularly with reference to securing the
''
and more
kingdom
rela-
how
provement
settling
parts,
affairs of the
Church.
of
We,
all.
therefore, present to
you
To show wherein,
ful,
or
how many
us.
Avays,
would
easily
draw
all
helpfulness
not,
all
which God
shall afford
by you.
And we doubt
inconveniences
yourselves,
this
churches or plantations,
may
sustain
in
from them.
Upon
ing
call
was
men
of
of the colonies,
it
"a
Grod," yet
it
apjjears
Mr.
it
Hooker was
any
sufficient
them
to
matter
church government."
trary,
came
137
officer,
way
clear to spare
him
journey reciuired."
the others
been a mat-
some
Historical Discourse,
class of
"to ascertain, to
of
what
mati,
or
having
originated our
distinguished citizen of
fort)'
years ago
first
'Did
know
the
name
of the legislator,
[of
who
conceived
I should
Common Schools,]
memory the
regard.
tion
human
tiT,
race
because he
if it
provision which
fluence on the
institution
* It is said that letters were also received during the same year probably not official, but private inviting the above ministers to come over, that they might have seats in the famous Assembly of Divines at Westminister. His. Discoia-ses, 103, 104.
'I.
138
SUPPLEMENT TO
in
New
England,
It originated
directly to the
distinguishing
man.
But
if
be to
whom
easily
is
to be ascribed the
honor of establishing
Colony, the ques-
New Haven
;
answered.
It is the just
due
if
of Theophi-
or
a distinction
exists in the
must be made
abundant evidence
of the value of
and that
resolution,
to the
a community, of a practical
Common
and
it is
to
men
forward to
its full
execution."
College in
New
of land.
Through the
a
corres-
donation of
made by
Grovernor Hopkins,
139
who soon
after died in
England.
youth in
them
for the
public service in
rector,
New Haven
School, with
100
was appointed
to that post.
The convulsions
of the
number
of inhabitants in the
and
left
Grammar
*
Hop-
kins' fund.f
Stiles'
was in 1660, that Mr. Davenport appeared before the General Court reinforced with the legacy of Gov. Hopkins, and entreated them "not to suffer this gift to be lost from the Colony, but as it becometh fathers of the Commonwealth, to use all good endeavors to get it into their hands and to assert their right in it for the common good that posterity might reap the good fruit of their labors and wisdom and faithfulness and that Jesus Christ might have the service and honor of such proIt
;
;
vision
made
hands
The
to the
letter of
Mr. Davenport resigning the Hopkins' fund inNew Haven, may be found
1, p.
532.
140
SUPPLEMENT TO
extract from the record of " a
The following
meeting, held in
town
New
Haven, Feb.
7,
16G8," affords a
to speak
propounded
met
in
foi-med themselves
and agreed to found a College in the Colony of Connecticut. At a subseqiient meeting, the same year, at Branford, each of the trustees brought a number of books, and presented them to the Association, using words to this effect, as he laid them on the table, '^ I give thesebooks for founding a College in Connecticut." About forty folio volumes were contributed on this occasion. This act of depositing the books has ever been considered the
origin of Yale College.
Quarterly Register,
Vol.
8, p. 14.
The College
year 1717,
it
some time was located at Saybrook, till in the was removed to New Haven, "where," says Presifor
dent Woolsey, "from being almost an airj' nothing, it received a local habitation and was also in the course of the year 1718, destined to have that name given to it, by which, since the charter of 1745, the whole institution has been designated." The following extract from a manuscrijjt written at this time by one of the College officers, the Rev. Samuel Johnson, D. D. afterwards first President of King's [Columbia] College, New
York, will not be uninteresting "The building went forward apace, so that the hall and library were finished by Commencement. A few days before
:
some
gentlemen's endeavors to procure some donations from Great For at Boston, arrived a large box of books, the picBritain.
tiire
and arms of King George, and two hundred pounds sterall to the value of eight hundred pounds in our money, from Governor Yale of London, which
141
them
God
in church
and com-
monwealth.
then, he said that the grant of that part of Mr. Hopkins his estate formerly
made
void
;
to this
if
not,
then
it
is
because
attains
of
also
Henry
and disheartened our opposers. [We favored and honored with the presence of his Honor Grovernor Saltonstall and his lady, and the Hon. Col. Taylor, of Boston, and the Lieutenant Governor, dfnd the whole Superior ^ourt at our Commencement, Sept. 10, 1718, where the trusgreatly revived our hearts
svere]
present those gentlemen being present, in the hall of our first most solemnly named our College, by the name DfYale College, toperpetuatethememory of theHon. Gov. Elihu 5fale, Esq., of London, who had granted so liberal and bountiful I donation for the perfecting and adorning of it. Upon which :he Hon. Col. Taylor represented Gov. Yale in a speech ex;ees
^Tew College,
to the
In an oration was lad by the saluting orator, James Pierpont, and then the disDutations as usual, which concluded, the Rev. Mr. Davenport ;one of the Trustees and Minister of Stamford] offered an ex-.ellent oration in Latin, expressing their thanks to Almighty jod and Mr. Yale under him for so public a favor, and so great egard to our languishing School. After which, were graduated :en young men whereupon the Hon. Gov. Saltonstall, in a Latin ipeech, congratulated the Trustees on their success, and in the :omfortable appearance of things with relation to their School. LU which ended, the gentlemen returned to the College Hall, vhere they were entertained with a splendid dinner, and the adies at the same time were also entertained in the Library, iter which they sung the four first verses in the 65th Psalm, nd so the day ended."
on.
.vhich
affair in
Commencement was
the
first
142
SUPPLEMENT TO
John Winston
said that he
inJ
Mr
at pres
come
in
summer
Upon which Mr
;
be
satisfied
must
always reserve
a negative
tha
and
it
[the donatioti]
be settled here.
But,
New Haven
will
neglec
their
own good
it
herein, he
must improve
it
otherwise
Hii'
th<|
may answer tlie will of the dead. that a farm may be purchased, that
it
revenues of
may
ease the
town
and therefore
pro:
and
thei,
t
know whether
be recorded, with
this condition.
it,
The town
fell intc
A
*
fitted for
Collegi
at this
Grammar School*
Says Professo
This school
is still
streets.
Mr. Ezekiel Cheever (or Cheevers, ) who came to New Havei with Mr. Davenport, taught a Grammar School there for nuiir
143
many
as one
in thirty, at least,
New
Haven.
When
the
it is
number
New Haven
is
could have
eery
little if at all
exceeded
five
serves notice.
The
exj^lanation
found
in
the exer-
in favor of
never ceased
but
:commeucing
diffus-
"How
aptly,"
He was the father of New England school teachers. He was born in London, in 1G15, and was one of those who signed the Plantation Covenant in Mr. Newman's barn in 1639. Of "He was a pious and learned divine this man, Mather wrote He wore his beard to the day of his death. |as well as preceptor. He much formed and established the New England pronunciaHe printed an English Accidence tion of Latin and Greek. The hair of his head and beard were white as (Still in use. 'He died, leaning like old Jacob upon a staff; the sac[snow. |rifice and the righteousness of a glorious Christ, he let us know, 'He woi'e a long white [was the staff which he leaned vipon.' beard terminating in a point, and when he stroked his beard He died to the point, it was a sign to the boys to stand clear.' !in Boston, August 21, 1708. in the ninety-foiirth yearof his age tafter he had been a skillful, painful, faithful schoolmaster for iseventy years and had the singular favor of Heaven, that though he had usefully spent his life among cJdldren, yet he had not become hoice a cMld, but held his abilities, with his usefulness in an unusual degree to the very last."
: ;
144
tiful
SUPPLEMENT TO
I
dressed to him
'The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching stream, and wider grow The seed that in these few and fleeting hours Thy hands, unsj^aring and unwearied, sow, Shall deck thy grave with Amaranthine flowers. And yield thee fruit divine in Heaven's immortal bowers
;
!'
"
The name
of
al-
his-
commonly known
as "the
These were
against
of that
On
II.,
in 1660,
had been
of the
condemned
with
least
scafibld,
were
si^ecial fury.
New
Haven.
who signed
They
ar-
same
first
news
145
political inter-
tie of a
common
He was
of
the
the
To him,
in
which
among
composition.
became a member
of the prin-
House
of Lords,
Cromwell dynasty.
So eminent
in
was
he, that
it
time,
"When
men
were
at
first
received
For some
time,
active in
private reli-
munion
in the church,
by
virtue of letters
which they
brought from
the churches in
146
SUPPLEMENT TO
As they became
and
world as
;
this,
and the
But
in
Novemall,
with certain exceptions, against being called in question for anything they
ment
and
it
ap-
peared that these two men, with many others, were excepted from the general i^ardon
j)assion
;
still,
however, com-
"On
Four days
them,
left
Winthrop, arrived at
New Haven on
147
There seems
a special discourse, as he
like-
New
Haven,
An-
both in
this
of
been subject in
"Brethren,
all
language
it is
letters,
and
receive intelligence in
state of the
churches.
up your hearts
to
God,
when you
tive
fected, that
ought
for
God
looks
in such "cases,
church.
You
see, in
incensed against
their
vi. 6,
how
his
wrath was
private
jirosperity,
but
were
not sick
their
"Again
let
if
God
do good
to
148
his church, without
SUPPLEMENT TO
them
but he
will
be avenged up-
his
and
it
For the
the
contrary,
of
came not up
to the
v.
help of
(Judges
23.)
essentially or
may be said to
;
and people
and
his
people,
them.
cases
16)
stand.
Though
'
the
in such
inter'
for
cessor, his
li.
when he saw there was no man, no own arm brought salvation unto liim
it
(Isa.
yet
is
we
he
For Christ
'He that
'
upon us
at
as his enemies,
;
and people
is
such times
as
is
against me.'
of
(Matt,
re|
;
30. )
and ways
in
God under
proach?
Christ
is
reproached
(Rom.
XV. 3.)
it is
"But
This
is
objected,
we
and
fanatics
the reproachful
of
put by profane
men
is
up-
on the people
God,
in all ages.
coat,
But
if
he
a fool a
who
will
much more is he
149
that, will
who
will
haz-
scoffs of a
Christ
had
not, for
re-
deemed and
saved.
Let us go
forth, therefore,
unto
his reproach.'
(Heb.
18.)
In the same
'
Hebrews
are exhorted to
call to
made
and
that
became companions
x.
of
them
were so used.'
(Heb.
82, 38.)
Let us do likewise,
tection
Withhold not countenance, entertainment and profrom such, if they come to us from France
place.
'
are
ad-
(Heb.
sa>'in":
this
of
Make
day
the noon-
e.,
refreshment, for
my
'
Hide
the out-
150
casts
SUPPLEMENT TO
t!:af loanderetJi.
;
Moab
he thou
a covert
them
from
the face
of
it
the S))oiler.'
may be
objected, so I
?
expose
myself to be
siDoilecl
or troubled
He
tlierefore, to
is
remove
the danger
at
sumed out
oiu'
of the land.'
"\Miile
we
are attending to
God
"
Two
arm you
against
men
are
your
faith.
A sight of
the invisible
God and an
of Moses,
that he
affliction
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of 'Christ greater riches than the
treasures in Egy^^t.'
(Heb.
xi.
25, 26.)
"Secondly, exalt
fear.
all.
God
him above
Therefore,
the
Lord prescribes
this fearing
him
remedy against
all fears,
to
be
God
151
(Isa. viiL 12,
men
to
eih is the
of God,
tJtat
of your duty
With such a
mind
at
New
called,
met
had
uncondemned
criminals.
Soon
after they
them
news
was received
at Boston.
Before the
reached
New
Now
they were
a
obhged
to
secrete
themselves.
when
Near the
mandate arrived
re-
two Colonels
*
to
be arrested.*
is
The following
"CiOVEENOB
OF
NEW-ENGLAND
TO
GOFEE.
"To
our- trusty
and
Ma-
gistrate or Magistrates, of
Chaeles R.
Trusty arid well-beloved, Wee greete you well. Wee being given to understand that Colonell Whalley and Colonell Goffe,
152
SrrpPLEMENT TO
was now alarmed, and the Governor and Council of Massachusetts seem to have set about in earnest to apprehend and dehver up the
two zealous
royalists,
Colonies
They came
into the
jurisdiction
the
New Haven
Leete, at
Colony and caUed upon Governor Guilford, then acting magistrate. He assur-
men in
several weeks,
and
tion.
that they
had j)robably gone out of the jurisdicThey came to New Haven two days after, with
Governor
to the magistrate of
the
at
New
Haven,
for the execrable murder of our KoyFather of glorious memory, are lately arrived at New England, where they hope to shroud themselves securely from the justice of our laws ;Our will and pleasure is, and wee do hereby expressly require and command you forthwith, upon the
all
receipt of these our letters, to cause both the said persons to be apprehended, and with the first opportunity sent over hither, under a strict care to receive according to their demerits. Wee are confident of your readiness and diligence to perform your duty and so bid you farewell. " Cxiven at our Court at Whitehall, the fifth day of March. 161.
;
"By
Tno.
his Majesty's
command,
'Edw. Nicholas.
Endeoott, Governor."
153
to the
Governor
of
New
officer.
When
if
they
Gov-
We
tender consciences."
they would
they would
When
further
asked,
whether
own
first
"That
know whether
his Majesty
would own
them."
The
somewhere
and pointed
Jones.
at
houses of
Mr. Davenport
that they
tlu'eatened
and
Mr.
and comforting
They
great rexlfter
arrests,
diligent
search was
made throughout
the colony,
During most
were
in the im-
mediate vicinity of
New
Haven.
On
had
left their
concealment
at
New
to a mill at
the Sabbath.
For two
some
friends at
Woodin-
bridge,
their residence
in a cave at
West Rock,
accessible
New
Haven.
Here
154
SUPPLEMENT TO
till
seai'ched.
their pursuers
passed
over
it.
sheriff,
who
but
While
at the
cave, they
were informed
of all that
was going
on,
to surrender themselves
concealment.
At
last,
came
into
the
town
for the
On
trates
and Magis-
were consulting
Where
we know
not,
to their necessi-
As
retired to Hadley,
*
Mass.,
where they
lived for
some
Stiles'
155
In reference to the matter of the regicides, it may be remarked, that while the magistrates wished to
show
and as we have
seen,
made some
still
pursuers
to
know
places,
them.
The
overruling providence of
God
preserved
them
and
as
* James Dixwell, another of the regicide Judges resided for some years at New Haven, where he was known by the name of James Davis, Esq. He died in 1689, and was buried in the
rear of the First (Centre) Church, close to the graves of Governor Eaton and Governor Jones. An ancient stone, in the old burying ground, marked the spot, with this charged inscription:
March
YB 18th, in ye 82d
year
I'conveyed to
the tradition
bodies of Whalley and Goffe were secretly also buried near this spot and strongly confirmed by the two stones there
;
standing, on one of which are the initials "E. W., 1678," and on the other "M. G., 80," the Mof which, with a line drawn under (evidently intentional,) may be taken for an inverted W.,
IS.'Jl,
p.
356.
Some handling has recently been made of this letter of Mr. Davenport addressed to Sir Thomas Temple, the Boston Agent of King Charles II., printed, first, in Mass. His. CoUecHon. 'tions, 3 Series, Vol. viii, p. 327, and "which," says
156
President
SUPPLEMENT TO
Stiles, in his "
tributes thus
much
to Mr. Davenport,
"
While these
Davenport's firmness.
If
he gave out
all
was gone
;"
and
adds, "
man
of intrepid res-
olution
affairs,
and firmness,
and
in every
all
way superior
in abilities to the
Governor and
He,
like
concerned.
He saw
they
all
gave up.
Mount
upon
the whole
selors,
he knew that aU that had been done before the mandate, could be vindicated by
James Savage, "tends to inculpate, or exculpate, Mr. D. according to the eyes with which it is read."
It is
rendered
officer was known. This, and proved a source of embarrassment to the General Court, when at last, they were called together. I see no evidence that Mr. Davenport exceeded the bounds of truth in any of his statements, as has been dexterously intimated. He thus writes "The Colonels hearing that some who entertained them at their houses, were in extreme danger upon that account, to prevent the same, came from another colony where they were, and had been some time, to New Haven, professing that their true intention, in their coming at that time, was to yield themselves to be apprehended for the aforesaid jjurpose, and accordingly they stayed two days. This was known in the town. The De^juty Governor waited for the coming of the Governor and other magistrates to this town, on the second day, which they also did, according to the former agreement. Immediately iipon their coming together, they fell into a consultation, being out of any fear of that which followed. Before they had issued their consultation, which was not long, the
157
to
some
in-
conveniences, perhaps j)rosecutions, but could not be fatal a thing which, perhaps, the others doubted.
Supported by
he therefore
his
good
sense,
felt
himself secure.
What
staggered Govother
ernor Endicott, a
hearts of
enport.
man
of
oak
at
man knowing how or whither. search was renewed and many sent forth on foot and horseback to recover them into their hands. But all in vain. I believe if his Majesty rightly understood the circumstances of this case, he would not be displeased with our Magistrates, but acquiesce in the Providence of the Most High, knowing that the way of man is not in himself; but God worketh all things according to the counsel of his own will. " Thus in the absence of contrary proof, we are bound to believe the truthfulness of that which the author herein
Whereupon
a diligent
iffi
riueth.
That the two Colonels may have beenout side the Colony is Plausible, for they were within a few hours of the confines of
Vlanhadoes, or nearer
still to
The
lolony,
"sometime"
in
which they
ied in the story of Rutherford Trowbridge and Capt. Thomas aice, in a paper by Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, on the Invasion of vfew Haven by the British. (New Haven Historical Society
Papers pp.
PFith
aart of Elisha,
That Mr. Davenport may have acted the led the forces of King Benhadad, smitten partial blindness, into the city of Samaria, while they
173, 4.)
who
6,
158
great occasions.
sion.
SUPPLEMENT TO
He was
man
and
know not
fidelity to
what incident
in history exhibits a
more admirable
and
magnanimity
in distress,
of the fear-
by the men
of
New
Haven.
is
And what
fact,
gives to
all
the
nition of
when they
monthe
Till
earth, is a
obelisk.
position to tyrants
II.
granted
through the agency of Governor Winthro]:) to the people of Connecticut a charter with the amplest privileges,
which was
New
159
Haveu.* Great
efforts
were made
people of
New Haven
colony.
They were
and on
The people
of
the
en-
* Governor John Winthrop, of Connecticut, was the son of Governor John Winthrop, "the father of Massachusetts." He was a man of eminent abilities and commanding influence, learned and jjious. He so far ingratiated himself into the favor of Charles II. and Lord Clarendon, that while in England in 1662, he obtained from the king a charter embracing in its limits all that tract of country which lies between the Narragansett River and the Pacific Ocean, and conferring upon the colonists unqualified powers to govern themselves. Mr. Winthrop, it is said, had "an extraordinary ring," given to his granfather by Charles I., which he presented to the king. This exceedingly pleased his majesty, and perhaps had some infliience in procuring the grant. This was the charter which King James II. in 1686 sent Sir Edmund Andross to take away from the people of Connecticut, but by the adroitness of Capt. Wadsworth, it was hid in a large hollow oak which stood till 1856, in Hartford, and known by the name of Charter Oak.
Pequot,
Gov. Winthrop's principal residence in Connecticut was at now New London. Great efi"orts were made by Mr. Davenport to induce his removal to New Haven and the town
voted to give him a house. H e declined their generous donation but resided there about two years. One reason why the people of New Haven were so anxious to have Mr. Winthrop
make
skill.
A number
Appendix
to edition of 1851.
160
SUPPLEMENT TO
unfaii-
deavored by
means
to bring
them under
t
their
chai'ter,
the court
New
a day of
pubHc
God by
fasting
and prayer
for his
guidance
state of
God
in
and
"Two
freemen
together with a writing from some gentlemen of Connecticut, signifying that they looked
upon
New Haven
Mr. Daven-
He
stated
some important
facts, illustrating
He showed what
that
der
the
He went into an argument to prove, New Haven was not of course included uncharter, and secondly, that New Haven
161
and he
concluded
by
giving-
directions
as
to
the
they
may
see
their
evil
in
what
state,
live
Daven-
God
for the
in their eye,
and
then
God would
'
stand by them
;'
and he concluded by
with
one
sci'ipture
out of Isaiah
xiv.
32
[What
nation
?
shall
that
The decision
in
was
the whole
New
To
162
SUPPLEMENT TO
dis-
to submit,
and the
invitation to a
After
this,
assembly
was dismissed
an hour and a
then to meet
the meeting
When
'that
and pro-
read to them his own thoughts, which he down in writing, and which he desired might remain his own till they [the freemen of the colony]
posed to
set
'
had
God should
them
in this business.'
reasons
why
New Haven
colony,
and why
New Haven
Connecticut
and
then retired,
The
j
163
the
it
sub-
was defirst,
of Connectic-ut in
next, a
demand
that
till
Mr. Winthrop should return, or till they should otherwise obtain satisfaction, the whole matter should be
deferred and the jurisdiction of
New Haven
;
be perthirdly,
and
a resolution to do nothing without taking advice from the other confederate colonies.
committee incluto
ding
all
the magistrates
to the authori-
up
"
into form
freemen drawn
of the
workmanship
Mr. Davenport.
colonies
was continued through several years, while Connecticut was gaining strength by steady encroachment, and New Haven, at first the weaker party, was
gradually weakened by defections, and by the increas-
ing burdens which the controversy occasioned. The great body of the people here loved their indepen-
polity.
'
The ends
for
we
left
and
were willing to
undergo the
which we
of Connecticut, vol.
i.,
515.
164
SUPPLEMENT TO
membrance,'
were
'
to
'the only
found by experius,
much
of the presence of
God mth
and
of
in so doing, for
these
many
years.
To
tutions
seemed
in their
To
them
seemed
as near a perfect
in
model
this
commonwealth, as could be
Cato
world of imperfection.
In
all
crisis,
The
numerous
claims of
his mind.
letters
and remonstrances
in
which the
New Haven
stamp of
manner,
jDiety
them
It
all,
indicate
till
him
was not
the
New England
was threatened
to the
by grants
of large territories
made
Duke
of
165
him
and su-
perintend their
Fearfiil
own
common
and hbertj^
might now
suffer,
the
New Haven
colony came to a
unanimous decision
ticut,
to submit to the claims of Connecand Mr. Davenport, yielding with many regrets
of the
in Boston,
then just
among them, which however, he felt it his duty to decline. Sixteen years had now passed away. Mr. Davenport had become an old man.
had passed
to
reward
while a
new
around him.
There
Yet
his zeal
and
activity re-
mained unabated.
eveiy good work.
fection
For thirty years he had lived in the afand undiminished confidence of his church.
all
concerned the interest of this as well as the other colonies of New England. But new scenes and trials were
him.
asso-
166
SUPPLEMENT TO
and Norton, as
That was
colonies.
On
the death
fitted
to succeed the
there.
In addition
that
seemed
called
for
at
an
now
New
England.
In 1657, a synod had convened to discuss this question,
in favor of so
members, as
to allow
them
tized, i^revailed.
The same
memwas
read,
the
views
by the mi-
On
out,
made
Mr.
New Haven
to invite
167
well
The
known
op-
allowed
some
thirty
church, to Mr.
coming
among them.
He
felt
and
felt it his
duty to accept.
er hand,
who had
guide,
so
and
The importunities
led to the decision, that -^hile they would not take the
responsibility of consenting to his removal, yet,
if it
was
him.
his
At
own judgment,
he
felt at liberty to
removal from
New Haven
commencement
his
son,
of his minis-
try there.
He
the 2d of May.*
He and
and
their wives,
of
December he was
installed.
Diary, "1668, 2d clay, 3cl month [May,] came Mr. John Davenport to towne, with his wife, sonn, and sonn's family was mett by many of A great shower of extraordinary dropps of rain fell the town. as they entered the end of the Town, but Mr. Davenport and his wife were sheltered in a coach of Mrs. Searls', who went to meet them.
Hull's
at 3 or 4 in
From John
afternoon,
168
SUPPLEMENT TO
New Hait
seemed
it
this, in
church
[at
New Haven]
to declare their
owning
of
Mr. Davenport.'
re-
New Haven
church.
That fragment
so full of rev-
had
of
much
the Christian
tion.
'
spirit,
that
it is
Though
9.
"Dec.
Commiinicated by Mr. Henry Davenport of Boston, to whom the writer was indebted for various collections from that city, obtained through him for edition of 1851. This gentleman's first ancestor in this country was Thomas
Davenport,
of
who
whose numerous descendants he has gathered much informFrom what jjart of England this Thomas Davenport, ation. and also Captain Richard Davenport who arrived in America with Governor Endicott in 1628, came, has not been ascertained. See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. iv., pp. Ill and 351.
169
of
and
tlie
remedy
some
evils
growing
if
we might do
the same,
we had nothing
ments and
church
in leav-
way
we
are not
;
we
way
as
as
is
ex-
We are of the
to your
same mind
letter,
when
God,
we returned an answer
pressing ourselves
:
first
thus ex-
call of
by an immediate
by a formgrief,
our great
for him,
and sore
affliction,
that
we cannot do
us,
whom
we
profitable labors
among
what
is
desh'ed,
without
wrong
to our consciences.
are, beside
our consciences,
we
down
shall
at his feet
such
is
we
go as
far as
we
we
ceased,
saying,
'When he would not persuaded, The will of the Lord be done.' we could
say touching
first letter,
170
SUPPLEMENT TO
you, of our reverend pastor's making null the liberty before granted, which,
clearly to demonstrate
;
we doubt
yet, if
not,
we
are
able
(buti
in
siI
this will
satisfy
not otherwise,)
lence,
we
are content to
botli
and leave
make
any clog or
of the liberty
bringing
of
home
of man}' souls to
it is,
many
others, so
and
shall
God
to double
his Spirit
upon him,
him
of
in his work,
and make
much good
to yourselves
all
and many
others.
may
obstruct or hin-
As himself and
we do
desir-
John Davenport,
becometh
commugrace
The God
of
all
supply
in glory
we
take our
171
and
Nicholas Street,
In the uame, and with the consent of the Church " <= of Christ at New Haven.'
at this
"What
eminency
there
When was
instance of competition
and contro-
enjoyment of the minversy between churches for the invahd, had numbered istry of one who, always an
score years
and ten?
How
rarely
The
October, 1668.
list of the not be uninteresting in this place to add a as pastors Davenport Mr. succeeded have who estimable men of the First Church in New Haven. short The Kev. Samuel Eaton, and Rev. William Hook, for a Mr. Davenport, acted as teachers during the ministry of
It
may
time after the restoration both of whom returned to England, and succeeded Rev. these To were silenced for non-conformity. assistant. Nicholas Street, who was installed as Mr. Davenport's till Mr. ministry the in associate his in 1659, and continued sole charge of Davenport's removal to Boston, when he had the
the church
till
when
for
was no
pastor
settled pastor.
continued sole Rev. James Pierpont was settled in 1685, and Rev. James Noyes, son of Rev. till his death, in 1714. Noyes, one James Noyes of Stonington, whose father was James July 4, installed was Massachusetts, of the early settlers of his death, in 1761, when 1716, and continued their pastor till
the Rev. Chauncey Whittlesey, who had been and was ceeded as sole pastor. Mr. Whittlesey died 1787,
his associate, sucfol-
172
SUPPLEMENT TO
who when
a minister has
torn
reverent an affection?"
still
protested
whom
known
happy
es,
in Boston."
An un-
New Eng-
land.
was not
till
champion triumphed.
Mr. Davenport's ministry, which had lasted nearly
At the time
full
of his
remov-
his
enjoyment
ministiy for
lowed by Eev. James Dana, D. D., who was settled in 1787, and was dismissed in 1805. The Kev Moses Stiiart was ordained as pastor, March 5, 1805, and was dismissed in 1809, to accept a professorship in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass. On the 8th of April, 1812, the vacancy was supplied by the ordination of the Rev, Nathaniel W. Taylor, who was dismissed in 1822, to accept the Dwight professorship of Theology in Yale College. The Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D. L. L. D., was installed in 1825, and continued in the active pastorate till 1866, since which time he has stood in the relation of Pa.s/o?- Emeritus and is now also Lecturer on Chui'ch Polity and American Church History in the Theological Department of Yale College. The Rev. George L. Walker, D. D., was installed in 1868, and dismissed in 1873. Rev. Frederick Alphonso Noble, D. D., the present pastor was installed November 3, 1875.
173
fast
many
years.
But
bis services
on earth were
draw-
ing to a close.
Gosjoel
He had
labored
which he was dismissed from a life of faithful and unremitted labor, and removed to his eternal rest. He
in
buried with every testimonial of respect in the tomb of the venerated Cotton.*
From
his early
"Those
when he removed
which
is
Rocky
in
Mountains. "t
He was
"almost
his
study and family, except some public work or private duty call him forth ;"| and he was so close and bent a student that it excited the attention of the wild
dians in his vicinity,
*This tomb
is
Into
Church on Tremont street. A broad slate stone moniiment marks the spot, on which are the following inscriptions: "Here Lye Intombed the Bodyes of the Famous Reverend and Learned Pastors of the First Church of CHELST in Boston, viz. Mr. John Cotton, aged 67 years, Deceased, December 23d, 1652. Mr. John Davenport, aged 72 years, Deceased, March the 15, 1670. Mr. John Oxenbridge, aged 66 years, Deceased, December 28, 1674."
t
Dr. Bacon,
23
Church Records
of
New Haven.
174
their
SUPPLEMENT TO
names, ^'So-big-stHdi/-man."*
"While Mr. Davenpoi-t pursued an extensive range of
his favorite
The copious
of doctrine
and
illustration of argu-
ment show
out but
his
Sacred Writings
al-
wrote
use of
manuscript in public.
ries,
"He was
a person
memory, profoundness
his elocution
of his
judgment, fioridness of
abated in
him."-j-
were
httle if at all
An-
other (Dr.
Increase Mather,)
who
this
in
his
youth, was
divine, says,
wont
"
to receive counsel
from
aged
He was
a princely preacher.
in his
I have heard
some say
much
m-
imitate Mr.
Cotton,
whom,
countenance he did
ora ferebaf."X
somewhat resemble.
"Let us
*
Sic
ille
manuf^,
Mather, Magnalia,
602, 603.
Magnalia
III.
10.
175
The
gown
The broad
starched and
smooth,
the black
round
cap,
the
withfixed
it,
Every eye
upon him.
rise to
As he reads
all
show
ed of God.'
ceeds.
He
'
critically.
He
'
raises
from
of
'doctrine.'
of
He
proves
that doctrine
by an induction
instances
He
sons
ilhistrates
it,
shows
its
connections with
other
truths,
'
and
justifies it to
He
closes,
drawn from
the
Meanwhile
congregation
knows no
*
weariness.
See Frontispiece. The original painting is in the Alnmni Hall, Yale College, New Haven, and from a date on the canvass, seems to have been taken the year of his death.
176
SUPPLEMENT TO
illustration, the
strong appeal
to hope, the
pungent
application, the
keep
'They
sit
ow
Hubbard,
'as
were with
"*
It
may
further be
was a
most
faithful patriot.
interests of the
laid,
alone
But his
efforts
were more
colonj^ of
of
him
difficult
and
dangerous enterprises.
he adopted in their
full
The opinions
extent
;
of the Puritans,
and persecution as
of ardent tempera-
men
spirit,
He
were prone to
*
linger,
and even to
177
and that
after they
bad made a
was a saying
that as
'
easily
grounded,
after
any ground
in reformation,
and
beyond the
first
remove
as
of the reformers.'*
He was
'
roused, therefore,
we
are told
by Mather,
to
em-
first essay,
could be driven.
he
came
to
New
England.
to
commonwealth proved
stood the severe
trial
of time
among some
was fond
trary,
in this
;
of
power
arbi-
ony.
On what
That he had an
all
and commanding
;
influence in
the colonial
transactions
mind
which
fitted
him
become
sensibly to
mould them
is
be no
doubt
but there
no evidence that
ascendency
53.
178
SUPPLEMENT TO
and acknowledged
" If
intelligence, integrity
and wisdom.
power,
thirst for
we might
And
traces of
of
it
in the
Colony laws;
the clergy,
some share
But nothing
of
tliis
character
is
be found there.
On
New Hacivil
pow-
this
istrates.
his ad-
vice
strictly
af all
doubt,
when he was
invited
j
by the people
the measure,
assent.
As he was determined
to
in|
it
tlieii'
formal!
This
to
not the
mode
in
which mankind
actl
when about
It is
*
ercised tyranny."*
the
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
foiTiicler of
179
new commonwealth,
It
or a philanthropist,
that
we
venj^ort
but as a Christian.
who had
a
a church
he deemed
that
composed of those
experimental union
this,
He had
unwavering confidence
in
to under-
him
as duty, with an
was
this faith in
many
life.
difficulties
and
trials
which
be-
marked
his eventful
was
Is this right,
require it?
That was
troversy.
to
of all con:
When
;
command
"
Lay
this foundation
God
doth require
it ;"
he was ready
call.
at the loss of
all
Prayer was
his mightiest
among the
;
weapon.
rest, 'that
he should be much
ejaculatory prayers
in ejaculatory prayers
for,
indeed,
man
er
as arrows in the hand of a mighty happy the man that hath his quivis
full
And
it
walking with
180
SUPPLEMENT TO
'
God
Lord
all
devotions.
He was
whether
midst of
of his
social
all
or secret, prayers
but
also
in
the
he
still
expected
all
his help."*
;
New
England.
"And what,"
Plymouth,
we claim
them
What
what for the stern old Puritans of the Bay, and of Connecticut, what for the
New Haven ?
Nothing, but that you look
founders of
and
their institutions,
have made
New
England, with
'
its
hard
soil,
and
its
the glory of
all
lands.'
villages,
the
decent
education
accessible
to every family,
the the
thrift,
means
of
universal
diffusion of knowledge,
eral activity
the genequality
and
Magnalia,
III, 54.
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
resulting from the diffusion of education,
religious doctrine,
181
and
of pure
gen-
when
the whis-
wa-
this
the
is
New England
where you
and where
will
you
find
the operation
of
New England
?
principles,
and
New
England influence
and ancient
This
is
work
of our fathers
laAvgivers.
They came
new
theories of government,
political alchemists,
human
God,
nature, but
new empire
for
for truth,
bounded by justice.
had been
" In
To have failed
an attempt
glorious.
(xod, in the
common
welfare
of
Israel out
of
such an aim.
They
had.
in-inciples of truth
of
and righteousness
embodied
he
giveth
in the
word
lil^erally
to
'
them
the
that
ask him.
welfare of
They
all,'
common
was
to
182
SUPPLEMENT TO
of universal education,
justice,
and by
jier-
which
is
the only
said
'The
'
common
all
welfare of
all,'
Daven-
port, is that
where unto
men
are
bound
principally
commonwealth,
rue the
first
miscarriages
when
it
will
be too
late to redress
them.
They
of a
building,
but the
cleft
of
more than
tant, saith
So imporerrors.
The
Lord awaken us
light
in time,
and truth
ways
in these
beginnings.'*
"
Not
in
up
to Heaven.
who
laid the
groundwork
'
of
New England.
On
then- foundations
toils, tears,
it.
Prayers,
sac-
No
un-
dishonor
founders.
and the
and
still
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
altar.
183
who
is
laid the
foundations.
"
They
not easy to
remembrance, than he
tit
for
whom
the
epitaph,
JOHANNES DAVENPORTUS,
In
Portum
delatiis,
;
This epitaph was written by Dr. Cotton Mather, and thus be rendered
:
may
JOHN DAVENPOKT,
Borne into
Living, the Ornament of
Port,
the Church
;
184
SUPPLEMENT TO
EIGHTEENTH GENEEATION.
Issue of Key. John Davenpout, (No. 64.)
(65.)
I.
John Davenport,
of
father in
London,
probably, not
land, in 1G85,
till
the return of
liis
child.
He
company
his parents to
in 1G37,
but remained
of
Lady
Yere, whose
kindness
ness to
Sir
my
little
one, in carrying
him
in your coach to
Theodore Maherne
and
upon him
Ann
hath made
report
to your Lad}'-
ship
and
He was brought
*
in
This Letter in
full will
To Lady Mary Vere, who was a Puritan of the Puritans, was assigned by the Long Parliament, the charge of three of the six
surviving children of Charles
I, by his Queen Henrietta Maria, one of whom, the Princess Elizabeth, died in 1050, the next year after the execution of her father. Another was the Duke of ^ork, who was taken prisoner to Fairfax, at the age of thirteen, and who came to the throne after his brother, Charles II. under the title of James 11.
185
New
public
although Dr.
3ides, in
year IGGl, mentions him as one of the judges. admitted a freeman in New Haven, the 15th
1657.
gail,
May,
He was
married,
November
daughter of the
Rev. Abraham
a sister of Rev.
Pierson, of Bran-
ford, Conn.,
who was
Abraham
Pierson,
In 1668, he removed
mendation
to
the
New
1669.
Haven.
He was
admitted freeman
at Boston, in
from January
31,
1675,
to
1676
but
at the
21, 1677, he
called a
at
merchant.
New
Haven, July
(Center)
Her grave
is
under
the
First
Church.
The
following
is
186
SUPPLEMENT TO
NINETEENTH GENEKATION.
Issue of John Davenport, (No. 65.)
(66.)
I.
at
New
at
Haven,
June
7,
(67.)
born
New Hain
ven, October
1666,
1700.
named
Eliakim,
and a daughter
Eunice,
of
who
captivity
killed
by the Indians,
in 1704.
Their
Warham
of
Windsor,
.
Ct.,
mon
Edwards, by
whom
Warham
years he
bate. 1
(68.
)
Elizabeth
Davenport, resided at
filled
New
the office of
Judge
Court of Pro'
III.
who
his
was born
and baptized by
He
grad-.
commenced
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
preacliiiig- in
187
to
1690.
In 1691,
lie
was invited
of
become
an
James
East Hampton,
Long- Island.*
" April
16,
1691.
pounds
to Mr. James,
and
forty
pounds
to
Mr. Davenport
East
Hamp-
call,
which
satisfactorily
open
ment there
town
originally
New
Haven,
who
settled there in
1641,
New Haven
derived
of
Colony
form
of
government.
It
its
name
Lincoln, Eng-
originated.
*This ancient town was originally purchased by Theophilus Eaton, Governor of the Colony of New Haven, and Edward Hopkins, Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, in behalf of the proprietors, who had emigrated from Maidstone, county of Kent, England, and settled in Salem, Mass. and other towns in the vicinity of Boston, and who came and settled East HampOn the payment of the stipulated sum, the writon, in 1648. tings were transferred from the original purchasers to the proprietors.
188
SUPPLEMENT TO
extracts
The following
town records
in these
are
transcribed from
the
of Stamford,
modern
times,
in a family:'
of
March
of Mr.
trial in
It
pointed to signify their minds unto him upon that account; and Mr.
Davenport being
Town
also
:)
at a full
fully
more
by warrant added
of
therefore,
for
further prosecution
to
their
'
that matter,
of
with
reference
1692,
vote
the
12th
September,
doe
now
fui-ther
upon
is
trial
men-
and provide
of
power
to
doe
"The names
committee are
"Capt. Selleck, "Lieut. Bell,
"
Wm. Ambler,
the davenpokt family.
189
John
sole (set-
last in
Stamford.
which
ten
that
is
if
to say,
Mr. Daven-
desii'e
town hath
how
" 4th.
to
Mr.
settled here in
a family,
which
is
to be
when
the
it
;
townsmen doe
further,
it is
un-
for-
whom
190
SUPPLEMENT TO
is
The following
from the records
the minute
of
of the
town
"That Eminently pious and very virtuous Matron, Mrs. Martha Davenport, late wife to the Rev. John Davenport,
down
Life, to
Crowned with
iirst
at
New
Haven.
The fohowing
A Sermon
died Fri-
Church
in Stamford,
who
day, Feb.
5,
and 36th
of his ministry
fohowing
By
of the
Church
" 2
Israel
in Stratfield
ii.
[now Bridgeport.]
'
Kings
and
12.
My father, my fcdher,
the chariot
J. P.
of
the
Printed by
Zen-
ger, in
New York,
of
Speaking
says,
"He had
accurate
know-
compass
of
any
many
scores of
miles every
way
and
as familiar to
him
as his
mother tongue.
[When he
191
make use
of the English
original.]
translation,
but of the
less
He was no
as the
emthe
him
mouth
of
The
spirit of
uj^on
He was
that
like Elijah, a
man mighty
in prayer
an Israel
and emergency,
to wrestle with
off
God
as a prince that
with a denial
He was
and public
and
Lord's vinedis-
yard,
in his private
pensations.
labors,
late painful
and indefatigable
fatal sick-
ness
ful observers
tion, that
with admii-a-
i^ulpit,
and with so
He was
a cloud
richly
and dews
of heavenly doctrines,
;
and plentifully
especially
distilling the
and
on
this part
of the Lord's
of
He
as
was eagle-eyed
whether
men would
would forbear
.... Tlie
now
calls for
192
SUPPLEMENT TO
Our crown
is
is fallen
departed.
taken
It
away.
and horsemen
sinned.
seri-
we have
ous and
Divine Provi-
we have now
New
England
of cor-
Wo
to us,
....
our hedgeproof
broken down
He was
the
to
left.
arnica
cerita!<.
These
things
made him
men and
Mr. Davenport for some time previous to commencing his labors in Stamford, taught the Hojikins'
Gramof the
mar School
1731.
in
New
Haven.
He was
member
till
his death in
The following
is
J^<rn. 2f(XV^nph- / (^ /
His second wife was Mrs. Elizabeth Maltby, daughter of
children.
"
The
following
The ancient
193
relict
1
late
758."
(69.)
in Boston,
March
(70.)
18, 1671,
V.
born
in
Boston,
Aug.
20, 1672,
15,
to Eev.
James Pierpont,
New
Haven, (successor of
She
Her grave
is
Church.
family in England.
now
New Haven.
and house
In January,
it
lot
The
lot
was purchased and the building was immediately commenced. When it was finished it was one of the most
commodious and
*
For
Eev. James Pierpont (son of John, b. in London 1619, ) was graduated at Harvard "born in Eoxbnry, Mass., Jan. 4tli, 1659 College in 1681; and was settled as the siiccessor of John Da;
'
venport in 1685, where he was pastor for thirty years. He was one of the founders of Yale College, of which institution, two of his descendants, Timothy Dwight, D. D., and Kev. Theodore Dwight Woolsey, D. D., have officiated as Presidents.
194
SUPPLEMENT TO
it
stood a
monument
of the
pub-
of the generation
Avas erected.
by whose voluntary
contri-
butions
it
man
desiring
offer,
little
Under
their shade
some
foriy years
Sarah Pierj^ont.*
Under
their shade,
when some
six-
Near the site of this ancient dwelling situated near the north-west corner of the Public Square, on Elm street, was erected another mansion in 1767, in which, on the evening of Dec. 29, of that year, were united in marriage, John Pierpont, (son of Hezekiah and grandson of Rev. James,) and Sarah
Beers.
by,
and in Dec.
by a goodly same building, which still presents a very respectable appearance, and the site of which has never been alienated from the family, since its first gift to the pastor of the New Haven Church, nearly two hiin-
number
met
in the
dred years ago. Among the descendants of Kev. James, we find Henry E. Pierrepont, Esq., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hon. Edwards PierreIjont, our present representative at the Court of St. James.
* Jonathan Edwards, son of the Rev. Timothy Edwards, was born at East Windsor, Connecticut, October 5, 1703. He graduated at Yale College in 1720, before he was seventeen years of In 1724, he was api^ointed a tiitor in Yale College, in age. which oftice he continued till he was called to settle in tlie min-
195
up
One
of
them
Northampton,
as
Rev. Solomon Stoddard,) in 1726, where he continued in the After his dispastoral office for more than twentj'-three years.
missal in 1750, he labored for
LC
Berkshire County. In 1758, he was called to the Presidency of New Jersey College, where, soon after having entered upon the duties of his office, he suddenly died, March 22, 1758. His published works are numerous and he has justly been considered the most distinguished metaphysician and divine that America has ever produced. His wife, Sarah, daughter of the Eev. James Pierpont, of New Haven, was born January 9, 1710, married July 28, 1727, in her
Indians,
at Stockbridge, in
when
in her
13th year was written on a blank leaf by Mr. Edwards, at the "They say there is a young lady in New Haage of twenty.
ven,
who
is
riiles
the world, and that there are certain seasons, in which this Great Being, in some way or other, comes to her and fills her mind
with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything, except to meditate on Him that she expects after a while to be received uj) where he is, to be raised up out of the world, and caught up into Heaven being assured that He loves
her too well, to let her remain at a distance from Him always. There she is to dwell with Him, and to be ravished with His Therefore, if you present all the love and delight forever.
its
and cares not for it, and is unmindful of any path of She has a strange sweetness in her mind and singuaffliction. is most just and conscientioias in lar purity in her affections all her conduct, and you could not persuade her to do anything wrong and sinful, if jow would give her all this world, lest she should offend this Great Being. She is of a wonderful sweetespecially ness, calmness, and universal benevolence of mind She after this Great God has manifested himself to her mind.
;
"
196
is
SUPPLEMENT TO
still
said to be
late
Judge Bristol,
all
Elm
and most
venerable of
ever the
of
City of Elms,'
at the
and
first to
return
Spring
"
The ordination
on
the!
months as a candidate.
On
the 27th
ofl
in the pastoral
office.
of
more than three months afterwards, on the 3d February, she was taken from him by death. She
consumption caused by exposure to the cold on the Sabbath after her wedding, going to meeting according to the fashion of the;
time, in her bridal dress.*
"
will
Two
sometimes go about from place to place, singing sweetly and seems to be always full of joy and pleasure, and no one' knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have some one invisible always conversing with her.
' In Rev. James Pierpont's Almanac, of 1692, the following notes were inserted by himself on blank leaves. "Jan. 14, wift had fitts." "Feb. 1, we sent to Mr. Chauncey, of Straflfor'd. to press him to come over, but he came not till 2 at
'
night.
ordered friction of the lower parts which were utterly cold, whereupon her speech went away he lodged in the house he and I were called up between 2 and 3 o'clock in the night. Mr. Chauncey supposed no great hazard -I declared I thought it was our du'ty to resign
;
gave
He
197
On
reaved.
the
name
whom
he was mar-
This lady
who
surviv-
ed him
till
of sever-
al children,
help
meet
for him.'
"
(71.)
23,
VI.
1676.
She
was
New
;
Haven,
sec-
who
ond
spoken of as a
i3ractitioner of j^hysic
and
to a Mr.
Wade
of the
same place.*
ere
Lord whilst we had time, and to beg pardon which I endeavored in prayer. "3d, between 3 and 4, morning, my dear wife, Abigail, died
we
parted,
ofHisteric
fitts.
!"
!
of East
Haven
in 1851.
New Haven
received
its
present
name
after
De-
signing the town for a commercial city, they laid out the place in a regular manner, dividing it into nine squares, the streets crossing each other at right angles. These squares were fifty-
two rods on a
26
side, separated
by
198
SUPPLEMENT TO
TWENTIETH GENERATION.
Issue or Rev. John Davenport, (No. 68.)
(72.)
I.
Abigail Davenport,
to the Rev.
born July
14,
1696,
D., of
and mariied
Stephen Williams, D.
Spring-field, Mass.,
children, three of
will
be
given,
ration.
The following
drawn from
ac-
principally
Allen's
was reserved for public i^urposes, and grounds of any city in the country. surroitnding squares have been divided into four, by streets running crosswise in the direction of the original ones. Besides these thirty-two squares, the town extends over considerable ti-acts beyond, already covered with villas and houses. The city is much admired for its elegant ai>pearance. Its beautiful elms and shade trees have a very striking effect. On the Center Square or Green, represented in the accompanycentral square
vie vidth the public
one time, were not excelled by any similar edifiFirst, on the right hand, stands the North Congregational Church, (Rev. Dr. Hawes'. ) The building in the center with a tall spire, is the First Chui-ch, (Rev. Dr. Noture, which, at
ces in
New England.
ble's,
which
Near this
at
the west,
Doric order of architecture after the model of the Parthenon at Athens. On the left of the picture stands Trinity Church,
(.Episcopal,
)
a structure of
much architectixral
taste
and
beaiity.
s^-j-
199
John Williams
of Deerfield,
May
14, 1693.
Indians
from Canada.
captives.
He,
sisters, in
company
of their parents,
on a long and
In wading
home
of the Indians.
who had
with the
her,
a recent sickness,
keej)
up
to assist
fainting from
weakness and
At
this time,
This
woman was
of
Mather
Northampton, and
who married
er of Boston.
After the
death of Mrs.
Williams,
the
surviving
members
hundred
Here they
The
over 50,000.
^^^
SUPPLEMENT TO
in captivity, amid scenes of suffering, two years, when they were redeemed. Mr.
were retained
for about
Wilhams, the
father,
was minister
of that
town
June
12,
1729.
His son, Stephen, graduated at Harvard CoUege in 1713, and was ordained over the second church of
Springfield,
He
Dav'
John Davenport
of
Stam-
In 1745, he went to Louisburg as a chaplain under Sir William PeppereU, and in 1755 to
Lake
his age, and His funeral was attended by his seven surviving children. His brother. Rev. Eleazar
Champlain, in the same capacity, under Sir William Johnson, and in 1756, under Major-General Winslow. He died June 10, 1782, in the 90th year of
66th of his ministry.
Williams, graduated at Harvard in 1708, and was settied at Mansfield, Ct. Another brother, Rev.
Warham
man-ied his maternal grandmother (Mrs. Esther Mather,) relict of the Rev. Eleazar Mather, and daughter of the Rev.
who was also taken capCanada when but four years of age, gi-aduated at Hai-vard College, and studied divinity with the Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton, who
tive to
John Warham.
(73.)
He
uary
21,
John Davenpoi-t, born in Stamford, Jan1698, and was married by his fiither to Sarah
IL
201
to
"
September 6, 1722.
is
still,
He removed
the
what was
then, and
known by
site
name
five
of
Davenport
Ridge,"
a beautiful
about
miles north by
east from
i
what
is
now
the center of
Stamford
village,
to
him by
He
who
'
The following
call to
circiimstances are connected with Mr. Bishop's "The church there hearing that
:
he was in the neighborhood of Boston, two brethren, George Slason and Francis Bell were deputed to go to Boston, and if he was to be found, to make known to him the wishes of the church. Although the country was full of hostile Indians, they went on foot, carrying their provisions, and succeeded at
length in finding Mr. Bishop, to the eastward of Boston.' He accepted the call, and returned with them on foot, bringing his Bible under his arm, through the wildnerness to Stamford. (This Bible is still in the possession of Mr. Noah Bishop, one of
'
W. Alvord,
1841.
estate
two parts of said equal parts of my dividable estate, and over and above that, I give said son the sum of thirty-one pounds and ten shillings. Also my mind is that said John have my land on Davenport Ridge, so-called, as may appear by the note of laying out and seized to me, signed by Deacon Samuel Halt, [Hoyt,] Stephen Bishop and John Holly, and extending to Ponasses Path, [now called Ponus street,] and the house and barn thereon further my meaning is that the said house, to say mansion
;
"
202
SUPPLEMENT TO
of the original twenty four members who were organized into a Congregational Church in New Canaan, on the 20th of June, 1733.* He deceased No-
was one
vember
of
whom had
(74.)
III.
aged 44 years.
10,
1700,
was married
6,
Thomas Goodsell
of
Branford, October
Sarah,
1731,
by
whom
time of appraising, only I would have all the land improved by my said son John, by the plough, or for pasture, and inclosed to be valued at no higher price than if they had been wholly waste to said time of appraising, to be to my said John, to him, his
heirs
and assigns
forever.
his son Deodate, he gives two of said parts of his dividable estate, with "the choice of lands at Noroton Hill in said Stamford, or at my farm at New Haven long known by the name of Mr. Davenport's farm.
To
To each of his sons Abraham and James he gives two equal parts of the said twelve equal parts of his dividable estate, "also about my books my mind is my loving wife choose two of them, and my children, to say, John, Deodate. Abigail, Martha, Sarah.'
and Elizabeth, shall have, each of them, two of my English, if they have not had already, and all the rest of my books to belong to my said sons Abraham and James in an equal proportion.'" Szc.
A
p.
full copy, of this very lengthy and minute 380-388 of previous edition.
will, is
given on
* The parish of Canaan was situated within the townships of Stamford and Norwalk, and was first incorporated in 1731. The church, in 1733, was orgainized with thirteen members from the
Norwalk side, and eleven from the Stamford side. New Canaan was not incorporated into a township till 1801. It has now a population of about 2,500 and is connected by railroad with the
village of Stamford, eight miles distant.
203
who was
until his
of
WaUingford,
and
also of
who
death
(1874,)
enport Place
sell
m Elm
New Haven.*
Mrs. Grood-
died in 179G.
IV.
(75.)
was married,
Haven, by
to Captain
William Maltby of
New
whom
she
two daughters.
The
of
a church in
Bermuda,
West
Indies.
He
afterwards removed to
Charleston,
South Carolina,
till,
to Hanover, N. H.,
His mon-
ument
is
by the side
Wheelock.
One
an
example
of patience
and
piety,
Thaddeus
Betts, a
*Tbe accompanying engraving presents a view of the " DavenElm street. The house occupied by its original proprietor was principally taken down, and rebuilt in its present form by the late .Judge Pierpont Edwards, the father of
port Place," in
of New York, about seventy years ago. Jiome parts of the ancient dwelling appear in this mansion, and the cellar in which the regicides were concealed by Mr. Davenport, yet remains under the present building, still inhabited by
204
SUPPLEMENT TO
and the
who represented
United
States,
Washington
in 1840,
aged 52 years.
mar-
[Dr. Wlieelock
was
bom
in 1711,
and graduated at
at
He was settled
Lebanon,
of
Ct.,
1735,
much
good.
He was
ful ministers in
New England.
Dr.
TnimbuU describes
and winning
as-
him
far
He had
the entire
command
of
it.
His
His preach3'et
winning
beyond
all
melted into
it."
He became
moved
of to
the founder
Daiimouth
was the
first
Presi-
dent, in 1770.
woman
of a
meek and
205
given to
to her
husband by
her natural and moral qualities, that her grave-stone bears the inscription, that her character was too estimable for an epitaph."* 3Ie?uoir
Patteji.
of her
dau<//iter,
Mrs.
(76.)
V.
2,
1703,
VI.
23, 1706. He was married in 1730 to Lydia Woodward, daughter of the Rev. John
Woodward.f
(78.)
He
died December
3,
1761.
VII.
August
28, 1708,
to the Rev.
William
Gaylord, of Wilton,
'
Ctl
The following
at
burying-ground
the
wife of ye Rev.
and of
to
said,
worthy
be inscribed here."
On
Communicated by Rev.
t
Wm.
Allen, D. D. in 1850.
at Harvard College, in and was ordained Pastor of the church at Norwich, in 1699. He assisted in the Council that compiled the Saybrook Platform in 1708, and removed to East Haven in 1716, where he lied the same j^ear.
1693
Rev. William Gaylord, was born in what is now known as Nov. 24, 1709. He was a great-grandson of Dea. William Gaylord who came from England to Dorchester,
t
Mass., in 1631.
27
The church
of
20()
SUPPLEMENT TO
the church records of the parish
is
On
"
the following
:
entry in the
hand
:
writing- of her
husband
July
6,
1747
died,
my own
after
months and
8 days.
John Davenport
of Stamford, de-
ceased.
childhood, and since by her owai consent, I trust, savingly converted, I took her in marriage, Jan 24, 1733.
I
six of
whom
are
alive.
to me,
prudent,
after
faithful,
five
and
remaining
its
years at Dorchester,
tor,
it
removed
to Windsoi',
Conn., with
pas-
ted at Yale College in 1730 and was installed over the Wilton Church, Feb. 14th, 1733, three weeks after his marriage to Eliz-
abeth Davenport.*
/
The
original autographs are preserved in a
father, the
^-^
iCj/LutJ
volume which
belonged to her
Stamford minister, and to her great grandfather, Rev. John Davenport, of New Haven, and is now held by Mr. Henry F. Taylor, one other descendants, residing
at the l.'SOth
187(i.
in Stamford.
* Historical Address of Samuel G. Willard, Congregatioual Church in Wiltou, Juuo 22,
Auuiversary of the
207
rea-
and very
respectful,
all
grace,
made her
good
Her death
is
a sore loss to
me and my dear
who in great wisdom has according to the exceeding great and precious promise of the Covenant of Grace, to turn it to my
children, but I trust in God,
ordered
it,
gain, that I
tion,
and be enabled
Him
(Jt.,
cumstances."*
Commanicated
and graduated
at
by Bev. John
in 1877.
Gay-
VIII.
1715,
born
in
He was
married at Windhanj,
Ct.,
White, on the IGth day of November, 1750, to Miss Elizabeth Huntington, whose mother was a daughter
of Rev.
Timothy Edwards,
of East
sister of Pres.
Jonathan Edwards.
His
first
wife died
December
17, 1773.
He was
re8,
Soon
fillino-
Mr. Gaylord's second wife was Elizabeth Bishop, to whom he was married in 1752, and by whom he had six children, namely Aaron, b. Jan. 7, 1753 Elizabeth, b. Oct. 24, 1754 Samuel, b. Oct, 28, 1756 Sarah, b. June 18, 1758, and who became the second wife of Dea. John Davenport, of Davenport Eidge
:
Deodate gift
July 20, 1760, (just before the death who died at Fort Herkimer, returning from the expedition against Montreal ;) and, lastly, another Moses, b. May 4, 1762. Mr. G. died Jan. 2, 1767.
of
God b.
208
such
offices in
tlie
SUPPLEMENT TO
gift of his
townsmen
as the
most
promising young
hold.
his
men
of the times
were allowed to
Our town
end
of
In the most
try-
seems
whom the town looked No man has ever served the for counsel and defense. town, as one of its Selectmen, as long as he. He also
to
and
at several of
of the
House.
He was
of
of the
Judge
was Judge
County Court.
and held the
He
was, also,
of
very
in the
active in religion,
office
deacon
Congregational Church
"
arranging
it
into
to
commission the
officers,
by the
He was likewise
empowered to
arrest
and bring
was one
of the
Committee
of safety foi
the
State,
most trying
days."
History
oj
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
209
in his Travels,
:
account
New Haven
Colony.
Col-
of a vigorous
under-
and
justice,
of ver-
acity
and
of a
many
years decided in
cjiuestion to
which
it
was
lent.
;
He was early
adorned
its its
and
precepts.
He was
diamond
more
kind
;
propriety.
less soft,
;
all of
the masculine
wished
to
man who
if
has been
It
would
be happy for
this or
the magis-
with
210
to regard
ever,
it
SUPPLEMENT TO
with an improper attachment.
This,
how-
was a very
erroneous opinion.
Of what was
;
but the poor found nowhere a more liberal benefactor, nor the stranger a more hospitable
host.
say this
from personal knowledge, acquired by a long continued and intimate acquaintance with him and his family.
its
New
sick soldiers
filled his
and devoted
;
own own
and that
of his family
of his
price,
own farms
had sold
to the
poor
at the
former customary
also,
as he
at the
same
Two
serve to be mentioned.
The lOth
of
the
The Legislature
of Connecti-
very general
hand.
The House
C/^6t '^
"
211
proposal to ad-
"When the
am
against an adjournment.
The day
not.
:
of
is
Judgment
not, there
s either
is
approaching, or
it is
If
it
if it is,
I choose to be
found doing
my
duty.
may be
brought.'
in verse
by John Greenleaf
and
is
ABRAHAM DAVENPORT.
In the old days (a custom laid aside
men
to
make
And
80
Waved
over
l)y
the
woods
of
Rippowams,
lives
Wisdom and
grace in
Abraham Davenport
212
'T
SUPPLEMENT TO
was on a May-day
life
The Twilight
of the
Gods.
Was black
rim
Was
The
chmbs
hell below.
Roosted
Men
prayed, and
women wept
of the
all
ears
grew sharp
trumpet shatter
as he looked
Meanwhile
dim
as ghosts.
Trembhng beneath
"It
is
Day
Let us adjourn,"
THE DAVENPOKT FAMILY. 213
Some
A.11
said
and then,
as
if
Abraham Davenport.
He
This well
may be
;
The Day
But be
it
of
so or not, I only
know
Lord's
and
my
command
To occupy
till
he come.
So
at the post
Where he
[
hatli set
me
in his providence,
him
face to face,^
N"o faithless
my
task,
calls
ind
Let
therefore, with
all
God do
his work,
we
And
in.
Then by the
ilbeit with
'^n
flaring
act to
amend an
jEhe
Whereupon
Abraham Davenport,
no figures of speech
Arab
humor
natural to the
all
man
the while,
214
SUPPLEMENT TO
of his argument,
To hear
God
of the cloud.
And
there he stands
memory
to this day.
Erect, self-poised, a
rugged
face, half
seen
Grace Greenwood, (Mrs. L. K. Lippincott, in her " Sketches Yankee Character," writes of him thus: '! have often heard my father refer most affectionately to his uncle by marriage, Colonel Davenport, of Stamford, the 'Abraham Davenport' of one of Whittier's noblest poems, and the great-grandson of Rev. John
*
)
of
New Haven,
the brave
of
"Col. Davenport was distinguished for talent, culture, grace manner and that most rare and admirable good sense which
j
on great occasions and in sudden emergencies, shows itself as My father, who only in hisi wisdom and masterly sagacity childhood knew his uncle, remembered him less for his 'wisdom and grace than for the remarkably liberal way in which he bestowed bright sixpences and even shillings on his yoiang nephIn his later years the Colonel was very stout and had someews. So what of Falstaff's difficulty in contemplating his 'own knee.
'
]
'
he liked to have the great silver buckles of his shoes fastened He would emerge from his by other hands than his own. chamber in the morning, and call out cheerily to my father: and the little lad would kneel as One, two, buckle my shoe proudly to perform the service as ever hero knelt to receive the stroke of Knighthood. And it was no empty honor -the shin'
!'
215
The other
place at
Danbury,
Court of
Common
Pleas of
after
This venerable
man
an
article in
He
then
retir-
after
found dead in
To
Davenport extended
his acts of
I say this
kindness, as
from experience.
interests he
Of
his country
and
was a
pillar of granite.
Nothing impaired,
nothing moved his resolution and firmness, while destined to support in his own station this valuable edifice.
"
He was educated
at Yale College in
which he took
He
died as
die, in the
November
20th, 1789,
IX.
born
in
Stam-
ford, 1716.
He was
educated
at
Indeed,
man
who was
deal of
was a would have adored, for he not on Ij' tipped' a fellow royally, but was free and easy with him and with all young people."
'
own shoes. There is a vast and Colonel Abraham Davenport school boys of Thackeray and Dickens
21G
SUPPLEMENT TO
be graduated in 1732.
Island, in 1738.
He
settled
at Southold,
Lour
first settled
and
Brookhaven
pond-Point, including
the islands in
that vicinity
was
originally purchased
by the magistrates
New Haven
number
England
of years,
was transferred
who were
;
principally
who had
sjient
Before they
of Grovernor
New
Haven, by the
ad-
and aid
tc
the Island.]
this
faithful minister.
But
came
to this country,
and a season
of
of his
leaving his
*
own
unprovided
for.*
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY. 217
He
to arise
and have
together
fined
The
for
him
some days
chamber.
He commenIn the
of the Presbyterian
at
was foimd
at
Philadelphia, preaching
October
80,
on arriving
To add
to
my
comfort, the
November 5,
at Baskiuridge,
New
Jersey,
to
about three thousand j^eople in the parish of the Rev. Mr. Cross.
days,
for
one or two
to
and
Philadelphia.
Mr. Davenport
Tracy.
218
SUPPLEMENT TO
particularly a favorite with Whitfield,
was
and
alsc
in a
pamphlet
in hit
example
Mr.
'
numerous
testimoniei
AYhitfield declared
i
in conversation that he
walk with
God as Mr.
Davenport.
Mr. Tennent, in mj
heavenly
eroy,
with.
Mr. Pom-
who
communion and
fellowshij
Mr
Parsons of
Lyme
told
me the
one minister
whom
to
oi
In
brief, there is
good
cause of
is
God
at this day,
apt to think
more highly
to
him almost
he wag
an angel from Heaven. "f "This is the statement/' adds Mr. Tracy, " of an honest partisan so far as a
all
his measures, as
219
eol-
not
false,
and collected a large tribute of veneration. .o(je to use language of a more modern date
(fleets,
'on
More
He
:he
moted
in
others,
the
was running
knowledge, saw in
we
ilose
him
till
Summer, when
in other parts of
New
England,
Among
Island.
Long
town
in a
"The
revival of
Ireligion in
The nov-
like a torrent
he poured upon
them. The effect was great. They were pricked in Men and brethren, what the heart, and cried out,
'
I
shall
we do
to be saved
?"
But
his rashness in
:
some
but notwith-
220
SUPPLEMENT TO
in con-
"
with
some
tire,
sort
of eloquence, speaking
all
ou
and accustomed
New Haven
his
of the princi-
The
and
more
illustrious ancestor,
and
his
numerous
New
He came
He
gained considerable
while
occupying the
pulpit there.
He was
and
public addresses,
even
publicly
declared
his
the church,
the
Eev. Mr.
The
result of his
measures was unhappy upon the church, as many led away by the extraordinary excitement of the times be-
came
*
dissatisfied with
their pastor
and
theii-
former
221
new
known
as the
North Church.
In the
visited
Summer
of the
same
year, Mr.
"
Davenport
it
Stonington, Connecticut.
Here
was
said,
near one hundred persons were struck under conviction by his first sermon, and about that number convei-ted in eight days, including
left
under 'hopeful
convictions.'*
From
seph
where,
the
Jo-
then
laboring
there
as
missionary
of
from the
London
Society, a large
number
conver-
sions took
Indians,
wei'e
many
the church,
and by
of the
unknown was
spreading, and
.
many were
led into
various extravagancies
Among
these,
Mr. Davenport
was foremost.
He
p. 235.
la-
Among
was one afterwards known by the name of Eev. Peter John, who was for many years a faithful and successful preacher of the Gospel, among the Shinnecock tribe on Long Island. Through his zeal and piety, several churches of the native Indians were gathered. He died about the beginning of the present century, at the advanced age of 88, and was succeeded in the ministry by his grandson.
bors,
222
erally
SUPPLEMENT TO
He
siastic
carried
ment
of the times,
been observed,
it
would be
difficult to
Con-
and
that, at theiri
had passed a
law, in
most flagrant
violacivil
conscience, repressing,
by
and exhorters.
The
last
and
also
committed to the
number
of
books
From
this time,
drawn from
efforts
Drs. Williams
and
mar-
Wheelock, of Lebanon
ried his sister
the
latter of
whom had
he became convinced
errors,
tliat in his
course
This confession
is
found in edition of
18-51.
223
L.
I.
in 1746,
lie
and afterwards
settled at Hopewell,
N. J.,
where
some
years,
and
iied in 1755.
TWENTY-FIEST GENERATION.
Issue of Abigail Davenport, (No. 72.)
(Who married Rev. Stephen Williams, D.
D.)
(81.)
I.
8,
1720,
ried
January
Ann
Colton, by
whom
1722,
he
Stephen,
born
January
26,
was
He
married,
whom
he had
six child-
He
)
III.
1,
1,
1723,
and marshe
ried
May
6,
by
whom
dad one
lune
child,
1758,
who graduated
Street,
at
He
married
Miss Eunice
Street, of
East Haven,
whom
William Stebbins,
i
who was
settled at
daughter, Ann,
who was
224
SUPPLEMENT TO
Mrs. StebJ
IV.
7,
1726, gradu-'
ated at Yale College in 1745, was ordained at Northford, a i:)arish in Branford, Connecticut,
June
Hall,
30, 1750,
13,
1752 to
Ann
daughter
i
Samuel
Hall, of Cheshire.
Their children
;
were,
Hall,
Warham, who married Ann Wilford Samuel Jonathan Law, Davenport who married Mary At;
water
first
who
died young
Dr. Pynchon.
widow
of Col-
died
AjDril,
1788.
for
years,
and
New Haven. Dr. Williams He was in the ministry about forty many years a member of the CorpoMay
31,
V.
Samuel, born
1729,
and was
married February
ter of
14, 1760, to
One
of their daughters,
grandfather.
Rev.
Long Meadow.
S.
late
Rev. Richard
who was
the father
225
pastor of the
the
Rev. Richard
S.
Storrs, D. D.,
One
1774,
of
the
in
Sept. 23,
and
L851, lived
)ccupied
^alliams.
(8G.)
it
by
grandfather,
Dr.
Stephen
VI.
11, 1731,
and died
irmy
in
(87.)
Martha, born May, 1733, and was mar1759, to Mr. Reynolds, a son of
ried
January
Rev.
by
whom
Ely, of
(88.)
Long Meadow.
VIII.
28, 1735,
was grad-
uated at Yale College, in 1756, and ordained at Tolland, April 30, 1760.
He
Mary
Hall,
lingford, Ct.
Wmiams
His
Mrs.
Mary
Williams,
died March
9,
1838, aged
(89.)
I.
John Davenport
of Stamford,
at
born Janu-
He
resided
Davenport Ridge on
226
SUPPLEMENT TO
At the age
of eight-
New
Canaan, March
7, 2,
He was
"by Jonathan
County
Died June
23,
9,
1725,
July
1753.
Mrs.
Davenport,
died
March
(91.)
15, 1769.
III.
15,
1727.
(92.)
IV.
Sept.
6,
1728,
V.
5,
1730,
Davenport died
March
aged 78
(94.)
19, 1773.
He
VI.
20, 1731,
and manned
Esq.,
John
Crissey,
by Abraham Davenport,
AprH
7,
1757.
(95.)
VII.
Eleazar Davenport,
born March
15,
1732.
227
VIII.
1734.
(97.)
IX.
Elizabeth
born
April
1,
IL735.
(98.)
X.
Silas
Davenport, born
May
13, 1736,
and
Harried to Miss
V\'ells,
Mary Webb,
1765.
in Stamford,
by Rev. Mr.
March
XI.
7,
(99.)
Hezekiah
Davenport,
at the
born
Jan.
14,
L738,
1763.
He was
a Lieutenant in the
fell
svar of
at Ridgefield,
his re-
Dav-
XII.
Josiah
6,
XIIL
XIV.
9,
(102.)
Sarah Davenport.
D.*)
(103.)
I.
Theodora,
who married
Alexander
The children by
75.
228
SUPPLEMENT TO
Ruth,
who married
The following
dants,
l)y
is
princijiaUy
writtei
her
D. D., of Hart
ford, Ct.
of the above
mentioned
granddaughter
of the Rev.
John Daven4,
Stamford,
Connecticut,
1740.
child,
When
Her mind
At the age
o1
eighteen, she
of the
most accom
At
this
young women.
earh
wife.
When
five
years
oi
first}
ol
friends.
He
enteredi
of
age.
was licensed
to preach,
engaged to supply
the
and
be-
229
call to
2,
that time
expired, received a
unanimous
1757, seven
of age,
and
lived an
example
of
devoted
piety, usefully
enga-
cember
5,
1831, aged
been a professor
D. D., at
Brown
University.
I.,
He was
settled
in
the
ministry at Newport, R.
in 1786,
where he preach-
ed about 48 years.
He
one of
a lawyer of Provi-
Hotchkiss, of Hartford.
New York,
;
Halsted, of Brooklyn,
S.
George W. a Captain
in.
in the U.
Army
at
and
Rev.
Ralph,
who graduated
was
Yale
from
becoming
*
a pastor,
and
finally for
230
SUPPLEMENT TO
(106.)
I.
July
7,
1731
II.
Mix.
2(j,
(107.)
1733,
Gold
S. Silliman, of Faii'field,
by
whom
ter
of
who married
daugh-
He
was
tion,
a General in the
army
b}'
in the
war
of
the Eevolu-
burning
Island.
Rebecca Noyes,
by
(widow
Joseph Noyes,
whom
D.,
he was
Y.,
S. Silliman, of
Brooklyn N.
and
also of Professor
Benjamin SiUiman, M.
LL.D.
By
231
IV.
Jolm Davenport
of East
Haven, born
Anna
Died January
(110.)
9,
1820,
aged 82
years.
V.
of East
to
Ha-
in 17()6,
Mary
He
died July
1810.
December
(111.)
21, 1803,
aged GO
years.
VI.
September
(112.)
19, 1749.
VII.
Holt.
Samuel
78.
when he removin
ed to
New
Hartford,
Ct.,
where he died
Sept 1777,
aged 44
years.
He
cultivated a farm in
New Hartford,
West Hartford.*
years. (114.)
II.
Ct.,
1736,
died
*
May
29, 1749.
name
His oldest son, also William, was killed at the batIn this connection we find tle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. the descent of Rev. William L. Gaylord, (now of Chicopee, Mass.,) born at Woodstock, Conn., Oct. 14, 1831.
of William.
232
(115.)
III.
SUPPLEMENT TO
|
3,
1737, died
May
8,
|
1751.
(IIG.)
IV.
7,
writes'
:
years,"
'
and adds
He
way
more than
'
V.
6,
1742, died
June
6,
1742.
(118.)
VI.
14, 1743.
Married
March
7,
of
Henry F.
(119.)
now
of Stamford.
VII.
John, born
May
11, 1746.
Abraham Davenport,
(No. 79.
of Stamford,
born
and graduated
is
at
His scholarship
tutorship in 1773.
When the
pat-
233
nation, he
in the welfare of
the
new
was
3ommission to
visit
and
to
move
them
to corresponding exertions."*
He was
Noah
married to Mary
(by
S.
Wells, D.D.,
7,
Abraham Davenport,
of the Revolution.
May
1780.
He was Major
war
of the
American
James Davenport,)
of
He was punctually
to his
at his
and answered
name when
call-
ed to vote on aU subjects, and, we may add, always voted on the same side with his co-representative from
Connecticut, Hon.
We
also find
of
House
a debater.
sjDent the
of his country
and honored by
*
f
Huntington's History of Stamford, p 369. The fine mansion built bj' Mr. Davenport in 1807,
is still
^^*
SUPPLEMENT TO
He was a member of the Congregational Churcli in Stamford, of which he was chosen Deacon in 1795,i
In this
office
his
and exemplary
Christian.
He
died
is
November
28, 1830.
:
The following
fuJi^-pu-/24:^. '^^iV:
June
(121.)
III.
and was married by the Rev. Dr. Wells, to James Cogswell, M. D., of Preston, August 8, 177G. They had one daughter Alice, who became the wife of
the Rev. Samuel Fisher, D.D.,
of Greenbush, N. Y.,
who was
street, and until recently was occupied by Deacon Theodore Davenport, its present owner. Here Major Davenport on the 23d of August, 1824, welcomed General Lafayette, (then on his way to New Haven and Boston,) and, where he received the congratulations of hundreds of persons who had assembled from this and the neighboring towns to pay
standing in Main
his son,
285
Beeclier, as pas-
Lyman
md who was
oUef^e, at
for
many
Chnton, N. Y.
James Cogswell, M.
D., departed
Nov.
IV.
15, 1779.*
(123.)
ord,
October
and gradnated
at
Yale College
n 1779.
was employed
Government.
in the
Commissary Department
of
}he
He was
May
7,
1780.
Mrs.
Mar-
Lockwood,
November
6,
1790.
"
Be-
James Cogswell, D, D., of 6, 1720, and died January having been for sixty years a laborious and faithful I, 1807, He had also a brother. Mason F. Cogsminister of the Gospel. well, M. D., who died in 1830, aged 69 years, who had a daughter named Alice, who though deprived of hearing and speech, was distinguished for her intellectual attainments and loveliShe died December 30, 1830, aged 25 years. aess of character. The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, tinier Providence owes its origin to the father's tenderness toards his child, and his sympathy for her fellow-sufferers, and Conwill long stand an enduring monument to his memory.
Dr. Cogswell was the son of Eev.
,
Hartford, Ct.
-Jannary
riectjr.iii
Historical Collections.
Dr. James Cogswell afterwards married Mrs. Abigail Loyd, and had several children, James, John, Sarah and Harriet.
236
SUPPLEMENT TO
called
oi
to
fill
important public
offices.
He was
member
of the
ai
Court of
Common
Pleas.
Representative
Member
3,
American Congress,!
and)
He was
member
oi
his Travels,
p.
500, says
"
Few
James Davenport.
An
ded him
to a considerable extent,
;
which
under
his eye,
to
a,
intelligent conversation,
discernment almost
of valuable
intuitive, to
knowledge.
With respect
topics
of|
investigation, fitted to
to!
please
and
industry,
and
success, with
237
I
never knew
it
is
capable of furnishing to
ex-
hibited
ple.
more
and
decisively,
his
own
conversation was so
agreeable,
and
intelligent,
and
his
manners
all
so enga-
his
numerstain
;
ous acquaintance.
was without a
justice, his
and on
and
countryqualifi-
men
eai'ly
With these
cations,
period of his
in
or
orably to himself,
and usefully
to
his
country.
He
se-
chronic rheumatism.
Few
more
(124.)
V.
"
18,
1761,
and
departed this
(125.)
I.
N.
J.,
August
1752,
and graduated
at
Piinceton
238
SUPPLEMENT TO
He
studied Theology
with Drs. Bellamy and Buel, and was ordained at Mattatuck, a parish in the
town
of Southold, L.
I.,
June
4,
1775,
as a
stated
He was
for
some time
of the Island,
WhUe
at Mattatuck.
he
of
was married
his
to Mrs. Elizabeth
Barker, the
widow
predecessor,
by the
Rev.
John
Storrs,
December
years.
18, 1775,
with whom,
many
He was
the
first
minis-
upon Long
Island, that
refused to administer
He was
settled at
J.,
August
1805.
12,
in
New
York,
and died
children.
(126.
)
July 13,
I.,
1825.
He had no
Prime a His. L.
II.
James Davenport.
No
children.
(127.)
III.
Elizabeth Davenport,
married a Mr.
TWENTY-SECOND GENERATION.
Issue of John Davenport, (No. 89.)
(128.)
Dea.
at
Davenport
THE DAVENPORT FAMILY.
Ridfre, Stamford,
239
May
24, 1749,
Rev.
Noah
Wells, D. D., to
of
Prudence
daughter of
23,
Jesse Bell,
Stamford.*
Married 2d,
Sarah Gaylord,
and erecting
century, are
still
standing in a
He was
al
one of the
of
early members
of
of the
Congregation-
Church
North Stamford,t
8,
deacon.
May
1796,
and continued
6,
his death,
February
1820.
11, 1846,
aged 87
lather of
Another daughter of Mr. Bell married Mr. Waterbury, the Gideon Waterbury, of New York, who was the father of the Eev. J. B. Waterbury, D. D., formerly of Boston, and who died in Brooklyn, N. Y.. 1877. One of Dr. Waterbury's sisof ters, Harriet, married the Kev. John Scudder, M. D.,(the father
Kev. Henry Martin Scudder, D. D.,
now
of Brooklyn, N.
Y.,)
Madras, in India.
organized June 4, 1782, with twenty-two t This church was members. Previous to the settlement of the first pastor, Rev. Solomon Wolcot, in 1784, the Rev. Samuel Hopkins, after-
wards Rev. Dr. Hopkins, (understood to be the venerable personage on whom Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, has founded her story of "The Minister's Wooing,") preached in this parish, about a year and a half, during his absence from the church in Newport, R. I. that town having been taken possession of by the British. Rev. John Shepherd was ordained as second pas;
240
(129.)
II.
SirpPLEMENT TO
7,
1751,
Monmouth
died
Lounsbmy,
about 1819.
(130.)
of
Stamford, April
16,
1770, and
III.
Stephen
Davenpoi-t,
born Mach
9,
Not married.
Died about
IV.
Jan.
4,
1754,
19, 1775.
(132.)
(133.)
I.
19, 1755.
II.
30, 1757.
18, 1759.
(134.)
III.
Married a Mr.
(135.)
IV.
Gould Davenport,
Joseph
bom
Oct.
5,
1762;
was a school-teacher.
(136.)
V.
born March
28,
(137.)
I.
3,
1758.
Died Jan.
7,
in 1787, followed
his death,
in 1795,
who remainHenry
till
ed
till
when two
Fuller,
1844.
office
241
13, 1760.
Sarali
whom
3,
1762,
IV.
2,
1764,
New
Ca-
by
whom
7,
Soon
marriage he removed to
cul-
New
Canaan, and
settled
own hands
For some
time he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, (pensioner;) held offices in the
community, and,
for fifty-nine
years,
was
and
an
efficient
deacon
He
and
of the
to
make
willing contributions,
both
*
of his
money and
Dea. Benedict's
Isaac,
had
first wife was Jane Raymond, by whom he who married Fanny Hopkins Gould married
;
Betsey
Foot: Samuel R.. (died young); Abigail married T^illiam Davenport Obadiah married Clarissa Bingham LewLorana (died young) and Rev. is married Mary Scribner Amzi who graduated at Yale College, in 1814, and married Martha, daughter of General Solomon Cowles, of Farmington.
; ; ;
;
242
tian benevolence.
friend,
SUPPLEMENT TO
in
him a steadfast
and
to the
a pillar.
Both
his corporeal
till
re-
mained
ble
uninipaii'ed
life,
and useful
and
He
An
died
May
and grandfather.
by his
."
j^astor,
Gen. XXXV, 29
And
Isaac gave
died,
full
and
* Dea. Benedict was descended from Thomas Benedict, who came from Nottinghamshire, England, to Massachtisetts, 1638, and who finally settled with his family in Norwalk, ConAll his direct ancestors, for one hundred necticut in 1665. and fifty years, held the office of Deacon in the Chnrch of Nor-
walk.
His father was Dea. Nathaniel Benedict of Norwalk, who died in 1806, in the 90th year of his age, and whose character is thus described in an article written by the Hon. Roger Minot Sherman, and piiblished in a newspaper at the time of his death
Dea. Nathaniel Benedict died in Norwalk, of the 2d of April, 1806, after a shock of the palsy, with
he lingered about twelve days, in the 90th year of his age. On the 3d, his reinains. were followed to the grave by a large concourse of friends and relatives, among whom were his twelve surviving children, and many of his more remote posterity. He has left ninety-one grandchildren, and eighty-eight greatgrandchildren, the whole member of his descendants, now living, being 191. " For about thirty-two years he sustained the office of Deacon Deacon Benof the First Congregational Church in that town. edict was one of those venerable personages by whom what re-
243
Stamford, born
V.
1766,
Deodate Davenport
of
June
2,
and married
2iJ,
to Abigail
Handford,
Sei:t.
25, 1788.
Died Oct.
1839.
6,
VI.
to
and married
18, 1817.
Nathan Davenport, born Aug. 8,1768, Died May Polly Smith, Sept. 14, 1800.
(143.)
VII.
11, 1771,
2,
1795.
He removed
1834.
(144.)
to Charlton, N. Y.,
died, Jan. 4,
VIII.)
March
and died
IX.
May
30, 1792.
X.
12,
1777.
Married Charles
(147.)
Died
XL Ann
Died Sept.
22, 1831.
of the pious habits of our forefathers have been transmitted to the present generation. His long life has been eminently exemplary, and years to come will feel its happy influEvery morning and evening witnessed his devotions. ence. His Sabbaths M'ere faithfully appropriated to public worship
and
An
sition, a
soimd mind improved by a good degree of reading and miich reflection, and adorned with a bright constellation of Christian graces, comprised his character. At his funeral, an appropriate sermon was delivered by the Eev. Dr. Burnett, from The wicked is driven away in his wickedness Prov. xiv. 32
: ' ;
244
148.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
XII.
Clarissa
to
Davenport,
born April
2.5,
1782.
Married
Samuel
Raj^mond,
June
1804.
who
died in infancy.
(149.)
I.
21, 1765,
bj'
Stamford,
Hon.
19, 1786.
Died
in 1815.
Dea.
Abraham
Died
Davenj^oi-t of Stamford,
to Polly
born October
October
(151.)
30, 1767,
and married
in 1845.
Brown,
26, 1793.
III.
March
born
17, 1770.
Died March
(152.)
21, 1848.
IV.
Ebenezer
Davenport,
May
9,
1773.
Died
at Flatbush,
N. Y., 1833.
(153.)
No
issue.
V.
Rufus Davenport
of
New
York, born in
The
following- notice of
Mr. D. appeared in
:
"
The
"We
years.
inst. ol
the advanced
age of 81
He was one
of
of
most persevering
the friends
and advocates
of
the
245
Seamen's Cause.
He was
June
New York
Board
af)iJoiiited
of Directors
1818.
Soon
after,
he was
and acceptance
for about
In the
Mariner's
Church
in Eoosevelt
he was
for the
ver}'
prominent,
being- one
of
the committee
purchase of the
When
the
American Seaman's Friend Society was reorganized in 1828, he was one of its first Board of Trustees, and
continued to serve as such
of the chief
till
his death.
He was
one
movers
in the
"
Mr. D. was a
man
and
character,
of disposition.
Barely
does a
man go through Hfe making so few enemies, and winning so many friends. He was a member of
the
VI.
Charles
Webb
ary
9,
1778.
Married
Ameha
Died
in Illinois
in 1843.
(155.)
24, 1783.
VII.
Died in 1813.
246
SUPPLEMENT TO
(156.)
I.
Priiella DaveniDort,
born August
25, 1764.
Died February
28, 1809.
Martha
1807.
Died
November
(158.)
III.
Mar-
ried
children, Harvey,
24, 1798.
Died November
IV.
Stamford
September
17, 1770.
Married,
1st,
November
Married, 2d,
17, 1810.
28, 1838.
3d,
Stamford, to
Anna
Tuttle,
1840.
Mr,
V.
VI.
VII.
(163.)
I.
January
(164.)
31, 1767.
II.
247
and married
to Esther
Heminway,
Mrs.
1793.
Kenioved
to Erie, Pa.,
and died
ni 1852.
D. died in 1839.
(165.)
III.
ven,
December 11,
who
11, 1854.
(166.)
16, 1771.
IV.
December
in
Married to
in 1841.
EH
1793.
Died
V.
(167.)
1771. 1794.
Married
He
(168.)
JanuaiT
28, 1775,
and married
to
Nancy Maria
Shults,
Removed to Townsend,
TWENTY-SECOND GENEEATION-Continued.
Issue of
(No. 120.)
(169.)
I.
March
cliffe
4,
1781.
(Judge) of Brooklyn, N.
October
1,
1799.
Died
May
June
28, 1850.
II.
No
issue.
in
(170.)
ford,
Stam-
24, 1783.
is i:)rincipally
drawn from
"
in
New Haven
on the
248
the occasion of
liis
SUPPLEMENT TO
funeral,
by Eev. Elisba
L. Cleave-
Mr. Davenport sprang from a stock thoroughly Puriblood rich in manly virtues, educated
tan, inheriting
in a
home pervaded with chiistian influences. He thus commenced his career under circumstances most aus-
He
of his family
when he
entered
class
Yale College.
It
He
was the
Perrit,
and
Tomlinson,
class that
has
made
for itself a
most
There
be-
The year
membered in
upon the
Holy
Spirit
The j^ower
work may be
was not a
seen in the
1801, there
among
of the
year
later,
on
twenty-five large
members
graduating
class,
with a
number from
down
at the table of
the Lord.
249
of the
As a
result of
work
Among
those
who shared
John
A. Davenj^ort.
He
still
the renew-
In happy accordance with the natural decision and directness of his mind, he went fully over to the Lord's
side,
for all
coming time
to
The hope
of gloiy then
jjath-
formed
in his soul
life.
way
on
in
The principles of
his heart,
The pleasures
was
in the
warm glow
and
of his first
life.
Immediately
after
gaged
New
York,
and
was
a well-known
and prosperous
merchant
of that city.
To
this
sense,
and
250
SUPPLEMENT TO
and a becoming
sires for
temporal wealth.
ever,
enterprises
state of
affairs
Britain, he experienced reverses and discouragements, which tried his faith and patience, and christian princiijles. It was a
salutaiy discipline
it
furnislied
him a new
illustration
had
laid
up where no
It
danger them.
to wait
taught him
how
it is
in a faithful
adherence
to christian principle,
divine
will.
and cheerful obedience to the These rough and narrow straits, not the
were pass-
ed
at
length,
;
and he emerged
into a
broader and
smoother sea and from that time onward, was favored with the steady flow of a healthful and generous
prosperity.
Mr. Davenport was married in 1806, to Miss Eliza Maria Wheeler, daughter of Dr. William Wheeler, of Ked Hook, N. Y., and grand-daughter of Rev. Cotton
"
Mather Smith,
excellent
of Sharon, Connecticut.
With
this
most
lived in
happy wedin
lock
more than
years.
She died
New
Haven on
1859 sustained
in her last
251
faith
walked througli
When
went
Christ.
Mr. Davenport
went to
New
York, he
gosi:)el of
in the fuhiess of
With the
zeal of a
young
convert, he sought
at once the
by the
eminent
man and
and
The
faithful instructions
and character
for
which he be-
came distinguished.
from
Mason
New
York,
with the church under the pastoral care of the venerable Dr. McElroy,
still
living
and
where he
join the
him
to
recently organized
un-
Mr.'
wards
of Rev. Dr.
John Woodbridge.
in connection with
Here he was an
an active and de-
office-bearer,
and
periods of his
252
SUPPLEMENT TO
the
first,
is
the
pastor,
this
one of
its
elders.
In
new
enterprise
he
it
ripe experience
and
practical wisdom.
He was
looked
up
to,
pillar in the
of
church.
brotherhood
christians cease,
when he ceased
be a member.
He
he never
lost.
New
Haven,
up a manufacturing estab-
of
months of painful
sufter-
fortitude, his;
mind
* His residence occupied a site near the head of Hillhonse avenue, in the city founded by his ancestor nearly two hundred and forty years before, (and now occupied by his daui^h-
ter Miss Elizabeth W. Davenport,) almost adjoining the sulmrban seat of the late poet Hillhouse, which gave name to tli( most beautiful Avenue in the City of Elms.
253
Mary
"Wells DaveniDort,
born
in
Stam-
September
of
12, 1785,
and married
10,
to
man,
New
York, November
1810.
appeared
"
in the N. Y. Time,^ of
26, 1866.
James Boorman,
at the
and
most respectable
linst.,
citizens,
Mr. B. was
his
Commencing
age of
22,
was admitted
to a partner-
For many
trade between
Dundee and
which
business.
of
The
many
It
was dissolved
in
1855, Mr.
Boorman
century of
business
"
life.
tion of the
of
which
company
of
till
He was also
Bank
the
Commerce
in 1839, his
name standing
on
of
list
of the first
Board
of Directors,
254
the origiual
"
SUPPLEMENT TO
As a
members
and indomitable.
his business career,
He
the income
of
cliarity.
acts
IV.
ol,
1789.
Died February
V.
1810.
(173.)
born January
(Gardi-
New
York,
May
9,
1833.
For nearly
sixty years
Mr. Da-
on Main
street,
in the winter,
Bay Point,
a beautiful site
Long
Island Sound.
pu1)lic
memoffice
ber and
officer of the
now
name
*
Theodore
gift of
God.*
Church in Stanit'ord. is c.iwas organized in Wether.stieM.
The
Kichard Denton, who became the first pastor, came to Stamfor.l. in 1641. Mr. Denton was succeeded by Kev. John Bishop. Rev. John Davenport, Rev. Ebenezer Wright and Rev. No^ih
'
'x
*A
CT., (EiiKt
ted
1858.)
255
7,
VI.
1795.
Died January
VII.
17*.)S,
(175.)
April 17,
and married
to the
Rev.
Peter Lock-
(17(j.)
I.
in
W.
Apthorp, of Boston.
(177.)
II.
Novem-
ber
17,
17!*1.
Married to Rev.
F^irst
Philii^
Melancthon
Presbyterian Church,
New York.
[Rev. Mr.
of the Rev.
Samuel
Massachu-
but sul>se(piently of
New
York.
At about the
Presbyterian Church in
Newai'k,
New
charge of
Wells. D. D, The ministry of these five persons extended down to the year 1776, in which year Dr. Wells died. The tirst simple church structiire was replaced in 1705, by one more coiumodions, which again gave way for the one
shown
tenilier
in the
2:5,
18.58.
Buckingham
pastor,
*
was installed in
1876.
256
SUPPLEMENT TO
Dr.
Rev
Eichards.
Having-
pursued a course
of
Presbytery of
New
Jersey, at
the age
of
nineteen.
Before he was twenty years of age, he was chosen Pastor of the First Presbyterian Chnrch in New
York.
"
He was
his voice
was sonorwas
and
his gesture
it is
simple, grave,
to
and aj^propriate
Indeed
not easy
pulpit orator.
advantages by neglect, his heart was too truly touched by the love of souls to value them if separated from a
simple declaration of the glorious Gospel of
Savior
feel
;
God
our
'but for
mere oratory
in the inilpit
none could
more
In the month
vessel,
of
was con-
from
this
he but parti-
recovered
till
on the 17th
(1824,)
eminent useful-
He
died in
III.
in
Stam-
Memoirs
257
to tlie Kev.
November
11, 1793,
Matthias Brueu, of
New
1823.
County
of Chester,
one
whose
sons,
earliest
Puritan emigrants to
New
been
Itheir
much
of
for
|time
imprisonment
in the
castle
of
Chester.
iHe
of Connecticut, of
from
Charles
in
1062,
New LonAbra-
don
when
flourishing-
New
Jersey.
father
J.,
was Matthias
was born
at
in
Newark, N.
graduated
Columbia College
Iwhich he
commenced
ijohn M. Mason, of
New
York.
In 1816, he traveled
In the
Paris,
six
he was
in
ordained
i|
in
months
Paris.
258
SUPPLEMENT TO
in thecib York, but refused to receive any compensa
New
tion.
During
his labors in
New York,
Of
he collected
this
th
people h(
till
pastor,
6,
his
September
He was
tary of the
it
was changed
still
American by
Home
Missionary
Bible, SabSocieties,
Society, he
his counsels.
bath-School,
Tract,
eftbrts,
engaged
his
he cheer-
fully co-operated.
He was
in
accomplished in manners,
of
in
literature,
and
the knowledge
mankind.
felt it
Though possessed
his
of
eminent quahfications, he
all
Master's
and devote
of
God
mankind.
published a Sermon at Paris on the death of a young lady from New York, and sketches of Italy.
He
Memoirs of Bruen and Am. Bio. Dictionary.^ Mrs. Bruen now resides at Newport, K. I.*
Mrs. Bruen's present residence at Newport stands upon the occupied by her maternal ancestors, two hundred years ago her mother being a direct descendant of the Hon. John
*
site
who was first President of the Colony of Rhode Island under the patent granted to Eoger Williams, by the Earl of Warwick.
Coggshall,
in 1647,
259
IV.
10,
vember
1795,
Presbyterian Church,
New
same
Seminary
in the
city.
[" Rev.
Thomas Harvey
born
at
1791,
He
at
the
age of
1809.
Returning to
but when
He was
in
In
Presbyterian
Church, Philadelphia.
the Fifth
Three years
Presb;\iierian
after
he became pastor of
of that city,
Church
1832
in
;
where he remained
to Boston, he of
in charge until
removing thence
was appointed
the
An-
In 1835 he received a
call
New
York, where
260
SUPPLEMENT TO
of Sacred Ehetori(
New York a
Esq.,
professorship
endowed by James
in
Boorman,
called 'The
by
a gift of
Davenport Professorship,'
honor of
In
tin
this
life.
known
as
an author
'
in
1839
oJ
when he put
the Bible,'
forth
two volumes
to
entitled,
Religion
and 'Aids
Preaching and
Hearino
from
his
cussions.
His
published in 1868.
of D. D.,
He
of sharj) theological
to the
be diverted from
'
great work as a
preacher of the
came
into play,
W hen
human
in
commended
con-
The period
in
his ministeri-
261
was
spent,
was
Holy
Spirit,
fonathan Edwards.
terpreted,
he
in-
hat great
work
of
God.
It
through
life.
So thor-
Dugh was
eemed always
ed
also.
would be convinc-
He
He
cherished an
Like
George Herbert,
whom,
many
his
manner,
the im-
and glowing
made
good
if
in Phila-
delphia, in
New
Haven, in
New
York,
when preaching
him hke a
field of
grain
Then was
it
that he plied
and
filled his
sheaves.
of
How many
are
kingdom
and
262
pulpits,
SUPPLEMENT TO
who
will
good
He was
how
all
How
how!
guileless,
how
of
kind,
how
coui'teous,
!
free
from
suspicion
worldly ambition
!
How
been
How
'
often has
fast
it
him by
his
friends,
fruit
He
is
ripening for
de-
heaven.'
Like ripe
has he
tached by no violence.
faculties,
Age had
only
imparted additional
sun seems to be
at its
larger and
idian.
its
when
mer-
How
the cathedral of
all
his heart,
life,
Amen."*
Thus ended a
join
1,
1871.
TWENTY-THIRD GENERATION.
Issue of Dea. John Davenport, (No
128.)
(180.)
I.
27. 1778,
and was
years.
*
killed
from a horse,
at the age of 11
Vol.
1,
No.
1,
April
15, 1871.
263
(182.)
III.
27,
1770,
and married
179!).
Died
IV.
New
Canaan, September
9,
woman
much
native enerof
character.
Her
piety
was
life,
sanctifying
affliction,
and
love.
most part
of her life
her
itself
in
plans of doing-
good
to those
mediate influence.
But
it
was
happy influence
of her serene
With a strong
God
and
to parental faithfulness,
praA'erfulh'
she labored
dili-
gently
to
and
for heaven.
life
The
showed most
strikingly
264
SUPPLEMENT TO
arms
of the writer.
To her
-i
may
female poets
" And thus she stood, Clad in that panoplj' of faith and prayer, Serenely on the verge of three score years
Prompt at her Master's call, and ripe for heaven Then leaning on the breast of filial love Took her last peaceful sleep.
So
beaiitiful.
The pure
in heart go forth to
He was
arine
M.
21, 1862.
Mr. Davenpoi-t,
in 1801,
removed
to
New
Canaan, and
own hands
when he
bor,
On
his settlement in
New
Canaan,
name
of John,
were
all
William Davenport,
BoKN
17S1
Died
18G0.
THE DAVENPORT
FASriEY.
265
members
by
of
tlie
cliurch of Christ,
and
loiety.
5,
(184.)
1783,
24,
17, 1839.
(185.)
at
Davenport
to
1787,
and married
Martha Warren,
ary
6,
of Norwalk,
1810.
Church
in
of
which he
was
member, and
his
name appears
there.
on the
of
He was
a farmer,
27, 1845.
retaining her
herd "
memSliep-
" The.
Lord
/.s
my
with great
distinctness
and pathos
retired to
ninety-
her bed March 28, 1875, and amid the slumbers of that
night the pulse of
to the
life
266
SUPPLEMENT TO
appeared
in the Stamford
Ad-
less
James Davenport,)
birthday.
on the celebration
a
of
her
ninetieth
About
nephew
A. B.
Daven-
mansion where the lady resided, took sudden possession of her parlor, and in about live minutes while the
to her
kitchen duties-
a matter of surprise,
and when
on
came to look
overcame
her.
But
\
much
as
if
it
had
|
j
Declaration
of
Independence,
and about
his
live
commission
j
What
vast
full
Mrs.
still
lives
in the
267
Her
with age, her hearing is ahnost perfect, and she gives and
takes a repartee with the quickness and mental
of one yet
acumen
young and
gay.
But
now
daily
Master to
sit
down
at " the
Marriage
Supper
(186.
30,
)
of the
Lamb."]
Julia
VII.
1794,
and married
2,
4,
1868.
1799.
4,
IX.
(189.)
268
269
Enoch
St.
who
Mrs. D. died
November
(210.)
24, 1874.
III.
Polly
Davenport,
born
August
31,
1793.
Died March
IV.
18, 1796.
(211.)
1819.
Mr.
V.
May
21, 1798.
Died November
(213.)
ford,
1825.
of
VI.
Thaddeus Davenport,
North Stam-
ruary
year.
1831,
who
(214.)
Vn.
3,
Joseph Davenport, of
1803.
New
Canaan,
born January
tember
(215.)
15, 1824.
VIII.
Darius Davenport of
8,
New
Canaan,
1805.
9,
Married to Su-
1832,
vember
(216.)
7,
1876.
IX.
N.
Y.,
and married,
to Ellen
May
6,
1835.
Mrs. D. died
at
October
Greenwood
of the
Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y.
earliest settlers in the
'
was one
new
state of California,
where he
died
December
35
4,
1865.
270
SUPPLEMENT TO
Nathan Daa'enpokt,
(No. 142.)
(217.)
I.
George
A. Davenport, of
V/ilton,
Sturg'es.
born
January
filled
31, 1808,
Has
the office of
Judge
of ^
II.
5,
of Wilton,
born
G,
September
1840.
(219.)
16, 1813.
Married
^Nlary
Olmstead, April
III.
Married
1,
1833.
Mr.
S.
died July
(220.)
I.
7,
1822.
8,
1871.
Sally
1799, and
1824.
Died August
III.
(222.)
18,
1803,
and man-ied
Died
20,
1826
Jan., 1872.
(223.)
Arazi
1807,
Davenport, of Charlton, N.
to
born,
April
9,
9,
Mary
7,
E. Hall, April
^Married,
1833.
Mrs.
February
1842.
2d, to
Mr. D.
271
(224.)
(225.)
(22G.)
I.
Darius.
Eliza.
II.
III.
William.
Knapii.)
(227.)
I.
(228.)
(229.
II.
III.
Betsey.
Issue of
J
Ann Davenport,
(No. 147.)
(230.)
I.
in Stamford,
March
lor,
13, 1808.
and 3d
wife, Julia B.
Died March
15, 1865.
(231.)
II.
1831.
He
has
in the firm of
D. Warren
as the
&
Co.,
known
of
1867-8,
it
to a width of
opened a channel
for sloop
and steam-
New
York,
Hart-
272
SUPPLEMENT TO
facili-
(232.)
III.
19, 1813.
Mardied
ried
Caroline
1836.
He
September
(233.)
22, 1857.
IV.
Elizabeth,
born
May
7,
16,
1818.
Mar-
1839.
(234)
I.
12. 1805.
Married
Clarissa,
born March
26, 1806.
Marri-
ed Nathan
(236.)
Com stock,
Sally,
of Wilton.
III.
born November
25, 1807.
Mar-
ried
John Webb,
IV.
of Stamford.
(237.)
John,
born July
17,
1809.
Married
Eliza
Raymond,
V.
of Norwalk.
(238.)
Harriet, born
November
4,
1812.
(239.)
VI.
Married
Joanna Morton.
Issue of
Nancy Davenport,
(No. 149.)
Maltb}-.)
(240.) (241.)
I.
William Davenport.
II.
Mary
Catharine.
(242.)
(243.) (244.)
III.
James Rufus.
John Robert.
Rev. Ebenezer Davenport.
IV.
V.
(245.)
VI.
Albert Silvester.
) )
273
Abeaham Davenpokt,
(No. 150.
June
by
5,
1795, and
married to
John
whom
she had
(247.)
3,
II.
James
Silas
HI.
Samuel
December
(249.)
24, 1799,
IV.
1802,
New
14,
York.
182G.
1804.
V.
VI.
1806.
Died February
VII.
9,
(252.)
Ebenezer
Charles
Davenport, born
15, 1841.
October
(253.)
1809.
Diod September
Catherine
VIII.
6,
January
(254.)
27, 1822.
Pi. I.,
1812.
Died January
IX.
March
1845.
Died
in Dorchester, Mass.
Au-
Rufus Davenport,
C.
(No.
1.53.
(255.)
11, 1828.
I.
Rufus
Died January
II.
1832.
(256.)
George
F. Davenport,
born Febi-uaiy
274
26, 1830,
SUPPLEMENT TO
and graduated
at the University of
in 1847.
Was
for
in
(257.)
4,
1832.
Died August
15, 1832.
TWENTY-THIED GENEEATION-Continued.
Issue of Charles
Webb Davenport,
(No. 154.)
(258.)
Illinois,
I.
Charles
Webb
Davenport
of Cambridge,.
to Electa
born March
22, 1818,
and married
Moore,
May
21, 1843.
28, 1860.
His
whom
he was mar-
Conn., February
1820,
22,
in Wakefield,
Bucks
Co., Pa.,
January
31,
He
settled in
Cam-
bridge, Henry
Co., Illinois,
where he now
resides.
In August 1862, he enlisted in the war and was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant, Co. H, 112th Volunteer
Infantry, U. S.
Army.
He
Thomas and
and
others,
also in
and
Nashville, Tennessee;
at the close of
May
and married
IV.
30, 1844.
(261.)
275
Smber
16, 1824,
and married
to J.
Hannainan, Decem-
V.
1833.
VI.
not married.
(264.)
15.5.)
(265.)
I.
name
1874.
of
James Davenport.
He
married Catharine
23, 1843,
who
died in August,
Mr.
was
for a
number
of years
engaged
as a
New
York, and, in
185(5,
removed
resided.
to St.
(266.)
lyn, N. Y.,
I.
born
February
24,
1801, and
of N.Y., to
152,)
ford, Ct., a lawyer of eminence, holding the ofSce of Judge of District Court, Judge of Probate, &c., a gentleman of literary
'
He resided during the latter culture and christian character. part of his life in the State of New York.
276
SUPPLEMENT TO
22, 1834.
Died
at
Mounin;
Mrs.
D. died
Brooklyn, N.
(267.)
II.
March
22, 1877.
Mary Ann
1803,
to
Died
at
1876.
III.
1805.
(269.)
Died October
IV.
Silas
Davenport, of Brooklyn, N.
16,
Y.,|
born
at
1811,!
and married
New
Ann
land, to Betsey
St.
John, of
New
Canaan, March
New
Canaan,
till
while
at the
known
latter
which,
date,
wholly discontinued.
in mercantile
;
in the city of
residing in Brooklyn
of the
was one
of the
members
Clinton
of that city,
where his
still
For many
277
Lome was
Y.
in Elizabeth, N.
J.,
but he
is
now
Dea.
Wilham
1834.
Davenport
of
North
and married
to Clarissa
Rockwell, February
3,
many
years
its
tendent.
(271.)
VI.
to
10, 1815,
and married
John
F.
whom
1808.
7,
(272.)
VII.
11817,
,4,
was married
Died
183(3.
at Galveston, Texas,
Ira Sruitli.)
M. D.
II.
(275.)
(276.)
(277.)
III.
IV. V. VI.
{21 HA
(279.)
VII.
(280.)
(281.) (282.)
VIII.
IX.
John StoneU.
X.
3(3
Isaac,
278
(283
SUPPLEMENT TO
XI.
(Issue of
Eoswell Da\-enpoet,
(No. 164.)
5,
(284.)
I.
John Davenport,
1815.
born April
1794.
Died June
(285.)
G,
II.
November
October
(286.)
28, 1796,
and married
Died June
to Piiylance Tracey,
16, 1823.
17, 1865.
26,
III.
IV.
24,1
(288.)
I.
Warren Parker,
in 1827,
and died
(289.)
II.
vember
(290.)
22, 1807,
III.
4,
South America.
born
January
New
York, January
(291.)
1837.
in
IV.
15,
New
Bond
Ha-
Haven,
May
V.
and married
14, 1836.
to Jacob T.
of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
(292.)
March
in Ifew
ven,
June
22, 1814,
tember
(293.)
'
10, 1834,
1866.
5,
VI.
279
and married
23,
to
Edward
B. Hayes, of
New
York,
f^ovember
(294.)
1839.
VII.
born
in
New
Hunt
Haven, April
of Alexandria, Va.,
May
6,
1841.
to
Nevada
City, California,
under the U.
VIII.
16, 1822,
and married
in 1863.
28,
1844.
Died
IX. Jane Davenport, born May (296.) and died February 23, 1837.
Issue of
17, 1825,
Maetha Davenport,
(Who married
Eli Potter.)
(No. 166.)
(297.)
I.
(298.)
(299.)
(300.)
(301.)
II.
born 1799.
III.
IV.
V.
Lyman, born
1805.
Issue of
Died 1836.
(No. 167.1
(302.)
(303.) (304.)
I.
II.
Eliza,
May
9,
1802.
Died 1821.
Ill
IV.
V.
12, 1810.
(305.)
(306.)
(307.)
12, 1810.
2,
1811.
VL
Emeline, born
May
5,
1814.
280
SUPPLEMENT TO
Issue of Street Davenpoet, (No. 168.)
j
(308.)
I.
Sullivan
Shults Davenport,
of
Town-
Married January
(309.)
II.
1,
1835, and
22,
1870, resides at
(310.)
I.
Decem-
ber
26, 1806.
II.
Died June
22. 1836.
(311.)
of
New New
York.)
At
the age of 14 years he was placed in the countingof his uncle, Mr.
room
James Boorman,
left
of
York.
business,
under
was
After
New
Haven,
Here he conafter
and
an inter-
281
a few
months became
tiona] society in
Gorliam, Maine.
long-
:ions
which had
been growing in
mind
in re-
as the results of
study and
to
Church.
iiligent
Church
in
Os-
During
his ministry in
move-
the
Church
A.postles
and the
belief of
the Second
Coming
of
the
ac-
Lord Jesus
Christ.
New
the faith
and order
of the Episcopal
Church
he
was
in
Communion
" of
known
as the
"
which
an accurate account
may be found
in AjD^Dleton's
New
282
SUPPLEMENT TO
Edward
is
under-
He
and hope.
III.
23, 1833.
Mr.
IV.
W.
(313.)
The family
New York
in his early
childhood, where
Forrest's School,
&
when he was at the early age of eight years. He spent the Freshman year at Columbia College, where he was within one or two numbers of leading his
class.
He
Among
of
his classmates,
were the
Court,
'
late
Judge
Woodruff
the
U.
S.
Circuit
and
In the famous
Bread and
3'ear,
when
all
fare of col-
lege
its
commons, he alone
though perhaps
refused to
HaU and
283
his
In 1833
his tui-
having-
under
.Justice
class of 1837, of
which Chief
Waite,
Pierre-
Edwards
and Professor
Sillinian
were members.
In 183(5
he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, and acted as temporary supply for the Presbyterian Congre-
gation at Rye, N. Y.
During
doubts
and uncertainties
questions,
ihis
became
office,
so decided as to lead
him
to resign
pastoral
and
in the
Episcopal church.
After
admission to
was caUed
to
to
be
its
Through
new church
edifice
was erec-
He
subsequently accepted
remained
the war,
till
to
its
officers
and
of
soldiers.
Most
leading parishioners
and
his
co-presby-
ters
in
Southern
diffi-
movement, and
284
cult one.
SUPPLEMENT TO
whom
he was in
full
Since his
re-
New
7,
two years
of foreign travel.
He was
Whiting,
married Sept.
W.
j
who was
Bunker
Hill, in
which he took
to the original
tongues
V.
1814.
New
York, October
(315.)
VI.
Elizabeth
W. Davenport.
I.
Jr.,* of
Stam,
born
in the city of
New
285
1862, to Georgia E.
jeorgia.
nth
his father in
as the
)tillwater
ng employed as a
ron and
steel,
manufacture of
Roxbury
for
making
wire.
of
the Stillwater
Company,
heir
he
village of Stamford.
shosen a
)ffice
)f
Deacon
in the
has
now been
filled
who was
9,
Mary
9,
Caroline
1836,
Davenport,
born
in
9,
Hamford, November
853, to
.871,
)f
Connecticut.
(319.)
rV.
September
(320.)
23, 1838.
Died May
2,
1843.
in Stamford,
V.
Au-
28, 1872,
Helen D. Gautier,
that city.
Resides at
Bay
286
SUPPLEMENT TO
"Where
VI.
the
Sound
ford,
December
1,
and married
in
New
York;
November
city.
1871, to
of thai
left
hii,
He
class at the
end
(322.)
VII.
Died February
1847
ii
VIII.
Stamford, March
Bay
of
Point
June
26, 1873,
to
Stam
Samuel
Senate
IX.
Sophia
8,
Moen
Davenpoii,
born
i]
Stamford, March
1851,
I.
9,
1825
*Rev. Peter Lockwood, (son of Lambert Lockwood, a nativ and one of the first settlers of Stratfield, no' Bridgeport, Conn.,) was born in Bridgeport, Conn., Febri
ary
9,
1798.
He
gradiiated
at
Yale
College in 1817,
(th
h\st class
taught by Pres. Dwight who died in that year. ) H studied Divinity at Andover Theological Seminary for thre years, and was ordained as an Evangelist in 1821, by the Ass(
287
the house of
liis
davenport.
>f
At the age
he gave evidence
of
made
pubHc profession
church under the lis faith inhrist, by uniting with the He was remarkable from the sharge of his father.
irst
dawning
of
his
boyhood
for
an early maturity of
with his manifest
alent,
3iety,
from which,
in connection
member
of
he suddenly died,
in the
December
20,
burying ground of
to
liis
New
Haven.
'erected
A
by
marble
monument
memory was
30,
1827.
Died
May
now
8,
1831.
III.
(327.)
Radcliffe
6,
1829;
(328.)
IV.
3,
31, 1831.
Died June
Western District of Fairfield County. After six and teaching, he became settled over the Presbyterian Church in Binghampton, N. Y., where his After about fourteen years of pastorate continued till 1833.
elation of the
year's labor, in in-eaching
ministerial labor in other places, Mr. L. returned to the people of his former charge at Binghampton, where he has since
continued
to reside, in the
288
(329.)
(330.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
V.
VI.
28, 1835.
1,
1837
New York
city,
a descendant of Sir
John
Leverett.
is at
East Orange, N.
J.
(331.)
VII.
28,
1839.
(332.)
I.
ace Bushnell,
Mary Mehetabel, who married Rev, HorD.D., of Hartford Ct., who died FebruEhzabeth
Cog-swell.
(331.)
(33.").)
III.
Frances Louisa.
IV.
son of
1870.
*
New
Mr.
Emily Sophia, married Joseph SampYork, January 2, 1846, and died May 21,
died
S.
May
21, 1872, in
the
79th year
Eev. Horace Bushnell, D.D., was born in 1802, in the town of Preston, Conn., where his father was a farmer in easy circum-
He graduated at Yale College, in 1827, after whichi he was engaged for a while on the literary staff of the Journali of Commerce, New York, and afterward taught for a short time the Academy, in Norwich,Conn. In 1829, he was appointed Tutor at Yale, and at the same time studied Law, and afterwardiTheology. In 1833. he became pastor of the North Congrega-| tional Church in Hartford, where he continued with eminent, ability and usefulness till 1859 -when ill-health compelled him to resign. In 1837, he delivered at Yale College, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration on "The Principles of National Greatness,"
stances.
289
whom
(336.)
his
ried
New York.
Dr. Head.
Catharine,
who married
(337.)
I.
D.,
an
born
He was
Y'ale
educated in
graduated from
tion
3f
College in 1837.
"After gradua-
New
College,
where he graduated M. D.
in
in
1842.
He
re-
mained
New Haven,
and
until 1846,
engaged
in the study
of the sciences,
in literary pursuits.
He then went to
;
In
al (^ther
an address
At the Litchfield Centennial Celebration, in 1851, he delivered entitled " The Age of Romespun," replete with pleasantry and good sense a graphic picture of "ye olden time." His published works jirinciijally on Theological questions are marked with great originality of thought, with pleasing diction, and with poetic genius. Dr. B. was a frequent contribiitor to The Xew Englnnder, and other religious periodicals. His interest in all the public affairs, civil, educa-
tional
and
religioiis, of
and on which the elegant State House of Connecticut is now being erected, were named in honor. of him " Bnshnell Park."
290
1847 he removed to
editor
SUPPLEMENT TO
New York
cit}',
and one
of the
view, to
since 1845.
in 1849,
he formed a
Hondu'
dis-
and being
j
Escaping to San
stvid-
For the
last ten
ferer
monary consumption,
15, 1872,
aged 55
years.
and
more remarkable.
His
He
scientific researches
and metal(Jyclopediay
urgy."
Appletons
American
Annual
1872, p. 613.
(338.)
(339.)
II.
III.
Phihp Melancthon.
291
(No. 178.)
(Who
(340.) (341.)
C.
I.
II.
by
whom
she has
Clifford,
Mary
ary 24,
Edward
born January
18()0.
)
(342.
III.
(843.)
IV.
Mary Lundie.
D.)
(344.
(345.
I.
INIary
Ann Davenport.
II.
Frances Davenport.
(34G.)
(347.)
III.
James Davenport.
Helen.
IV.
TWENTY-FOUKTH GENERATION.
Issue of William Davenport, (No. 183.
(348.)
I.
Isaac
17, 1804,
and married
in
12,
1831.
Died
II.
New
New
(349.)
1807.
Died
Canaan,
May
26, 1826.
1.5,
(350.)
III.
rV.
24,
1812.
at
Died
292
(352.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
V.
7,
1814.
to the service
in the cause
of
several years
she was engaj^ed in the profession of teaching, to which she devoted herself with a perseverance and zeal
sel-
dom
witnessed.
tellect of
edge of Christ.
fare
spiritual wel;
among
her pupils.
day,
came
to her
home
New
Ca-
naan, where in less than a week she passed to her eternal rest,
(353.)
Amzi Benedict
New
*
October
30,
1817,
and studied
nnmber
Academy of
his native
town.*
This classical school was established in 1815. Among the of those, who, for a short time after their gradiaation at Yale College, taught at this Institution, and who have since become eminent, may be mentioned Rev. Milton Badger, D. D., for many years Secretary of the American Home Missionary S< >ciety; Rev. Julian M. Stxirtevant, D.D., for thirty years President of Illinois College; Rev. Theophilus Smith, afterwards settled Pastor at New Canaan, for '2'2 years, till 1853: Rev. Flavel
*WsSf:
293
lu the
spniio-
of 1835, liefore
he comineueed teaching in
Xew
Stamford.
Y.,
where he established a private Academy, which he conducted for sixteen years, since which time he has been
engaged
and
New
3d Presbyterian Church,
for
Bascom
the
3(1
Rev.
"Wm.
B.
Lewis,
many
years
Pastor of
;
Presbyterian Church, Jay Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. (a buikling now occupied by the May Flower Mission of Plymouth
Ebenezer A. Johnson, for now about thirty years New York University Rev. William I. Bridington, D.D., now Pastor of the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., and Professor Thomas A. Thacher, of Yale College, the last four of whom were the writer's honored Instnrctors.
Church
;)
professor in the
Biadingtou
a private
and Thacher,
this
institution
became merged in
boarding school, established by Mr. Silas Davenport, who erected the School Room shown in the accompanying view between the two churches. After 1836 it passed into other hands, when the youth of the town were excluded from its privileges, as day
pupils,
and the
institution,
many
of the yoiith
of that place,
miich to the regret of its inhabitants. In 186<i, the school room, with the wing attached, was removed and the mansion enlarged and titted up for the summer residence of
New
York,
the
right
is
the Congrega-
tional Chiirch,
leaf.
now
38
294
which, soon
SUPPLEMENT TO-
after, caiiie
hiV
In 1841
in
he
of
others
the
ei
which churches he
-w
Deacon.
With
of Rev.
H.
W.
last
May
2,
1842, he
was married
in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
by
1848,
Married 2d, in
Brooklyn,
Maurice
W^
all
of that city.
a
is
of twenty-six years, he
permitted to supplement, to
to conclude, in a
complement, and,
2^^''^
tempore-,
work
it
when
first
christened.
295
six
months
of the year, is at
Dav-
hundred and
cestors
fifty
home
of his an-
and kindred
a i^ortion
of
came
into the
John Davenport
of Stamford,
170
In Huntington's History of Stamford, appears the following "This striicture occupies a most
is
jommanding view from the west slope of Davenport Ridge. It about live miles, north by east, from the Stamford Depot. The
panorama stretching around it is, at any season of the year, well worth a study, and in summer is very beautiful. This locality was voted to the Rev. John Davenport of Stamford, by the proprietors of the town, in January, 1705-6, in consideration of his hundred pounds interest in the 'Long Lots,'
'
upon at the time of his settlement here in 1693. By January 20, 1728, he gave it to his eldest son John, The M'ho built his house upon it, and died there in 1742. property passed next into the hands of the third John, who died in 1756, leaving it to the fourth John, a deacon in the North Stamford Church, who died in 1820. A portion of the land was bought of the heirs by Amzi B. Davenport, a grandson of this deacon John, and on it he built the residence represented in our cut. It occui^ies the site of an old residence removA few rods to the northeast stands 'ed aboiit eighty years ago. " the dwelling formerly occupied by his grandfather, who erected Davit with his own hands aboi;t one hundred years since. enport Ridge has an elevation of about 400 feet above tide water, with a view of Long Island Sound for a distance of forty From this point are seen the spires and turrets of fifmiles. teen churches, in the towns of Stamford, Greenwich, New Canaan, Weston, Greenfield Hill, with the shores of Long Island on ;on the south and the hills of Westchester County, N. Y.
as agreed
his will
the noi'th.
Of
this locality,
and
its
may
well
296
(354:.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
YII.
Julius
Daveuport, born in
New
Ca-
naan,
Ct.,
Bates, of
1S21,
and married
J.
to
Mary Ann
4,
by Rev.
"W.
McLane, June
of a
1840.
private
Estate.
For nearly
which he has
filled
YIII.
New
Canaan,
and married
to Elisha
1842.
Present residence
at
Buffalo, N. Y.
18-i.
(No.
Bates.)
John Davenport,
l)orn
January
19, 1806.
Married Sarah
adopt the words nttered but yesterday, (Julj- 4, 1877,) at the dedication of Roseland Park, Woodstock, Conn., by our gifted
poet, Dr. Oliver AV*ndell
Holmes:
"At every step
I tread
The dust that wore the footprints of the dead. But for whose life my life had never known
This faded vesture which
it
calls its
own.
Here sleeps my father's sire, and they who gave That earlier life, here found their peaceful grave. In days gone by I sought the hallowed ground Climbed yon long slope, the sacred spot I found Where all unsullied, lies the Winter snow.
;
Where
all
And
name
That marks the blood I need not blush to claim, Blood si;ch as warmed the Pilgrim sons of toil. Who held from God the charter of the soil."
THE DAVENPORT
(357.)
II.
FAJIILY.
297
"24,
1807.
Married
III.
August
1,
1830.
5.
(858.)
1809.
Ee185(1.
IT.
May
1,
1811.
Married ^Vm. Henry Bates, Noyember 7, 1880. Married l^orn June 11, 1811. .T.ulia, (8(i0.) Y.
Carmi
Betts,
October
0,
1S81.
Died October
6,
1884.
(8()1.)
VI.
1817.
in Darien, Octo-
ber 26,
by whom he had one daughter, Deborah Ann, born March 4, 1849. :\Irs. B. died March 5, 1851. Married 2d,
to
27, 1857.
27, 1819.
(8G2.)
Died
July
27, 1820.
(808.)
YIII.
2,
1822.
Married
September
29, 1857,
by
whom
ber
7,
Novem-
(8G4.)
I.
at
Davenport
1811.
at
Davenport
Ful-
Amanda
by her
father,
Eev.
Henry
Mrs.
March
26, 1850.
298
(366.)
20,
III.
SUPPLEMENT TO
1818,
Norwalk, November!,
He resided in Greenpoint,
in the occu-
(now Brooklyn,) N.
pation of a builder.
Y.,
December
28,
1855.
He A
had removed
of
Rev. Goin
Talmadge.
of the pastor
deep
in-
tian fold, he
was ordained
to the office of
Deacon about
IV.
December
3,
Emily
J.
Andreas.
Resides at Davenport,
Iowa.*
on the north bends to the west about 1500 miles from its moiith. It derives its name from Col. George Davenport, who was born in Lincolnshire, EngHe came to this country in 1803 entered the land, in 1783. U. fe. Army, with the appointment of Sergeant, and for many j'ears rendered important services to the Government, particuDuring the Black larly in our relations with the Indians. Hawk war, he was appointed Quarter Master General with the rank of Colonel. This town, in which Mr. Davenport with AnIt toine LeClaire had a large interest, was laid out in 1835.
*
This town
is beaiitifully
situated
on a
bluft'
bank
of the Mississippi,
where the
river
299
V.
1824,
1847,
to
Ann H.
Strong.
Ann Davenport,
(No. 186.)
John
Willis, b.
m North
17,
Stamford, Octo-
Married October
1842 to Maria E.
XL
Mary
Bell, b.
September
November
(371.) (372.)
13, 1843.
III.
IV.
born
May
5,
1825.
Died March
13, 1865.
present population, (1877, ) is abont 25,000. Mr. Davenport's residence was iipon Eock Island, opposite the city, where he was
killed
by one of a
partj'
who landed on
of plunder, Julj'
1858:
i,
1845.
the history of the town entitled " Davenport, Past and Present,"
i^p.
summed
up:
was a long and active one the position he occupied recpiired anything but a human drone to till it and his whole career, from beginning to close, was replete with ceaseless activity. Although of trans-atlantic extraction, he was the triie type of the American jjossessing indomitable resolution, a restless desire for jjrogress, with an invincible determination to overcome obstacles, and achieve siiccess. Added to these qualities, was an eminent ability to read human nature, to resolve its problems, and array the prejiidices, motives, hostilities, or what not, of all about him, in a manner that finally best aided his own undertakings. Especially was this last circiimstance prominent in all his dealings with the Ked Man. He read them as men, approached them as such, and by this humane and judicious procedure, received in almost all cases from them such treatment as men extend to each other. He was worthy
"His
life
300
(373.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
V.
December,
1<S'2().
Married June
22, 1854.
18i0, to
(374.)
YI.
Julia
Augusta,
1829.
Died July
(375.)
13, 1871.
VII.
at
North Stam18,
^Married
of
January
1858,
to
Brooklyn,
N. Y., by
whom
Samuel Davenpoet,
(\o. 208.)
(376.)
Ct.,
I.
born August
1812,
1831.
and married
to
Sarah Maria
5,
(Taylord, October
(377.)
181(5;
II.
Died October
1853.
11,
died
)
November
III.
1826.
in Wilton,
(378.
.
May
28, 1822,
September, 1846.
of all
honor lor the love borne him by the savage it is an evidence that, like the philanthropic and immortal Penn, he rose above the vulgar and inhuman prejudices of the age, and found
in the Indian,
if
not a brother,
at
who could
l:)e
ill-
treatment, or coxild be
made
"'
a tirm,
reliable,
honorable friend,
Mr. Davenport's descendants still reside in th<_' town and are gentlemen of wealth and influence. His son George L. Daven-i port, born on Rock Island in 1817, was the hrst white child!
l)orn in that section of the country.
301
(Who Married
Aruzi ScofieM.)
(379.)
I.
in Stamford,
March
1846.
6,
1821.
1,
(380.)
(381.)
III.
March
2,
1825.
Married Louisa
C.
Mead, December
17, 1855.
(382.)
IV.
Abio-ail
S.
Louisa,
born March
18, 1853.
10,
2,
2,
1827.
Married AVilliam
(383.)
Brown,
May
V.
1829.
Married
Martha Ann
December
1869,
and died
August
10, 1876.
Issue of
Thaddeus Davenport,
(No. 213.)
(381.)
I.
New
29,
Married January
Weed,
of Darien.
(385.)
23, 1825,
I.
(386.)
30, 1830,
and married
ber
2,
1854
III.
(387.)
Caroline
born
May
15,
1837.
MarriedJulyl, 1851, to
Wm. Henry
Jerman, of
Stamford.
(388.)
IV.
39
6,
1839,
302
(389.)
SUPPLEMENT TO
V.
Sej)-
tember
13, 1843.
(390.)
I.
1*0,
1833.
Died March
II.
(391.)
2-!,
1835.
Died May
III.
(392.)
20.
of.
1839.
Married June
Joseph H. Butler,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
(393.)
IV.
1849.
Died June
V.
(394.)
Emily
Davenport, born in
New
Ca-
1852,
Everard D.
of
New
Yprk.
of William
A\'illiam
Heney Davenpoet.
(No. 216.)
6,
(395.)
I.
1840.
(396.)
II.
ber
17, 1841.
27, 1864.
Resides at Manhasset, L.
III.
(397.)
1845.
erts, of
Married June
to Capt. \yiHiam
Rob-
San Francisco,
California.
(398.)
I.
in Wiltou,
303
22,
February
26,
1844.
Married
June
1869,
S.
to
Army,
now
stationed at
II.
(399.)
1847.
(400.)
III.
in Wilton,
Law
School
and
at
is
now
practicing as an Attorney
and Counselor
Law,
(401.)
in the city of
Washington.
IV.
uary
13, 1852.
Graduated
at
Yale College in
1873.
in the city
of Bridgeport,
Conn.
Married Mary E.
V.
8,
at
Wilton,
February
and
at the
(403.)
Married
Emma Pullen.
ruary
14, 1849.
Issue of
(No. 219.
(406.)
I.
11, 1836.
304
(407.)
II.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Eugene, born
Graduated
and
at the
Albany
22,
Law
School in
861.
He was
married February
1872, to Katharine
and Counselor
at
New York
18, 1873, 12, 1874.
City,
and has
and Winthrop
(408.)
I.
Februaiw
22, 1825,
May
16, 1828,
22, 1847.
Ann Eliza Davenpoii, born February 5, 1835, and died May 20, 1856. II. Mary Elizabeth Davenpoi-t, born Feb(411.)
(410.)
I.
ruary
1,
1842,
9,
1842.
(No. 254.
Brown Davenport,
I.
Died August
27, 1865.
in
Pro\'i-
Ill,
Louise
in
305
W. Davenport,
(No. 258.)
(415.)
21, 1845.
I.
(41G.)
II
Cam-
bridge,
111.,
March
1849.
in
(418.)
IV.
111.,
Cambridge,
(419.)
1854.
V.
Heniy
Davenport, born
May
5,
185G.
12,
(420.)
VI.
1862.
(421.)
VII.
24, 1864.
Chester
Webb
tember
(422.)
27, 1874.
VIII.
born April
(423.)
15, 1875.
IX.
May
Issue of
Thomas
F.
Davenport, (No.
259.
(424.)
I.
Willett
Thomas
Davenpoi-t, born in
Cam-
bridge,
111.,
Died Sept.
21, 1849.
(425.)
II.
cember
(426.)
31, 1850,
III.
21,
1853.
(427.)
IV.
111.,
Cambridge,
August
10, 1855.
306
(428.)
14, 1858.
SUPPELMENT TO
V.
Fanny
(429.)
I.
Charles,
born October
9,
1841.
Died
August 1, 1852.
(430.)
II.
(431.)
III.
born November
1,
1849.
Issue of
Mary
(Who Married
Hannaman.)
(432.)
I.
Calista,
Died Sep-
tember, 1846.
(433.)
II.
Charles, born
September
23, 1848.
(No.
264:.)
Issue of
(434.)
27, 1867.
I.
(435.)
II
1872.
(436.)
18,
*
III.
1875.
(No.
264:,
was born in
York
April
11, 1834,
and removed
to Illinois in 1857.
New He
West during the war. DuMajor General Edward Hatch, and was mustered out in 1865. February 15, 1866, he was married to Elenora A. Soule, daughand served
in the
army
of the South
Maine.
307
(437.
1
I.
Rui'iis
12,
844.
He
was disbanded.
He
is
engineer by profession.
II.
(438.)
30,
1847,
1848.
29,
(439.)
1849.
Died March
IV.
(440.)
JamesDavenport,
1,
Paul, Minhis
nesota,
born August
1852.
Is
now completing
New York
Universit3\
V.
Is
now
& Carpen-
ter, St.
Paul, Minnesota.
(442.)
VI.
in August, 185(5,
and died
(443.)
in January, 1857.
VII.
George
Little
Davenport,
l)orn in
(444.)
3,
I.
1835,
(445.)
May
in
29, 1837,
(446.)
New
Y.,
Died in Brooklyn, N.
in the
September
308
SUPPLEMENT TO
of Tiffany
employ
&
Co., jewelers, in
Broadway,
New
of
of
fore
been shown
IV.
to
(447.)
9,
1841.
May
19, 1869.
Mr.
C.
was a gentleman
of excellent pai-ts,
when he
(448.)
aged 32 years.
V.
16, 1871.
YI.
1846,
(450.)
Caroline
Augusta
Diivenport,
born
January
5,
16, 1848,
and married
in Brooklyn,
November
1874, to
(451.)
Henry R. Cooper.
VIII.
in
(No.
"ifiT.
(452.)
I.
4,
1828,
and
New
ber
Davenport."
He died
Octo-
309
30,
Theodora, married
May
York.
1861, to
James
S. Sluyter,
Dudley Field,
in the city of
3,
New
He
died at
1864.
(454.)
I.
Sarah
St.
William
St.
in
Married to AdeJanuary
8,
Howell Taylor,
of Trenton, N.
1868.
He served in the war for three years in Co. A, 2d Regt. of New Jersey Volunteers, mustered into service May
22, 1861,
B}' profession
Has
for
many
years
resided at Elizabeth, N. J.
(456.
)
III.
August
24, 1874.
The mission
song.
cal
of Miss
of
which
she
assiduously
cultivated
she
life
art.
Her
or, at
dom
the
the Organ, in
w^ere joyously
House
Clod,
life
rendered.
Her
was one
of ceaseless activity,
mark-
310
SUPPLEMENT TO
The esteem
in
who assembled to pay their last tokens of respect to one who had endeared herself to the community where
she resided, by her labors and instructions, as well as
self-sacriticing
devotion.
had occasioned
which
laid to rest,
from
weary
in the beautiful
"Evergreen Cemetery"
song
is
IV.
born
at
Graduated
class.
for
two years,
New
York.
With a view
he purof
in
of medicine,
of Physicians
New
York, in 1873.
311
Ningpo, in
In the
he returned
and was
V.
in
I.
in
Stamford,
December
(4Gp.)
31,
1),
5,
1850.
II.
183G,
1838.
at
(461.)
1839,
and
Co.,
1876, at Monroe,
Waldo
by Rev.
J.
E.
Adams,
to
Eudora Moulton,
IV.
l)orn ^larch
(463.)
in
V.
He pursued
his prepar-
atory
Williston
Seminary, Easthampton,
Studied Divinity
the
Union Theological
Seminar^',
New
York, 1869-
1872, since
the
New
York, under
Presbyterian
the
the
Fifth
Avenue
is
hurch
pastor.
He was
or-
312
SUPPLEMENT TO
at
^I.
in 1873.
VI.
in
ofj
Stamford, February
classical
1851,
and completed
a course
Mass., in 1873.
| I
(No. 272.)
(465.)
I.
18,
1837.
Was
Chicamauga,
Sej)-
tember
(466.) (467.)
16, 1863.
II.
III.
Mr. Webster.
Resides at Galveston.
(468.)
I.
at Erie, Pa.,
Oc-
tober
5,
1824.
II.
(469.)
11,
May
25, 1846, to
William A. Gal-
Mr. Galbraith
father.
is
the
town where he
(470.)
III.
5,
1829.
(471.)
IV.
Pa.,
bom
mamed, June
4,
1856,
313
Shirk, of Erie,
W.
Shirk, daughter of
Da%dd
]lv
Mr. Davenport has been for many years exteusiveengaged in several important branches of business
his native town.
jin
He
a
is
Works,
which
is
very successful
and extensive
enterprise, liaving capacity to build ten or even twelve He is also financial manager of the firm cars per day.
of
Davenport,
Fairbairn
.^
wheel
He
nection with other commercial or manufacturing undertakings, and, with so many and weighty cares of
business,
is
Pa.,
born
30, 1862,
Kate Walker,
Is a
prominent lawyer
VI.
1839.
(474.)
VII.
1842.
ISfiG.
Henp.ietta
Edwards Davenport.
Wallser.)
(No. 290.)
(475.)
I.
Aldace Atwood,
23, 1861.
born June
30,
1838.
Died October
314
(476.)
II.
SUPPLEMKNT TO
AlioeHenriett.a,boi'n February 10, 1841,
12, 1845.
23, 1843.
June
17, 186*).
(478.)
IV.
(Drowned
in the Ohio.)
(291.)
i
Issue of
(479.)
I.
James Davenport,
23, 1840.
born Februav}-
8,
1838, died
(480.)
March
II.
Leonard
8,
Currier,
of
Bi'ooklyn, N. Y.,
28, 1864, to
born August
1840.
Married April
Sa-
rah R. Sneden.
Mar-
been
in the
employ
of the
Brooklyn
Wa-
Deputy
ren,
By
had two
5,
child-
Florence
1865,
and
11, 1868.
'292.
Currier.)
25, 1836.
Married November
1858,
to Capt.
Alexander B.
MacGowan, 12th
had two children
1860,
Infantry of U. S. Army, by
;
whom
6,
she
Mrs.
MacGowan,
815
29,
Mary
Jane,
born January
1888.
Died February
(483.)
III.
13, 1862.
Henrietta
Edwards,
born
June
15,
1840.
Died March
IV.
25, 1845.
(484.)
Julietta
Davenport,
2(),
born
Jvme
15,
1840,
W.
Hazel, a merchant of
New
Haven.
5,
Their child;
1800
6,
Westlake,
;
born November
7,
18()2,
died August
13,
1863
Leon2,
November
1865
Sep-
tember
1866
30, 18()7,
1,
1872
(485.)
1842.
Died December
Issue of Frances
Ann Davenport,
B.
(No.
29.3.
Hayes.)
(486.)
I.
Frances
Augusta,
11, 1863.
born December
1,
1840,
(487.)
4,
1842,
IV.
V.
1847.
12,
1851,
316
SrPPLEMEXT TO
'24,
187G,
Kate Parker
Stelle,
J.
daughter of David D.
New
Brunswick, N.
VI.
(491.)
19, 1853.
Samuel
(492.)
I.
ry 11, 1842.
of
the Rebellion,
S.,
and served
charged.
ta
lie
when he was honorably disHe was married November 20, 1871, to Lotof
Hawver,
Augustus
Pierj^oint
Davenport, born^
February
and served
in
he was
III.
and married
May
8,
Nevada
city, California.!
men
of
Nevada
County.
As
editor of the
'Nevada
Transcript' he was
in
at
honest and
all
fearless,
As an Attorney
and esteem
Law
that
he was
fast rising
to the
head
of his profession of
all
fullest coniidence
knew him."
He
) )
317
IV.
June
13, 1848,
23, 1849.
(496.)
V.
25, 1851.
(497.)
VI.
Ada
Davenport,.,
born
in
13, 1852,
and married
to
California.
(498.)
VII.
Alice
Ophelia Davenport,
20, 1854.
born in
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
May
Issue of John
Gould Davenpoet,
(No. 295.)
(499.)
21,
I.
May
1845.
II.
(500.)
7,
1847.
(501.)
III.
4,
;ember
1850.
S.
Issue of Sullivan
Da^t:npoet, (No.
307.
(502.)
(503.)
17, 1866.
I.
II.
John
Elliott
^504.)
III.
Clark
6,
Davenport,
born
October
6,
1872, died
(505.)
17, 1875.
March
IV.
1873.
Issue of
(No. 319.
Beujaiiiin L. White.)
(506.)
I.
' ;
318
(507.)
11.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Warreu
8,
Lyttle,
born Februaiy
-27,
1872,
1873.
2,
1874.
Davenpokt. (No.
311.
(509.)
21, 1839.
I.
(510.)
II.
21,
1840.
(511.)
III.
17,
1841.
(512.)
IV.
Davenport,
born
December
ler.
27, 1843,
November
V.
Y.,
17, 1875.
(513.)
Jr.,
born
at
Os-
wego, N.
studies in
Pursued
his preparatory
in 18(52,
New York.
of
and
and
LL.
B.,
in
1869.
Is
Law
iu|
New York
Mary
January
6,
1875,
he was married to
j
Elizabeth Rintoul.
Issue of Theodosia Davenport, (No. 312.
(Who Married
llussell C. Wheeler.)
i
(514.
I.
John Davenport,
1834, and studied
of
New
Haven, boru
August
28,
School in
New
He
en-
319
army as Captain
summer
of 1862.
his
Regiment.
He was
taken to
Afterwards
he was confined
of that year,
at
Columbia, Greorgia,
after
December
when
returned
home
many
New Haven by
port,
his
whose devotion
and
his country's
him
up two grandsons
to the
his readiness,
had he been
go
12, 18()(i, to
Miss
of R.
S.
Fellows,
of
New
York,
New
August
14,
1886.
Graduated
notice of
at
is
Yale 1855.
The following
him
"
'
320
C. (Y. C. 1816,)
fell
SUPPLEMENT TO
1804.
He
his
was born
college
New
During
life
en-
gaged
in legal
and other
studies,
till
when
in
I
summer
i|
of 1857-8, at
subse-
and Greece.
He
returned to
New Haven
in
July, 1858,
and
Law
School at Cam-
LL. B.
City,
;
He
soon opened an
office in
New York
of his profession
but
when
of his country,
and
first
of the
spring of 1861.
many
of
whom
were Germans,
first
as Lieutenant,
and
New
York.
In this
artillery service
he was
death.
ar-
down by
at
Gettysbm-g, with
321
As
his battery
of service.
He
was,
however,
Army
CorjDS,) in
which capacity
it
was neces-
an unoccupied position
his corps.
'
Yevj
well, I will
support myself
reply.
few moments
af-
and he
fell
instantly killed.
relish for
His keen
ceiDtion
knowledge,
liis
quickness of
jier-
and
were strengthened by
dis-
and bright
hopes of scholarly
were buried
A
in
Dis-
was preached
New
10,
Haven, July
(51G.)
17,
III.
1844.
(517.)
IV.
21,
1847.
(Issue of Eev. James Radcliffe Davenport, (No. 313.
(518.)
I.
ry
2,
1838.
322
(519.)
7,
SUPPLEMENT TO
II.
1810.
Graduated
Yale College in
18(51.
Keceiv-
18B4:,
and the
in
admitted to
in
the
Bar
has
at
in
the
city
1869, where he
since
prac-
ticed
profession as a Counselor
Law.
Was
married to Mary Fairfax Morris, daughter of Goveiieur Morris of Morrisania, N. Y., August 15, 1874, at
Rose
Castle, Carlisle,
Bishop of
port.
Carlisle, assisted
by the Rev.
Jas. R.
Daven-
(520)
III.
New
IV.
vember
titic
26, 1849.
School of
Bachelor of Philosophy
1837,
and mar-
Rome,
(523.)
Italy.
II.
Elizabeth
Davenport,
born
January
1839.
(524.
)
III.
323
8,
IV.
1847, and
V.
Emily M. Davenport.
(527.)
I.
Harriet Cbesebrougli
D avenport,
born
March
1(5,
1864.
II.
(528.)
Ci,
May
7,
1865.
(529.)
III.
;
1875.
in
IV.
2,
Stamford,
June
7,
1875.
Issue OF
Mary Caroline
(531.)
I.
Galen
A.,
born
November
13,
1854
Edward
Galen
B.
Little, l^oru
December
13,
1855.
(533.)
(534. )
JII.
IV.
V.
A.,
born November
23, 1857.
2,
1869.
22,
(535.)
born January
May
(536.)
I.
ber
16, 1872.
11.
7,
(537.)
1874.
324
(538.)
III.
SUPPLEMENT TO
18,
1876.
TWENTY-FIFTH GENERATION.
Issue of Isaac
Gould Davenport,
(No.
3-48.)
(539.)
I.
born in
12,
New
1832.
York, August
1832, and
died
November
(540.)
25, 1833,
II.
(541.)
in
New
York, July
(542.)
31, 1838.
26, 1838.
IV.
Died young.
V.
(543.)
in
New
Hannah
Holmes, March
27, 1860.
He
died April
3,
1863.
(544.)
I.
in the city
of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Collegiate
years,
and Polytechnic
at the
and
In 1862, he began
of
Ex-Judge
of Jihe
Supreme Court
till
New
During-j
325
night',
on the
3d to the
command
of the
and
Army
of the James.
and assigned
Secretary.
to the
Camp
md
made
Assistant
Bureau
of Military Information, in
Army
of the
New
Market,
He was on
several occasions
placed in
command
of
md
cavalry,
In
all
these
com-
manding General.
'aptain "for faithful
of
luty."
326
SUPPLEMENT TO
in the family of
months
New
the;
Fall
of
then U.
fe.
Senator from
New
few months
after!
bureau
of the
New
Yoj'b
in starting the
Pod,
at Detroit,
Michigan.
November 14th
lentown,
St.
of
that year, he
was married
at Al-
previously, for
many years,
a physician of
New
York.
Post, and,
returning to
occupied an editorial
j^osition
on the
bune
till
In the Fall of
18(58,
Club, of
New
York, as
Attorney to present to
Committee
of the
House
committed
in the city of
New York
at that election.
THE DAVENPORT
FA^iIILY.
327
in drafting
of the U. S.
ircuit Court,
and
ongress of 1871,
Elective Franchise.
for
of
the
of the ser-
the
New York
328
111
SUPPLEMENT TO
1876,
of several of the
most prominent
New York
and Washington,
fifty
all
under houses in which they reside, and then broiight into separate books bj^ blocks, and, secondly, the same names have been arranged, alphabetically in the same manner that the Directory gives them; but while the Directory contains only 211,244 names,
their personal details, have been arranged,
Mr. Davenport's record contains 350,000 names. Besides this Mr. Davenport has procured maps showing the nature of the buildings upon every lot in the City, and these maps are reguThere can, therefore, be no larly corrected every thirty days. more registering from vacant lots, churches or unoccupied buildings as has been frequent hitherto. The names registered in 1871 are then compared with the register of 1872, and all changes noted. 'Davenport's census," as the reporters are fond of calling it,
contains the
name
The
first
registration in
was 21,000
less
than in 1868.
We
say again
we
time in years, and our citizens will owe that to the unand industry of John I. Davenport.
this fact, they will know how to appreciabuse which has been showered upon him
With a knowledge of
ate the interested for a few
weeks past."
'
few days later, the same paper, in summing up the results of the election, adds, "Among the men who have done well in bringing about the magnificent triiimijh of Grant and Dix in this state, we should not omit to mention Commissioner Dav-
enport,
'
by the most
knowing had not been for his untiring exertions, no honest vote would have been approximately possible in this city."
liberal
it
abuse.
satisfaction of
that
it
THE DAVKNPORT FAMILY.
tetl
329
place of
of
which
jDositions
he
jDresumed
still
to hold dur-
Commissioner Davenport
jjreparing for publication a
is
at present
engaged
in
work
of
dred pages,
vention
entitled,
'
or, a
History of
New York
Present."
(54:(>.)
II.
Albert
Barnes
8,
Davenport,
born
in
Brooklyn, N.
to
of
Y
Ct.
April
1845.
Married Nov.
24, 1868,
Danbury,
(547.)
Is
now
merchant
in
New
York.
III.
born
in
New
in
Canaan,
(548.)
Ct.,
August
18,
1848.
Buried
at
Greenwood.
born
IV.
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
L.
I.,
May
2(),
August
V.
11, 1855.
Buried
Greenwood.
born
G,
(549.)
in
1854.
Married June
H.
Jeffers,
1877,
Wm.
D. D., to
Luikin, of
Resides in Brooklyn, N.
VI.
Y^.
in
He pursued
of
his pre-
Mass.
^ale
Arts at
College,
New
Haven, June
28,
1877.
330
SUPPLEIMENT TO
i^lanting of the Ivy,
l)v
At the
by his classmates.
IVY ODE.
By James
Air
'
P.
Davenpokt.
"
Abschekl.
I.
The
And
Conceals 'neath
Hidden, unseen, Of the ruin deserted and grey. E'en so shall this hoiir, of union the last. Hide deep from our sight every vain trouble past, And each fancy of discord and envy shall screen,
Tenderlj' screen,
From
The
its close
tendrils small.
Firm, although small, And upholds it with gentle power. E'en so every tie of our past college life,
jjleasure
and
strife,
is gi'eater
From
the
mem'ry
May
we bestow.
Sadly bestow. In the thought of the years gone before, With each swift passing season spring up\^xrd and grow,
Steadily grow
331
And
with
it
may
go,
With a
(551.)
tie
VII.
in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
ber
3,
18G2.
Buried
Greenwood.
(552.)
at
VIII.
William
Davenport
(553.)
IX.
at
Theodore
Dwiglit
Davenport,
(twin
31,
son,)
born
1862.
at
Died
same
Buried
Greenwood.
(554.)
X.
Mary
2,
Ver(^
lyn, N. Y.,
May
XI.
18G1.
(555.)
XII.
at
(557.
I.
York
city,
March
18(57,
was admitted
to the
bar in 1870.
Is now an At-
He was
married, June
4,
1868, to
Miss Carrie
C.
332
SUPPLEMENT TO
of Westerly, R.
I.,
Peckham,
ried
who
died in 1871.
St.
Mar-
2d
to Miss Lottie
Sheperd, at
John's (ProtesJ.,
September
9,
New
Married May,
D., to Matilda
IV.
in
Brooklyn, N.
June
25, 1856.
V.
ber
6,
1859.
Issue of Harriet A. Davenport,
(No. 272.)
in
New
Canaan,
November
kin,
22, 1845,
to Clara
Louisa Luf-
daughter of Prof. A. D. Lufkin, of Cleveland, Ohio, he has had Walter Vivian, born at Omaha,
by
whom
who
1870
ber
24, 1872,
now
merchant
(563.)
in Buffalo, N. Y.
26,
1848
died
January
1849.
333
L849
died August
IV.
1855.
(565.)
(566.)
May
Catliarine,
born July
3,
;
1854.
Mary
12, 1855.
died Sei3-
iember
(567.)
VI.
Jesse
lied
August
14, 1857.
TWENTY-FIFTH GENEKATION.
Issue of
Geokge Davenport,
(No. 365.)
(568.)
)ort
I.
at
Daven-
1851.
Married to
(570.)
, 1841.
I.
May
York,
New
13, 1872.
Married, 2d, to
876.
)ut of
Mary Ann
New
York.
home from
sickness.
On
his
'th
He was
J.
for
oany years a
member
of the
New York
N.
Stock Board.
334
(571.)
19, 1843.
II.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Married March
III.
(572.)
Emma
;
De-
cember
17,
1846
IV.
(573.)
13, 1848.
Jane
Sept.
28, 1871.
(574.)
4,
1852.
367.
16, 1847.
(No. 376.)
"Wil-
ton,
August
1832,
15,
1856,
Gerardus P. Adams,
(577.)
II.
South Norwalk.
18, 1834,
Wilton,
Octoberi
(578.)
III.
born
in Wilton, Ct.,
November
24, 1840.
He
graduastudied
Seminary,
New
D.,
York,
Mark Hopkins, D.
1865-7.
Was mar-
November
Was
335
Ct, July
1,
18G8.
Mr.
min-
its onl}'
pastor,
and both
his
been an
i-ation
of pastor
and people,
this
Body
of Christ has
and extended.
Mr. Davenport
God
in the Highest,
to
good-
li'illing
men.
is
In his
visits to
dock, he
wont
"
Peace be within
tilling
house
God's benediction
every heart
With sweet contentment and with brightening hope. As the swift years depart
May
home
be,
A living
'Till
God
we
love to share,
His blest
eternity.
336
SUPPLEMENT TO
Issue of John Davenpoet, (No. 378.)
(579.)
I.
in Wilton, Ct
October
of U. S.
15, 1847.
Was
July
30, 18G7.
II.
(580.)
(581.)
19,
Sept.i3, 1819.
III.
(582.)
9,
1855,
and married
(583.)
James
V.
(584.) (585.)
VII.
Frank
B. Davenport,
born October
1861.
(586.)
VIII.
John Davenport,
Jr.,
born June
1,
1864.
(587.)
5,
IX.
Sarah M. Davenport,
1,
bom December
2,
1866,
(588.)
1870.
Susan E.
Davenjjoi-t,
1,
bora December
1870.
XL
Henry Davenport,
(No. 384.
(590.)
I.
Lottie
M.
Davenport, born
May
27,
1866.
(591.)
II.
15,
1867.
337
III.
Deodate
S.
(593.)
30, 1871.
lY.
Issue of William
Young Davenpokt.
(No. 386.
(594.)
I.
ber
1,
1855.
II.
(595.)
7,
1857.
(596.)
III.
2,
1870.
Issue of Caf-oline Davenpokt, (No. 387.)
(597.)
(598.
)
I.
II.
1857.
(599.)
(600.)
III.
10, 1861.
IV.
born
in
Stamford,
March
June
31, 1865.
(601.)
V.
in Stamford,
24, 1870.
(602.)
VI.
born October
3,
1873.
(603.)
I.
in Brooklyn,
K. Y., April
(604.)
1866.
II.
June
2,
1871.
338
(605.)
street,
SUPPLEMENT TO
III.
Lemuel Campbell,
9,
born
in
Ponu!
New
Canaan, October
Sarali Emily,
S.
1872.
6,
(606.)
IV.
born March
1877.
Issue of Emily
(607.)
I.
Minnesota, October
1872.
(No. 398.
S. A.)
B. White, U.
7,
1870.
28, 1871.
(609.
II.
Mary
Sturges,
born August
Died September
(610.) III.
(611.) (612.)
10, 1871.
Katharine, born
November
14, 1872.
IVV.
Edith,bornMareh27, 1875.
Winifred, born, January 18, 1877.
(613.) ton,
Frank Eugene Davenport, born in WilDecember 18, 1871, and died April 18, 1877.
I.
(614.)
I.
vember
(615.)
24, 1871.
II.
(616.)
I.
Mary
18, 1876.
) ) ) )
339
uary
8,
1869.
II.
(618.)
;-ust
Bessie
St.
Aug--
18, 1870,
III.
(619.)
and died October 18, 1870. Frederick St. John Davenport, born
Bailey Davenport, born Octo-
IV.
Greorge
V.
Clarence
Rapelyea
Davenport,
born
September
15, 1875.
Issue of William
Webster Davenport,
(No. 4G1.
(622.
I.
New
Henry
(623.)
I.
in
New
York.
May
17, 1876.
(624.
I.
(625.)
(626.)
II.
III.
1862.
(Issue of
(627.)
I.
Mary
Elizabeth
vember
(628.)
28, ]857.
II.
Cliat-les
in
Erie, Pa.,
June
26, 1860.
340
(629.)
III.
SUPPLEMENT TO
Frank Roswell
Davenport, born
in
IV.
(631.)
I.
Erie Pa.,
November
1863.
(632.)
(633.) (634.) (635.)
Co.. Pa.,
I.
11, 1867.
II.
Fanny
Galbraitli,
born March
23, 1869.
8,
III.
1870.
IV.
December
in
Nevada
City, CaKfornia,
S. Deal.)
in
Nevada
City,
CaUfornia,,
(638.)
(639.)
31, 1871.
March
II.
Vii'ginia Vere,
"
born January
12, 1870.
III.
Baby
"
born
May
28,
(640.)
IV. V.
19, 1872.
(641.)
born
April
16,
1874.
341
S.
Davenport,
in
New
York,
May
30, 1877.
Issue of John
519.
(644.)
I.
at the
Y.,
old
Au-
(No. 520.)
(645.)
I.
Mar^^-aret Davenport,
born November
10,
1869.
(646.)
II.
5,
1872.
(647.)
III.
10, 1875.
TWENTY-SIXTH GENERATION.
Issue of John
I.
(648.)
I.
New
in
York
city,
September
II.
1867.
(649.)
New
York,
)
May
III.
(650.
l)orn in
New
1874.
IV.
3,
(652.
I.
New
York
citv,
March
"a
342
(653.)
II.
SUPPLEMENT TO
3,
1875.
IssxiE OF
557.)
(654.)
lyn, N. Y.,
I.
June
5,
1872.
(655.)
I.
1,
1864.
(656.)
II.
Etfie
1865.
(657.)
III.
N.
J.,
May
12, 1872.
Issue of
(No. 571.)
(658.)
I.
Emma
ber
5,
1864.
II.
(659.)
vember
(660.)
12, 1869.
January
31, 1871.
Issue of Jane
Amanda
(661.)
born Sept.
25, 1876.
(No. 574.
(663.)
I.
6,
1876.
343
May
22, 1855,
and
1858.
Ct.,
III.
January
(667.)
16, 1862.
IV.
born Au-
(668.)
21, 18()8.
(()69.)
I.
II.
born June
28,
1874.
generation in descent
1875,
iiiiif]i
in
John Davenport,
in
in the pas-
New
Haven.)
in
(670.)
III.
Bridgeport, Ci,
APPENDIX.
AN EPISTLE
To THE Reader, By John Davenport, Prefixed to The Christian's Daily Walk, in H0I3' Security and Peace &c., &ic., by Henry Scudder, teacher of the Word, Rector and Pastor of the Church of Colhngbomdusiat, " Thine ears shall hear a in W^ilkshire, England. voice behind thee saying tliis is the way, walk ye in 21. The Eighth Edition corrected IsA. XXX it." the Author. London 1G42. enlarged by and
and
j^ens of
many
dif-
ferent success.
1.
Some by
A.11
they have caught at the shadow of fruit in a hedge of thorns, and have neglected the tree itself, whence the fruit might
have been gathered with more certainty and less trouble. I marvel not at Varro's report of (288) several opinions about this subject, when I consider man's natural corruption, whose understanding is so darkened (Eph. iv:18, ) that (as those Sodomites were weary in seeking the door of Lot's house, ) (Gen. xix 11,) so in vain have the wisest heathen sought the happiness, which (though like blind men, they groped after it) they could never find and his spiritual appetite and taste are so distempered that he can judge of the chief good, no better than the sick man can do of the best meats. Others, having the eyes of their understanding enlighten2.
: ;
ed,
(Eph. i: 18,) and their senses exercised to discern both good and evil, have concluded that man's true happiness con-
350
sists in the
soiil'hi
enjoyment of God, by
a holy
conformity and
sweet
happiness than the enjoyment of the is the chief good appears in this, that all the properties, which raise up goodness to the highest top of perfections, are in God only. For he is the most pure,' perfect, universal, primary, unchangeable, communicative, dethe efficient pattern, and iitmost sirable and delightful good end of all good without whom there is neither natural, moral, nor spiritual good in any creature. Our conformity to him the Apostle Peter expresseth, when he saith, that the saints are made partakers of the Divine natiire that is, they are renewed in the spirit of their mind, and have put on the new man,
chief good
For what
And
that
God
which after God is created in righteousness, and true holiness. So that they have. First, a new light in their understanding faculty, that they know God, not only as Creator, but as Kedeemei also of the world, and whilst they behold, as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, with open face, they are changed into the same image from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord. This knowledge is begun in this life, in the knowledge of faith, and shall be perfected in the life to come, in the knowledge oi
sense
;
this is in a glass
Secondly,
is,
they have a
new
life
in their will
and
affections, that
thej
have disposition and inclinations in their hearts, suitable, and conformable to the directions of the Word this the Apostld Paul intended, when he said of the Romans that they had obeyed from the heart, the form of doctrine, whereunto they were delivered. He saith not, which was delivered unto you,i but whereunto you were delivered, that is, the Word is as a mould, whereinto being cast, you are fashioned according tc it. Hence it is, that the saints are said to be sealed with the Holy Spii'it, because as the seal leaves its print upon the wax,> so the Spirit makes holj' impressions in the soul this is called the writing of the law in oiir hearts in allusion whereunto
;
Spirit to ink
(withoiit
an
epistle,
and
of all men,
3.
2 Cor.
iii, 2:3.'
Hence
351
Because a man is now in communion with ) when, a man beholds in righteousness, he ihall be satisfied with his image; (Ps. xvii: 15.) Hence comes hat peace of conscience, joy unspeakable and glorious, and hat holj^ triumph and exultation of spirit, which you may obvith
it,
(1
Tim.
vi:6.
iod,
whose
face
lerve in the
Apostle
Patil.
Having
vith
fest,
showed what this conformity and commimion God is, I will add one or two words more to make it manthat only those are truly happy who are in this estate. I
briefly
na^'
who concur
it;
in this opinion,
determined and concluded it; and there is good reason For, first, man's utmost end is, that it may be perfectly veil with him, which he can never attain unto without commulion with God, who is the chief of spirits and the best of goods.
it.
The body
is
or the soul, as the matter for its form, or the instrument for
moral virtues are desired not is exjaected by them, as Fame or glorj^ is desired, not so ^lory, pleasure, and riches. nuch for itself, as for the opinion of others; whence it is called Worldly and bodily pleasures are excessively desired, 5oxi'ias drink in a fever or dropsy; better it is to be without the malidy than to enjoy that remedy. Riches are desired not for hemselves, but for the substance of life. Life is not so much :lesired for itself, as for the enjoyment of happiness, which, svhen a man hath sought in the labyrinth of earthly vanities, ifter much vexation, and disquietment of spirit, he must conlude, that it is only in that truest and chiefest good, which is
ts
agent.
the fountain
first
wherein
at last it resteth.
Secondly, That is man's happiness, in the possession and enjoyment whereof his heart resteth best satisfied. So far a man is from true happiness as he is from full contentment in that which he enjoys. The bee would not sit iipon so many flowers if she could gather honey enough from any one, neither would Solomon have tried so many conclusions, if the enjoyment of anj' creature could have made him hajjpy. Would you know the cause why so many (like Ixion) make love to shadows and leave the sxibstance, or (that I may speak in a better phrase)
352
APPENDIX.
broken cisterns that will hold no water V Briefly, it is because man, who in his pride wonld have seen as much as God, is now become so blind, that he seeth not himself. For, if men knew either the disposition of their souls by creation, or the distemper of their souls by corruption, they would easily escape this
delusion.
1.
The
soul
is
a spiritual substance,
its rest
and
as
whose original is from must be in God as the rivers rum every body rests in its center. The noblest,
;
not
satisfied,
Or when, as they that were brought up in scarlet embraced the dung. Or as when servants rode on horse-back, and masters walked like servants on the ground. Or as when seventy kings, like dogs, did eat bread under Adoni-bezek's table, Or as when Sampson made the Philistines mer(Judges i: 7.
rior objects, as
;
when they are j^oked and subjected to these when Nebuchadnezzar fed amongst beasts
infe-'
Consider the soul as it is now in this state of corruption, 2. nothing can now content it but that which can cure it. The soul is full of sin, which is the most painful sickness; hence the prophet compares wicked men to the raging waves of the sea, that is never at rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. What will you do to comfort him that is heart-sick? Bring him the choicest delicacies he cannot relish them. Compass him about with merry company and music it is tedious and troublesome to him. Bring him to a better chamber, lay him in an easier bed all will not satisfy him. Bring the physician let the physician cure him of to him, then he conceives hope his distemper, and then he will eat coarser meat with a better stomach and sleep on a harder bed, in a worse chamber, with a more quiet and contented heart. Just so it is with a guilty conscience, though he is not always sensible of it. What comfort can his friends give him, when God is his enemy? What delight can he take in his stately buildings, or freqiient visits, who may expect, even this night, to have his soul fetched away from him and to be cast into hell amongst devils ? What is a golden chain aboiit a leprous person, or the richest apjJarel upon a dead carcass ? Or,
;
;
353
condemned malenow going to execution ? Surely no more than ^dam found, when he had sinned in the garden, or than Hainan had when Ahasuerus frowned on him, in the banquet. On
who
is
be in peace with God, and in a sweet heavenly graces and comForts in his soul, he can rejoice in tribulation, sing in jnis)n, solace himself in death, and comfort his soul against ^jrincipalities, and poAvers, tribulation, and anguish, height, and This true happiiepth, things present, and things to come. ness which all men desire (but most miss it by mistaking the ready way conducing to it) is the subject matter of this book.
he other
side, let a
man
infliience of
Here you shall learn the right way of peace. How a man may duty conscionably, and bear every day's cross :lo every day's omfortably receive it thankfully and read it carefully. Objection I. But this course is too strict. In bodily distempers we account that physician the Ans. wisest and best, who regards more the health than the will of the patient." The cari)enter squares his work by the rule, not Oh, miserable man, what an antipathy the rule by his work.
;
gainst truth
is
which had
rather perish
by
and obeying the truth. But, secondly, as it is strict, so it is necessary, and in that case, strictness doth not blunt but sharpen the edge of industry to duty. Therefore, saith our Saviour,
strive to enter in at the strait gate, that
is,
therefore,
strive to
is strait.
Bradford well compared the way of religion to a narrow bridge, over a large and deej) river, from which the least turning away We see into what a gulf of misery Adam plungis dangerous. ed himself and his posterity, by stepping aside from God's Walk way. Therefore forget not these rules of the Apostles
:
circumspectly and make straight steps to your feet, lest that which is halting be turned oiit of the way. Objection II. But many of God's children attain not to this
strictness, yet are saved.
Ans. It is true, though all God's children travel to one country, yet not with equal agility and speed they all shoot at one mark, yet not with the same dexterity and strength.
;
Some
ditference there
is
in the
354
inward intention
in the affection
;
APPENDIX.
in
in the event,
disi3arity,
none none in
all
walk.
them
in that way,
which they
Third-
upon this rule, so as they are not willingly ignorant of any truth. Nor do they suppress, or detain any known truth in righteousness, but they stand in the ways, and ask for the old way, which is the good way. Fourthly, they all desire, and endeavor to obey every truth not only to walk in all the commandments of God, without reproof before men, but also, in all things to live honestly and uprightly before
their eyes are
;
God.
Fifthly, if they
fail,
by occasion,
(as a
member may by
be disjointed) yet they are in pain till they be set right again if they stumble through infirmity, (as sheep maj' slip into a puddle) yet they will not lie down and wallow in the mire, which is the property of swine if they are sometimes
accident,
; ;
by violent temptations, or step aside by mistake, yet they will not walk on in the counsel of the wicked, nor shall any way of wickedness (that is a constant or daily course They are so far from perin any one sin,) be found in them. verting the straight ways of God, (that is, speaking evil of that
aside,
is good) that they will justify God in condemning themselves, and subscribe to the righteoiasness of his word, praying that their ways might be directed to keep his statutes. To conclude, laying aside all cavils, beg of God a teachable disposition, and make thy best profit of the labors of this faithful servant of Jesus Christ, a jDainful and profitable minister of For the matter of the book, use it as thy daily the gospel. For the manner and occasion of penning it, use it counselor. I mean stir up the gifts of and learn to write by this copy God that are in thee, to become more profitable to others, both in presence, by discoiarse, and in absence, by writing. How are we bound to bless God for those Epistles, which the Apostles wrote, not only to whole Churches, but also to private persons V Nor was this course extraordinary, and proper only to those persons and times; in succeeding ages, to this day, the In the believers have been much edified by this course. Greek Church Chrysostum wrote divers Epistles, amongst the
;
drawn
35,^
rest,
commend Olym-
he wrote that Epistle, for her delighting to employ him in answering questions, and resolving donbts. Athanasius besides divers epistles to others, wrote a little book to Antiochus, containing answers to 162 questions. Basil wrote about 180 Epistles amongst which, in his 81st Epistle exhorting Eustathius to more frequency in writing, he gives this reason, because, they say, (saith he, ) that wells are bettered by being drained out. Amongst the Latin fathers, (Hierom) Jerome wrote diThere is one, which Erasmus fathers upon Pauvers Epistles. linus Nolanus, written to Celantia. wherein are many pithj' and remarkable directions about walking with <jod in a holy course, (which is the argument of this book:) it is a large epistle and worthy to be often read. In St. Ambrose's works are ten books of Epistles, amongst which, in his 41st and -iSth Epistles to Sabinvis, he commends this course of instructing one another by writing. In St. Augustine's works are to be found 242 Epistles, in the first of which he exhorts Volusianias, to whom he wrote, to read the Scriptures, and bids him, if he doubt, to he adds also two write, promising that he will answer him reasons of his counsel, the second whereof is because a writing is ever ready when a man is tit to read, nor is that any burden
pia,
;
whom
(saith he)
ure.
which
man may
take
up or
lay
down
at his pleas-
He that reads his Epistles at leisure, advisedlj', shall find many errors confuted, many doubts answered, many truths cleared, many useful directions for a holy life, recorded and laid up in those Epistles (as so many jewels in a rich cabinet)
for the
later
tles,
good of posterity
forever.
If
times and see what large and elaborate, and learned EpisCalvin, Beza, Drusius,
blessed martyrs, in
shall conclude that
and others have written in other and other our own language, besides many since, we this course hath been of no small use, for
the direction and comfort of God's people, in all ages. I will add one thing more concerning our own nation and times. It is a pity, and to be lamented, that so many worthy letters as are written upon special occasions, for resolution of spiritual
(if
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and published, ) I am persuaded, would not only exceed all that ever hath been done in this course, since the Apostles'
many hiindred (which disquiet Christians,) that ever hath been, or, except some such course be taken, ever will be in the world. I will briefly touch one or two objections more,
time, but also be the best help of resolution of cases
and
doubts
this
work and
so conclude.
Many have
and therefore this is Ans. True it is, many have written upon this subject largely, and worthily, as Master Rogers, in seven treatises, abridged by Master Stephen Egerton and Master John Downam, in a large and useful work, and, that I may not forget him, whom, in some respects I should first have mentioned, the Reverend Dean of Worcester, Doctor Hall, that true Christian English Seneca. Also, Mr. Bolton, whose general directions for comfortable walking with
most judicious.
taught,
that
is
God, are deservedly approved of the Yet I answer, first, that is never too often never sufficiently learned. Secondly, in the
the triith
is
mouth
edified
confii*med.
Thirdly,
God
is
much
:
much
and Cephas are j'oiirs, and you, Christ's. Fourthly, the Christian and intelligent reader shall find in this, some things new, other things expressed in a new manner, all digested in siich a method, with such brevity and ijerspiciiity, as was necessary to make the book a vade mecum, easily j^^ortable, and profitable to the poor and illiterate. Objection IV. But it exceeds the limits and proportion of a
gifts
by variety of
Paul, Apollos
letter.
first copy was more brief: upon occasion of a secwherein some other cases were propounded, the judicious author not only handled these arguments largely in his' public ministry, but also added more particulars for his friend's full satisfaction, in a second copy, hence it came to this quantity. But lest .whilst I plead for him, I should seem to be guilty of the same fault myself, I will here stop, wishing thee, (gentle and honest-hearted reader, to consider that account must be given of what thou readest, as well as of what thou hearest, and therefore to join prayer with thy reading, that spiritual
Ans.
The
ond
letter,
857
jf
and strength may be increased in thee for the jsractice what thou learnest. So I commend tlie book to thy reading, md thee, and it, to God's lilessing.
Tliine in the
Lord Jesns,
John Davenport.
From my study
London," this
in
Coleman
street,
I'Sth
of April, 1627.
Museum
{Catalogue Ayscough,
'
1275,
Plut.
CVIL
D,")
were printed in the edition of The Davenport Family, 1851. We here give four additional ones, three of which were never One, drawn from the New England Historibefore published.
and Genealogical Register, for April 1855, the others kindfrom the British Museum by Professor F. B. Dexter, and Rev. E. E. Atwater, of New Haven. Of Lady Vere and her husband, between whom and Mr. Davenport there existed a warm and lasting friendship, the leai'ned Archbishop Usher, in a letter sent to her, in 1628, uses the
ical
ly furnished
is,
that such lowliness of mind, and such a high pitch of a brave spir-
other side,
when
I reflect
That as
(he
imto
And
/
a.^CDl' U-^Sil" WCgSiCg,
BORN ]o81
DiED 1671
359
have any insight in
I ike
me add
this,
That
if I
my
God.
"
is
See Thane's British Autography, Vol. 1, p. 39, from which drawn the likeness of Lady Vere, accompanying this sketch.
Lord Vere, by
co-heirs, viz
:
his wife.
Elizabeth,
married
Lady Mary, had five daiighters, his to John Holies, second Earl
married to Sir Roger Townsend, Baronet, of whose decease, she married Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmoreland Catharine, married 1st, Oliver, son and heir of Sir John St. John, and '2d, John, Lord Paulet; Anne, married to the celebrated jjarliamentary general, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax Dorothy, married to John Wolstenholm, eldest son of Sir John Wolstenholm, Bart, of Nostol Co. York.* To Lady Vere, in the time of the Commonwealth, was committed the care of the Dukes of York, and Gloucester, and the
of Clare
;
Mary,
Eaynham,
after
Princess Elizabeth.
* Burke's Extinct Peerage.
To
ihe
Lady
Vere, these
Hague.
[London,] December 26, 1629. | Madam, The importunity of this bearer to carry, at the least, an acknowledgement of the receipt of the token which it i^leased your Honor to send to my wife, together with my own desire
and many other favors from you, emboldeneth me to this end and brief expression of myself, in so few lines, being by present iirgency of biisiness and some strait of time, this Saturday night, denied liberty of enlarging myself That ancient candor, and nobleness of disposition which you have always exercised towards me, in making a good construction of my errors, as it hath formerly imprinted in me an high esteem of your worth and good oi^inion of me, so at this time it gives me assurance that this endeavor will be pardoned, and my desire of presenting most humble and hearty thanks to your Honor will be accepted. I hoped ei'e this time to have obtained my long desire of seeing my Lord and your Ladyship with j^ours in England. Tho Lord preserve you in the way and make your retiii-n prosperous This day I received a letter from your noble son, my Lord Houghton, which should have been here, I think, a month sooner; to whom I desire to be excused, that I wi-ite not an answer for want of time. I hope shortly to give an answer to himself, not in writing but in speech, at your return to England, which I hope may be hastened with all convenient speed. In the mean space I present my humble seiwe to his Lordship and his worthv son. Bv Mr. Sedgwick I received a letter from Mr.
of expressing onr thankfulness for that
i-eceived
!
LETTERS TO LADY
Balinfora, wliom
I
TERE-.
3G1
him. If he resolve to settle at the Hague, I beseech the Father of Spirits to encourage his spirit to that great work, and to furnish him with wisdom, and utterance, and zeal,in abundance, and
go forth with him in his ministerial labors, in much power and I cannot write to him now, but I acknowledge myself his debtor. Now the good Lord show mercy to my noble Lord, your Honorable Ladyship, and to your whole family, in ordering your consultation and resolutions to his own glory in your welfare; and in filling your hearts with all needful graces and comforts, and in protecting your person, and preserving you in
efficacy.
health and safety there, and in your voyage, .and in fulfilling I rest in much haste, craving pardon for all your necessities
!
in the Lord.
John Davenporte.
I will
not
fail to solicit
in voiir Vuisiness
EEV. JOHN
Dated July sterdam.
Madaini,
21, 1035,
and directed
Hackney, written
in
Am-
How much it has been against my mind that this letter hath been so long delayed, I need not report to your Honor, who have, in your own heart, experience of those lively stirrings of affections towards absent friends, in their afflictions, and how unfeigned love in such cases causeth a vehement and restless desire in friends to be useful and helpful to them, as in an oven, where the fire is kept in, the heat is doubled, or as in a stream when the course of it is stopped the swellings of it are increasShortly after the sad tidings of the great breach which ed. God had made in your family was brought on this side the sea, by a flying report, and confirmed by divers letters, I fell into a relapse, and was the second time let blood for a fever and catarrh,
and
so remained
weak
for a season.
Upon my
recovery
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waited for a convenient messenger, accounting it vinsafe to by the post, lest my letters should be opened by others, as some formerly have been. And now having a conveyance that answereth my desire, oh that I were able to satisfy my desire also in writing fully and effectually to the settling and
I
write
'
comforting of your heart. But that work is above man's power. It is a glory incommunicablj' proper to God to be the Giver of consolation, and to his Spirit to be the author of comfort yet seeing there are breasts of consolation through which spiritual refreshments are supplied to the hearts of believers, which are called the comforts of the Scriptiires, and that this diity lieth
;
words to comfort one another, body joined together than others, so to be more speedy and industrious in this work, I am bold to attempt, at least so far as may serve, to express mj^ sympathy with your Ladyship in this affliction, which is not a private cause of sorrow to your Honor alone, and to your noble family, but a public cause wherein many are interested myself especially, and above many, to whom his heart was enlarged and his mouth opened. With what assurance of good acceptance was I wont to speak, write, resort to him? How strongly did that plainness of heart tempered with much wisdom, that softness and pliableness of his sjiirit in respect of God and his Word, accompanied with a magnanimous undauntedness in tight with an adversary, that serious dislike of ajjparent evils in others, testified by a studious avoiding them in himself, knit my heart unto him ? Yea, the workings of his affections were not weak but strong. First, toward God, whose favor he preferred above all things, as appeared in the many questions and cases he hath put for clearing to his own heart the assurance of his acceptance with God, and in the complacency and content wherewith he received discourses tending Second, toward the Word of God, which was sweet that way to him Joeing dispensed publicly in the ministry, privately in Christian conference; Third, toward the people of God, ministers and others, whom the more they excelled in the fruits of holiness and righteousness, the more he delighted in, countenanced, and encouraged; Fourth, toward the ways of God, wherexmto he applied himself carefully (so far as he was enlightened and convinced) both in his public command and
all
upon
and
as anj'
in the
3G3
;overnment. in the field, and in his private comportment in his amily, resolving with Joshua, that he and his household would Hence sprang his care to sanctify the Lord's erve the Lord.
lay with his family, at home, as well as in the assembly: hence he daily sacrifice of invocation in the name of God, continued
morning and evening without interruption or omission in his amily ;hence,his procuring that the souls committed to his trust, lervants as well as children, might be taught to know and fear jod, by some able and faithful man, weekly, who was maintainyea, hence arose that ardency ed for that service in his family
;
l)f
spiritual affections, for the salvation of his children, desiring lothing more than they might serve God aright and be instru-
For
all
which, and in
5ther particulars,
him, yea, a
God made your Ladyship an helper meet for quickener and encourager of him in that way wherein
you walked together as heirs of the grace of life. So that you ?annot but have comfort in his death, when you call to mind his life and the testimony of your conscience concerning your carriage toward him and conversation with him, (which was uch as became a daughter of Sarah, ) whilst he lived with you. may now be your rejoicing when he is taken from you upon both which considerations you may sav to your own heart, as David, I shall return to him though he shall not return to me, and with that assurance quiet and relieve yoiir spirit as he did.
; ;
(Madam) from the dead to the living. The rewhich once you had to this earthly husband is ended and ceaseth in his death, but the relation you have to your iheavenly husband remaineth inviolable with whom you communicate in all his honors with all saints (with whom you are set together in heavenly places in Christ) and in his acceptance with the Father, to whom he prayed that the love wherewith he loved him may be in us, and we in him. From him you
Yea, look higher
lation
;
may
expect
protection and
Christ's,
supply of
all
good,
for all
is
yours,
So that it is but a conduit pipe that is broken, the fountain being still open to you. Nor is he taken away before you had warning of it, in a sensible decay, which a little while hence might have come to such a pass as might have been burdensome to himself and uncomfortable to your Ladyship. Ah but he died out of his own house, of a vomit, which he could never bear ? And doth
and you
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God order time, place, and means, by His providence to his own praise ? A hair of our head perisheth not without His providence, much less are our lives taken away without it. I will say of him, as it is said of David, when he had served his
not
But
time by the appointment of God, that he slept with his fathers. there was some other circumstance that made it grevious it may be, that you think not lit to utter. Be it what it maj' be, even that is ordered by God's hand, for some special end. It may be it would not have been so heavy in your sense, \\nless that grain had been added, and then the trial would not have been so full. God so ordereth the trials of his servants that patience may have its perfect work which if it be
;
effected in
your Ladyship by
Therefore,
If this
this trial,
you
may be
entire
to
lacking nothing.
crease your
when
sense pleadeth,
in-
circumstance had not been, his death had not been so grevious to be borne, let Faith answer. If this circumstance had not made it so grevious, my patience had not been so tried, nor my submission to God's good pleasure so fully manifested. I know there is
sorrow,
difference between the proposal of a diity and the pracand that after the judgment is gained to acknowledge the truth and equity of it, the will and affections are not instantly inclined to own it as the best way for one in this case and after the will is thus wrought to the approving of it, a Christian is not presently able to do it, biat he goeth about it somewhat unskillfully, and is weak and defective in practice of it. Wherefore it will be meet to add one word or two for yoiir help therein, that you may endure chastening, which is made a note to difference between punishments wherewith bastards are afflicted and chastisements wherewith children are exercised. If you endure chastisements, saith the Apostle (Heb. xii 5, 6. God offereth himself to you as a father to his children. As if he should say, the same outward judgment may befall a son and a bastard, a son in way of chastisement, and a bastard in way of jjunishment. And you shall know in which of these conditions you are, by your enduring it. A son endureth chastisement, a bastard cannot. But, you will say, what is reqiiired to a right enduring of it? I answer to a right enduring of affliction it is required. First that the iinderstanding do rightly apprehend and 1. That it is conceive of the affliction in all the causes of it.
tice,
; ;
much
365
doeth it. This made Christ say, ux Heavenly Father that oni that my father will have me drmk cup the ShHll not I drink of correcteth his " 2 That in love he doeth it as a father of' son that he every Lord the doth so loveth, child which he corrects He good. your for That he doeth it 3. receiveth be partakers may we that Apostle, the saith good, us for our submit Second, It is required that the will of his holiness. and repining; so murmuring without only not hand, to God's " dumb, and opened not my mouth be;
David
cause
I was as quieting yourwas thy doing," but also with content. A "It is the Lord, said, Eli old as pleasure, self is God's good seemeth him good in his own eyes;' let him do what him, in giving to him the glory of his praising blessing and goodness, as Job conwisdom, and faithfulness, and fatherly the name of the Lord. be "Blessed all, of loss the in cluded condition, you may do, you must resolve that such a
said,
it
Which
at
that
circumstances, is ordersuch a time, and in such and such best to you, and your the for counsels ed by his wisdom and have been exercised Ladyship shall find it so in the end, after you be rightly orafflictions the that required is It thereby. Third, him, and love to as chastisement, dered to a right enduring of him, and rejoice displeased having for grieve and fear him, love, now shed abroad tribulation, under the assurance of his to come, which these your heart, and under the hope of glory cause unto bemoment, for a but are which
light afflictions,
lievers, or
fit
upon and prepare them for, whilst they look not are not seen; which things upon but seen, things' which are temporal, but the things that for the things which are seen are shall be the more fit to do, you this All eternal. are are not seen you look up to God as pilgrimage, the changes of this
if
in all afflictions as sweetreconciled to you in Christ, and upon your Christ, by whom of suffering the in ened and sanctified to you of God being satyou have received the atonement, the justice
isfied
The Lord
whom
for your sake. and his wrath pacified and appeased by him, Ladyship, (to seal the assurance hereof to your am persuaded it certainly appertaineth, ) by his holy
I
Spirit of promise
which is the earnest of our inheritance for the by Christ, and by the same Spirit, the purchased redemption you may comLord open the eyes of your understanding that breadth and prehend with all saints the height, and depth and
Vi
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APPENDIX.
length of his love to you in Christ, ^^'hich passeth knowledge I pray God to strengthen you by his Spirit in the inwlrd man that you may do his will in all things with childlike obedience, and in all things suiTerhis will with childlike patience ^"len. So praying, I rest,
and
in the
Lord Jesus.
John Davenporte.
the blots and bad writing which were wherein I was constrained to write at this time, myself also being in some distractions by the unquiet spirit of the old man, who to all his former injuries addeth this that he hath now published a tedious book in English full of reproaches and slanders against me, herein als^o he doeth injury to Mr. Parker, Dr. Ames, and Mr. Forbes who are at rest, and Mr. Hooker who is far absent, and to the
caused by
much
haste,
members
best
of his
own
church,
whom
strained to answer for the truth's sake, notwithstanding all my former weaknesses. But our God is strong, in whom I trust, that he will strengthen me to write with such a spirit as I ought. Help me with your prayers, and, if any speak of Mr Paget's book, let them know that I am about to answer it. and shall discover many untruths in it, and a misreporting of the question between him and me. It may be of good use to prevent prejudice in the queen, if your Honor when yon are pleased to
which will give the prelate too much advantage, and open the mouths of enemies against the truth. This I am now con-
my Lady
pray them not to be prejudiced by any suggestions against me, from that book or otherwise, till they may peruse my answer. This I desire, not for any use I have of the Queen's lavor, but that she may not be hindered from receiving good by my ministry, which yet she well esteemeth.
me and
REV. .JOHN
IVLiDAM,
as
this,
by the
t\xvor
this
367
yonr ancient servant, hath done me, to acquaint me with cannot neglect to prehis purpose of returning for England, I of my thankfulsent your Honor with a few lines in expression your Ladyship upon wait to entertainment wife's my for ness shortly after her in your house, where she was much refreshed, your noble favor arrival in England, and for the continuance of
I receivand affection expressed in those welcome lines, which matter of much ed by Mr. Balinf ord, whose coming to me was a and for the good joy, "both for his return as it was from prison, gave ne4s of your Ladyship's health, and the hope which he me of your recovering that inward comfort, which outward I confess, I often wished myself affliction hath much abated. to strengthnear your Ladyship, not that I thought myself able words than comforting and healing more with en your spirit the sufwere ministered by divers but that I might show for the serviceable, measiire any in be to desires my ficiency of do in preshelp of your faith and joy, which seeing I cannot perform as I may, as I desired and hoped, my desire is to
;
ence,
, *
know. Madam, upon much experience of your way, that you have right in Christ to those treasures of spiritual good mercy. things, which are laid up in Him for the vessels of wells of conthe of out satisfied be and them, of fill your Take Are those treasures hidden? They are in Christ for solation. your Christ himself is yours, and whatsoever is his, for
I
you.
His Father is your Father by adoption his God is the your God by the covenant of grace, by virtue whereof all world the than hopes better for evidences, IDromises are your which can give your present afflictions are amongst privileges sanctified by his and love, Father's your by sweetened are sweet Spirit to the drawing of you from insuaving vanities to a communion with himself. He hath many ways of doing you all good, which you know not of, and delighteth to do above our thoughts, that his ways may appear to be not as our ways, but as far above them as heaven is above earth. "^Vhilst your
good.
; ;
spirit is troubled
about the sad thoughts of your losses, wants, supplies, sorrows, give me leave to remind it of your gains, Have you obtained more acquaintance with God, comforts. more to be weaned from the creature, more fervency in prayer,
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more fitness of spirit to resign up your will and ways to tha appointment and dispose of your Heavenly Father ? The gain doth abundantly recompense and weigh down your loss. Is a spirit of faith supplied, enabling you to depend upon God reconciled to you in Christ, a spirit of love to compose j-our spirit to quiet itself in the good pleasure of a wise and loving Father, a spirit of wisdom to guide your mind by a right discerning between things that differ, to choose that which is most excellent both in respect of the end and of the means ? Whatsoever your spiritual or outward wants are, in your apprehension, such a supply is made by the good hand of a gracious God as may turn your complaints into thanksgiving. Can you rejoice in tribulation under the hope of glory, in casting off the burden of your cares upon Him that careth for you, in that liberty which Christ hath purchased for your access to
can, your joys are greater; your tribulations abound, your consolations abound much more. Lay those things together, and compare your losses with your gains, your wants with your supplies, your sorrows with your comforts, and you will say that you are not abased but exalted, filled not emptied, not cast off, though cast down, but accepted, beloved, blessed.
?
who God
the throne of grace, in that interest you have in His mediation is your Husband, surely a clear call to the right hand of
and
as
The haste of the bearer calleth me off. The good Lord persuade your heart effectiially of his love, whereof you have much cause to be fully assured in Christ. Ah, that I could be of any use for the service of your faith Many engagements bind
!
me to it. None shall be more ready to do it than myself, who am more obliged than many. But what can a poor pilgrim, a banished man do? That which I may perform in this condiyourself, as the
tion shall not be wanting in prayers to God, or in letters to knowledge of your condition or necessity shall
minister occasion.
I must cease writing for the present, but ever remain feigned thankfulness and faithfulness.
m un-
in the
Lord Jesus.
John Davenporte.
B69
EEV. JOHN
To
the BUjht
Hackney.
QuiNNiPiAC, July
28,
1639.
'Madam,
hand of our God upon us, my dear child is with sundry desirable' friends, as Mr. Fenwick and his lady, Mr. Whitfield['s daughter,] to our great comfort. Their passage was so ordered, as it appeared, that prayers were little accepted, for they had no sickness in the ship except a shore one sea sickness not one dead, but they brought to
By
the good
safely arrived,
for a
coming forth, and both are alive and well. They attained to the haven where they would be, in seven weeks. Their provisions at sea held good to the last. About the time when we guessed they might approach near us, we fasting set a day apart for public extraordinary humiliation by and prayer, in which we commended them unto the hands of our God whom winds and seas obey, and shortly after sent out the first ship a pinnance to pilot them to our harbor for it tvas But our pilot, having watched that ever cast anchor in this place. and the for them a fortnight, grew weary and returned home very next night after, the ship came in guided by God's own
to
be in the vessel
at their
woman was
hand
The sight of the harbor did so please the to our town. Captain of the ship and all the passengers that he called it the Since that, another ship hath brought sundry Fair Haven. passengers, and a third is expected daily and which is more, the Lord our God hath bestowed upon us the greatest outward privileges under the sun, to have and enjoy all His ordinances purely dispensed in a church gathered and constituted accord;
ing to His
and hath promised that in name. He will come unto his people and bless them. And now. Madam, my desire is that your Ladyship may be assured that whatever interest I have in Jesus Christ, and by him in fellowship with His people at the throne of grace, it is wholly for your advantage, if in anything your honour I may express the reality of my thankfulness to helpfulness to for my favors formerly received, and for your
every place where
own mind He
in all things,
shall set his
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one in carrying him in your coach to Sir Theoddic for advice abont his neck, and for your cost upon liini in a coat, of which bounty and labor of your love my servant Ann hath made a full rejjort to us. The Lord recompense the same to your Ladyship and to your noble familj' an hvindred fold. I hope before this time He hath rebuked the fevers, and small pox in your family, and will make the loss of Mr. St. John a mercy to your daughter, whom I love and honor in the Lord. The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, our Kedeemer, hath undertaken to teach His people to iJrofit as well by His providence as by His ordinances, even by all His dispensations accordingly, I believe He will, and pray that He maj' be pleased graciously to make this loss be her gain, and these trials evidences of His fatherly love both to your Ladyship and her, that
little
my
Maherne
marriage bond with the creature may quicken us to secure our interest in the everlasting God, and oar marriage with the Lord Jesus Christ, by an everlasting covenant of his grace which nothing can dissolve. My wife preseiiteth her hiimble service with much thanfulness to your Ladyship. We both desire in like manner to salute my Lady Wake and all your noble daughters. Had I time, I would write to Mrs. Watson, your scribe. At present, I have no more libertj' than to salute her, and to let her know that, if her affections stand hitherward, I shall gladly be useful to her in what I may, and do think that it would be comfortable to her many ways. But it is God who sets the bounds of our habitation, to whose everlasting arms I commend your Ladyship, with all yoiirs, in Jesus Christ, in whom I rest
in the Lord,
John Davenporte.
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS.
JOHN DAVENPORT TO MRS. SAEAH COTTON.*
(From Mass. His. Society Collections, Fourth
Series, Vol. VIII, p.
51(5,
giv-
The departure of our freinds being (Deaee Mes. Cotton, ) more suddaine then I expected, I wanted opportunitie of saluting you, by letter, according to my desire, yet now, hearing of another way of transmitting these lines, I am encouraged to put pen to paper, to express my sincere love to you, in the
praying you to be assured, that I doe as heartily wish all good to you and yours, as to my selfe and myne, which I would most gladly make visible, by reall and suitable effects, if I knew how, and had power in my hand answerable to my desire. But this is your comfort, that whatLord, and to your familie,
ever deficiency
is
in the creature,
there
is
Allsufliciency for
you & yours in God, who is your God & Father in Christ Jesus, by an everlasting Covenant, whereby he hath made ouer (as it
were, bv a deed of gift) his Allsufliciency, in respect of the Yet seing it fruite & benefit of it, unto you, through Christ. hath pleased the onely wise God to make men his instruments,
that His goodnes
that order,
may be diffused and communicated unto us in and by those outward meanes, in the communion of it will be saints, which he vouchsafeth and suiteth to that end well pleasing in his sight that you improve that channell, & those conduit pipes for your communion with that blessed founOf this kind, I know you haue plentifull taine of all good. helpes, daily, at hand, which you doe well, in that you make vse of them, according to the opportunities which God gra;
*Mrs. Sarah Cotton, the second wife of Rev John Cotton, of Boston, was the daughter of Richard Hankredge, of Boston, England, and the widow of William Story. Her marriage to the Vicar of Boston took place, April 25, 1632. After his death she married Rev. Richard Mather, Aug. 26, 1656, and
died
May
Fourth
372
ciovjsly aifoarcleth
unto you.
And,
if I
may be
of any use to
me
any
is
force of a strong
ofl&ce,
compas.
in[ga]gementuppon me for the performance of and service of love, that is or shall be within my In the mean time and ever, (with my wife's most af-
commend
I rest
yoii
& yours
to the
whom
friend,
John Davenport.
Newhaven, the
25th d. of the Qth
ni.
1653.
To
Mf
[John
Coiton.'l
dated the 17th of the 11th m. I x-eceived m., and having so good an opportunity, by so safe an hand Mr Sam:Streete, I returne such Answer as I can to your Letter, wherein I observe with thanckfullnes jowv
Deaee
Sb,
Yours
12.
* Rev. John Cotton [H. C. 1657] was a sou ot the distinguished Rev. John Cotton of Boston. He was born March 15, 1640. He first preached at Wethersfield, Conn. In 1664, May 3, he was excommunicateci from the but First Church in Boston formerly his father's for several offences the ne.\t uiontli, upon his penitential acknowledgment, was again received into fellowship. From 1664 to 1667, he preached at Martha's Vineyard to a congregation of Indians and white people, and acquired a good knowledge of the Indian language. He was settled at Plymouth June 30, 1669, and reained his pastoral of&ce there till Oct. 5, 1697. The ne.xt year he went to and having gathered a church, preached there till his Charleston, S. death, of the yellow fever, Sept. 18, 1699. His Church erected a handsome monument over his grave. Notwithstanding the early blot ui^on his reputation, he appears to have been ever afterwards a faithful and extensively useful minister. Wiiile at Plymouth, he frequentlj' preached to several congregations of Indians in the neighborhood. The whole care of revising and correcting Eliot's Indian Bible, 2d Edition, printed at Cambridge in
1685,
was intrusted
to
'226.
373
kinde acceptance of my loving freenes, in expressing my deepe I could not liave approued !ence of yonr sinfull miscarriages. lay faithfulnes to God, to you, & to my owne conscience, if I had leglected such a season of so speaking to you, as I did, that being ;he first opportunity which was given me of treating with you, we tcnus, about such matters as were not fit to be committed to
raghting, which might ng of your name, which
rt'hile I
fall
sincerely endeavoured the healing of your soul.. How have I fervently desired that as you beare boath your father's names, so you might hold forth the virtues of Christ, n the spirit & conversacion, which eminently shined in him Thus you would be knowne to be his son morally, by imjften
!
as natiirally by generacion, which would you a double interest, in the hearts of God's people, who knew, loved, &: highly honoured your blessd Father, who being dead would thus have lived in j'ou, as vorthy Mi" Hooker doth in his good son, at Farmington. Nor im I out of hope that yet it may be so, if the Lord convince ^'ou powerfiilly of your former sins, tt humble you effectually for them to juslifie wisdomes counsels by your holding forth publickly your unfeined reiDentance, as I told you Origen did, with many teares, that scandal might be remoued, which while it remaines, will be to Karexov, to hinder the acceptance of your exercise of guifts in preaching, with men, & the blessing of it from God. You promised you would send me a copie of your publick acknowledgmt, which is rejDorted to be slight & unsatisfying, & that you would propound some things in reference to your case, for further aduise. But you have done neither, whereby I am dissaduantaged from giving you that helpe which otherwise I might have done, with God's assistance. It is a temptacion from Satan to hinder you from propounding your case, iipon a secret expectacion to see more of God in it, hoping that God, who helped me b efore to speake as if I had knowne the inward frame of your heart, will againe direct me to speake some thing to the troubles of your heart though I be not fully acquainted with them. For though if you had acquainted me with your troubles, & the groiinds of them, & the eiiects, my bowells would have bene tro ubled with
itacion
as
well
have
given
48
374
yoii
APPENDIX.
i^ from a true sj'inpathy I should have endeavasswage your griefe, or to direct your apprehencions, or otherwise to speake siiitably to your case yet it is not God's manner, nor may you expect it, to reveale to his serves, by immediate inspiracion, the cases of others, which, by his ordinances, they aught to expresse, themselues, & seek helpe in from others that the communion of saints may be preserved & exercised among them mutually. Thus you see how Satan tempteth you to tempt God. As for me, be you assured that, in any way of God, you shall finde me really ready, iii^on all Fareoccasions, to be helpfull to you as the case may reqviire. wel & account me, as I am,
&
for yon,
oured
to
Your
JOEX Davenporte,
N. H. the 23: of the
Sk,
1st
m. 166|
your Father, which you your promise. Some I reed by Edm Toolie, & some by Jacob Molines, with your letter. If any yet remaine with you, you will further oblige me if you send them to me. Iterum vale.
sent
me
my
desire
&:
[In Collections of Mass. Historical Society, Vol. VIII. Fourth Series, uuder heading " Mather Papers" are many letters relating to the Regicides, portions of which were written in characters, which are deciphered and giveai by the editors, (page V26,) wth translations, from which, a few, written by John Davenport, will be extracted here.]
FROM
A
2,
brief relation of
That many
of the people of
be approaching. 2: Corn is very dear. No sect so much favored as the Quakei'S, none so much trodden vinder foot as the Presbyterians. 3. Great grumbling in E:[ngland] I:[reland] S:[cotland] but P. B. says they will still all. The 30th of present month, December, feared to be a bloody day, if the Lord prevent not. Sir H. Vane, Col. Lambert and some others comm.itted to
for to
come
to trial.
The
first
REGICIDE LETTERS.
375
sat
letter
Mr. Wharton broiight this news from the Bay inclosed in a which came by the way of Barbadoes. One thing I have had by the way of Virginia, viz Anbni popuU in Scotia Contra
:
Episcopos amarescimtur et nomiuUi interjicimiiur : tied vix quicquam quodfertur credendmn est. Concerning the two Colonels,*
lately.
2,
[1662
?]
told
spake with one that came from England in July last. He came into England with brother to me that said he the Queen Mother, and there speaking with his brother was a traitor, and that he could not be saved being no Catholic. One present answered that the King was no Catholic. Ergo, he replied two or three years would show what he was.
,
The occasion
of this discourse, was one (a disaffected person) was a moderate man. C. Seely said that E. P. G. C. that said the King is favorably inclined is gone towards Germany, that Henry Cromwell liveth about the Court and en&c.
to
him,
joys
sea.
all
his estate.
Col.
Hewson
is
said to be dead
beyond the
its
By
the
way
of Virginia I hear,
treason
Queen Mary's days. to say so) that things are as bad as in This'came by a ship which (Mr. Hudson saith) came from
England twelve weeks
printed Acts.
ago.
I
MemorandiTm.
July, 1661.
The Acts last mentioned were passed 30th The substance of most of them were sent by Mr.
1.
W. W.
*
as in No.
Whalley and
Gofle.
376
APPENDIX.
(p. 198.)
[Memorandum by
Gofle.]
There was a General Governor and a Major General chosen for this Country to seize upon the Militia for the King, and a Bishop and aSuflfragan, for Ecclesiastical Government but Mr. Nortonf writes, that they are not yet out of hopes, to prevent it.
:
is Sir Robert Carr,| (a rank Papist.) There are great thoughts of heart, (among the Godly) about us, what impositions Avill be laid upon New England.
"
of Parliament proclaim-
Exceeding great taxes laid upon the People. There is great talk of many ministers with their congregations, coming over the next year, if room can be found for them. There is one Mr. Allen come over this year, of about 30
^
years of age, a very able man and two great merchants|| of London, with their families, of 30,000 estate, godly men. I saw in a letter this day, that Corn in England is at 14. 15. 16. 17s. a bushel, the poor in great extremity, and little care for their relief.
;
The King
The[re]
there
is is
is
engaged to the utmost, to promote Episcopacy. great likelihood of war, with France, the French
Ambassador
is gone home in a rage. It is to be feared that a sad scourge at hand, for England.
to the
Bishop
to
country to their several places, to put in execution those orders, seven of the nine
* This letter, although without signature,
is
and returning
to the
venport.
Kev. John Norton, Teacher of the First Church in Boston, was sent with 8imon Bradstreet, as agent of the Colony, to England, in February, 1662.
t
They returned, September 3, of the same year. + Sir Robert Carr came as one of four commissiouei-s to reduce the (Colonies to obedience, kc, &c., in 1661. Rev. James Allen came over from England in 1662. He was ordained Teacher of the First Church in Boston, Dec. 0, 166,S, as colleague with Mr. Davenport. He died Sept. 22, 1710, aged 78 years.
II
Probably
REGICIDE LETTERS.
377
were immediately struck dead, the eighth struck blind, the ninth mad, a very remarkable hand of God. The Broad Seal is bought and sold, so that there is no hold of anything granted to any man. There are abundance more particulars. (I suppose that is
meant in the Bay. ) Thus much as the sum of intelligence which Mr. Glover brought in a letter from the Bay, the 5th day, last week, to Springfield, and is since come hither. Unto these I shall add three passages of news which I heard from Mr. Jones, and were reported to him by Mr. Hudson from Auger* as followeth. 1. The Charters of all the Cities and Corporations, in England, are called in and nullefied, except London and Bristol, or
York.
That Mass is tolerated throughout England. That by the House of Commons in Parliament it was voted that the King should have the power of ordering, and disposing men's personal estates, but when it came to the House of Lords, it was opjiosed, for one of the Lords stood up. and said that it was known he had been faithful to the King's interest, but could not consent to that, for he miist be faithful to his own interest, his wife's and children's, who would thereby be undone (or to that purpose. I hear that the Synod in the Bay, is broken up without doing anything, and have adjourned the meeting till October or
2. 3.
November
next.
New Haveu. The names written by Davenport are erased and the cipher inserted by Goffe.
* Probably Nicholas Anger, of
378
APPENDIX.
JK.
[Several letters of Rev. John Davenport to Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., were printed In the Historical Discourses of Rev. Dr. Bacon in 1839, and others in Collections of Mass. Historical Society, Vol. X, Third Series, some of which were given in the Edition of the Davenport Family, in 1851. We now select a few from the twenty preserved among the Winthrop Papers, as printed in Collections of Mass. His. Society, Vol. VII, Fourth Series, beginning
at
page
489.
John Winthrop was born in Groton, England, in 1605. He was the son of Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts, and first came to America with his father in 1631, but soon returned to England. In 1635, he came back with Lion Gardiner* (who built a fort at the mouth of the Connecticut River) and in 1644, 5, removed his family to Pequot harbor, where in the spring of that year he founded what is now the city of New London. He was elected Governor of the Connecticut Colony in 1657
the date of the letter
first given.]
To
the
Right
WorsMpfull John Winthrope, Esqr. Governour of Connedacul Golonie, these present in Hartford.
my
sj^irit
is
much
streightenecl
&
by that late dreadfull stroake upon us, from the hand of the Most High, in the loss of our incomparable Governourf & my faithfuU freind, under which we still bleed, and, I feare, unto the death of our politique body unles God be pleased to shew himselfe in the mount, above all
letters,
that
we can ask
or thinck
to salute yourselfe,
&
affec-
who long
to see
your
t
1657.
was bom in England, and educated to the profession of arms. Studied civil and military engineering, and became an officer in the British Army. He engaged in the wars of Holland, and became "Master of Works of Fortifications in the ledges of the Prince of Orange." While in Holland he was intimate with John Davenport, Hugh Peters and others, with whom he entered into an agreement to employ his services for
* Lion Gardiner
the Company of Patentees of the Territory at the mouth of the Connecticut River "in the drawing, ordering, and making of a city, towns, forts and fortifications." By the terms of his agreement made with Peters, Davenport,
and others, he was to act in this employment four years and have under his control three hundred able-bodied men. Ho arrived at the mouth of
JR.
379
inclosed, wliereiinto this serveth for a cover, will, shew you what the case & desire of brother and sister Herrymans is. With them I also joyne my hiTmb[l]e request that you will be
The
pleased to consider and advise speedily, that, if it may be, his eyesight may be preserved and his eye healed. Being assured I of your readynes hereunto, as unto every worke of mercy, hand, cease to diverte you from the weighty affaires under your
and to detaine you from this present necessary worke of mercy, which craves your serious consideration and speedy helpe. The Lord guide you in boath & prosper all your endeavours for My sonne also prethe good of many, & of this our brother buisesents you with an account of his negotiation about the Jesus. Lord our in Farewell care. his to commended nes you
!
In
whom
I rest
Sir,
in the Lord,
John Davexporte.
Newhaven,
this 21 of the 11th
m.
57.,
in the evening.
:
ludorseclby JolniWinthrop..inn.,
Herrimaus
JR.
(p. 495.)
much Honoured
freind.
John
Win-
thrope, Esqr.
IJariford.
these present in
&
return
many
son David, born April 29, 1636, the Connecticut River. Nov. 28, 163.5. His Lion Gardiner died in 1663. was the first white child born in Connecticut. Gardiner's Island He left large landed possessions on Long Island, and also was entailed on his -situated near the East Hampton shore-which Dongau,) who erected it into a lord^son David (by patent from Governor of "Lordship and Manor of Garship and manor, to be laiown by tlie name
diner's Island."
Gardiuer.this Island has descended from It is reiarkable, that, since Lion eight proprietors, in reguDavid to John, and from John to David, through failed, and until the present genelar succession, male issue never having been unbroken. -See Mass. ration the descent from father to son having
.His. Collections Vol,
X. Third
Series, p. 173-185.
380
APPENDIX.
thancks to you for them boath, & for the intelligence contained in them. The death of those 3 men, & the mortality in the countreyes in England, are sorrowful tydings. That which concernes the Lord Fairfaxe answers my former
oj^inion.
hope we
Wright hath twise written to me, to encourage my returne London. However God shall be pleased to order my
Dr.
to
sorrow for I heard that Mr. Goodyeare was wholly left out in the cho'yse of magistrates whereas I had bene secure, thincking they purposed to choose him Governour.f But, the day following, upon enquiry into the cause of it, I received such answer as cleared unto me that it came to pass, not by any plot of men, but by the overruling providence of God. For the proxies generally voted for Mr. Goodyeare to be Governour, & Mr. Leete, Deputy, and none of them gaue theyre votes for Mr. Goodyeare to be Deputy Governour, if the former fayled, nor to be magistrate, but put in blancks to boath, taking it for granted that he would be chosen Governour. But, before they proceeded to election, some of the Deputies of the Court propounded and urged
;
;
ward God, & his people. Concerning our Court matters here the last Election-day was the saddest to me that ever I saw in Newhaven, by our want of him, whose presence, etc, was wont to make it a day of no less contentment then solemnity. Being weary, after my sermon, I was absent from the Court. The 1st newes that I heard from thence added to my
way, I am truely sorry for the loss of such a man,* whose hearte was to;
the
necessity, or great expediency, in respect of our condition, at present, of having the Governour present
among
us.
Hereunto
fell
Deputy Governour, for this yeare. To this latter the proxies, for the most part, concurred, & most of the present freemen. The votes of the present freemen & some few proxies carryed the election
who had died the preceding winter. At the Court of Elections, held at New Haven, 26th May, 1658, Francis Newman was chosen Governor, in place of Theophilus Eaton, deceased Goodyear died in October following.-.Vei ^are Colonial
* Gov. Eaton,
t
the freemen generally consented, & hereby the election on Mr. Newman to be Governour, & Mr. Leete
up-
Records
ii
231
268.
JR.
381
which he
Mr.
Newman by
;
plurality of votes,
many
and some of Mr. Goodyeares overcame him to accept it freinds & relatives spake earnestly, when these 2 were chosen, such to hinder his being chosen to magistracy, alleadging
reasons as they had.
What the minde of God is herein, time will shew. The Court sate since the election, til this day, & have passed thorough many weighty buisenesses, by the helpe of Gods presence with them, to good satisfaction, both to themselves & Give me leave to add a touch upon your buisenes others. about your lead mine, which I make bold to suggest, onely unI am informed that one found in a letter written to your selfe. to another from London, that lead is of good value, probably above what you know. My wife telleth me that she spake with one, who told her that he found, in that letter, that they will
will give 8/
ijer
tunn
for
&
51
per
tun for the smaller peeces and 20 s per tun for the dust of it, which, it may be, you cast away, as of qo use. This intimation may be of use to you, we boath thought, to prevent some loss you might sustaine by those that will, probably,be trading with
you
concealing
knowing of what esteeme it is in London, & My selfe, for theyre owne advantage. sincere love maketh me thus bold to acquaint you with any thing which may he e re vestra, to know. I hope Mrs. Winfor the lead,
it
from your
& your wholl familie is in health, because I know nothing to the contrary. The good Lord continue it, with his favour A' loving kindnes in Jesus Christ to your selfe & them all. We boath, with our sonne, present our humble service to you The Lord Jeboath, & our affectionate salutacions to them.
thrope
sus dwell with you in peace
Sir,
!
In
whom
I rest.
Yoiars
much
obliged,
John Davenport.
Newhaven,
the 3d d. of the 4th m. 58.
382
APPENDIX.
JK.
(p.
501.)
E>iqr.,
Governour of Vonneda-
the Baye, telleth us that Mr. Yale is come, which also his letme from the Baye confirmeth. He saith sister Hannah
is
Eaton*
ren,
offred
&
2001 per
an husband a godly man, who hath 2 childannum. He purposeth to come with brother
;
who is expected here speedily. I have a letter from my brother Hooke, but no intelligence, since the change of govAlsop,
letter I
ernment, from him, though from other hands I have. One send you to read, with desire that you will returne it to
me
againe, at your leasure, that I may answer it. I have also sundry weekly Intelligences, but in them there is not much news since the change of government. I have sent j'ou 3 or 4 other bookes, which I have not yet time to peruse, nor scarse
my
letters as I
would, being
filled
with impediments
at this
time.
Were you
pleasing diversions,
the world.
make
of such things
is to
see
how
to
sies that
things worke towards the accomplishment of the propheconcerne these times, & to know how to pray suitably
changes of j^rovidences.
Present myne, my wifes & sons humble services, together with your selfe, to Mrs. Winthrope, & our loves to yours. I
with Mrs. Pierson having heard nothing from If she be alive, the Lord send forth his word & heale her, & many sick & weake persons among us Farewel, in our Lord Jesus, in whom I rest, Sir,
feare
it is
how
thence
all this
day.
Yours obliged,
John Davenport.
Newhaven, the 29th
d.
The messenger sent last year is returned to the Baye, A: hath brought 30 tun of stones for the iron worke. Excuse mv hast.
Indorsed by John Winthrop, jun., "Mr. Davenport, Rec
*
:
Julj-
28 :"
Hannah, youngest daughter ofTheophilus Eaton, married July 4, lim, at Loudon, William Jones, who came next year to New England in the ship with Goffe and Whalley the regicides and settled in New Hi\en.~Savagc'
;
Geneal. Diet.
JR.
383
JR.
(p. 502.)
I suppose Mr. J. C. hath reported unto you Sir, word of mouth, because I wanted time (by received he what & liber [ty] to wright what I woukl) from me, for that end, concerning the state of affaires in England upon this unexpected the change, whereby the Lord Protectour* is reduced unto
HoNOUKED
state or a private
gentlemen, by his voluntary act, at the perGeneral Fleetwood, Lord Disborough, Ac, Lord suasion of the yet the Colonels & cheife leaders of the army in Scotland (among whom I find your wife's brother. Col. Read his name)
have petitioned the revived long lasting Parliament, now reassembled upon the desire of the army, to allow the last Lord Protector 20,000/ per annum during his life, whereof 10,000/ per
annum
is
to
his fathers
faithful
be inheritance to that house, in recompence of & honourable services for the good of the
Commonwealth. It is also, by others, desired that the Lady Dowager may have 10,000/ per annum conferred upon her, during her life, as a marke of honour and thanckfulness in reference to her deceased husband. The people seeme to be very
well pleased with this change, & to promise to themselves great good thereby. But quicquid id est, timeo Danaos vel donaferentes; to I suspect that Jesuites have an hand in turning the wheele,
introduce the K. of Scots; wherein I am the more strengthned by an offer of 40,000/. made by a Quaker, as it is said, for White Hall, which, together with Hampton Court & Greenewitch & other of the Kings houses, is set to saile. Probably, the Jesu-
purse shall pay that summe, in the name ct by the hand For of a Quaker, to settle there, in time, a Jesuites Colledge. the marriage betweene France and Spaine, & the foiles of the
ites
K. of Sweden,
Scots,
&
may
fill
the interest which they may gaine in the K. of them with hopes of reducing England sensim,
for the slaying of the witnesses,
sine sensu, to
which
is
the 1st thing to be done, before theyre rising, & the burning of Rome, & the calling of the Jewes. But I forget that you are
" Richard
Cromwell
liis
father, Oliver,
16.58.
384
upon your journey
APPENDIX.
to the Baye,
where you
My
though it is not yet brought to my hand, because he doth not mention your name in my letter, & because, in his former letters, he promised to wright unto you. The Lord make your journey safe, comfortable, ct prosperous We want your presence here exceedingly. Many among us are
selfe,
He purposed
hath
sorely visited & distressed, & some distracted, in the paroxisme of theyre disease, for a time, which taketh them in theyre heades with extreme paine, as sister Beamont, brother Myles & his son his daughter also hath bene neare unto
;
brother excepting himself, cum multis alijs. Mrs. Pierson is in a hopeful way. Mr. Pierson hath bene touched, so that he could not keepe the fast, last 4th d., but wisely tooke the physick in the beginning, & will, I hope, doe well.
Doelitles house,
death, but I hope that, through the mercyes of God. they are somewhat better. All John Thomas his house have bene downe, his wife is stil very weake, cfehimselfe not strong, & all
questions my wife hath about the various exercises of people under this afflicting hand of God some she purposeth to send inclosed in this to which, if you have time to returne an answer, be pleased, together with it, to returne to me my
; ;
Many
copie in your
&
hand of Mr. Hopkins his will. Myne, my wifes sons humble respects .being presented to yourselfe & Mrs.
Winthrope,
&
Yoixrs obliged,
John Davenport.
Newhaven, the 5th day
of the 6th m. 1659.
:
[illegihh.]"
JR.
(p.
504.)
honoured John Winthrope, Esqr., Gocernour of Connectacute, Colonie, ihene present in Hartford
SiE,
HoNouBED
to
I received,
by brother Wakeman,
3 letters
i
my
selfe,
my
wife
&
JR.
885
neighboxirs
with your bountiftil siipplies of medicines for our sick & freinds, which are many, ) for which your great
labour & liberality of love, I retnrne many hearty thancks, being exceedingly obliged to yon for the same. 1 received also my copie of Mr. Hopkins his will, & Mr. Lyngs letter & the printed papers, which last you might have retained with you.
I shall onely, at present, add that since my wrighting to you, I have received letters & bookes, & written papers from my ancient and honoured freinds Mr. Hartlib,* & Mr. Durief wherein I finde sundry rarities of inventions, & projects for common good, of sundry kindes, which I long for an oi^portunitie to communicate to your selfe, might your first leasure give us an
They
are too
many
you by passengers, & yet such as, I beleive, will affoard singular contentment to your piiblick spirit. & probably you will finde some particularities among them, which may be advantagious to your private profifit, in the improvement of yoiir Fishers Island, &c. I cannot concee.le anythinge from your selfe, such is my unfeigned love, that I can conjecture may be e re vesira to know. Your report of Mrs. Winthropes illnes & danger would have deeply afflicted me, had it not bene allaied with the hopes of her recovery, yet, as it is, we cannot but sympathize with her & your selfe, in this afflicting providence; yet so as acknowledging Gods mercy, to his
who ordered the circumstances of it so favourably, that should befall her, while your selfe was present with her, that she might have there by both comfort and helpe for her The good Lord goe on in healing to cure, by his blessing. heale, & in restoring to restore her unto perfect health & strength, with a sanctifyed & blessed fruiteof this his Fatherly chastisement that you may rejoyce together in his goodnes all youre daies, & be satisfyed with his mercies in Jesus Christ I am sorry for the sicknes & weaknes of your 2 daughters, beseeching the God of our life & health to send forth his word
praise,
it
;
of a Polish
agriculture and supposed to have Milton addresses to him his Tract "Of Educa-
many works on
Is
merchant, and
member
of the "Westminister
A.ssembly.
386
"
APPENDIX.
of blessing witli the nieanes to heale them, & to sanctifie theni with the rest of yoiir branches, to himselfe, in Jesus Christ In whom I rest,
Sir,
servant,
John Davenporte.
Newhaven, the 19th day
POSTSCRIPT.
Sir,
Because
cannot, by a jjencile,
must, under a
vaile,
my
& greate love towards her, expressed in your letter to my and wherein you was pleased to shew how the report of her least illnes affected yoii. For I want words to declare her
;
transcendant thanckfulnes for the same. Concerning Mr. Yale she hath treated with hii;|i as effectually as she could, & moi'e fully than she would, if it had been for her selfe, for you having the linnen, & pewter, & cushions
urging the full consent of his mother, under her hand. But to that he replyed that his mother was now dead, & so her act was void, & that he is bound to attend his order, which is to send them to England. My wife told him that she did not doubt that, if Mrs. Hannah knew it, she would consent. Biit he stil insisted in his want of power to doe it. The chayres & stools, of which yoii spake, Mr. Yale is willing to sel. If Mrs. Winthrope please to have them, my wife would doe her indeavour to answer her desire therein, upon notice from you. My wife thincks you had better buy new linnen in England, & you will there have better pennj'worths for Mr. Newman, our Govei-nour, hath now a siiite for a table cloath, a dozen of diaper napkins & a towel, of Dammask fashion, for 26 shillings. We long to heare of Mi's. Winthropes perfect recovery, <fc of perfect health restored to your familie quod facit Deus 1
; ;
Tuissimus,
Indorsed by John Wiuthrop, jim.,
'
J.
D.
Mr. Davenport
reo
Aug
20."
JR.
887
JR.
(p. 511.)
Wujht
WorshipfuU
d'
worthih/
Ilonnnred John
Winilirope,
Coloriie, these
present at
Hart-
Honoured
by the same
Sir,
received,
I
Intelli
Here
is
doe no more credit then Mnnkes being in London, & sole General, hy Lamberts and Fleetewoodes laying downe theyre commissions, or the establishment of the presbyterian way. All which, I hope, with many other rnmors,
of Scots
is
King
in
London, which
will be
found not
when we
shi^j
shall re-
at Cape Anne, Lieutenant Cooke speakes of another also, at Cape Codd, which, I thinck, is that of which sister Atwater wi'ote. Major Hawthorne & your brother, Mr. Richards, went out of this harbour, in the evening after the fith day, towards Road Island, purposing to travaile, by land from thence to Boston. The Dutch Governour comjjlemented with them, in liberal intertainment but, for the principal buisenes about which they came, he denied to give them libertj' of passing up the river, alleadging that it would cost him his head, if he should permit that; & some of the Dutch traders threatened that themselves would cut off his head, if he should grant that unto the English yet he offered them, to refer the whoU matter to England ct Holland, with acquiescence in theyre determination which ourfreindes refused, iirging theyre line; against which the Dutch Governour demanded, why thej^ had not claimed it all this while? They answered, that they finde more neede of it now than formerly. He pleaded long possession. They replyed that the English had right to Hudsons River before them, & proved it more largeThe issue is, ihey parted placidely that I can now declare. ly, and our freinds are to make theyre report to the General Court, at Boston. In conclusion, they told them that they should returne again, towards the end of summer. I perceive, if that buisines jjroceedes, as Major Hawtherne thincks it will.
Besides that
388
all
Dutch.
to
propound,
I shall
to paie,
in reference to the
I could wish that you had expressed quantum. I understand, by Mr. Goodwin, that his house is hyred for you to dwell in. The courses that the General Court take about Mi-. Hoi3kins his legacie seeme to me very strange, viz that they would know what portion of it they shall have, & yet hinder his Trustees from receiving what belongs to that estate, hy sequestracions,one after another, whereby the estate will suffer no small loss, some being ready to deliver up what they had purchased, because they will not have a litigious title, & one hath waved his bargaine, upon that account others, who were readj' to have paid what they owe to the estate, now refuse to paye, pretending the Courts order, whereby, when the sequestracion shall be taken oft", there is danger that, through loss of the season, when they were prepared to paye, there will be a loss of the payment itselfe, the debtours pleading theyre dissabilitie now. And the pretence whereupon the sequestracion is the 2d time laid on, is, that the Inventor}' is not given in, whereas some of the Court, it seemes, knew that it was left with our Atturneies in Hartford, by Capt. CuUick, with a trust to be by them presented to the Court, which thej' also acknowledge, & take the blame wholly upon themselves. But I doe not love contenWe have agreed in the answer, which I send inclosed. tions. Mj'ne, my wifes, & sons humble services being presented to yourselfe & Mrs. Winthrope, with our affectionate salutacions to your daughters, with my hearty desires & prayers continued for an abundant blessing from heaven upon you boath, & all
:
:
yours, in N. E.
&
Old.
I rest
etc,
John Davenporte.
Newhaven, the 20th
Sir,
d. of
the 2d m. 1660.
You may
JR.
389
JR.
(p. 515.)
Having
so sure a conveyance,
returne
the inclosed, with acknowledgment of my very greate obligement imto you, for your labor of love, in piatting such a taske
selfe, at such a time, as the transcribing of the weekely intelligence from the 3d to 10th of the 3d m., and in gratifying mee, so unworthy, with the perusal of it, whereby I iinderstand the state of the laublick, in our deare native countrie, and doe wish that sundrie of our relations & freinds were well settled in these ends of the earth. I heare nothing yet concerning Capt Pierse his arrival, which I much wonder at, for I perceive that he hath bene about a quarter of an yeare in I wish that he be safe. I am in expectacion of his voyadge. our Teacher's returne, with bro: Rutherford, every houre. In the letter which Mr. Richards conveyed to me from him (for which I retiirne hearty thancks to him, & for his kinde accejitance of such intertainmentas we could make, on the suddaine, with mj' resalutations to them boath) brother Streete reporteth a strange passage which he heard at Boston, which, it may be, will minister some matter of laughter iinto you, as it doth of indignation unto me. It is this. A comjoany being mett some where in England (he thincks thSy were 5th monarchy men) and Sir Henry Vane with them, it was propounded that, seing Christ was not yet come, they should thinck of some one that hould be cheife among them, til he shall come, and that be mg consented to, it was considered whom they should choose, and it was concluded, with common consent. Sir Hen: Vaine thereupon onerose up with a viol of oile, which he poured on Sir Hen Vaines head, and called him King of Jerusalem. Men, it seemes, are serious about setSit fides penes Auihorem. ting lip Kings our comfort is, that the Lord raigneth, and his counsels shall stand. In rightly obeying this King we shall become faithful to whatsoever powers he settes over us. We have much sicknes among us, both in the farmes & towne, by the afflicting hand of the Most High renued upon us, Some whoU families & sundry particular jjerrighteously.
: : ;
upon your
sons.
Be pleased
.'50
to present
myne,
my
jvifes
ser-
your
selfe, to
390
spectful, affectionate
APPENDIX.
salutations,
and tbancks
to
Mr.
!
&
Mrs.
Kicbards.
I rest,
In
whom
JoHX Davenporte.
Newhaven, the
Istd. of the 6tb m. 1660.
JE.
(p.
519.)
Bl(jht
Worshipfull John
Whdhrope,
Esqr.,
Governour of
Honoured
largely to
will permit.
Sir, It was in my purpose to have written more you then the hast of this unexpected sad occasion
fitter
season, I shall
was told
my
which you will find reported, as son, by the sickmans wife, Avho is Joseph & Tim-
othy Nasbes owne sister, a member of our church, & now in danger to be left a yong widow, with sundry small children, if
God
take away her husband, a member also of our church, called Talmage. * Be pleased to take his case into your serious consideration. And the Lord guide you to prasscribe what he will bless, for the helpe & recovery of him, upon whom a whoU
familie dependes for daily bread, as the onely instrument in
Gods hand for theyre outward subsistence; & who is approved in the church, as a man fearing God and faithfulin all his dealings with men My wi/e &. son joyne with me in presenting our humble services to your selfe & Mrs. Winthrope, with our affectionate salutations to yours with our desire that you would desist from your purposed voiage forEngland, at least, for this f
! ;
who
Thomas
t This letter was written on the 16th of .Tune, nine days after the General Court, at Hartford, had voted .'500 to defray the Governor's expenses " in reference to his intended voyage to England, if his purpose and resolution
continue to go, in regard this court hath made choice of his worship an agent to further our welfare, in presenting our Address and Petition to the King's Majesty, and to improve his abilities and procm-e us a
still
do
to be
391
&
may be
safest for
your
selfe,
&
In
vhom I
rest.
Sir,
Yours obliged,
John Davenport.
^EWHAVEN, the 16th of the 4th m. 1661.
Indorsed by John Winthrop, jun., " Mr. Davenport, about
iiaKS
Goodman
Tal-
sickness."
(p. 520.)
Honoured freind Mrs. Winthrop, these present in Boston ; or letter, icith the packet, at Mr. Amos Richardsons, merchant in Boston, to he delivered to her hands with safety &
speed.
is
due respect
&
whom
confess
ny selfe to be exceedingly obliged, and to cover the inclosed, rom your precious husband, that it may come safe to your lands, by this our approved freind, CaiJt. Clarke, who, I
inow, will speedily deliver
it
to yourself.
letter,
I jjerceive that
that he
opportunitie of returning vmto you, which confirmes my what Capt. Seely reportes, that we may expect his reAirne, by the will & blessing of God, some time the next
irst
Deliefe of
iioneth.
jvith
The goodLord,whom windes& sea obey, fill his sailes & carrie him & his companie, as upon agles wings, farr above the reach of all hurtfull dangers, & make
favourable windes,
ais
ily,
&
to
many
others, for
& blessings to you & and your famwhose good he hath allwaies bene &
time
!
If Capt. Clarke
Patent," kc.Pub. Rec. of Conn., i. 369. Winthrop sailed not long after on this mission. He had left Connecticut as early as July, as appears by a letter
(i,
1661.
392
returne,
by the way
letter,
of Hartford, to Boston,
lie
will bring
you
will
another
Willis.
You
also receive
from me, by this bearer, bookes of newes, which, perused, he desires they might be sent to Mr.
Stone or Mr. "Willis, for freinds there to see. Be pleased to present my respectful salutacions to Honoured Mr. Symons & his wife, to your son and daughter Newman, & to your daughter,
Mrs. Lucie,
you
& to all yours. The Lord Jesus & them in mercy & peace & loving kindnesses
Yours exceedingly obliged,
dwell with
!
In
whom
I rest
John Davexpoet.
My wife & son jiresent theyre humble service to yourselfe, with salutacions to all yours, affectionately.
JE.
(p. 529.)
Honorable John Wlnihrop, Esqr. Governour of Connedeeute, these present with speed, at his house in Hartford, with the packet.
HoNOE.^BLE SiE,
turne
Tliesc
for
few
lines,
tend onely to reyour kinde letter, & to usher the packet of intelligences which I received from London, by Capt. Martin, which, I thinck, you will willingly peruse, if you have not seen them alreadie. I thought to have proposed a motion for your wrighting to the Governour of Mattachusets, that a day might be agreed upon, wherein all N. E. might, with one accord, bewaile the burning k devastacion of that greate citie ;* but even now, an order is come to us from the Court for a fast to be kept publickly in these churches, on the 1st Wednesday in April, which will be the next 4th day. The warning is too short for so sollemne & extraordinary a duetie
at present,
distracting buisenesses
upon me,
many thancks
JR.
393
to
we purpose
to obeie
it,
as
it
may
please
God
inable.
whereunto I suspect that we are not regularly & orderly called, weight by the Courts order, for many reasons which are of things, all in attended order due see a to desire with me, who for nedum in so weighty affaires. But I shall suppress that,
the present,
& also our just greivance for the ill usage of the messengers sent from these churches to enquire of the causes Hartford, to the of that scandalous division in the church at end that we might consider fit expedients for the quenching among them, as fire, & for the settling of trueth & peace
of that
we
of churches. are bound to endeavour by the communion sending This some of the Magistrates laboured to hinder, by them reproving &by them, before them convent to the Marshal The cheife actors herein were [the 2 before many witnesses.
Allins
&
might add 'also a wrong done to this by an unrighteous order (as the Asdeclared it to be in sistants & Deputies from these Townships them to Mr. Eospaid by be to rate for a the Court at Hartford,) But I am loath to trouble you with complaints of things setor. High done in your absence, & without your consent. To the Most Sir, we commend our cause & case. For yourselfe, Honorable
& Mr.
Talkot.]
am desirous to assure you that I am as heartily yours as ever, engagements for alwaies mindful of your love, & of my strong me & myne, the same, together with the effects thereof toward your selfe & to service our present who do joyntly & severally salntacions Mrs. Winthrop, with our affectionate & respectful
to all yours
;
on you & them, through Jesus Christ, in whom I rest Yours exceedingly obliged, Sir,
of the 1st
m.
1067.
:
Mar
29
166T."
just seventy years of age, This last letter was written when its author was Cliurch in Boston. We here and about the time of his removal to the First work, ^i^l^ ''."' '^'^*];.^ts and tran^^^^^^^ riose the epistolary portion of this Vol. i. pp. 32b- s) ot the Latin tions (as given by Mather, in his Magnalia, signed by the other mimsleMer composed by Mr. Davenport and jointly Rev. John Dury, 'or the famous the to 1660 (about ters of the colonj. Churches of the reformaUon. restoring of cn,n,/,-o, among the divided
)
394
APPENDIX.
" Flagrante Schismntis Tncendio, Ecdes'ms, quas oporiehat Arctissimo Pads ei Uniiatis Vinculo Deo Lacerabat Erinnys usque
;
conferrent,
;
adeo ut qui muhiom contra comproh dolor ! conceriationes MidianSicut enim Juvenes, quos ad Dimicandum quo-
Abnerus Provocabat,
rundam
Ijene
Viiio,
se muiuis Vulneribus Confecerunl; sic, qui partes potius aguni male Disputantium,
Lites,
quam
Schis-
Evangelizantium, Jurgia,
Ammorum
Divortia,
mataet Scandala, inEcclesiis Evangelicis Suhoriuntur,non sine gravi Lifirmorum Offendiculo, nee sine summo bonorum omnium Mcerore,
ae Inimicorum Evangeliccn Veritntis Oblectamento." " While the fire o{ schism has been raging, the hateful fury has miserably torn to pieces the churches that should have been held together in the strictest bonds of love and unity inso;
mutual help against the fallen upon one another, as in the day of Midian. As the young men, upon the provocation of Abner, wounded one another to death thus, by the fault of some, who do the part rather of bad loranglers than of good preachers, there do arise in the reformed churches those broils, and strifes, and animosities, and schisms, and scandals, which offend the weak and afflict the good, and are no little satisfaction to the enemies of gospel-truth."
for
;
much
that they
-"
Nunc
tot
Vero,
Postquam Gustos
Israelis,
Deus
Pacis, dedit in
istis
Medicinam faciendam esse, Xecessarium Judicarint, En! Bonorum omnium Animi, in Spem eredi, Malorum istorum Saluiarem flausulam Expectant, et Votis intimis, Palrern Misericordiarum Vobiscum invocani, ut Spiritus sui
Corda
Gratia,
aciiones
Servorum Suorum
dirigere,
dignetur."
" But now that the 'Keeper of Israel,' the 'God of peace,' hath put it into the hearts of many churches and rulers, to ap-
prehend it necessary that a cure should be sought for these wounds, behold the minds of all good men do with a raised hope expect an happy close of these mischiefs and with most
!
"
395
by the grace
his
etiam
hi
eodem Vobiscum Corpore, Sub eodem Vapite Jesu Vhrlsto, Constihdos, ad I^^egotmm hoc, in Scmriormn Communione Promovendmv, fraterne invitasti."
reverend hroiher [Durj-,] in that manner, imto the promoting of this affair, in the communion of sainis invited us, who belong to the same mystical body with your selves, under one head, our Lord
ri>,'ht
well,
you have,
after a brotherly
Jesus Christ."
" Dlca Verv non
nil est
Orthodoxis
diculum posuerint
remoram,
bnpedire
ade-
Vltiis
InExcessu.
" Quippe quod sincere de Errorlbus Judicare, et Errores Tolerare, Ulrinnque Judlcamus esse ApostoUcce Bocirinw Gonsonum. Toleratio Vero Frcdrum Infirmorum, non debet esse adsque Eedargutione, Bed tantum absque Eeiamen
In
Fratrlhus Infirmis
jectione."
"Nevertheless,
desired so
'tis
not to be
if
much among
which peace ought to be no bar unto and by their example, would rescue the future peace from the extremes wherewith it would be rendred faulty." "For we reckon that as well to judge what things are errors, as to bear with such errors in weaker brethren, are both of them agreeable to what we have been taught by the apostles. The toleration of our erroneous brethren shoiild not be without rebuking, but
rejecting of
it
should be without
those brethren.
396
APPENDIX.
John Dayenport, with the dates of composition, (or of publication where the former date could not be ascertained, ) and adding also the whereabouts of the copies of his printed works so far as known by him in which great
of the writings of
completeness has been attained. We here copy (with slight changes or additions, ) the list as thus given bj' Prof. Dexter, with the initials used, which refer to the following libraries A. A. S., American Antiqiiarian Society Bodl., Bodleian B. Publ., Boston Public Library B. Ath., Boston AthencBum G. B., the late George Brinley Br. Mus., British Museum H. M. D., the Rev. Henry M. Dexter, D. F. B. D., my own D. H. U., Harvard University M. H. S., Mass. Historical SociU. S., Library of Congress Y. C, ety Pr. Prince Librai'y Yale College. 1615-16. MS. volume of sermons preached at Hilton Cascle presented to Y. C. in 1794 by his great-great-grandson, Hon. James Davenport, of Stamford. Five MS. letters to the Rt. Hon. Sir Ed1624, Oct. -Nov.
: ; ;
of State
London.
[Printed
(ip. jiart)
Davenport Familj', pp. 56, 66.] Response in his examination for degree of B. 1625, May 18. in a MS. volume belonging to A. B. Davenport, D., at Oxford of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Stamford, Ct. [See pp. 69, 70 this vol.]
;
[1625-28?] In the last named volume, reply to Dr. Alexander Leighton, about Kneeling at the Sacrament also, other memoranda on conformity. [See pp. 73, 78, this volume. ] A circi lar letter, signed by him in conjunc1627, Mch. 2.
;
tion with
Thomas
in Calendar
Dom.
State
i,
ed. Grosart, v.
An
prefixed to
Henry
"O'EITINGS
OF JOHN DAVENPORT.
397
SciidcTer's
to
The first of a series of nine manuscript Lady Mary Vere in the Br. Mus., Birch MSS., 4275
;
prin-
p. .312.
;
same ibid., 314. committee (of which he is the first named) of the "Company of the Massachusetts Bay," to John Endecott in Transactions A. A. S., iii, 30rt, 79,
30.
June
The second
letter to the
1629, Apr.-Jnne.
Two
;
letters
from
96.
1629.
"A
published in
a Sermon preached to the Captabies and Gentlemen that exercise Armes in the Artillery Garden" June 23, 1629. Lond. 4. jjp.
viii, 27.
B. Ath.,
and
also
an imperfect copy in A. A.
8.
The
third letter to
Lady
Vere.
[Found
at
page 360 of this volume. ] 1629. Preface, signed jointly by him and the Eev. Richard Sibbes, D.D., to the following works of the Kev. John Preston, D. D., late Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge The New Covenant The Breast Plate of Faith and Love The Saints' Qualification. These prefaces are reprinted in Grosart's edition of Sibbes' Works, v. i, pp. xcv-c. His MS answer "to certaine obiections devis1631, Jan. 15. ed against him bj' Timothy Hood, sometyme his Curate ;" in Record Office, London. An abstract is given in the Calendar
: ; ;
Dom.
State Papers,
1629-31, p. 483.
[Found
in
Supplemen-
An
3,
entry
Pt.
made
ch. 4.
knowledging God's
in the Magnalia, Bk.
heliJ in
1,
quoted
89 of this vol-
ume. ]
[1633,
Nov.
?]
MS. on
"Christ's Church,
and
his
government
of
it ;"
in A. A. S.
;
The fourth letter to Lady Vere printed in [1633, Nov. ?] Davenport Genealogy of 1851, and pp. 96 to 110 of present volume. MS. letter to Sir Wm. Boswell, agent of the 1634, Mch. 18. King of England at the Hagiie in Br. Mus., Additional MSS.,
;
No. 6394.
p. 196. 51
398
1634,
APPENDIX.
[Dec]
"
"
. .
"Certaine Instructions delivered Church," dated Apr. 28, 163-1 " The Greivances, and Complaints of the English Church in Amsterdam, Anno 1634. The 18. of October ;" and further remarks. This pamphlet, (4, pp. iii, 24) was published by W. Best, without the author's knowledge. In Br. Mus. andBodl.
;
: .
Amsterdam
1635, Jan.
"A
Protestation
oc-
..."
Eotterdam.
letter to
liams's Libr.,
London.
Lady
Yere.
[Found
in present
1636 [Jan. ?] Seventh letter to the same [edition of 1851.] " Apologeticall Reply to an answer [by J. Paget] to 1636.
W. B[est]. ..." Eotterdam. 4"^. In Br. Mus., BodL, Pr., and G. B. 1638, Mch. 12. Letter (in his hand, but signed also by Theophilus Eaton) to the Governor, Deputy, and Assistants of Massachusetts. Printed in Collections of Mass. Hist. Soc, 3d Series, vol. 3, p. 165, in Savage's 2d ed. of Winthrop's Joiirnal, i, 484,
and in Davenport Geneal., [edition
[1638-9?]
1851,] p. 323.
Government
in a
New
Plantation whose Design is Eeligion." Cambridge, New Eng4. pp. 24. land. "In the Title page whereof, the 1663, Name of Mr. Cotton, is, by Mistake, put for that of Mr. Daven-
portr
(Magnalia, Bk.
3,
Ath., H. U.,
and G.
B.
In Pr., M. H. S., B. Pt. 1, Ch. 4.) [A copy of this small tract, of 24 pages,
sale
brought
Library.
$45,
at the recent
(in N.
Y.
of
the Menzies'
1639. "An Answer of the Elders of the severall Churches in New England unto Nine Positions, sent over to them (by di." This was printed as pages vers Ministers in England) 49-78 of a volume entitled " Chiirch-Government and Church." London: 1643. 4. Pr. A. A. S., Covenant discussed
. . . .
U.
S.,
and
F. B. D.
[1639,
Aug. 22 V]
"A
[See pp. 133-135 of present edition.] Profession of Faith, made at his ad-
399
mission into one of the Churches of God in New England. " I have a copy printed as pages 34-40 of John Cotton's " Covenant 4. The same, i^rinted of Gods free Grace." London, 16-41. 4^. pp. 8,) is in Br. Mus., (London, 1642. separately. Bodl., U. S., H. M. D., the library of the late Eev. Horace Bushnell, D. D., and G. B. Br. Mus. and B. Publ. have it, appended to Cotton, as above, 1645. Eeprinted with Preface, by the Rev. Dr. Bacon, New Haven. 1853. 12. Eighth letter to Lady Vere printed in N. 1639, Sept. 28.
;
and Geneal. Register, ix, 149. Also in present edition of Davenjjort History and Genealogy, pp. 369, 370. Remarks at the trial of Mrs. Eaton in the 1644, Aug. 14. records of the New Haven Church, and printed in Bacon's
E. Hist,
;
Ninth Letter to Lady Vere. " The Knowledge of Christ Indispensably required of all men that would be saved ..." A volume of sermons, from Acts ii, 36, with the running-title, "The True Messias or Crucified Jesus the Christ." London. 1653. 4.
1647, Nov. 13.
[1648, or earlier.]
pp.
S.,
vi, 87.
S.,
U.
and G.
:
[1649?]
ate
MS.
Letter to the Rev. John Cotton, of Boston 1650, May 6. printed in Davenport Genealogy, [1851,] 343. "The Power of Congregational Churches Asserted [1652?] " and Vindicated In answer to a treatise of Mr. J. Paget.
;
.
London.
163.]
1672.
16. pp.
S.,
x,
179 [or,
by
S.,
correct numeration,
In Pr., M. H.
H. U., A. A.
F. B. D.
Amer. Congregational
Association, H.
1653, Aug. 20. In Bacon, 366. 1653, Aug. 25.
M.
D.,
and
New London.
:
MS.
letter to Mrs.
i,
no. 14,
in Pr.
1655.
Mch.
10.
J.
Winthrop.
M. H.
S. Coll.,
XXX,
1655, Apr.
14-19.
M. H.
S. Coll.,
XXX,
400
1655,
July
6.
and M. H.
xxx, 14.
xxx, 12.
H.
S. Coll.,
Catechisme containing the Chief By Davenport, and his assis16-. tant in the ministry, William Hooke. London, 1659. pp.62. In Br. Mus. and Y. C. Eeprinted (with Davenport's "Profession of Faith,") New Haven, 1853. 12. 1656, July 131658, Aug. 8. MS. outlines of sermons in
[1656,
or earlier.]
"A
Heads
of Christian Religion."
In Conn. Hist.
88.
is
by Wood (Athena? Oxonienses, ed. Bliss, iii, hand in writing the life of Mr. John Cotton published by John Norton." Letter to J. Winthrop. 1658, July 20. In Bacon, 372, and M. H. S. Coll., xxx, 19. 1658, Aug. 4. Letter to the same. In Bacon, 373, and M. H,
He
said
8.
In Bacon, 375,
Remarks
Letter to
at a
Mch.
18.
J.
Winthrop.
M. H.
S. Coll.,
xxx, 23.
In Bacon, 377. In Bacon, 378, and M. In Bacon, 379, and M. In Davenport Geneal.,
381,
H. H.
S. Coll.,
xxx, 25.
xxx, 29.
and M. H.
5.
S. Coll.,
1660, Apr.
S. Coll.,
In Bacon,
and M. H,
xxx, 31.
H.
S. Coll.,
xxx, 33.
4,
1660,
June
401
3opkins Fi;nil, addressed to the General Court of New Haven. ;n Trumlmll's Hist, of Conn., 2d ed., i, 532. In M. H. S. Coll.. Letter to J. Wintlirop. 1660, July 20.
txx. 34.
16G0, Aug.
!18ol,) 350,
11.
In Davenport Geneal.,
and M. H.
xxx. 37.
andM.
H.
S. Coll.,
xxx, 42.
[1660
?]
tVIagnalia,
also, S.
Latin letter to the Rev. John Dury. Extracts in the See, iii, pt. i, ch. 4, [and present vol. p. 394.] Mather's Apology for the Liberties of the Churches, p.
Bk.
19.
166.
1661,
Aug.
Letter to Sir
Thomas Temple.
S.
. . .
In Daven-
"The
Saint's
Anchor Hold
Sundry Sermons."
12. pp. viii, 231. In Br. Mus., Pr., G. B., Library A of the Rev. Dr. Bacon, Library of Lane Theol. Seminary. portion of this is given in Davenport Geneal., 1851, pp. 293-310.
Loudon.
1662,
July.
Letters to
Coll.,
1662, Nov,
5.
;
to Connecticut
be written by
515.
Trumbull's Conn., 2d
1663,
March
23.
S.
mouth. In M. H.
1663,
May
6.
i,
A
517.
second
letter
to Connecticut.
In Trum.,
bull's Conn.,
1663.
"Another Essay
I.
for Investigation
of the Truth,
concerning,
The
Siibject of Baptism.
II.
tion of Churches." Cambridge, N. E. 4. pp. face (pp. xvi) is by Increase Mather pp. 65-71 are tilled
;
'Considerations
and G.
1664.
B.
Mus.
In
A MS. A
named Essay.
of Flushing,
copy is in A. A. S. March. "New Haven's Case Stated." Records printed in Bacon, 359.
N. Y.
1664.
;
In N. H. MS.
402
1664,
APPENDIX.
Dec.
i,
14.
A
The
third from N.
final letter to
H. Colony to Conn.
ibid,
In
Trumbull,
1665,
526.
5.
16G5, Jan.
Conn.
i,
528.
June
24.
John Leverett,
of Boston.
In Hutchinson's Collections, 392. 1665, Nov. 2. MS. letter to AVilliam Goodwin, of Hadley
no.
o5':(
in vol.
M. H.
1666, Apr.
Letter to
J.
Wiuthrop.
ibid.,
In M.
H.
S.
Coll..
XXX, 58.
1666,
June
14.
xxx, 58.
xi.
prefixed to
Increase Mathers
1669.
"Mystery of
Israel's Salvation."
London,
In B. Publ., G. B., P. B. D. 1668, Apr. 18. Transfer of the Hopkins Fund to the General Court of Conn. in MS. Records of N. H. Hopkins Grammar
16.
;
School, p.
4.
1669, May. Mass. Election Sermon, from .II. Sam., Published, but no copy now known to be extant.
J
xxiii, 3.
669.
Cam. .
bridge, England, 4. pp. 27. In Bodl., B. Publ., and G. B. In 1687 appeared a folio sheet of "Proposals for Printing
an Exposition of the whole Book of Canticles by the late John Davenport." A copy is in Br. Mus. Wood says that the MS. was 100 sheets, but that the intending publisher died be.
.
was carried
out.
S.,
are
more than
fifty
404
APPENDIX.
This Taukard, of solid beateu Silver, and well preserved, belonged to Kev.
John Davenport, and, without dotibt, was brought over by him in " the good ship Hector," Capt. Femes, iu 1637. It descended to his grandson, the Rev. John Davenport, of Stamford, when it passed to his daughter Sarah, (No.
7.5,)
who married
was bought of the family of her grandson, Kev. William Patton, D.D., of Newport, R. I., by Hon. John Davenport. (No. 120,) of Stamford, and given by him to his grandson, John S. Davenport, (No. 311.) the xJresent owner.
The family Coat of Ai-ms, probably engraved on it in London, apjiears ou the tomb-stone of both the Stamford minister, and also of Sarah Wheelock, as confirmed to Henry Davenport, (No. 58,) the father of John, by Leuuard and Vincent, at the Herald's Visitation, in 1(11',).
The Crest resembles that
of a wolf's head, and, probably like the felon
Crest, has reference to the family rights for the clearance of wolves
and robVivian
bj- charter, to
de Davoni5ort,
(ot
fifty
years ago.
ADDENDA.
The
foiand
14tli
me
Wm.
Geo. Fretton, an
some addition-
information gathered from the records of that ancient city too valuable to be omitted in this work.* In it he sends a fac-
John,) as affixed
Henry Davenport, (the father of Rev. an act of Leet, Oct. 12, 1622 also one of Christopher Davenport, from a deed dated March 20, 1576 ^just 300 years from the date of our present undertaking. It may here be remarked that the name is frequently found in ancient documents, as also in the Calendar of State pa^iers, as Dami^ort, but always indexed as spelled in the usual form. Kev. John Davenport was accustomed to write his name with a final e. "We are thus enabled to account, somewhat, for the difference in the autograph, here given, of Christopher Davenport, which is undoubtedly that of the Mayor of 1602, and the one shown on the outline engraving facing page 41, which was some 46 years later. The reader can judge how much that period had improved both his orthography and chirogphy. We here quote from the letter of Mr. Fretton " This portrait of Davenport is in the Council Chamber with that of other benefactors of the city. His will is dated 1627, and it was proved in 1629.t The copy I sent you was taken from a
simile of the aiitograph of
to
;
* Mr. Fretton succeeded his father as Master of one of the Free Schools,
founded by Mrs. Katherine Bayley, who died in 1730, and was buried in the Archdeacon's Chapel of Trinity Church, near where is noted the burial of Philemon Holland.
of Coventry,
tThis date corrects the conclusion, on page 39, that Christopher Davenport in the contest lor the removal of the high altar piece, in the Church of the Holy Trinity; and, as herein shown, the name
Henry appears
52
406
ADDENDA.
drawing by Nickson, in the Cogmbe Collection. The name of Henry Davenjjort appears as a Chiirchwarden at St. Miehrel's Church in 1642 the only instance I have met with the name among the wardens of that Church. " Among the monuments in the Treasury of St. Mary's Hall,
;
is
try,
in
payment
of a legacy of
William Hopkins, of the same citie, drapei-, deceased. Dated 20th March 1576, with wafer seal monogram, signed 'p'nie.
Q^^yj/
"In one
of the Maniiscript
Annals of the
city is the
follow-
ing interesting entry in reference to Christojiher Davenport, (I.) In this year was a '(1598.) Roger Clark, Draper, Mayor.
between the Commonalty and the masters about Clark being Mayor, rose from the Jayle, came to St. Mary's Hall and ' would have gone into the Council House, but the Commonal'ty would have thrust him down St. Mary's Hall stairs, then he went home to his own house, but the People took the Sword frqm him, and said he should not have it he and the masters 'would have had Mr. Damport, but the Commonalty would 'have Mr. Richard Smith, and so they Rad, and kept out Mr. 'Damport 3 choise days longer,* but Mr. Smith did little good for their good will that strove for him. Mr. Dampoit was a good man to the Commonalty.' "In reference to the School, said to have been founded by DaveniDort, (the account of which I gave you down to the Commissioners report,) I have gleaned further information. [See p, The Commissioners having recommended that the fund 41.] should be applied to the education of poor children, as originally intended, a master was aj^pointed in 1834. who was, at
'great strife
'
'
'
'
'
* This
means
3 election days,
407
that time one of the under masters of the Free School, and the Corporation paid him 15 a year in consideration thereof. In
1839, he resigned, and the then master of Bablake School was appointed, additional boys being placed on the foundation, for whose teaching the master received the stipend formerly paid
to the
Free School, but their clothing and maintenance were provided for by the Bablake Trustees. On the resignation of this master, a few years ago, the payment made to him was transferred to the Trustees of the Bablake School, and incorporated with the income of that foundation and it was probably this that gave your informant [in 1850,] the impression that Bablake School was founded by Davenport, which was in:
correct.
" On referring to the City Leet Book to-day, I met with the signatures of both Christopher and Henry Davenport [broththe former ers,] attached to an act of Leet passed Oct. 15, 1622
;
is
you
[see
page
47,]
and the
latter
is as
follows
'^mm?^
'I find,
Henry's signature,
many
Drapers' Company, of which he was a member, and his signature is as above. I also find that the second Christopher's name [brother of John,] is among the members of the Braidweavers'
and
Clothiers'
Company, and in
1642,
find the
name
of
Christopher and Henry Davenport, who paid for their freedoms (they were youwj men, and probably sons of one or
pher,
known
(See p. 42.)
408
work was in press, we have also received through W. Bromley Davenport, Esq., M. P. of Baginton Hall, Coventry, photographic views of Capesthorne and Wootton Halls, two of the ancient Cheshire estates of which Mr. Davenport is proprietor. The same gentleman has also kindly sent me copies of the report of the Commission appointed to examine his collection of Historical manuscripts, contained in Baginton and Capesthorne Halls, from which report we here give a few selections, taken somewhat at random.
While
this
the courtesj' of
The Manuscripts
P.,
at
There is a large wooden case containing many hundreds of ancient deeds relating to Warwickshire property, and with them
are a few Court Rolls of the Manor of Haseley. In one of the bundles of deeds was a paper indorsed, "John Weale's note of the grant to me of " Shakspeare's house, by goodwife Sharpe." The document is dated 4th of March 97, and is signed with "the mark of John Weale." It states that John Weale of Hatters, had " given, granted, and assigned to Job Throck" moi'ton of Haselej', in the county of Warwick, esquire, and to "his heirs forever, all his right, &c., in a certain cottage or "tenement, with the appurtences in Haseley aforesaid, wherein
now
dwelleth."
A hand
document
but the
name
of the grantee
(Job Throckmorton)
prove that the document is of the year 1597. The name of Shakspeare was not uncommon in the county but, having regard to the Christian name and the date, an examination of the Court
;
may be suggested. In the libraiy are a good many veiy interesting Manuscripts, [We extract here and there.] Contemporary copy of Walter Travers's letter to the Lords of the Council, pi-aying that the Archbishop's pi-ohibition of his preaching at the Temple might be recalled. (The controversj' The letter has is mentioned in Izaak Walton's Life of Hooker.
been printed. Johannis Rainoldi ultima Berfins, "Moyses ex Aegypto
prtelectio
"
et
imperi-
409
tim in
omnem
reternitatem,
Amen."'
(Folio, 8 leaves,
closelj'
written.
A comparison of the translations of the Bible the vmlgar Latin and that which is out of the original Latin and Greek. Copy of letter from Charles 1 to John, Bishop of Worcester, V. C. of the University of Oxford (18 July 1G42,) giving thanks
;
money in
a time of
imminent
necessity.
gesses
1620.
Copy
Whitehall, 12
Aug. 1635.
place
Chief Justice Heath, of what took on Strafford's impeachment, between the King, the Judges, and Bishops. Original holograph letter by Ben Jonson, addressed, " To my right worthy friend, Mr. Geo. Garrard," sending an Epitaph (of 14 lines, also holograph) on 'Sell Boulstred. The lady's ei^itaph is rather poor, although Jonson, by his letter, thought I do not tind it among his printed works, and therewell of it.
fore subjoin
it
Memorandum by Lord
Stay, view this stone, and if thou beest not such. Read here a little that thou may'st know much It covei-s first a Virgin, and then one That diirst be that in Court a virtu 'alone
;
To
an Epitaph. But she had more. She might have claym'd t' have made the Graces foi;r. Taught Pallas language, Cynthia modesty. As tit to have increas'd the harmony Of spheares, as light of Starres she was earth's Eye, The sole religious House and Votary, With rites not bound, but conscience. Would'st thou She was 'Sell Boulstred. In which name I call
till
:
all?
Up
so
much
truth as
could
liei'e*
ptirsue
true.
fable of
Good Women
it
From Ben
Jonson's letter
and wrote the verses while Mr. (xarrard's man waited. Privy Seal Warrant by Anne, Queen of James 1, for John
* In the margiu Jonson proposes the word
it
410
Woolf
to
fumes, &c.
Copy
over) to
and Sophia
(of
Han-
Queen Anne.
1713.
Original letter from the Electress Sophia to Mr. Bromley, complimenting him on his son. (Indorsed Received 25 May,
1714.)
Folio,
one
2.
vol.
Copy
Edw.
3 to
Richai'd
Remembrances for order and decency be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there. (15 leaves.) Folio. A collection of certain cases and proceedings at law from the death of King Charles 2 to the end of the reign of King William 3. Begins, "Mem. The "King died on the 6tli "King James was proclaimed of February, about | after 11.
Folio, 18th century.
to
The volume contains 92 leaves, and is, I think, written at 3." by James Wright, whose autograph is on the cover. Reports of proceedings in the Star Chamber, temp. Charles
1.
Copies of credentials to ambassadors to difl'erent States, temp. Queen Anne. Folio, 108 pages. Copies of letters by William Bromley while Secretary of State,
1713-14.
Folio,
several volumes.
letter
in one of
them
gives an account of
Queen Anne's
death.
and
about 30 quarto leaves, entitled Second Advice to the Freeholders of England. Pedigrees of Warwickshire and Leicestershire families. A folio volume of 58 leaves (from Sir George Naylor s library.
political tract of
last
Copy of Visitation of Staftbrshire, 1583. A folio volume, from Sir George Naylor's library. There are several MS. volumes by James Wright, a barrister of the Temple in the 16th and 18th centuries.
Miscellanea and Collectanea (biographical, genealogical,
erary and historical.)
lit-
volume. There is also a 12 volume of sermons by Abraham Wright whose appointment to preach at PauFs has been previously
folio
noticed.)
AlFKED
J.
HOKWOOD.
ADDENDA.
"ill
Thk Manuscripts
1M. P.,
at
those at BagThe manxiscripts here are not so numerous as [Here deselect.] inton but are nevertheless interesting. contains a A folio volume, paper, partly of the 15th century,
miscellaneous collection,
by Humphry Newton ot born (according to entries of births, beginning of the volume) on deaths, and marriages at the to Elena, daughter Thursday, 3d October 1466, and married on the 7th April Pennial. of Esq., Fitson. and heir of Thomas
chiefly
1490.
The contents areof legal forms; Genealogical and historical notes and copies memoranda of the an English tract on fee-farms (2 1. pages ;)
title of
the heirs of Neuton (1 leaf. leaves. vision in a traunce of John Neuton (3 Humphry Kental of the vill of Newton, made by
Neuton
letter
and
of
A narrow
his counsel, 14 Henry for every slip of paper containing proverbs hall. the of larder the in set to the alphabet,
7.
The contents
(Dr.
noticed a Copy ot There are loose papers, among which I Chas. Ednephew, his of death the on Verses by Henry Marten There are 36 lines monds, Esq., wiio died 7 July 1661, at 30. very poor. Marten was dated Tower. 21 July 1661. They are 1680. the regicide he died at Chepstow in
;
Another, of Offices, 15th century, Grolier binding. most exquisite paintings. of French origin 15th century, with 13th and 14th cenThere are a great number of deeds of the now or formerly the property of the
A Book
turies,
Davenports
and con-
Macclesfield and a roll 3 cerning the serjeanty of the forest of giving an account of robinches wide and nearly 2 feet long, who held the office the roll bers beheaded by the Davenports of Edward 2. is, I think, of the time : the deeds I noted especially the following
;
Among An Inquisition
(temp. Hen.
3,)
ex-
412
changed with Ranulph, formerly Earl of Chester, his park, and the pu-
This feudal office, forture to the said serjeanty belonging. merly involving the power of life and death, without appeal, has ever since remained in the family, and is now vested in Mr. Bromley-Davenport. Order, by Edward son of Henry 6, as Earl of Chester, to take It is addressed the outlawed persons named in the schediale. The schedule to John Davenport, and is dated 37 Hen. 6. contains many names. A roll of the 8 James I, containing the taxation money, for Macclesfield, Wm. Davenport being principal collector. Letters patent (8 Hen. 6) appointing John de Davenport to collect the proportion of the Northwich hundred of the subsidy of 1,000 marks for the support of the King in his wars.
*******
Alfred
J.
At both his houses Mr. Davenport so welcomed and entertained me and lightened ray labours that I cannot in my remembrances place Baginton after Capesthorne, or Capesthorne before Baginton.
Horwood.
Medieval Relics. Reference is made in note, on page 34, of months ago of the ancient Bramhall estate. Since
:
then the papers on both side the Atlantic contain the following At a recent sale of me liiBval relicts in Bramhall Hall, Cheshire England, what was thought the finest piece of heraldic tapestry in England, was knocked down for 25. It was worked between the years 1550 and 1579, and was sixteen feet long by seven wide. It contained thirty-three coats of arms, detailing the alliances of the Davenport family for generations. At the same sale a four post bedstead with hangings of curious needlework, dei^icting Adam and Eve in Paradise, brought 150. A long inscription announced that they were worked between 1610 and 1636, by Dame Dorothy Davenport. The old oak furniture
generally sold well, and a cabinet of the sixteenth
laid
centiii'y, in-
with marbles,
brought
210
guineas.
EERATA.
We approach the subject indicated bj' this heading, with a consciousness of the imperfections of both the aiithor and
we must confess the sins of others,) of even the here correct the most observable errors, while the expert and critic will doubtless find others. In some cases, the
editor, and,
(^if
printer.
We
manner perfectly
ac-
appear
word
chiefs.
P. 40, in first line of note, read 1871, for 1864. P. 51, in eighth line, for show, read shows. P. 50, in sixth line, for arraigned, read arrayed. P. 57, in last line but one, for Loyal, read Royal. P. 60, thirteenth line P. 117, in fifth line P. 119, P. 247,
from top, for my, read any. from bottom, for 1638, read 1838. in eighth line from bottom, insert the, after to. after sixteenth line supply date, Aug. 19, 1867.
word and.
P. 259, in first line, for Francis, read Frances. P. 313, seventh line P. 317,
from bottom, for Philopjedian, read Philopfedean. from bottom, for Maralla, read Marilla. in eighteenth line from top, for No. 307, read 308.
P. 341, in eighth line, for Beatrice, read Beatrix. P. 341, in last line, for
New York
city, read
Danbury,
Ct.
f5ofa.
read
of.
The extracts found on pp. 100-105, should have been credited as drawn from the j^aper of Prof. Dexter, (N. H. Colony, His. Society Papers, ) Vol. II, ])p. 224-5, with quotation marks given at the close of 9th line, (p. 105.) The notes found at the bottom of pp. 102-3 were supplied from manuscripts furnished by Mr. Dexter, from the State Pliper Office, London, or from Calendar of State Papers.
The following
foot of
page 168:
53
414
Dr. B. F. Davenport, (a yoiiiig physician, of No. 751
street,
Tremont
of the des-
cendants of this Thomas Davenport, his ancestor, who settled and also of Capt. Kichard, who at Dorchester, Mass., in 1640 sailed from Weymouth, England, June 20th, 1628, in the ship besides many hundreds of others who bear the name Abigail of Davenport in this country all of which results, it is believed, he designs, in due time, giving to the jjress.
;
the family of
thus
a
far, he has wrought a good work, although he complains of want of adequate interest and co-operation on the part of
those
whom
liev. George H. Davenport, of Foxlej', Hereford, Engwhose ancestors removed, at an early period, from Cheshire to North Staffordshire, (but a few miles from Davenport in the former county,) has for some years been interested in exami ling the records of Chester, Litchfield, and also in the British Museum, and in making collections in regard to the family in England. He has been very anxious to obtain information of the whereabouts of certain MS. Pedigrees of the familj- of the Davenports of Cheshire and Staffordshire, compiled by Wirrall and others, which were bought bj' some American collector about 1872. Any information concerning them is earnestly solicited by Eev. Mr. Davenport, and may be communicated to him, by addressing the writer. No. 11 Garden Place, (Brooklyn Heights, ) Brooklyn N. Y.
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INDEX
OF SURNAMES OTHER THAN THAT OF DAVENPORT.
Oheever, 142. 3heldleton, 21. Bingham, 241. Chesebrough, 254. Birdseyc, 324. Bishop, 189,201, 207, 240 Child, 332. hristmas, 251. 254. Clarendon, 159, 341. Blundeville. 21. Cleaveland, 248, 276. 34. 'Blunt, 230, Clock, 297. JBoleyn. 55. Coggshall, 235, 258. Bolton, 356. Cogswell, 234, 235. Bond, 278, 314. Colton, 223. Bonney. 268.
jBeveridge, 222.
I
20.5,
IBoorman,
1
253, 254,
260,
280.
296. 332.
5Ji,_CtiT
Boswell. 54.
3onway
1
,
6,
40
.56,
Bourne,
376.
27.
Bradford, 26.
Bradshaw,
115,14'.
,
Bradstreet, 377.
iotton, 5, 90, 109, 112. 114, 135, 137, 166, 173, 174. 199, 223, 371, 372. Sowles, 241. Bridgeman, 4. Irissey, 226. Bristol. 196. Crofut, 329. Bromliall, 31. B. Cromwell, 135, 144, 145. Bromley. 12,23, 29, 37, 375. 358. Bacon, 3, 80, 117, 118, 217. Cross, 120, 121, 131, 143, 158, Brough, 103. Crosswell, 218. 160. 168, 172, 173, 174, Brown, 244, 301. Bruen, 256, 257, 258, 291. CuUick, 388. 193, 216, 304, 343, 378. Currier, 278, 314. 80. 61, 65, Buckingham, Badger, 292. Cuyler, 3.32. Budington, 293. Balinford, 361, 367. D. 238. Buel, 220, Banks, 37. iBurchard. 271. Barber, 121. 172. Dana, 269. iBurdett, Barker, 238. iDavis. 155, 377. Burkley, 25. Baruabit, 36, 49. Deal, 316, 340. Burnett, 243. Bascom, 293. Defoe, 72. Bates, 248, 265, 296, 297. Burr, 208, 271. 'Delancey, 281. 273. Burrall, Baxter. 145. Delves. 30. Burt, 224. BeaoUer, 115. Demon, 254. 288. ;B\ishnell, Beaumont, 384. Beecher, 115, 116, 219, Butler, 302, 325, 326, 337 Dexter, 3, 5, 38, 50, 52, 54, 85, 95, 358. Buxton, 246. 235, 294. Dibble 314. Beers, 194. Dickens, 21.5, 246. Bell, 188, 201, 239, 296. Digby, 2. Bellamy, 238. Dimon, 294. Benedict, 241, 242, 263, Cable, 244. Disborough, 383. Caldwell, 308. 264. Dix, 358. Calveley, 31 Benjamin, 302, 338. Dixwell, 155. Carpenter, 307. Bennett, 275.
26, 30.
Berkeley, 40.
Best, 105, 107. Betts, 203, 204, 268, 269,
297.
Chauncey,
55
Doolittle, 384.
'
430
Dudley, 107, Dugdale. 38.
277,
INDEX.
145, 151, 1.55, 376, 3s2. Goodrich. 157. Cioodsell, 202, 203. Goodwin, 387, .388. Goodyear, 380, 381
IHubbard,
248.
IHudson, 375,377.
iHuested, 240, 268. Hull, 167.
I
Goring,
49, 66, 79, 80 110, 112, 114, 115, 116 117, 121, 126, 127 128 lii9. 130, 131, 138, 151 155, 165, 171, 176, 187 197, 21G, 380, .382. Edwards, 186. 194 195 107, 293, 297, 261. Egerton, 356. Eld. 40. Eliot, 322. Ely, 225.
Eaton, 31
Gouge, Gould,
H.
Halt, 201. Hales, 50. Hall, 224, 225 312,356. Halsted, 229.
jHurlbutt, 229.
112.
Handford,
243.
30(i.
Haneman,
157
Hankredge,
Hannaman,
Harlbrd,
35,
371. 275.
James,
187.
Hartlib, 385.
Jeayes, 41.
iJefifers, 329.
Jefiferson, 233.
Jennings, 130.
Jerman,
Johnson,
301, 337.
140, 200, 353
Tackier, 318.
Jssup, 271.
293, 328.
Fane
359.
Hawthorn,
Fellows, 319.
Fenwick,
Jones, 116,
226, 377.
1.51, 1.53,
155
Joralemon, 294.
K.
Hide, 32. Higginson, 6, 47. Foot, 241. Hill, 68. Forbes. 103, 106, 366 Hilton, 51. Freeborn, 286. Hodshon, 142. Fretton, ll 37, 40, 41 47 Holland. 50. i "gill, 126. Holies, 359. Fuller, 80, 240, 276,
Firman,
Heminway,
Hewson, 375
947.
Ketcham, 227
Kiffen. 79.
Kingsley,
137, 176.
3, 117, 118,
122
Kirk, 152.
Knapp,
243, 271.
'
297.
Holmes,
Holt, 231.
G.
Galbraith, 312, 339. Gardiner, 378. Gautier, 285.
125, 135 136, 197, 366, 373. Hopkins, 40, 112, 129, 138 139, 141, 142, 187, 192
Hood, 85. 86, 87. Hook, 171, 384. Hooker, 102, 106,
Lafayette, 234.
Lambert,
'Lane, 43.
374, 387.
Laud,
14, 45, 60, 70 82, 84, 88, 90, 91, 96 100, 101, 102, 110, 113
114.
239,241,3.34,385. 386.'
Horton,
Lawton.
Legh,
24.
29.
Houghton,
360.
Godwin,
96.
Leicester, 366.
431
INDEX.
N.
Leverett, 280,
'iSS.
|
246, 293, 294. Quinan, 333, Liecester, 106, 107. Neal, 73 91. Limlsell, 4.5. Newell. 284. R. 126. 122, 277. 94, Newman, Liudsley, 38b. 130, 143, 380, 381. 306. iKadcliffe, 247. 2.4, 32. Newport, Lloyd,235, Kandall, 277. Newton, 24. Locke, 194. Rapelyea, 276 Lockwood, 235, 255, 285, Nicholas, 152. 226, 241, 244, jRaymond, Nickson, 35, 40. Loomis, 282. 272. Lounsbury, 267. Noble, 172. 317. 230 Reardon, Libnitz, 194. iNoyes, 171, 197, 220, iRedfield, 270. Lutliiu, 329, 332. Norton, 166, 376. Read, 383. Lyhes, 232. Reed, 243, 271. Lvngs, 385. Reynolds, 117,203,225. O. Lyou, 269, 278. lRice,157, 324.
Lewis.
-240,
iRich, 55.
M.
tOwen, 218.
lOxenbridge, 173.
Macclesfield,
2.5.
MacGowan,
314, diu184.
P.
100, 101, 102 107, 366.
Mannington,
Marshall, 333.
64.
366 iParker, 106, 278, 893, Mason, 251, 257. Parsons, 218. Massey, 26, 32. 229 Patten, 205, 228, Mastou, 68. 359. 127, Paulet, ^litber, 4, 5, 6, 111, Peabodv, 333. 179, 177, 128, 143, 174, 300. Pearsall, 183,186,200, 371.
i
Park 221
Rutherford, 382.
Sackett, 227.
jSalemon, 23.
|Saltonstall, 141. .Sampson, 288. Sanderson, 277, 312.
,Peck, 39.
McElroy,
251.
Schurz, 326.
Schofield, 274. Scofield. 240,269,274, 301. Scott, 333. Scribner, 241. Scudder, 81,239,349. Searle, 167.
Pierrepont, 283.
'pierson, 185,
384.
257, 382,
Plummer,
Pomeroy,
56, 60.
Sedgwick, 360.
Seely, 126,375. Selleck, 188, 189.
131.
Morgan,
326.
5,
Prime, 238.
Prince, 109.
332.
Munday,
Prynne,
'pullen, 303.
[pyncheon, 224.
432
Sidnam,
63.
INDEX.
Timbs, 67. Todd, 231, 249. Tomlinson, 248.
Toolie, 374.
Silliman, 230, 283. Skinner, 259,260, 262,291. Slason, 201. Sluyter, 309.
Wharton,
Wheeler,
Tornick, 24.
75, 233, 242. Townsend, 243, 246, 270, 272, 280, Tracey, 278. Tracy, 217. 218, 358. 292, 296, 297, 299. Snedon, 314. Trowbridge, 142. 167. Soule, 306. iTrumbull, 139, 163. 204. 208. 215. Spear, 252. Spring, 254. iTiirner, 70, 126. Spurston, 68. jTuttle, 246, 297. Stafford, 231. Twisden, 40. 'Twiss, 280. Stanton. 121. Stebbins, 223, 224. Steele, 316. U. Stephens, 289. Sterling, 271. iUsher, 358. Stiles, 9, 139, 154, St. John, 268, 269, 276, V. 359 iVane. 112, 374. Stoddard, 186, 200. jVarro, 349. Stone, 102, 125. Venables, 19, 20, 32. Stonell, 277. Vere,4. 13, 55, 63, 82, 96, Storrs, 224, 225, 238. 100, 103, 106, 107, 109, Story, 371. 184, 358, 359,360,3361, Stow. 72, 239. 366, 369. Street, 142, 160, 161, 171, Vernon, 25, 26. Vossius, 101. 103. 223. 231, 372. Strong, 299. Stuart, 172. W. Sturges, 270. Sturtevant, 292. Waddington, 2. Swettenham, 25. Wade, 197. Swift, 137. Wadsworth, 159. Suhm, 230. Waite, 283. Symonds, 68. Wake, 370. Wakeman, 384. T. Waldo, 278. Walker, 172, 277, 290, 313 Talmadge, 298. Ward, 270. Taylor, 45, 81, 84, 141. Warham, 186, 200, 206. 172, 206, 232,271, 309. Warner, 271, 297. Teachout, 274. Warren, 243, 265, 266, Temple, 155. 271. Teunet, 217, 218. iWashington, 208,233. 236 Thacher, 293. Waterbury, 239. Thackeray, 215. Watson, 370 Thane, 359. Webb, 227, 241, 272, 316, Thomas, 274, 384. Webster, 312. Thompson, 277. Weed, 197, 297, 301. Tiffany, 308. Wells, 68, 207, 227. 233, Tillotsou, 55, 234, 239, 240, 255.
Smith,
72,
375. 250, 270, 282, 284, 304, 318, 319, 320. 321, 322. Wheelock, 203, 204. 205, 222. 227, 228, 229, 230. Whelpley, 265, 256, 289, 290. White, 46, 92, 207, 280, .303, 317, 329, 338. Whitfield, 195, 216, 217, 218, 369. Whiting, 284, 300. Whitloek, 241, 334, 343. Whitney, 224. Whittier, 211. Whittlesey, 171. Wilcox, 279. Wilford, 224. Willcox, 255. Williams, 186, 198, 199. 200, 223, 224, 224, 225, 277, 278, 285. Willard, 206. Wilson, 66. 165, 166, 291. Winslow, 200, 239. Winston, 142. Winthrop, 146, 158, 159, 160, 163, 378, 379, 381, 382, 383, 384, 386, 387. Wolcott, '..02, 203, 239.*
WoUey,
5.
68.
Woodward,
Woolsey,
205, 230, 247, 279, 303. 140, 193. Workman, 91. Wren, .55, 66. Wright. 2.54, 380. Wulfric. 20. Wyon, 66. Wythingtou. 24.
Y.
Yale, 129. 130,
139.
141,
Young,
1851.
1852 by Kev. E.
S. Storrs,
D. D.)
A HiSTOKY AND GENEALOGY OF THE DaVENPOET FAMILY IN ENGLAND AND America. FROM A. D. 108(5 to IrtSO. By A. Benedict Davenvoet, (of the twenty-lourth geueration.) New York b. W. Beuedict.
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are not connected with the Daveuiiort lamily either by cousauguiuity or by alliance, we have read this book (which, by the way, is not, as some might suppose, a mere pamphlet, but a well-filled duodecimo vollord Littleton's and-so-tourthsume,) and we find in it, as in one of ' much weighty matter." The reader of this column shall have the benefit of some among the many thoughts which our perusal of the book has .'iuggested to us. Americans are not unconscious of the ijride of ancestry. Y'oung as we 1. are among the nations democratic and radical as we are in our spirit and tendencies destitiite as, in some men's estimation, we are ol all veneration for antiquity and of all connection and sympathy with i;he past, we have not been brought into the world without ancestors and we are beginning to be studious of local and family antiquities. Many along pedigree has been traced out, enrolling the descendants of some Pilgrim whom the Mayflower brought to Plymouth, or of some grim Puritan, who came over with Winthroij and with Eaton. Many a dry catalogue of names has been printed, in which thousands of the scattered sons of the tmiversal Yankee nation read their descent from " earth's best blood." The book now before us is by far the most elaborate work of the kind which has yet been published. It is a proof that such studies are advancing among us. It is a new demonstration that Americans have some historic sentiment, and are not incajjable of the pride of ancestry 2. This book shows us, by an example, what kind of men the chief planters of Mew England were, in respect to social position in their native country. The Davenport family deriving its nanxe from its territorial possession, in the county ot Cheshire, is traced through all its Euylish generations from Orme de DavenxJort in the days of William the Concjueror down to John Davenjjort in the days of the Puritan exodus, and iudeid down to the l)resent time. It is a family of the proud Norman blood and its principal seat at this day has been occupied by successive generations of Davenports for seven hundred years. A branch of this family was transplanted to the ancient city of Coventry about the year 1510 and there, Irom one generation to another the Davenports sustained, almost as if by some hereditary right, the highest municipal offices and honors. John Davenport, the first liastor of the New Haven Chui-ch, and jointly with Theophilus Eaton, the founder of the New Haven Colony, was ot the Davenports of Coventry. All the leading men ot the original emigration to New England were of the same rank and class, and held essentially the same social position in their native country. The fathers of the New England towns and states were not of the peasant class but ol the gentry. They were of that intelligent, free, entei-prising, high-minded middle class, which is distinguished from the great nobility on the one hand, and from the boorish i)easautry on the other and in which the vigor, the political freedom, and the progres.sive energy ot the English nation has always resided. The x^eople of New England, as a body, are not Anglo Saxmi as they are often called, but Anglo-Norman. The names enrolled in such a book as Farmer's Genealogical Register are evidence on this point. To a great extent they are the names of Norman families, names of the English nobility and gentry.
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3. We have in this genealogy an instance of the rapidity with which a family multiplies its descendants and connections in such a country as ours. John Davenport, the first of the name in this country, had only one child, John Davenport, Esq of New Haven, and afterwards of Boston. From this second John Davenport, whose only son, Rev. John D., was pastor of the church in Stamford, has descended, in less than two hundred years, a posterity the number of which we will not venture to estimate. The posterity of any one of the sons of Jacob two hundred years after the return of the patriarch with his wives and children from Mesopotamia, could hardly have been much more numerous. The persons now living who rejoice in their descent from the founder of New Haven and the mayors of Coventry, are numerous enough, if they could all be brought together, to found a very respectable commonwealth by themselves. i. It is instructive to observe in this genealogy, as may be observed in so many of the New England genealogies, the hereditary descent of covenant blessings. The entire race of the descendants of John Davenport, taken as a whole, from generation to generation, is a striking instance of the manner in which the line of descent from the lathers to the children is the line of transmission not only for God's choicest blessing, but also for those inferior blessings which ordinarily attend upon a life of godliness. The true nobility of birth and blood is the humble nobility that is born of godly parents, and descended from a godly ancestry. Doubtless such a nobility, like any other, may be disowned and dishonored, or its privileges may be forfeited by the unworthiness of those to whom it belongs but it is nevertheless true that to be thus descended is, by God's arrangement, and according to this covenant, alike a privilege and an honor.
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interesting work, indisxiensable to the numerous offshoots of the fruitful Davenport stock. Those early times were famous for large families and numerous intermarriages and in tracing the direct line of the family down through its twenty-five generations, we find it allied to a great variety of names conspicuous in our history, all of whom may find here some light upon their jjedigree. The name of Davenport is classic in New Haven, Stamford and other Connecticut towns and as the family has followed the universal law of migrating in all directions, they have carried with them a good share of the ancestral worth and repute. The editor of this volume has not only given a direct and unbroken genealogy of the various branches of the family, but thrown in a great variety of sketches and facts which have great interest. An appendix is also given, full of curious matei'ial, illustrative of our early times. These sectional histories are of great historical value and the editor of this work, in jjreserving the annals of one of the best as well as most famous stocks among us, has not only gratified a reasonable family pride, but done a great public service.
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observe, a.s one of the signs of the times, the piiblication of many genealogical histories of the families of the earlier pilgrims, and among the best of these, botli in matter and type, we place this memorial of the Davenport family.
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