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Name Jonathan DAVENPORT
Birth 6 Mar 1658/59, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Death 11 Jun 1729, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Burial Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Father Thomas DAVENPORT (1615-1685)
Mother Mary Pitman (~1621-1691)
Marriage 1 Dec 1680, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Spouse Hannah Maynard
Birth ca 1660, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Death 14 Jan 1728/29, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Father John Maynard (1630-1711)
Mother Mary Adell Gates (1636-)
Children
1 M Thomas DAVENPORT
Birth 10 Dec 1681, Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Death 14 Oct 1751, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
Spouse Catherine Woodworth
Marriage 20 Jul 1704, Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island
2 M Benjamin DAVENPORT
Birth 6 Oct 1698, Little Compton, Rhode Island
Death ca 1785, Spencertown, Columbia County, New York
Spouse Sarah Burr
Marriage 12 May 1731, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
Notes for Jonathan DAVENPORT
Moved to Little Compton, Rhode Island (then still a colony of Massacussetts) about 1682.

According to Little Compton library records, Jonathon lived at the end of the road south of the (graveyard) Commons.

In his will, Jonathon left his son John 100 pounds.

His gravestone reads "Here lieth y body of Jonathon Davenport died June 11 1729 aged 70 years"

His house was torn down in 1870.

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by Jeffrey Griswold, 2004