9710 Individuals in our Database | | | | Humphrey Davenport II Sex: Male | | | |  | Birth Date | 1615 Devon, England | Death Date | 1696 Ulster County, Province of New York | Father | | Born: | | Mother | | Born: | | | Humphrey Davenport Notes: | Barbados was getting crowded before the early 1700s, and many younger sons such as Humphrey Davenport considered relocating in order to get land. For lack of fevers, New England, with colder winters, became attractive. Humphrey married a Rachel Holmes at Dorchester, Mass., ,and the couple located at Hartford Conn, where his wife was later prosecuted and fined for playing cards on Sunday, and his son William was taken from him by the court and turned over to a Capt Watts. He and wife Rachel, disgusted with the Puritan court tactics, relocated to New York City, where the Dutch culture was more tolerant. Court records exist around the time the English took over Nieuw Amsterdam from the Dutch, showing Humphrey and two drinking friends (this may have been Humphrey Jr.), were prosecuted for damaging a ship at dock by firing off the
| |  | Birth Date | 1615 MAR 11 LONDON | Death Date | 1705 New York | Father | Thomas Holmes | Born: 1593 MAY 12 | Died: | Mother | Henrietta Martin | Born: 1597 | | Rachel Holmes Notes: | When Rachel Holmes was born on 11 March 1615, in London, Middlesex, England, her father, Thomas Holmes, was 23 and her mother, Henrietta Martin, was 22. She married Humphrey Davenport Jr. in 1655, in Barbados. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. She died in 1705, in Kingston, Ulster, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 90. | | | 0 | Children | Birth Death | Mother | Spouse | Grand Children |
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