Thomas Davenport

Citations

1. [S769] Eleanor Berewster Davenport Grant, The Ancestry and descendants of John and Jane Ann (Lounsbery) Davenport, page 3 - Thomas Leggett, brother of Martha who married William Davenport Jr. and of Sarah and Elizabeth who married Thomas Davenport of Cold Spring, drew up his will at West Farms, Westchester County, on September 9, 1707. In this document he stated that his father Gabriel Leggett, was already dead. Is it not possible, then that Gabriel’s children were already provided for by their father and that this is where Thomas Davenport of Cold Spring procured the money with which he leased the Philipse land?
2. [S769] Eleanor Berewster Davenport Grant, The Ancestry and descendants of John and Jane Ann (Lounsbery) Davenport, page 3 - …Many people who favor the relationship between William and Thomas feel that after Tomas’s death much of his money passed to the brother William, and that this is how Thomas of Cold Spring acquired the funds with which he was able to lease the Philipse lands. I do not doubt that it took money to do this, but as the Leggett family was wealthy, it would not have been impossible for our Thomas, on the strength of having married two Leggett sisters, to have acquired some money from that family.
   
   Thomas Leggett, brother of Martha who married William Davenport Jr. and of Sarah and Elizabeth who married Thomas Davenport of Cold Spring, drew up his will at West Farms, Westchester County, on September 9, 1707. In this document he stated that his father Gabriel Leggett, was already dead. Is it not possible, then that Gabriel’s children were already provided for by their father and that this is where Thomas Davenport of Cold Spring procured the money with which he leased the Philipse land?