page_title: Abraham Davenport
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Abraham Davenport / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: "The above photograph, taken around l882, is of the Davenport homestead, or mansion, as it was commonly referred to, on Main Street in Stamford. The homestead stood near the corner of Summer Street, and was actually comprised of two houses. The one on the right was that of Abraham Davenport which adjoins the pillared residence on the left, built by the Hon. John Davenport in 1807."
context_page_description: Abraham Davenport was a Connecticut councillor and judge from Stamford.
context_section_description: The grandson of New Haven Colony founder John Davenport, Abraham Davenport was born in the Connecticut Colony town of Stamford in 1715 to John and Elizabeth (née Maltby).  Davenport's home in Stamford was on Main Street, near the corner of Summer Street.  Davenport graduated from Yale College with his Bachelor of Arts in 1732.  He married Elizabeth Huntington on 16 November 1750 in Windham, Connecticut, and she died on 17 December 1773; Davenport remarried to Martha Fitch on 8 August 1776 in Stamford.  In the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War, Davenport took ill and wounded US soldiers into home to care for their recovery.  Abraham Davenport died in Danbury, Connecticut on 20 November 1789 at age 74; he was buried in Northfield, Connecticut, bequeathing that land and GB£200 (equivalent to £24,767 in 2019) to the church.
caption: The Davenport homestead (c. 1882)
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