Henry Gamble

  Noted events in his life were:

• Fact 1. ³ Henry Gambrell (Ca 1700 - By 1768) married Mary Davenport around 1735. Legal records indicate that Henry resided in Louisa, Spotsylvania, Albemarle, Hanover, and Culpeper Counties in Virginia. He was a legal witness for Martin Davenport, his wife's father, in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1735, and purchased 175 acres of land on Little Rocky Creek in
Hanover County, Virginia during the same year. In 1753, Henry purchased 900 acres of land in Culpeper County from Thomas Kennerly of South
Carolina.

John Minor of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, in his will executed in 1754, even refers to "land lately bough of Henry Gambrell in Culpeper".
Henry and Mary had at least seven children - six sons and a daughter. Their children were: William, Benjamin, Henry, John, Thomas, Martin, and Sarah. This family probably lived in an area known as Gambrell's Mountain in Culpeper County, Virginia. Various court and service connected records were recorded for Gambrells in the Culpeper region during the 1750-1780's
era.

Benjamin, Henry, John, and William are listed as witnesses in the 1764 Culpeper Court minutes, which was the only book preserved before 1798.
Henry and John were sergeants in the Culpeper Militia under Colonel Thomas Slaugher. This group organized in August, 1755. For their service of approximately one year, Henry and John were each paid 1,710 pounds of tobacco in April, 1756. A David Gambrell also received pay on 5 Oct
1775,for service under Lord Dunmore. A payment was made to Thomas Gambrell, an infantry soldier, on 24 July 1786. James and William
were listed as Virginians in the Revolution. Matthew and Henry were noted living adjacent to the Albemarle Barracks in 1781. In fact, there were numerous Gambrells in Albemarle County, Virginia, in the mid to late 1700's.

The Gambrells in the Albemarle County, Virginia area were even listed in the historical aspect when the county was formed in 1745. Richard was a
long time Tobacco Inspector at the Henderson's Tobacco Warehouse. John was listed as a member of the Orthodox Reformed Presbyterian Church
Congregation who hired Rev. Samuel Black on 29 March 1747. Henry (maybe Jr.)built the second jail in the county around 1783, and was on the 1785 Virginia Taxpayer List as a head of a family of 10. As late as 1796, Matthew Gambrell received a land grant of 25,798 acres of land in Albemarle, Orange, and Rockingham Counties. Hence, the Gambrells appeared to migrate to western Virginia or to western Carolina during the late 1700's.

Henry married Mary Davenport, daughter of Martin Davenport and Unknown, in 1735.¹ (Mary Davenport was born in 1716 in Cullpepper Co., VA.)