Noah Davenport was born on August 17, 1758, in Little Compton, Rhode Island. He married Lydia Metcalf in Connecticut in 1784.
The DAR Genealogical Research Database indicates that Noah (DAR Ancestor# A030007) served as a private under Captain Daniel Tilden.
Service: Connecticut Rank(s): Private
Birth: 8-17-1758 Little Compton Newport Co Rhode Island
Death: 8-13-1840 Stamford Delaware Co New York
Pension Number: S*W22911
Service Source: S*W22911
Service Description: 1) Capt Daniel Tilden; 2) Cols McClellan, Ledyard, Wells
Residence: City: Lebanon - County: Windham Co - State: Connecticut
I previously shared information about Noah Davenport at Revolutionary War Veteran Noah Davenport and at Tombstone Tuesday ~ Noah Davenport.
Private Noah Davenport's compiled service record, found at FamilySearch, helps to tell part of his story of service in the Revolutionary War.
Noah was not yet 18 years old when he initially enlisted in July 1778 in Captain Daniel Tilden's Company of Colonel Samuel McClellan's Regiment of Connecticut State Troops, which provided additional manpower when Continental enlistments proved insufficient. He arrived in camp on July 1, 1778, and served for at least two months that summer in the Hudson River Valley area where the Continental Army had moved after the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778.
His first service was in White Plains for three weeks in July 1778 as shown in the following image.
After this initial three weeks, Private Noah Davenport continued with Captain Tilden, moving about 25 miles north to Fort Arnold, the main fort at West Point, a strategic location on the Hudson River. (Fort Arnold was later renamed Fort Clinton after Benedict Arnold defected to the British in 1780.) The "On Guard" under the Remarks section suggests that for the next three weeks, he was on garrison duty at the fort while it was being built up.
For the rest of August, Private Davenport continued serving on garrison duty ("On Guard") at West Point. This card references service at Fort Clinton, not Fort Arnold, which was the name at the time of his service. It's possible that when War Department clerks created these cards decades after the war, the clerk wrote the fort's later, more familiar name.
By later in August, Captain Daniel Tilden had moved elsewhere and Captain Paine Converse was now Private Davenport's superior.
I could find no additional compiled service records, but Noah's wife, Lydia, lived long enough to apply for and receive a pension (which is what the DAR used to acknowledge his patriotic service). She applied for the pension in December 1840 (he died in August), and benefited from it for dozen years until her death in 1852. One page of her application summarizes Noah's war service above plus additional service later in the war.
In addition to the service in New York in 1778, he later served a short time as a substitute for a neighbor in Lebanon, Connecticut. The next year, he again served under Captain Daniel Tilden (who was in a different regiment). He then served as a substitute for another neighbor in Lebanon. As a young, unmarried man, substituting for others who possibly had families to care for and farms to run, provided him with a financial benefit.
Noah Davenport married Lydia Metcalf in Lebanon on September 25, 1784. After the war, he and his family moved to upstate New York, living in Hillsdale, Columbia County (in the censuses of 1790, 1800, and 1810), and later in Harpersfield, Delaware County (in the censuses of 1820, 1830, and 1840), where he died.
Noah Davenport and Lydia Metcalf had eight children (and lots of descendants - I have lots of DNA matches that go back to them):
Frances (Fanny) (1785-1871)
William (1789-1871)
Lydia (1791-1874)
Erastus (1793-1856)
Ira (1795-1868)
Henriette Marie (1798-1870)
Charles (1800-1874)
Lucy (1802-1874)
I descend from Noah Davenport as follows:
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