[2] His most notable work, however, was what became his home – the Isaiah Davenport House, built in 1820 in the northwest corner of Columbia Square.

His father, a carpenter, passed his trade to Isaiah and his three siblings: Dudley, Samuel and Thomas.

[2] Shortly after moving to Savannah in 1808, Davenport married South Carolina native Sarah Rosamund Clarke at Independent Presbyterian Church.

Also in 1812, the family moved southern half of Lot 8 in Washington Ward, at the corner of Bay and East Broad Streets.

He also served on a city council committee overseeing the laying of oyster shells along Bay Street to prepare for the president's arrival.

[1] Tenth and final child, Dudley (named for Davenport's brother), was born one month after his father's death.

[1] Like his brother, Samuel, seven years earlier, Davenport died from yellow fever, on October 16, 1827.