When Ruth Sydnor was born on 24 August 1676, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America, her father, Fortunatus Sydnor, was 38 and her mother, Joanna Letticia Lawson, was 36. She married George Davenport before 12 April 1693, in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 daughters. She died before 2 February 1735, in Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 58.