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James Huckins was born about 1644. He married Sarah, daughter of Robert and Frances Burnham. He was a lieutenant, constable in 1676, select man in 1687. Taxed in 1664. His wife made a deposition, 31 Dec. 1673, "about 19 years of age." He was slain by Indians Aug. 1689. His widow was rescued by Major Church after a year's captivity among the Androscoggin Indians. She married (2) Capt. John Woodman, 17 Oct. 1700. She is not named in Woodman's will, 20 Dec. 1705. The Huck- ins garrison house stood a few rods easterly of the old house still standing, where Dr., Joseph Atkinson lived, on the north side of the old road to Madbury. Children recorded in Dover:
3. ROBERT b. prob. 12 Dec. 1672; m. Welthen Thomas. SARAH b. 12 Dec. 1674; m. James Chesley. JAMES b. 15 July 1675; d. s. p.
3. Robert Huckins (James2, James1) born 12 Dec. 1672, mar- ried, about 1692, Welthen, daughter of James and Martha (God- dard) Thomas. She married (2) John Gray before I April 1727 and is called "deceased" in her mother's division of estate, 4 Aug. 1729. Robert Huckins was baptized in his last sickness, 17 Jan. 1719/20. His will, 9 Jan. 1719-2 March 1719, names wife, Welthen, the following children, and brother-in-law, James Bunker. He was selectman, assessor and constable. Had a mill on Huckins brook, that empties into the head of Beard's Creek. He probably rebuilt the garrison house near the site of the former one. He administered his grandfather's estate in I705.
MARY m. bef. 9 Jan. 1718/20, William Drew. HANNAH m. (I) John Chesley, (2) Job Runnels. ELIZABETH m. Clark.
4. JAMES b. abt. 1701; m. Hannah Williams.
* Henry Winthrop Hardon, Esq., of New York is preparing a genealogy of the Huckins family and has published some part of it in the N. E. Hist-Gen. Register. He has kindly assisted in the sketch of this and other Durham families.
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5. JOHN b. abt. 1704; m. Abigail Edgerly.
SARAH bapt. 31 Dec. 1721; m. (1) Micah Emerson, (2) Joseph Tibbetts.
RACHEL bapt. 19 June 1726; m. 14 Dec. 1727, Robert Jordan of Kittery.
6. ROBERT b. 14 Oct. 1708; m. Meribah Jackson.
7. THOMAS b. abt. 1710; m. Mary French.
8. JOSEPH b. abt. 1714; m. Mary Fernald.
FOURTH GENERATION
4. James Huckins (Robert3, James2, Robert1) born about 1701, married (1) Hannah, daughter of Dea. John and Ruth Williams. He probably married (2) 6 May 1756 Abigail Spencer of Durham. He was killed in the French and Indian War, 1755-63. In 1756 he was in Capt. Tasker's company for the Crown Point expedition. By his father's will he had thirty acres on the south side of the highway to Dover.
RUTH bapt. 22 March 1723/4; m. abt. 1745, John Foye of Madbury and Barrington.
HANNAH bapt. I May 1726.
ELIZABETH bapt. 21 April 1728.
SARAH b. 6 May 1733; m. 1756, Benjamin Hall of Bar- rington.
JAMES b. 14 Oct. 1748; s. in New Hampton.
5. Capt. John Huckins (Robert3, James2, Robert1), born about 1704, married Abigail, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Whidden) Edgerly. He lived in Madbury and Barrington. He and wife, - Abigail, were admitted to the church at Oyster River 5 Sept. 1725. His farm in Barrington overlooked Bow Lake. He was captain of scouts in 1745, selectman of Madbury in 1758. He died 30 July 1789, aged 85, as his tombstone says. His first three children were born at Oyster River, the rest probably in Dover.
ROBERT bapt. 29 Aug. 1725; m. Hannah Boody.
ABIGAIL bapt. 2 July 1727; d. in infancy.
SARAH bapt. 26 Oct. 1729.
WELTHEN bapt. 31 Oct. 1731; m. Abednego Spencer, 14 Oct. 1752.
ABIGAIL b. 20 Feb. 1733, bapt. 22 June 1735; m. 17 Jan. 1754, Samuel Hill; d. 30 Dec. 1829 in Ogden, N. Y.
JOHN bapt. 25 Sept. 1737; m. Mary --; d. at Barring- ton 20 Dec. 1794. She d. 20 April 1820, aged 90. REBECCA bapt. 17 June 1741.
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6. Robert Huckins (Robert3, James2, Robert1), born 14 Oct. 1708, married (1) 8 Aug. 1728, Meribah Jackson, daughter of William and Mary. He was constable at Durham in 1740, living in Nottingham in 1765. Sold his house and land in Dur- ham to Dr. Joseph Atkinson in 1757. He married (2) Sarah, daughter of Samuel Snell of Barrington.
MARY bapt. 14 Dec. 1729; m. 24 Nov. 1754, Samuel Stiles of Durham.
RACHEL b. 15 March 1732; m. II Jan. 1753, Abijah Pink- ham; d. 10 Nov. 1818.
ABIGAIL prob .; m. 16 Jan. 1755, John Randall of Durham. HANNAH bapt. I Jan. 1742.
ISAAC b. 22 Feb. 1747; m. Lydia Clay; d. in Pittsfield.
7. Thomas Huckins (Robert3, James2, Robert1), born about 1710, married in Greenland, 25 Dec. 1733, Mary French and lived in Lee. He was a soldier in King George's War and prob- ably also in the Revolution. He died between 1799 and 1803. Wife died in 1803. Children, so far as known:
THOMAS b. 28 March 1736; m. Sarah
HANNAH m. 23 July 1789, Jonathan Clark of Landaff. JONATHAN perhaps, of Nottingham and Topsham, Vt. SAMUEL perhaps, of Nottingham and Barrington.
8. Joseph Huckins (Robert3, James?, Robert1), born about 1714, lived in Durham, Lee and Gilmanton. He married (I) 1735, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Thompson) Fernald, born in Kittery, Me., 22 April 1708. She died in March 1788. He married (2) 25 July 1788, at Northwood, Susanna, widow of Thomas Piper, Jr., of Stratham. He died 28 June 1801. In Gilmanton he lived near the Huckins brook and near the site later occupied by Gilmanton Academy. He was in Capt. Her- cules Mooney's company in the Crown Point expedition of 1757. Was constable in Durham in 1761.
JOSEPH b. 30 June 1736; m. (1) Mary Kelly, (2) Sarah Glines. BENJAMIN 1. at Gilmanton. No record of any family. MARY m. Joseph Follett of Lee.
LYDIA b. 1760; m. 24 March 1788, Silas Buzzell of Gilmanton. HANNAH bapt. 20 Aug. 1749; m. 29 Nov. 1781, William Plais- ted of Meredith.
HULL
Thomas Hull married Joanna Peson, II Jan. 1572, at Crew- kerne, Somersetshire, England. Their son, Rev. Joseph Hull, was born in 1594 and graduated at Saint Mary Hall, Oxford, in
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1614. He was teacher, curate and minister at Colyton, Devon- shire, rector at Northleigh, diocese of Exeter, 1621-22, also of Crewkerne. He sailed from Weymouth, England, 25 March 1635, with a company of one hundred and six persons. He was then forty years old and had wife, Agnes, aged 25, evidently his second wife, and children, Joane aged 15, Joseph aged 13, Tristram aged II, Temperance aged 9, Elizabeth aged 7, Grissell aged 5, and Dorothy aged 3. He lived successively in Wey- mouth, Hingham, Barnstable, and Yarmouth, Mass., and in York, Me. He was commissioner and deputy for Hingham in 1638. He was at York, 1642-45. Other children were born after his coming to New England. He returned to England in 1645 and for a time was rector at St. Buryan, Cornwall. He was serving as minister at Oyster River in 1662, as shown incidentally in a history of the Friends, some of whom troubled him. He went to the Isles of Shoals and died there 18 Nov. 1665. His widow, Agnes, administered his estate. Her account says that "the Isle owed him for his ministry £20." The total value of his estate was £62-5-5, of which £io were for books.
The following deposition sheds some light on the movements of the family. Dec. 28, 1669, John Bickford, aged about 60, and John Simmins (Symonds) aged about 52, deposed that "about four and twenty years agoe or there about naomy hulls father and mother they went for England: and left theyer Chil- dren to the wid wilderness: and Left them very young and wear not tutred (tutored) as they ought to have been." [N. H. Court Files, Vol. I, p. 325.]
Rev. Joseph Hull's daughter, Naomi, witnessed a deed 17 April 1661. She was then a servant in the family of Samuel Symonds of Ipswich, Mass., and 15 June 1661, she made a depo- sition. She was then aged twenty years and upward. [Ipswich Court Files, Vol. II.]
Naomi Hull was before court for misdemeanor in 1667, called then by clerical error Amy Hull. She was sheltered in the time of her sore distress by William Williams, who was next neighbor to Rev. Joseph Hull, when he was minister at Oyster River a few years before. On the 17th of 7th month 1668 it was ordered in Dover town meeting that the "Constable take of William Williams sinyer by way of distress the som of nineteen shillings for a fine for a breach of a Town order for entertaining Naomie Hull." John
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Church of Dover was granted sixty acres on condition that he take "Neamys child" and keep her till she be twenty years old, and Peter Coffin had another grant "in consideration of what charge I have been out unto John Church concerning the child of Naomi Hull, as by the record bearing date ye fifth of March in ye year 1667." [Dover Town Records.]
John Church was captured by Indians in the Dover massacre of 1689, and he was killed and scalped, 7 May 1696, at Cochecho. Among the pupils registered at Quebec was Nimbé Il, whom Miss Mary P. Thompson thought to be Naomi Hill. Is it not more probable that this was Naomi Hull, the "Neamys child," brought up in the family of John Church, named for her mother, and captured with him in 1689 ?
The records make no further mention of Naomi Hull. Some years later the following order was given: "To the Constable at Oyster River. In his Majte Name you are required to appre- hend the body of Naomi Daniel of Oyster River and to bring her before ye Counsel now sitting in Portsmouth to answer for her reporachful & slanderous speeches against Benjamin Ma- thews & others. Hereof fail not and make yor Return. Dated July 4th 1682. By order, R. Chamberlain."
The nature of the charge against Naomi Daniel is shown by the following depositions that appear as evidence in the case:
July 5, 1682. "the Deposition of Joseph Grafton, aged 18 (or 28) years of age testifieth & saith that he being at the house of Naomi Daniel 29 of May 1682 or there abouts I to her did say that I heard that she had lost a cow. Yea, shee said, the Wishes and Divells have bewished my cow into the myer twice. I asked her hoe [who] the sd wishes were & divels. My sister Math- and my brother beniamin Mathes is as bad. i asked her why shee spake Soe against her sister & brother. Hang them wishes & wizards Let them Bring me out If they Dare & further saith Not."
July 5, 1682. "The deposition of Remembrance Rand aged 32 years or there about Testifieth and saith that sum time in May last 1682 I being in company with naomy Daniell heard her say that hir sister Mathews was a wizard that hir husband was noe better and further saith that the said naomy said that they towld you that it was I did bewich your child, but it was they that did bewich your child, but they did hit to hid their
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own Rogry and further saith not." [N. H. Court Files, VI, 481.]
It thus appears that Naomi Daniel was sister to the wife of Benjamin Mathews, whose name was Dorothy, as is shown by other evidence. Naomi is an unusual name, not found among all the early residents of Dover, save in the names Naomi Hull and Naomi Daniel. Are they not the same person? There is reason to think that Benjamin Matthews married Dorothy, widow of Oliver Kent. How did John Bickford know so much about the Hull family in 1645? and why was he called upon to state extenuating circumstances in favor of Naomi Hull? The name of John Bickford's wife was Temperance. Now the Rev. Joseph Hull had daughters, Temperance, Dorothy and Naomi, who, heretofore, have never been accounted for. It is believed that they married three men at Oyster River, where their father once preached and where their brothers, Hopewell and Benjamin, married.
The Old Northwest Genealogical Magazine for 1910 has a long account of the Hull family, but it does not tell what became of these three sisters, nor does it mention Dodavah Hull of York. The family, then, of Rev. Joseph Hull was probably as follows:
JOANE b. 1620; m. (1) 28 Nov. 1639 John Bursley, (2) Dolor Davis; d. after 1683.
JOSEPH b. 1622; 1. in 1635.
TRISTRAM b. 1624; m. Blanche -; d. 22 Feb. 1666. 6 ch. She m. (2) William Hedge of Yarmouth, Mass.,
TEMPERANCE b. 1626; m. John Bickford of O. R.
ELIZABETH b. 1628; m. Capt. John Heard of Cochecho. ch
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GRISSELL b. 1630. The Hull Genealogy says that she m. James Warren of the Parish of Unity, now South Ber- wick, Me., but the wife of Warren was Margaret and they had a daughter, Grissell.
DOROTHY b. 1632; m. (I) Oliver Kent, (2) Benjamin Mat- thews.
HOPEWELL b. abt. 1636; m. Mary, dau. of John Martin of O. R. and rem. to New Jersey. John Martin m. Esther, dau. of Thomas Roberts of Dover Neck.
BENJAMIN b. in Hingham, Mass., 24 March 1638/9; m. 1668, Rachel, dau. of Richard York and rem. to N. J. NAOMI b. and bapt. 23 March 1640; m. Davie Daniel. She was a widow in 1685.
RUTH b. and bapt. 9 May 1642.
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CAPT. REUBEN b. abt. 1644 in York; m. 1672, Hannah Farniside; d. 3 Dec. 1689. She was dau. of John Alcock of York, Me., and m. (3) George Snell of Portsmouth. Reuben Hull had 6 ch. born in Portsmouth, Elizabeth, Joseph, Dodavah, Reuben, Sarah, and Mary. SAMUEL m. 1677, Mary Manning.
DODAVAH m. Mary Seward of Portsmouth.
SARAH d. in 1647.
Benjamin Hull (Rev. Joseph) was rated at Oyster River in 1659 and 1661. He had a grant of 100 acres, 5th of 8th month, 1659, "adjacent to the bounds of Puskesecke Mill on the south west sid of Lamperell River fall," laid out 12:11:1660, “begin- ning at a marked tree in the town bounds by the Indian graves that are thear," 120 rods on Lambril River, "to the town bounds next Exeter side near the graves again." Dec. 12, 1678, he con- veyed to John Rand 120 acres in Dover, bounded northeast by "Lambrieel River" and southwest by the Dover line. Rand conveyed this to Robert Wadleigh, 26 Aug. 1679, "commonly called by ye name of Benjamin Hulls meadow." Later it was owned by John Frost, and later still by Thomas Tash.
"Dodiver Hull" had a grant of fifteen acres in York, 12 Sept. 1667, "on ye new mill creek." Oct. 25, 1713, Widow Mary Blagdon, Hannah Blagdon, Nicholas Follet and Mary, his wife, all of Portsmouth, conveyed to Lewis Bane of York fifteen acres in York, "lying in ye new mill creek that Henry Sayward's mill stood on." [See York Deeds, VIII, 15.] This is the above grant to Dodavah Hull and shows that the grantors were his heirs. June 5, 1682, administration on the estate of Dodavah Hull was granted to his widow, Mary Hull.
Dodavah Hull married Mary Seward of Portsmouth, daughter of Richard Seward and granddaughter of Richard Seward. She married (2) Dr. Samuel Blagdon before 1688. Her tombstone in the Point of Graves cemetery, Portsmouth, says, "Here Lyes the body of Mrs. Mary Blagdon, wife of Doc' Samuel Blagdon, aged 75 years. Died Dec. ye 1Ith 1735." She had by Dodavah Hull a daughter, Mary, who married, 12 Sept. 1700, Nicholas Follett. By second husband she had a daughter, Hannah, born 1688, unmarried in 1737. [N. H. Prov. Deeds, IV, 28a, and N. H. Probate Records, XV, 469.]
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JACKSON
Walter Jackson was one of those Scots captured at the battle of Worcester. 1651, and sent to Boston in the ship John and Sara. He probably worked in Valentine Hill's saw mill at the Falls. He was accepted as an inhabitant of the town, 10th of IIth month, 1658. He had wife, Jane, in 1663 and wife, Ann, in 1667. He, had a grant of twenty acres "at the head of his one lot betwext the Cow[Cochecho?] path and the swamp," in 1666. The inventory of his estate is dated 18 March 1697/8, and in the settlement the following children are named. His homestead was on the north side of Oyster River, between the lots of Wil- liam Beard and Philip Chesley.
2. WILLIAM b. abt. 1670; m. Mary
ELIZABETH m. Henry Marsh. MARY m. Timothy Moses. JANE prob. unm.
3. JAMES m. Sarah Rice.
2. Wiliam Jackson (Walter) who was aged 65, when he made a deposition, 22 Feb. 1734, had wife, Mary, who was baptized 7 Sept. 1718. His will, 8 Feb. 1757-30 Jan. 1760, names wife, Mary, and three children:
MERIBAH bapt. 23 Aug. 1724; m. 8 Aug. 1728, Robert Huck- ins.
BENJAMIN bapt. 23 Aug. 1724; m. Olive - -. He was taxed in Durham in 1760 and was of Barrington in 1768. 4. WILLIAM bapt. 24 Dec. 1727; m. Abigail Follett.
3. James Jackson (Walter) married Sarah, daughter of Henry Rice. He died 3 March 1717/8. His wife, Sarah, and five chil- dren were baptized 21 Sept. 1718.
SAMUEL m. Patience Tuttle. His estate was administered by widow, Patience, in 1754. She was taxed in 1760. Daughters bapt. in Dover, Judith bapt. 20 Sept. 1739, and Patience bapt. 22 May 1746.
5. JOSEPH m. Abigail Laskey. SARAH.
ABIGAIL m. 31 Oct. 1751, Nathan Foss of Barrington.
KEZIAH.
6. JAMES m.
SOLOMON bapt. 23 June 1728.
4. William Jackson (William2, Walter1) was born in 1715, according to a deposition. He married (1) Abigail, daughter of
.
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Ichabod Follett. Inventory of his estate filed 6 May 1797. He left widow, Olive (Allen?), and sons, Ebenezer, Lemuel and and Enoch. Olive Jackson died I Feb. 1813, aged 88.
EBENEZER bapt. 5 Oct. 1741; m. 19 Aug. 1773, Dorothy Leighton, both of Barrington.
ENOCH bapt. 2 July 1749; m. 3 Jan. 1774, Eunice Tuttle; d. 12 March 1807.
TEMPERANCE bapt. 21 Oct. 1752.
BENJAMIN bapt. 29 Oct. 1759.
LEMUEL taxed in Durham 1777-91; d. 10 Aug. 1819, aged 75.
5. Joseph Jackson (James2, Walter1) was taxed in Durham, 1760-88. He married Abigail, daughter of John Laskey. His will, 1788-17 Feb. 1790, names the following children :
LASKEY m. Elizabeth dau. of Nathaniel Jones, and had sons, Joseph and Laskey.
MEHITABLE m. Rowe.
BENJAMIN m. Ch., Aaron, Benjamin and Abigail.
6. James Jackson (James2, Walter1) had a lot laid out to him in 1732, which was granted to his father, James Jackson, in 1693, thirty acres. Three children were baptized in Dover, viz., James and Robert 21 March 1736, and Mary 22 May 1746. The name of his wife is unknown. His son, James, married, probably, 16 June 1755, Abigail, daughter of William Hill. A James Jackson died in 1800 and seems to have been buried at the expense of the town.
Josiah Jackson was the last one of this family that lived on the Jackson homestead in Durham, born 3 March 1767. He married Abbie Thompson who was born 12 April 1777, and died in April 1853. He died 9 Nov. 1833.
HANNAH b. 17 June 1798; m. Noah Langley, 7 Dec. 1817. ABBIE b. 11 April 1800; d. 14 Aug. 1802.
JOHN b. 2 March 1802; d. 31 Oct. 1831.
EBEN T. b. 21 March 1805; d. 6 July 1876.
BENJAMIN T. b. 21 March 1805; m. Betsey Abbott; d. 29 April 1842.
MARY b. 8 May 1808; pub. 19 Aug. 1827, to Benjamin Lang- ley of Deerfield.
THOMPSON b. 5 Oct. 1810; m. (1) 3 June 1833, Mary Ann Page. He m. (2) 29 Aug. 1842, Mrs. Louisa J. (Chesley) Chesley ; d. 6 April 1871.
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ELIZA b. 14 Dec. 1811; m. 29 Nov. 1838, William Taylor of Northwood; d. 16 June 1876.
DRUSILLA b. 5 Oct. 1813; d. 31 Oct. 1828.
IVORY b. 5 Oct. 1815; d. 17 April 1866. Went to Maine.
Benjamin T. Jackson (Josiah), born 21 March 1805, married Betsey Abbott, who was born 24 Dec. 1809 and died 15 Jan. 1873. He died I May 1842.
ABBY T. b. 23 March 1828; m. Ephraim Jenkins, 23 Nov. 1854; d. 20 Jan. 1899.
ANN M. b. 17 Jan. 1830; m. John E. Holston, b. 5 June 1822; d. May 1907.
JOHN b. 26 March 1832; d. 4 April 1894.
IVORY B. b. 16 Jan. 1834; d. 20 Aug. 1853.
ELIZABETH B. b. 16 Jan. 1839; d. 16 May 1841.
BENJAMIN F. b. 23 Sept. 1842; d. Aug. 1862. Was in U. S. Navy in the Civil War.
Robert Jackson married Lydia Jackson, June 1780, both of Madbury. The wife of Robert Jackson died 27 Aug. 1821, aged 56 years.
m. Oct. 1789, Timothy Langley and Abigail Jackson of Barrington.
m. 30 July 1752, John Meader and Eleanor Jackson.
m. 7 July 1828, Benjamin Prescott and Elizabeth Jackson. pub. 8 April 1827, Walter Butler and Charlotte Jackson.
pub. 24 Nov. 1833, Richard B. Jackson and Sarah Ricker, Poland, Me.
pub. 7 May 1808, John Twombly of Boothbay, Me., and Eunice Jackson.
m. 1810, Ebenezer Jackson of Madbury and Mary Doe.
JENKINS
Reynolds Jenkins, born in 1608, was in the service of John Winter at Richmond's Island, 1634-39. He was living with wife, Ann, in what is now Eliot, Me., 1647-83.
Among other children he had a son, Stephen Jenkins, born 1653, who married (1) Elizabeth, daughter of William and Ann (Roberts) Pitman. A coroner's jury decided, in 1687, that "she wilfully destroyed herself by casting herself into the water." He married (2) Anne He was killed by Indians, with one of his children, 18 July 1694, and his wife was carried into captivity with three children. Azariah Jenkins was a captive in Canada in 1710. She returned and married (2) David Kin-
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caid, (3) Thomas Potts. [See Vol. I. p. 91.] Stephen Jenkins lived on the south side of Oyster River, next west of the parson- age lot. He had at least the following children :
2. STEPHEN m. Elizabeth Dean.
WILLIAM who bought land of his brother, Stephen, 16 Dec. 1709. A William Jenkins m. in Greenland, 25 Nov. 1714, Ealse Hains. Hannah, wife of William Jenkins, is named in the will of John Whidden, 1767.
3. JOSEPH prob. who signed petition of 1695 as an inhabitant of O. R.
2. Stephen Jenkins (Stephen2, Reynold1) married Elizabeth daughter of the John Dean who was killed by Indians in 1694. He calls her "my present wife" in a deed dated 16 Dec. 1709. She was baptized with five children by the Rev. Hugh Adams, 29 March 1719.
ELIZABETH bapt. 29 March 1719.
JOHN bapt. 29 March 1719; m. Rebecca, dau. of John Per- kins; 1. in 1768. Ch., Nathaniel and John, bapt. 3 Sept.
1749. A Nathaniel Jenkins d. in Durham, 12 Nov. 1813. STEPHEN 1. in Durham in 1740; d. bef. 1750.
BENJAMIN m. Sarah Boody. Rem. to Pembroke after 1762 and thence to Exeter. Ch., Sarah bapt. 12 May 1751, Benjamin bapt. 20 May 1753, Betty bapt. 28 Sept. 1755, Stephen Dean bapt. 14 July 1759.
MARY unknown.
THOMAS bapt. 21 May 1721; 1. in Durham in 1744. RUTH bapt. 13 July 1729 (?).
. 3. Joseph Jenkins, who may have been son of the first Ste- phen Jenkins of Oyster River, had a grant of land in Dover in 1694. Sept. 20, 1732, William, John, Sarah, Jemima and Keziah Jenkins, children of Joseph, all of Durham, sold land in Rochester to John Downing of Newington. He had wife, Hannah, who by deposition was aged 36 in 1704. He married (2) 27 April 1743, Tabitha Waymouth. This family belonged to the Society of Friends. His will, 20 Aug. 1754-12 Nov. 1755, names wife, Tabitha, and children.
JOSEPH JR. d. 26 Dec. 1730. Unm.
WILLIAM m. Phebe Hoag of Hampton.
She was a widow in 1754 and JOHN m. Hannah
had dau., Sarah, who m. Simon Randall, 2 Nov. 1749.
SARAH m. Jeremiah Davis.
JEMIMA m. 23 Dec. 1736, Joseph Hoag.
KEZIAH m. II Dec. 1734, David Hoag.
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William Jenkins, son of Joseph, married Phebe Hoag of Hamp- ton. The following children are found in the Quaker records of Dover. He died 10, 12 mo. 1786. His wife died 29, 3 mo. 1764.
HANNAH b. 3, 6 mo. 1743; m. Samuel Hanson, I Oct. 1759. ELIZABETH b. 24 9 mo. 1744; m. Benjamin Evans, I June 1763.
PHEBE b. 9, 5 mo. 1746; m. Jacob Hanson, 2 April 1777.
WILLIAM b. 10, 8 mo. 1747; m. Ruth Fry, 8 April 1772. [See Old Kittery, p. 554.]
JOSEPH b. 5, 2 mo. 1750; m. Catherine Austin, 30 July 1777. JOHN b. 30, 9 mo. 1752; disowned 20, 9 mo. 1788; restored. JONATHAN b. 29, 6 mo. 1754; m. Mercy Varney, 2 Dec. 1778. JAMES b. 30, 9 mo. 1756; disowned 1, 9 mo. 1779.
Jonathan Jenkins (William, Joseph) married Mercy, daughter of Stephen and Deliverance (Lamos) Varney. He died Dec. 1830. She died 4 Aug. 1845. Their children were:
EPHRAIM b. 20 Jan. 1780; m. Mary Varney.
JONATHAN b. 24 July 1782; m. Patience Hodgdon, 29 May 1822; d. s. p. 1830.
WILLIAM b. 20 Aug. 1785; d. 6 June 1872.
MERCY b. II Nov. 1789; d. 27 April 1853.
HANNAH b. April 1797, m. 11 Feb. 1849, Nicholas Drew; d. 2 Feb. 1881.
STEPHEN b. 4 Dec: 1803; m. Mary Hill (?).
Ephraim Jenkins (Jonathan, William, Joseph), born 20 Jan. 1780, married, 3 Nov. 1814, Mary, daughter of Shubael and Sarah (Cloutman) Varney, who was born 28, 8 mo. 1786 and died 5 June 1859. He died 23 April 1857.
CAROLINE b. II Aug. 1815; d. 12 March 1883.
MARY A. b. 8 Aug. 1817; d. 6 Jan. 1897.
HANNAH b. 16 June 1819; m. Wm. J. Chesley; d. 7 July 1893.
SARAH b. 23 Nov. 1820; m. James Paul, 1849; d. 28 Dec. 1888.
Elizabeth b. 24 Nov. 1822; d. 19 Dec. 1823.
JONATHAN b. 10 Oct. 1824; m. Martha Emery; d. 19 March 1900, s. p.
EPHRAIM b. 26 Sept. 1826; m. Abbie T. Jackson; d. 28 July 1892.
Ephraim Jenkins (Ephraim, Jonathan, William, Joseph), born 26 Sept. 1826, married, 23 Nov. 1854, Abby T. Jackson, daughter of Benjamin and Betsey (Abbott) Jackson, who was born 23 March 1828 and died 20 Jan. 1899. He died 28 July 1892. Children were as follows:
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FRANK M. b. II Dec. 1855; m. 24 Nov. 1886, Iona Vibbett, who d. 20 June 1910; he m. (2) 8 April 1912, Margaret C. Larcombe.
CHARLES S. b. 8 Jan. 1858; d. 25 Dec. 1863.
FRED E. b. 20 Nov. 1862; m. 21 Nov. 1894, Lillian Mont- gomery, who was b. 23 Jan. 1874. Ch., Ethel M. b. 18 July 1895, Mildred E. b. 21 July 1897, Helen F. b. 15 Aug. 1900, Raymond M. b. 8 Aug. 1902, Alberta b. 14 Nov. 1903, Ruth E. b. 8 May 1906, and Fred H. b. 3 May 1909.
Silas Jenkins, son of Thomas and Nancy (Smith) Jenkins, was born in Chatham, 31 March 1840. He married, 10 April 1865, Anna M. Watson, who was born in Tamworth, 2 Sept. 1842. He was a soldier in the Civil War and removed from Greenland to Durham in 1871. Children:
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