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Daniel Jenckes, Jr.

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Name Daniel Jenckes Suffix Jr. Birth 19 Mar 1742/1743 Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Gender Male Death 1799 Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Person ID I13043 Whipple Relatives Last Modified 18 Nov 2009
Father Daniel Jenckes, Jr., b. 12 Mar 1701/1702, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 24 Jan 1789 (Age 86 years)
Mother Mercy Sprague, b. 17 Jun 1703 d. Bef 1750 (Age < 46 years) Marriage 14 Feb 1727/1728 Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Family ID F7322 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Sarah Whipple, b. 26 Dec 1741, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. Aft 27 May 1784, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age > 43 years)
Marriage 6 Jan 1763 Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Children + 1. Gideon Jenckes, b. 31 May 1764, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. Aft 1807 (Age > 44 years)
Family ID F7330 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Rhoda Cruff, b. 9 Feb 1748/1749, Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island d. 5 Nov 1819, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 70 years)
Marriage Between 31 May 1764 and 23 Apr 1776 Children 1. Lemuel Jenckes, b. 8 Aug 1768, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island + 2. Sarah Jenckes, b. 8 Sep 1769, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 3. Ezra Jenckes, b. 20 Mar 1771, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 4. Dianna Jenckes, b. 4 Nov 1772, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 5. Rispah Jenckes, b. 29 Sep 1774, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 6. Daniel Jenckes, b. 21 Feb 1777, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island + 7. Russell Jenckes, b. 15 Oct 1782, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 8 May 1842, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 59 years)
8. James Jenckes, b. 27 May 1784, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island + 9. Sterry Jencks, b. 6 Feb 1787, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island d. 26 Nov 1853, Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island
(Age 66 years)
Family ID F6800 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map Birth - 19 Mar 1742/1743 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Marriage - 6 Jan 1763 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island Death - 1799 - Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - !SOURCE: Printout from the Sprague Database, dated 18 Oct 1997, mailed to the Whipple Web Site by Dick Weber (email hidden).
!SOURCE: James N. Arnold, Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, vol. 3, Cumberland, pt. 5 (Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Pub. Co., 1892), p. 40.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Sarah Whipple," email from N. Combs to the Whipple Website, 23 Feb 2003. Cites Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (birth, marriage).
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 30 Aug 2004. Sheds light on Rhoda as the second wife of Daniel Jenckes, and which children were the children of the first (versus second) wife. The Cumberland, RI will abstracts has the following entry:JENCKS, RHODA, of Cumberland, widow. Will dated 13 March 1808, proved 24 April 1819. Mentions sons Russell Jenks & Stirry Jenks; grandson Ezra Jenks; grandsons Knight Ray, William Ray, John Ray, Simon Whipple Ray, Preston Ray, & Halsey Ray; Gideon Jenks son of my late husband by his first wife. (src: Abstracts of Cumberland, RI Wills by Nellie Beaman, RI Genealogical Register vol. 4 No. 1 p.95, Cumberland, RI Probate Records Vol. 12, 180-181)
Per Arnold's VRs (21:303 RI American 5/11/1819): Jencks, Rhoda in 72nd yr. suddenly at Cumberland. {Age of 71 at death gives an approximate birth date of 1748.}
The above will abstract leads to the conclusion that Gideon Jenks {50297} is the son of Sarah Whipple {13221} and Daniel Jenckes {13043} and that all the other children listed as being Sarah's are really Rhoda's {13222}. {I have not found a surname for Rhoda, but Whipple is in the Whipple Genweb; perhaps "Sterry" would be worth checking as a son is so named.} Arnold's VRs (3:5:40 Cumberland 1:26) note the Jan. 6, 1763 marriage between Sarah Whipple and Daniel Jenckes, Jr. Arnold's VRs (3:5:106 Cumberland 1:120) show Gideon as the child of Sarah and Daniel Jenckes. Then there is a gap of four years until the births of Lemuel (1768) and Sarah (1769) to Rhodia (sic) and Daniel Jenckes. The next six children--Ezra, Dianna, Rispah, Daniel, Russell, and James--are attributed to Sarah and Daniel Jenckes.
It was probably my assumption that the name Rhod(i)a was in error, but it would appear that Arnold (or the Town Clerk) incorrectly noted Sarah as the mother of the six youngest Jenckes children. Apparently, Sarah (Whipple) Jenckes died after Gideon's birth in May 1764 and before Rhoda's first child was born in Aug. 1768.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Abigail Sprague," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 17 Aug 2003. Cites names mentioned in the will of Samuel Cruff, dated 23 Apr 1776, proved 2 Jul 1781 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island.
- !SOURCE: Printout from the Sprague Database, dated 18 Oct 1997, mailed to the Whipple Web Site by Dick Weber (email hidden).