Charity F (Freeman) Jennings (1759 - 1840)

Born 23 Sep 1759 in Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Israel Jennings — married 3 May 1775 in New York Colony

Wife of Israel Jennings — married 30 May 1775 in Longview WA

Descendants

Died 25 Oct 1840 at age 81 in Georgetown, Brown, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Born in 1759. Died in 1840.

She is mentioned in her parents' entry in "Mayflower Births and Deaths". Children of Silvanus Freeman and Leah Brainerd: Charity Freeman (bpt. 23 Sep 1759), Lydia Freeman (bpt. 4 Dec 1763, d. 6 July 1766), Sylvanus Freeman (b. 29 May 1765), Thankful Freeman (b. 25 Apr 1767), Martha Freeman (b. 25 Apr 1767), Leah Freeman (b. 26 Feb 1769), Philena/Paulina Freeman (b. 24 Jan 1771), Festus Freeman (b. 1778), and Hastell Freeman (b. 1781). Festus and Hastell drowned off Saybrook after a boat upset on 21 Sep 1798. ^[1]

She (and her Mayflower lineage) is mentioned in a Notes and Queries section of The Magazine of American Genealogy: "William Jennings, son of Lt. William and Mary Jennings. He left Conn. probably between 1776 and 87, settling between Conn. and Ky., while his son Israel (m. Charity Freeman of Prence-Brewster family) went on to Nelson Co., Ky., settling finally in Brown Co., Ohio. William Jennings had, besides Israel, at least Sylvanus and Elias who m. Dorothy Purple."^[2]

There is an entry for "Charity Freeman, 1759, Connecticut" in AGBI.^[3] Gen. Column of the "Boston Transcript". 1906-1941: 10 Apr 1929, 8430; 5 Jun 1929, 8430; 29 Apr 1931, 1693; 3 Jun 1931, 1853; 24 Jun 1931, 1693; 24 Aug 1931, 1693; 10 Jan 1935, 8430.

Ross Family

The following text is from an article about her grandson, Israel Ross, in ^[4][5].

Of the Jennings family but little is known except that the grandmother, Charity (Freeman) Jennings, was born in Europe, and when a child came to America. Her parents later moved to Kentucky, and were there during the troublous times when the Indians were hostile, and the family were occasionally forced to take refuge in a boat, and to avoid capture would paddle to the other side of the Ohio River. The Jennings family later removed to Brown County, Ohio, near Georgetown, where the venerable parents lived and died. Thomas Ross became the husband of Deborah Jennings in Brown County, where both families were early settlers.

Editor's note: Consensus disagrees.

Burial

Her entry on Findagrave.com^[6] includes the following (unsourced) information: Birth 23 Sep 1759 in East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA. Death 25 Oct 1840 in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, USA. Burial in the Jennings Family Farm Cemetery, Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, USA (on old family farm). "Wife of Israel Jennings also buried on the old Jennings family farm, in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio. Mother of Israel Jennings of Hickory Hill, Illinois and mother of Charity Jennings Turner of Wayne County, Illinois."

No location information is given for "Jennings Family Farm Cemetery"^[7]. The only other person buried in this "cemetery" is her husband, Israel Jennings (1745-1830). No other information is provided. Despite these entries, her burial location may not be known.

References

Charity was born about 1759. She passed away about 1840. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, page 259
2. ↑ Notes and Queries, in The Magazine of American Genealogy, published by The Institute of American Genealogy, Chicago. Number 23, April 1932, Section VIII, page 160.
3. ↑ American Genealogical-Biographical Index, Charity Freeman, 1759, Connecticut, vol. 58, page 181.
4. ↑ Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County Iowa, Containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of Iowa, and of the presidents of the United States. Acme Publishing Company, Chicago, 1888, pages 586-7.
5. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=zk40AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA586&ots=fptStuUE5J&pg=PA586#v=onepage
6. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134047803/charity-f.-jennings
7. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2549838/jennings-family-farm-cemetery
8. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Sylvia (Sanders) Lacy.

• WikiTree profile Freeman-2254 created through the import of ANDREW21June.GED on Jun 21, 2011 by David Graham.

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