Mehitable (Jenkins) Hamblin (1655 - aft. 1695)

Born 2 Mar 1655 in Barnstable, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazar Hamblin — married 15 Oct 1675 in Barnstable MA

Descendants

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Biography

Mehitable Jenkins was born on Mar 2, 1655, in Barnstable, Plymouth Colony. She was the daughter of John Jenkins and Mary Wallen.^[1]

She married Eleazer Hamblin on about Oct 15, 1675 in Barnstable.^[2]

The circumstances of her death are uncertain, but she died after 1695 (when her last child was born).

Children

Children of Mehitable Jenkins and Eleazer Hamblin include at least the following, probably all born Barnstable:

1. Isaac Hamlin, b 20 Aug 1676^[3]
2. Joseph Hamlin, b 20 Nov 1680^[3]
3. Mehitable Hamlin, b 28 Mar 1682^[3]
4. Elisha Hamlin, bp 30 Jul 1685^[4]
5. Ichabod Hamlin, b 30 May 1687^[4]
6. Shubael (or Shobal) Hamlin, b 16 Sept 1695^[3]

Research Notes

NOTE: Some online trees mis-interpret an 19th century text that lists Mehitable first among her siblings, making it look like the following were her children; they were not:

• Samuel Jenkins b 12 Sept 1657 d early
• John Jenkins jr. b 13 Nov 1659 m Mary Parker and Patience( Joseph) Paine on 23 Nov 1715. She died 28 Oct 1745 John became a freeman at Plymouth June 24, 1689, owned shares and was “a man of note entitled to be called Mister. He went from Barnstable to Falmouth where he remained for a time occupying, defining and developing the lands previously acquired by his father from the Indians. About 1692, he returned to Barnstable, settled in the East Parish and died suddenly on 8 July 1736. His children were all born in Falmouth during his residence there.
• Mary Jenkins b 1 Oct 1662 m Thomas Parker
• Thomas Jenkins, b 15 July 1666 d 1745 m Experience Hamblin 24 Aug 1687. She was the daughter of James Hamblin, Jr.

Sources

1. ↑ Plymouth Records, at 8:45. See also MD 6:236-39, at 236; Smith, at 342-44; GM 1633-34, at 4:44.
2. ↑ MD 6:135-140, at 137. The record records the date as "About ye Midle of October on ye year 1675".
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} MD 6:135-140, at 137.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Smith, at 343.

• Anderson, Robert C., et al. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635. 7 volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2011. ["GM: 1634-1635"].

• ”Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records.” The Mayflower Descendant. 6 (1904): 236-39. Internet Archive. Image Copy : accessed 6 Feb 2021. [“MD 6:236-39.”]

• "Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records." The Mayflower Descendant. 6 (1904): 135-140. Internet Archive. Image copy : accessed 9 Feb 2021.

• Smith, Ethel Farrington. “John Jenkins of Barnstable, Massachusetts.” New England Historic & Genealogical Register. 149 (1995): 339-359.

• Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., et al, eds. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England. 12 volumes. Boston: William White, 1855-1861. Hathitrust. Image copy : accessed 2021. ["Plymouth Records"].