Sarah (Jenings) Stevenson (1679 - 1733)

Born 10 Apr 1679 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Edward Pennington — married 16 Nov 1699 in Burlington, West Jersey

Descendants

Died 6 Dec 1733 at age 54 in Middletown Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Sarah was a Friend (Quaker)

Sarah Jenings (sometimes spelled Jennings) was born on the 10th day of the 2nd month of 1679 (10 April 1679 New Style) at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. She was the daughter of Samuel Jenings and Ann Ollive. Her family were Quakers and her birth was registered in the birth register of the Upperside Monthly Meeting, Buckinghamshire.^[1] Sarah was listed as the eldest daughter of three (Sarah, Ann, Mercy) surviving at the time of the death of her father Samuel Jenings.^[2] Her only brother William and a sister Joyce died in the 1690s.

The Jenings's family emigrated to West Jersey in September 1680. In 1682, Governor Edward Byllynge appointed Samuel Jennings to the position of deputy-governor of West Jersey.

Edward Penington married Sarah Jennings on 1699,11,16 (could be 16 Nov 1699 or 16 Jan 1700 New Style) at Burlington, West Jersey.^[3]

They had a son Isaac Pennington b. 1700. Sarah's husband Edward Penington died in 1701.

In 1704, 10th day, 2nd month, Thomas Stevenson sought approval for the second time from the Burlington, New Jersey, Friends Meeting to marry Sarah Jenings, widow of Edward Penington and daughter of Samuel Jenings; while the date of the marriage is not on record, it may be presumed to have occurred within two weeks of that date.^[4][5]

Thomas and Sarah Stevenson had seven children: Ann, Sarah, Samuel, Edward, Elizabeth, Abigail & Alice.

Sarah Stevenson died in 1733 at Middletown, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. She was buried at Middletown Friends Cemetery.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J7TR-23J : 11 February 2018, Sarah Jenings, 10 Apr 1679); citing v 165 p 10, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 583,993. Image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G964-X8KK?i=15
2. ↑ History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey, with ... Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) pp.161-162 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002004425311?urlappend=%3Bseq=236
3. ↑ William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Baltimore, Genealogy Publishing Company, 1969), v. 2, p. 405. LA FHL 973 D2he v.2, p. 620.

   Abstract of the Monthly Meeting records from Salem, New Jersey, Burlington, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Fall, Pennsylvania. Includes minutes and marriage records and birth and death records, 1676-1938.

   The abstract reads "PENNINGTON: 1699,11,16. Edward, Phila., Pa., m Sarah Jennings, dt Samuel, Burlington, West Jersey, at Burlington MH."

4. ↑ Stevenson, John R. Thomas Stevenson of London, England and His Descendants. Flemington, New Jersey: Hiram E. Deats, 1902. Pages 30, 32 (note that the date given on page 32 (1664) appears to be an error; the date given on page 30 (1704) would seem to be correct).
5. ↑ Hinshaw, William Wade. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol. II, pp. 249, 264. Burlington Monthly Meeting. Sarah Jenings Pennington and Thomas Stevenson granted liberty to marry, 1704, 2, 10.
6. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #158288185

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