John Jennings (1617 - 1686)

Born 1617 in England

Descendants

Died 1686 at about age 69 in Connecticut Colony

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Biography

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• Bio note re John Jennings

John Jennings and Anne Young immigrated in 1635 to Southampton, Suffolk Co, New York.

At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, no less than nine family heads of Jennings households lived at Southampton, Long Island – descendants of John Jennings (1617-1686).

Formed in the early 1640s as the first English settlement in New York, rivaling New Amsterdam (Dutch), Southampton had become an important port and trading center. The British wanted to utilize Southampton as a staging area for the invasion of New York. There were many Tories (i.e. Loyalists) among the population, but the Jennings maintained an "Independent tilt."

When the British ordered Israel Jennings (1745-1830), one of the more prominent family heads to either swear allegiance to the Crown or give up his home, he elected to relinquish his property and later migrated to Kentucky, finally settling in Brown County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) in 1803. Israel Jennings was the maternal great-grandfather of William Jennings Bryan - The Great Commoner (1860-1925). 8Israel's son (also Israel Jenning) migrated to Salem, Illinois.

John was born about 1617. He was the son of John Gennings.^{[citation needed]} He passed away in 1686.

Sources

• http://www.geni.com/people/John-Jennings/6000000017487530389?through=6000000002082532022

http://tevern.us/gen/Cash-o/g0/p236.htm#i2461

http://johnsonhansonfamily.com/getperson.php?personID=I671953338&tree=JoHa

http://www.agribusinesscouncil.org/Jennings%20Heritage/Sunrise%20at%20Trenton.htm

• Filae family tree in MyHeritage, GenJENNINGS.htm