Susan (MacPherson) Wiggins (abt. 1671 - aft. 1709)

Born about 1671 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 1709 after about age 38 in Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Susan MacPherson was born in Shropshire, England in 1687. She married Thomas Jenks in England in 1698. Susan MacPherson Jenks and her husband Thomas travelled to Pennsylvania in xxxx on the ship SSSS ^{[citation needed]}. after the elder Jenks died en route, she had a son, also named Thomas, who was born in 1699 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,

The widow Jenks married Benjamin Abraham Wiggins in 1708.^[1]

Benjamin Wiggins and Susan Wiggins had a son, Bezaleel, who was born in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania in 1709. Susan Jenks Wiggins died in 1712.

"The Jenks family of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, trace their descent from Thomas Jenks, of Shropshire, who, as shown by the will of John Penn. of the adjoining county of Montgomery, Wales, dated 1660. was a son of Thomas Jenks. Thomas Jenks the elder died 10 mo. 19, 1680, as shown by the records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends in Shrop- shire. He was one of the earliest con- verts to the principles of George Fox, and "Besse's Sufferings gives a rec- ord of his arrest in 1656 as one of a party of Friends while attending a meet- ing of people of his faith. He was again arrested and fined in 1660. Thomas Jenks, son of the above, born in Shrop- shire, was married there and is supposed to have embarked for America with his wife Susan, and infant son Thomas, born January, 1699-1700. All that js definitely known, however, is that Susan Jenks. his widow, and her young son, Thomas, arrived in Bucks county soon after 1700, and located in Wrightstown. Susan Jenks married Benjamin Wiggins, of Buckingham, in 1708. and died soon after the birth of her son, Bezeleel Wiggins, in 1709.

Name

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about Thomas Jenks Name: Thomas Jenks Gender: male Birth Place: En Birth Year: 1665 Spouse Name: Susan MacPherson Spouse Birth Place: En Spouse Birth Year: 1680 Marriage State: of PA Number Pages: 1^[3]

Death

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Sources

1. ↑ U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, Yates Publishing
2. ↑ *There is some confusion and incoherency of dates. Jenks (Thomas) was born in 1700, and she may have joined herself to Wm. Penn, jr., when he arrived in 1703. There was certainly a Lady Jenks, whose name was Macpherson. She afterwards married Wiggend, of Bucks county, and left a son who has now many descendants in Bucks County. WATSON'S ANNALS of PHILADELPHIA and PENNSYLVANIA; Vol. 1 Written 1830 -- 1850; Chapter 5 THE PENN FAMILY
3. ↑ Source number: 23030.004; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1; Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
4. ↑ Find A Grave Wrightstown Friends Meeting Cemetery ; Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA Created by: Robert Kringe Record added: Aug 22, 2013 Find A Grave Memorial# 115884123

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