Israel Jennings (1745 - 1830)

Born 25 Jun 1745 in New York Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Mount) Jennings — married [date unknown] (to 1814) in New York City, New York, United States

Husband of Charity F (Freeman) Jennings — married 3 May 1775 in New York Colony

Descendants

Died 23 Jul 1830 at age 85 in Georgetown, Brown, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Israel was born in 1745. He died in 1830 at the age of 85.

Parents: William Henry Jennings 1726 - 1793 and Mary (uncertain) Jennings 1824 - 1775.

Spouse: Charity (Freeman) Jennings 1759 - 1840. They were married in 1775 in Connecticut. Per U.S. Marriage Records, 1560 - 1900. Findagrave #134047803

Born 1746. Died 1830. Probably NOT the son of the William Jennings (b. 1652) linked above.

Israel Jennings brought his wife. Charity, and family of twelve children to Brown County from Bardstown, Nelson Co., Ky., in 1802 or 1803. His father's family was farming on Long Island during the Revolutionary war, and, when the British took possession, was given the alternative of swearing allegiance to the King or losing the property. Preferring the latter, the family moved to Chatham, N. H., and, subsequently, Israel came West. He lived a year in Union Township, then purchased 200 acres off the north part of the Rhea Survey, about two miles east of Georgetown, and moved to it. No clearing had been made on the place, but the deserted cabin of some previous squatter was found, and Mr. Jennings made it his habitation for eighteen months, when be built himself a substantial log cabin. He had been a house carpenter, but devoted himself here exclusively to farm pursuits, and died at the home place at a good old age. William Jennings, the youngest child, still lives on the site of the old cabin, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. ^[1]

Not the same "Israel Jennings" that is mentioned on page 26 of The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan^[2]. That Israel Jennings married Mary Waters, which is possibly this Israel Jennings' son. As they say on Wikipedia, "[citation needed]".

Burial

His entry on Findagrave.com^[3] includes the following (unsourced) information: Birth 25 Jun 1745 in New York, USA. Death 23 Jul 1830 in Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, USA. Burial in the Jennings Family Farm Cemetery, Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio, USA (on old family farm).

No location information is given for "Jennings Family Farm Cemetery"^[4]. The only other person buried in this "cemetery" is his wife, Charity Freeman Jennings (1759-1840). No other information is provided. Despite these entries, his burial location may not be known.

Research Notes

I only see 1 marriage for Israel, to Charity (Freeman). Needs research/sources for the other 2 marriages linked on this record.

According to a genealogist with Brown County, Ohio Genealogical & Historical Society, a family with the same surname and living in the same approximate geographical location is in all probability related. My maternal grandmother, Minnie Pearl Jennings, has told me on more than one occasion, that her father's family settled in the Bond County, Illinois area. The name of her father was Carey Wesley Jennings.

The father of Carey Wesley Jennings was William Elliot Jennings.

William Elliot Jennings was born in 1830 in Pleasant Township, Brown County, Ohio. William Elliot Jennings was a son of Benoni (Benomi) Jennings.

Benoni (Benomi) Jennings was born in Ohio. Benoni (Benomi) Jennings married Rachael McKinney in Brown County, Ohio on 9/21/1826.

The family of Benoni (Benomi) Jennings eventually settled in Bond County, Illinois. Both Benoni (Benomi) Jennings and his wife, Rachael Jennings were victims of a Chloera epidemic. They died in 1854 in Bond County, Illinois. Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery and Bond Counties, Illinois, Chicago, Chapman Brothers, 1892. (on his FamilySearch page)

Merge

Conflicting vital information in a merge 4/2024:

• Born 25 Jun 1745 in North Sea Southampton Long Island PA
• Died 25 Jul 1830 at age 85 in Georgetown, Brown, Ohio, USA
• Marriage 30 May 1775

• Born 25 Jun 1745 in New York Colony
• Died 23 Jul 1830 at age 85 in Georgetown, Brown, Ohio, United States
• Marriage 3 May 1775

Sources

1. ↑ The History of Brown County, Ohio. Chicago: W.H. Beers and Company, 1883. Page 379.
2. ↑ The Memoirs of William Jennings Bryan, added 2014-08-06, amb
3. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134047427/israel-jennings
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2549838/jennings-family-farm-cemetery

• Israel is buried at the Jennings Family Farm Cemetery in Brown County, Ohio, USA. His page lists and has links to his spouse, 4 children. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134047427/israel-jennings

• Israel Jennings: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7F9-KFF Lists his parents (mother's maiden name shoud be Waters?), 2 siblings, spouse, 12 children, 33 sources/notes.

• 1810 Census: Israel Jennings. Ballston, Saratoga, New York. Household members: 8.

• 1820 Census: Israel Jennings. Pleasant, Brown, Ohio. Household members: 5.

• 1830 Census: Israel Jennings. Union, Muskingum, Ohio. Household members: 6.

• Jennings, Davidson & Allied Families. A Genealogical List of the Descendants of the immigrants, John Jennings, Southampton, New York and John Davison, Augusta Coutny, Virginia. By Lillie Pauline White. A lineal decendant from both lines. Sherman Printing & Binding Co. Seattle, Washington, 1944. 13 pages: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/L7F9-KFF

• Clan Stewart Society in America, Inc. Publisher, G.T. Edson, 1960. Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. George Thomas Edson. Stewart Clan Magazine, Volumes 38 - 43: http://books.google.com/books?id=BhtWAAAAMAAJ&q=polly+jennings+stewart&dq=polly+jennings+stewart&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c1_gU9ShBsfC8AHS7YDABQ&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBTg
• Jennings-528 created through the import of ANDREW21June.GED on Jun 21, 2011 by David Graham.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Jennings-1239 created through the import of Barbara Lou (Arnold) Fletcher Family Tree_2012-08-25_01.ged on Aug 25, 2012 by Ron Fletcher. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Ron and others.