Captain
Lemuel
Jenkins
Born in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Jenkins Jr.
and Abigail (Little) Jenkins
Brother of
Hannah (Jenkins) Pease, Anna (Jenkins) Wiswall, Marshall Jenkins, Sarson Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins and Abigail (Jenkins) Skiff
Husband of
Elizabeth (Butler) Jenkins
— married
14 Nov 1766 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Husband of
Elizabeth (Mayhew) Jenkins
— married
20 Aug 1775 in Chilmark, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Husband of
Mary (Dunham) Jenkins
— married
1 Jan 1778 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA
Descendants 
Died
at age 49
in Hudson, Columbia, New York, United States
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| Created 27 Jan 2015
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Contents |
Biography
Lemuel Jenkins and Mary Dunham were married on January 1, 1778. (Jenkins Family Bible). Captain Jenkins was a ship captain, probable whaler, and engaged in merchant shipping w/ brother Marshall and their brothers-in-law both during and prior to the Revolutionary War. Banks' History of Martha's Vineyard, Vol 1 describes their tale of economic loses that eventually forced them to move their operations to Hudson, NY on the Hudson River in 1786.[1]
Burial
Hudson City Cemetery, Hudson, Columbia County, New York
Inscription: In memory of Mr. LEMUEL JENKINS who departed this life Sept 9th 1789 Aged 49 Years 1 Month & 13 Days
Name
Marriage
- Husband: Lemuel Jenkins
- Wife: Mary Dunham
- Child: Charles G Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Lemuel W Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Marriage:
- Date: 01 JUN 1778
- Place: Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA[4]
- Husband: Lemuel Jenkins
- Wife: Elizabeth Mayhew
- Marriage:
- Husband: Joseph Jenkins
- Wife: Abigail Little
- Child: Abigail Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Hannah Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Sarson Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Lemuel Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Joseph Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Anna Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Child: Marshall Jenkins
- Relationship to Father: Natural
- Relationship to Mother: Natural
- Marriage:
Sources
- ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067299891&view=1up&seq=475&q1=jenkins
- ↑ Source: #S104 Page: Tisbury Vol. I, page 145
- ↑ Source: #S71
- ↑ Source: #S104 Page: Tisbury Vol. I, page 145
- ↑ Source: #S71
- ↑ Source: #S71
- ↑ Source: #S71
- ↑ Source: #S71
- ↑ Source: #S80 Page: Page 217
- Family Bible of Lemuel Jenkins & Mary Dunham Jenkins, 1801 FAMILY HOLY BIBLE APOCRYPHA
- Find a Grave Memorial 109974689 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/109974689/lemuel-jenkins
- Source: S104 Title: Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 Publication: Name: New England Historic Genealogical Society; Date: 2001-2010; Repository: #R7
- Repository: R7 Name: AmericanAncestors.org Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
- Source: S71 Title: Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 Publication: Name: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.; Repository: #R3
- Repository: R3 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
- Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Silver Books, Volume Eighteen, Part 2, The Descendants of Richard Warren Through His Children Mary, Anna, and Elizabeth, 2011 Edition, Published 2016, Page 187
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lemuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lemuel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Lemuel by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Lemuel:
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~0.78%
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