Daniel Jenks (1702 - 1789)

Born 12 Mar 1702 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mercy (Sprague) Jenckes — married 14 Feb 1727 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 24 Jan 1789 at age 86 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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Biography

Jenks Crest.

Daniel Jenckes (Jenks) was born on 12 Mar 1702 in Attleborough, Massachusetts to Daniel Jenckes and Catherine Balcom. Daniel Sr. was a Yeoman and served as a town clerk and selectman of Attleborough. He also mentions a grist mill and other mills in his will, implying that he owned a number of properties. Daniel Jr. was named executor and received a good part of the estate.
Daniel (Jr.) married Mercy Sprague on 14 Feb 1727 and they settled in nearby Cumberland, Rhode Island, most likely on one of the properties that his father had left him. They would have nine children together.^[1]Mercy died in 1749 at the age of 49. Daniel married Leah Whipple in 1754. She died in 1763 at the age of 48. Daniel died in 1789 at the age of 86.

Parents

DANIEL JENKS born 19 Apr 1663; 1736; will proved Mar. 15, 1736. . He married KATHERINE (BALCOM) ALLEN, widow of Isaac Allen sometime before 1692. He was town clerk at Attleboro in 1699 and served as selectman from 1697 until 1704.

Siblings

1. Mary, b. about 1692.
2. Elizabeth, b. 24 Aug 1694; d. 26 Apr 1768, m. Ezekiel Hopkins.
3. Abigail, b. 8 Jul 1696.
4. Martha, b. 5 Aug 1698.
5. Susanna, b. 24 May 1700.
6. Daniel,3 b. 12 Mar 1702.
7. Hannah, b. 2 Feb1704.
8. Ruth, b. 9 Dec 1705; m. Whipple.
9. Joseph, b. 5 Mar 1709.

Marriages

1st, Mercy Sprague, daughter of Anthony Sprague and Mary (Tilden) Sprague, on 14 Feb 1727 in Attleborough, Massachusetts Bay.^[2][3][4] 2nd, Leah Whipple, daughter of , on 11 Dec 1754 by Job Bartlett, Justice in Cumberland, Rhode Island.^[5]

Children

1. Katherine, b. 28 Mar 1729
2. Jeremiah, b. 12 Feb 1730
3. Hannah, b. 1 Nov 1732
4. John, b. 2 Nov 1734
5. Phebe, b. 19 Feb, 1735
6. Mercy, b. 2 Sep 1737
7. David, b. 21 Jun 1739
8. Daniel, b. 19 Mar 1743
9. Mary, b. 3 Jun 1746

Daniel Jencks II was born in 1702 in Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He passed away in 1789 in Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

• Fact: Also Known As Daniel JENCKS Jr
• Fact: Real Estate Deed (19 April 1749) sale of father-in-law's land Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Research Notes

In the Arnold compilation of Vital Records for Cumberland, their daughter Mercy is listed as Mary. Other sources, including the town clerk’s transcription done in 1958, give her name as Mercy. This makes more sense as they would name their last daughter Mary, and Mercy/Mary was still alive.

Mistaken Identity

Many sites have confused the death, and Daniel’s whereabouts, with Daniel Jencks of Providence, Rhode Island, who died in 1774. Daniel Jenckes (however it is spelled), born in Attleborough and who lived in Cumberland, died in 1789 and is buried there, not in North Burial Ground in Providence, which is where the other Daniel Jencks is buried.

Sources

1. ↑ "Rhode Island Town Births Index, 1639-1932", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F899-QQL : 4 November 2020), Daniel Jenckes in entry for Phebe Jenckes, 1735.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-GKRZ : 22 July 2021), Daniel Jencks or Jenckes or Jenks or Jincks or Jinks and Mercy Sprague, 30 Dec 1727; citing Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,987,017.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-MR5X : 25 February 2020), Daniel Jencks and Mercy Sprague, 30 Dec 1727; citing Marriage, Town of Attleborough, Plymouth, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009342.
4. ↑ "Rhode Island, Vital records, 1846-1898, 1901-1953," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4M3F-JF2M : 7 November 2019), Daniel Jenckes and Mercy Sprague, 1727; citing Marriage, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, Rhode Island State Archives, Providence; FHL microfilm 007767899.
5. ↑ "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8VR-ZMP : 22 January 2020), Leah Whipple in entry for Damiel Jenckes, 1754.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 09 May 2020, 01:29), entry for Daniel Jenckes (PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:KL83-FBP ); contributed by various users.
• • Page 10 Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Compiled by William B. Browne, under the terms of the will of Harlan W. Jenks, deceased. Printed by Rumford Press, Concord, New Hampshire, 1952.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/197261434/daniel-jencks : accessed 29 November 2021), memorial page for Daniel Jencks II (12 Mar 1702–24 Jan 1789), Find a Grave Memorial ID 197261434, citing North Burial Ground, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Ray (contributor 46545140) Find A Grave: Memorial #197261434.
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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Jenks-421 created through the import of Hopkins-Elci Family Tree.ged on Jul 9, 2012 by Kristen Crandall. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Kristen and others.
• Stanley Wood,Jun 23, 2011. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Stanley and others.