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Governor Joseph Jenckes

Governor Joseph Jenckes

Male 1656 - 1740  (84 years)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document    Has 34 ancestors and 57 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Joseph Jenckes 
    Prefix Governor 
    Birth 1656  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 15 Jun 1740  Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 17 Jun 1740  Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Pawtucket #9, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Initiatory (LDS) 20 Jan 1927  LOGAN Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FamilySearch ID LZNG-CF8 
    Person ID I972  mytree
    Last Modified 25 Feb 2024 

    Father Joseph Jenckes, Jr,   b. 12 Oct 1632, Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Jan 1717, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Mother Esther Ballard,   b. 28 Oct 1632, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1695, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 1655  Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F633  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Martha Browne,   b. 2 May 1658, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1723, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Marriage Mar 1681  Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Captain Joseph Jenckes,   b. Abt 1682, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Obadiah Jenckes,   b. 1684, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Sep 1758, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     3. Captain Nathaniel Jenckes,   b. 1686, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Jun 1753, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     4. Martha Jenckes,   b. Abt 1689, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 1756, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     5. Mary Jenckes,   b. 1692, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 1756, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years)
    +6. Catherine Jenckes,   b. 1694, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1792, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)
     7. John Jenckes,   b. 6 Apr 1697, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jun 1764, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     8. Lydia Jenckes,   b. Abt 1704, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1774 (Age 70 years)
     9. Esther Jencks,   b. Abt 1706, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F827  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Nov 2024 

    Family 2 Alice Smith,   b. 1665, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Feb 1736, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 3 Feb 1727  Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F828  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 21 Nov 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1656 - Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Mar 1681 - Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 3 Feb 1727 - Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 15 Jun 1740 - Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 17 Jun 1740 - Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Pawtucket #9, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInitiatory (LDS) - 20 Jan 1927 - LOGAN Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from Rhode Island Periodic a ls (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:8.

      SOURCE: M.M. Wilkinson, _Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families_ (S h elby, Miss.: Shelby Book Store, 1949), p. 75.

      SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consistin g o f Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and El izab eth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 13.

      NOTE: The tallest man in Rhode Island in his day: 7 ft., 2 inches. --A . I .B. Bulkley

      was the son of Joseph and Esther (Ballard) Jenckes who lived in Lynn, Ma s sachusetts before coming to Rhode Island. His father, the son of an ear li er Joseph Jenckes, operated a sawmill in Warwick, but shortly thereaft e r settled in Providence. The subject Joseph Jenckes became a freeman i n P rovidence in 1681, and ten years later began an extensive career of c ivi l service to the colony. For 12 years from 1691 to 1708 he was a Depu ty f rom Providence, and for four of those years he was the Speaker of th e Hou se of Deputies. From 1707 to 1712 he was assigned as Major for th e town s of Providence and Warwick, and was also the Assistant from Provi dence d uring those years. In 1715 he was elected as the deputy governo r of the c olony, and held this position every year but one until 1727 wh en he was e lected as governor, which position he held for five consecuti ve one-yea r terms.

      One of the major issues concerning Rhode Island during Jenckes' term s o f leadership was the boundary-line controversy with the neighboring C olon y of Connecticut, and between his two terms as Deputy Governor Jenck es wa s in England with Richard Partridge to obtain royal intervention i n thi s dispute. Connecticut refused to observe the boundary between th e two co lonies that had been established by commissioners from both colo nies wh o met at Stonington, Connecticut in 1703. The Rhode Island colon y was als o having boundary line issues with Massachusetts, and Jenckes a nd his par tner were able to get satisfaction from the crown, so that th e Rhode Isla nd colony "may not hereafter be molested, as they have hithe rto been to t heir very great prejudice."[1] Several years later, in 1726 , Jenckes wa s one of four commissioners from Rhode Island who met with C onnecticut co mmissioners to settle the line of partition between the tw o colonies. Th e following year he wrote a letter on behalf of the Genera l Assembly to K ing George II thanking him for his protection of Rhode Is land's "charte r privileges".

      Jenckes' first wife was Martha, the daughter of John and Mary (Holmes) B r own, with whom he had nine children and at least 68 grandchildren. Foll ow ing her death, Jenckes married in 1727 Alice Dexter, the widow of Joh n De xter who was the son of Gregory Dexter, an early President of Provid enc e and Warwick. Alice was the daughter of John and Sarah (Whipple) Smi th . Jenckes died in 1740, "deemed to die intestate by reason of his insa nit y of mind," and his son Nathaniel was appointed as administrator. Aus ti n wrote that he is buried in the North Burial Ground in Providence, bu t t his is incorrect. The family cemetery in Pawtucket where he was burie d i s now defunct, with no trace of its existence remaining.



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