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John, 4th son of the "patentee" lived and died in Lynn, as did his brother Samuel. At the early age of 21, he married Sarah Meriam; and died when but 38 years old, leaving her a widow, who, married John Lewis for her second husband. My (the writer's) honored grandfather, Capt. John Jenks, was his only son, and youngest child, left an orphan in infancy. But he (John) also had four daughters, two of whom married and settled in Lynn. ! NEHGR9:203 John was the trumpeter for a company of horse raised by the town. !JENKS FAMILY OF AMERICA, p.9 | Jenks, John (I19251)
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John, age 25, came to New England on the ship Susan & Ellen from London in 1635. He and Margaret Dix, age 18, were listed as servants, perhaps of Percival and Margaret Greene, on the passenger list. They arrived at the port of Boston and passengers by this vessel settled almost exclusively in the Town of Watertown. The Traine family were early settlers in Watertown Farms, later Weston, Massachusetts.
It is said that this John Traine was the ancestor of all persons bearing the name of Traine in the United States. The family tradition that John came to New England from the southwestern part of Scotland proves correct in that the Trains are a sept, or members of the Clan MacDonald inhabiting the region of Ayrshire bordering on the coast. The family of Tran are from the earliest times found in the town of Irvine, about 30 miles south of Glasgow. | Traine, John (I25016)
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John, son of John Odlin settled in Rhode Island, where he bore the name John Audley. He and his wife Martha deeded, 17 July 1687, to his brother Elisha, tailor, of Boston, certain land in the south part of Boston, devised by his father John Odlin, armorer, deceased. | Audley, John (I46437)
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John, twin with Daniel, son Jonathan & Martha, b May 15, 1757 !Barbour | Bixby, Daniel (I48784)
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Jonathan and Margaret settled in the north-west part of Medfield, on the road to Death's Bridge. The cellar was still visible in 1887 near the railroad crossing. !History of Medfield, by Tilden:p.514 | Wight, Jonathan (I16230)
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Jonathan Bixbee of Boxford and Sarah Smith (of Topsfield) at Boxford. The Topsfield record gives a date of 2 Feb 1692/3 - Jonathan is 'of Boxford.' | Family F3338
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Jonathan did not marry Mary OTIS who married John Tompson of Hebron | Family F1964
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Jonathan Hill, baptized in Dorchester, 12 Jul 1640, assented to the government of Dorchester church, 5 Mar 1676-77. The Dorchester records state that in 1668 he received 1.7.5 pounds for military service at the "Castle." 20 Apr 1669, he and others were warned by the selectmen "in regard to their orderly walking and submitting to seemly government." He moved to Bridgewater about 1678, where he afterwards resided. In deeds he is called tailor. On 2 Feb 1708-09, Jonathan Hill, Sr., of Bridgewater, with consent of his wife Mary, conveyed to his son Nathaniel Hill, for one hundred pounds, all his real estate in Bridgewater, reserving for himself and his wife the right to live in his "now dwelling house" for life. On the same day he conveyed, for forty pounds, to his son Jonathan Hill, Jr., of Bridgewater, his interest in Twelve Men's Purchase in Middleboro', and his rights in any undivided lands in Dorchester. This is the last record of him that appears, and he probably died within a few years thereafter. He married Mary ______, who was dismissed from the Dorchester church to the Bridgewater church, 7 Nov 1686. She was living as late as 9 Dec 1718, when she signed a release on a deed of her son Nathaniel Hill. | Hill, Jonathan (I11075)
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Jonathan inherited his father's estate, and lived in East Medway till his son, Captain Jonathan, came of age, when he removed to Medfield, and resided on the homestead owned in 1888 by the heirs of Gershom Adams. Jonathan was appointed in 1742 to administer the estate of his brother Jasper, but did not complete the work on account of the fatal disease which came upon him, cancer in the face. Jonathan Adams was the first person in Medfield who is positively known to have held the views of the Baptist denomination. !History of Medfield, Tilden:288 | Adams, Jonathan (I10902)
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Jonathan inherited his father's estate, and lived in East Medway till his son, Captain Jonathan, came of age, when he removed to Medfield, and resided on the homestead owned in 1888 by the heirs of Gershom Adams. Jonathan was appointed in 1742 to administer the estate of his brother Jasper, but did not complete the work on account of the fatal disease which came upon him, cancer in the face. Jonathan Adams was the first person in Medfield who is positively known to have held the views of the Baptist denomination. !History of Medfield, Tilden:288 | Adams, Jonathan (I10902)
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Jonathan Jones born the 2d Wednesday in Novemb 1673 | Jones, Jonathan (I22555)
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Jonathan lived in Norwich, settling there with his brother Nathaniel. Jonathan had a farm on the east side of Shetucket, later at West Farms, now the town of Franklin, Connecticut, where he bought a tract of land of Owaneco, December 10, 1683, one hundred acres on Connoughug Brook, one hundred eight acres between Shunkhungannock Hill and Norwich bounds. He was one of the founders of the church. | Rudd, Jonathan (I22584)
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Jonathan moved from Massachusetts to Hebron, Connecticut about 1714. | Townsend, Jonathan (I25011)
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Jonathan RUDD, at New Haven in 1640, took the oath of fidelity 1 October 1644. He was a worker in leather, a farmer and a soldier. New Haven Co records show that "he kept a dirty gun and drank spirits while on guard duty." Jonathan was a sergeant in the Saybrook train band in 1646.
Jonathan was made freeman, 1651 at Hartford. He was appointed in 1652 an assistant to Capt. John MASON at Saybrook Fort and served as selectman in 1656. After Jonathan's death in 1658, the Rev. James FITCH was appointed guardian for the children and the family moved with him to found Norwich, CT in 1660. The exodus of at least forty families to Norwich represented the majority of the inhabitants of Saybrook.
!Savage
!The Connecticut Nutmegger - Dec 1991; p.439, 445
!NEHGR 96:393
Governor Winthrop related an incident which he says 'fell out the first winter of 1646-47, which was the first spent by him in the plantation [Saybrook]. The main points of the story were these:
"A young couple in Saybrook were to be married; the groom was Jonathan Rudd. The Governor does not give the name of the bride, and unfortunately the omission is not supplied by either record or tradition. The wedding day was fixed, and a magistrate from one of the upper towns on the river was engaged to perform the rite; for there was not, it seems, and person in Saybrook duly qualified to officiate on such an occasion. But 'there falling out at that time a great snow,' the paths were obliterated, traveling obstructed, and intercourse with the interior interupted, so that 'the magistrate intended to go down thither was hindered by the depth of the snow.' On the seaboard there is usually a less weight of snow, and the course can be more readily ascertained. The nuptials must not be delayed without inevitable necessity. Application was therefore made to Mr. Winthrop to come to Saybrook and unite the parties. But he, deriving his authority from Massachusetts, could not legally officiate in Connecticut.
"'I saw it necessary to deny them in that way, but told them, for an expedient for there accommodation, if they come to the plantation it might be done. But that being too difficult for them it was agreed that they should come to that place which is now called Bride Brook, as being a place within the bounds of the authority whereby I then acted; otherwise I had exceeded the limits of my commission.'
"This proposition was accepted. On the brink of this little stream, the boundary between two colonies, the parties met, - Winthrop and his friends from Pequot, and the bridal train from Saybrook. Here the ceremony was performed, under the shelter of no roof, by no hospitable fireside, without any accommodations but those furnished by the snow-covered earth, the overarching heaven, and perchance the sheltering side of a forest of pines or cedars. Romantic lovers have sometimes pledged their faith by joining hands over a narrow streamlet; but never, perhaps, before or since was the legal rite performed in a situation so wild and solitary and under circumstances so interesting and peculiar.
"We are not told how the parties traveled, whether on horseback or on sleds or snow-shoes, nor what cheer they brought with them, whether cakes or fruit, the juice of the orchard or vineyard, ot the fiery extract of the cane. We only know that at that time conveniences and comforts were few and luxuries unknown. Yet simple and homely as the accompaniments must have been, a glow of hallowed beauty will ever rest upon the scene. We fancy that we hear the foot-tramp upon the crisp snow; the ice cracks as they cross the frozen stream; the wind sighs through the leafless forest, and the clear voice of Winthrop swells upon the ear like a devout strain of music, now low and then rising high to heaven, as it passes through the varied accents of tender admonition, legal decision, and solemn prayer. The impressive group stand around, wrapped in their frosty mantles, with heads fervently bowed down, and at the given sign the two plighted hands come forth from among the furs and are clasped together in token of a life-long, affectionate trust. The scene ends in a general burst of hearty hilarity.
"Bride Brook issues from a beautiful sheet of water, known as Bride Lake or Pond, and runs into the Sound about a mile west of Giant's Cove. In a straight line it is not more than two miles west of Niantic Bay. The Indian name of the pond or brook, or of both, was Sunk-i-paugor, Sunkipaugsuck (which means cold water).
"It received the name of Bride Brook on the spot, at the time of the nuptial celebration. Winthrop in his deposition says, 'And at that time the place had the denomination of Bride Brook.' That a considerable company had assembled is evident from the narrative, which alludes to those present from Pequot, and to the gentlemen of the other party, who 'were well satisfied with what was done.'
"Thus it appears that Bride Brook was originally the western boundary of New London. It had been fixed upon as the terminus between her and Saybrook anterior to the marriage solemnized upon its eastern brink, though it obtained its name from that occurrence.
"The annals of history can furnish but few incidents more striking than the Bride Brook marriage. All the accessories of the scene are picturesque and impressive. The little company stood in the midst of a dreary waste of snow, far from any human habitation except the huts of savages; ancient forests and immense solitudes were around them, beyond which, in shadowy magnificence, vast and indefinite, lay that unexplored world on whose brink they stood. We might, perchance, add to these features the stalwart forms of natives, a tribe of whom dwelt not far from the place, darting among the trees or looking on at a distance. What sublime scenery for a wedding! There is no marriage upon record that has such romantic associations."
In a poem written by Miss F. M. Caulkins, 1852, the story of the marriage was immortalized.
To this fair stream two sledgy trains,
Grotesque and quaint as Lapland wains,
Rushed swiftly o'er the dazzling plains:
Vast earth before, behind all hoary,
Embosomed in a shroud of glory.
How still is all surrounding snow!
How dead but for this diamond glow!
The sun's exhuberant overflow,
Filling the air with quivering gladness,
Relieves earth's spectre of its sadness.
No sounding bells waked nature's ear,
Yet music, flowing sweet and clear,
Rippled the sea of silence drear.
Cheery they come, -men, maidens singing,
And all the echoes round them ringing.
They meet: here noble Winthrop stands.
Come forth, ye gladsome bridal bands,
Ye snow-capt hills, clap all your hands!
Ye spicy cedars, green and towering,
Draw round them all your screens embowering.
The woven nets are lightly spread,
The spruce boughs yield their fragrant aid,
The white smoke o'er them curls a shade,
And fruits and viands, choice and dainty,
Flow from the ample horn of plenty.
Her furry wrappings cast aside,
As rosy skies when clouds divide,
Forth steps the conscious, blushing bride,
A trembling, serious, fadeless beauty,
Commingling sweetness, love, and duty.
She stood like Summer on the snow,-
No morning dawn around could throw
Such rosy light, so warm a glow,-
And hovering clouds, with seraphs laden,
Showered heavenly blessings on the maiden.
She was a dame of fair degree;
Her lover, fearless, bold, and free,
Had suffered scaith by land and sea;
Their hearts long pledged by word and token,
Now let the sacred rite be spoken.
Then hands were clasped, and Winthrop prayed:
The life-long covenant was made;
High heaven a mute attention paid;
Winds, groves, and hills, with reverence lowly,
Trembled around a scene so holy.
'Now Sunk-i-paug is Bridal Lake:
Flow, ever flow!' - thus Winthrop spake, -
'Round hearts and homes thy journey take;
Love's streamlet out of Bride Lake welling,
GOD LEAD A BRANCH TO EVERY DWELLING.'
(excerpted from Bride Brook, a Legend) | Rudd, Jonathan Lt. (I22388)
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Jonathan settled in White Plains and Scarsdale, became wealthy, was a captain and a Presbyterian elder, as we learn from his tombstone still remaining in the churchyard at Scarsdale. He had no children. By his will he left 100 pounds to the Presbyterian Church at White Plains, and made bequests to a number of his nephews. | Griffin, Jonathan (I26071)
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Jonathan Smith was married to Martha Bushnell this first of January in the year of our lord 1663 | Family F1783
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Jonathan Townsend was born in Columbia County, N.Y., in 1765. In 1803, with his brother Josiah, he came to Jefferson County and settled in Champion. He bought a farm and lived on it until 1812 when he sold it and bought a farm in Boonville, Oneida County. He remained there about four years, built a house and barn and set out a large orchard. Hearing glowing reports of Genesse Country, he sold the farm and spent the summer of 1816 looking for land. He was disappointed and returned to Jeffeson County where he bought a small farm in Le Ray. Shortly after the purchase, he was offered $200 for his bargain. He accepted the offer and bought the farm now owned by his grandson George K. Townsend, known at the time as the McOmber Job. He had settled upon six new farms and had cleared with his own hands 160 acres of land, and although a hardy, robust man, toil and privation began to tell on him. In clearing these new farms, by the time he had begun to live comfortably, the interest upon the purchase money had so accumulated that he was obliged to sell his "betterments" and begin again. But each succeeding sale left him better off than before, and by dint of energy and perseverance, he was able to hold this last purchase, which became one of the model farms and was awarded two premiums by the county agricultural society. Upon this farm he resided until 1853 when he went to live with son Truman. The following year (1854) he passed to a higher existence, with full faith in a blessed immortality. | Townsend, Jonathan (I24997)
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Jonathan was a casualty of the War of 1812. According to Justus Griffin, he "died 1814 while in military service." | Griffin, Jonathan (I26043)
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Jonathan was born in Medfield (now Millis). He drew land in Medway in 1713, and was selectman there in 1738. His farm lay about a mile north of Medway village. In 1742, he sold this place to his brother James, and removed to Sherborn. He resided there about ten years, and then removed to Barre, Rutland District, where he died about 1758. Jonathan led the singing for some years at the church in Medway. He was baptized as an adult 7 Oct 1750 and became a member of Second Baptist church, now Warren Ave, Boston. | Partridge, Jonathan (I11034)
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Jonathan was living in Stonington, CT, when his father's estate was being settled in 1714. He was a cordwainer. Later he settled in the North Parish of New London [=Montville], CT. He was a religious leader and became a deacon when a church was formally organized in 1722 (the Second Church of New London, later Montville Center Church). He was delegated to go to Boston to get the new pastor, Rev. James HILLHOUSE, and bring him to North Parish. He was very active in the parish, serving on committees and as moderator.
In 1724, the General Court of the Colony appointed him to serve on a committee to expend "on pious uses" public money raised on unimproved lands. He owned a mill and a good farm near the Norwich, CT line. His homestead was atop Raymond Hill. He and his wife are buried in Raymond Hill Cemetery. In his will, he left his wife an Indian boy, on condition that she teach him to read and write. All ten of their children were born in Stonington, CT. | Copp, Jonathan (I66020)
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Jonathan's gravesite is found in Brant Cemetery. This is just over the town line from Benton Township which evidently was his residence at the time of his death. | Campbell, Jonathan Jr. (I9847)
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Jonathan's will of 1810 does not mention his wife. | Heines, Mary (I24073)
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Jonathan, son Elias, m Martha HULL, dau George, July 4, 1752 !Barbour | Family F3318
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JONES, Lewis, a son-in-law of Henry Palmer, from whom about 1659 he received 10 acres land (formerly Sam Bordman's) in the West Field, on the W. Side of the "Mill-Way", between Sam'l Smith's N. and John Latimer's S.; removed to Saybrook. (This seems to confirm that Lewis married Deborah Palmer)
!"Ancient Wetherfield," Stiles; p. 281
Lewis is probably not the son of Lewis Jones, Watertown, testator of 1678, and is not mentioned in his will. | Jones, Lewis (I22541)
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Jordan Post born the 27th of May 1676 | Post, Jordan (I24174)
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Josef Hingam was married to Sarah Bushnell the 20 of June in the year 1655 | Family F1785
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Joseph | Fisher, Joshua (I10446)
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Joseph Adams settled in Medfield at first. He sold his house, barn, and land in 1721 and removed with his family to Canterbury, CT. !History of Medfield, MA, Tilden:292 | Adams, Joseph (I10891)
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Joseph Biggisby and Sarah Gold of Topsfield | Family F3393
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JOSEPH BULLARD, son of John and Magdalene Bullard, was born in Dedham, Massachusetts, according to the old style calendar, on the 26th day of the 2nd month, 1643, and was baptized the 30th day of the same month and year. (Records of the First Church of Dedham.) He married about 1664, Sarah, whose surname is not recorded, but who survived her husband and died a widow in 1722.
Joseph Bullard owned a home in Medfield, Massachusetts, which was among those burned by the Indians during King Philip's war, and he never rebuilt, but lived on the homestead with his father until 1695. At that time he purchased a tract of land at a point where the towns of Medfield, Dover, and Walpole meet, and settled there. This farm, which is believed to have been the original settlement of the Bullard's in Dover, became the property of Nathaniel, son of Joseph and Sarah, who succeeded to the homestead, and whose widow, soon after his death in 1753, sold the farm. (Records of the First Parish of Dover, Massachusetts.)
In 1696 Joseph Bullard sold the old homestead in Medfield, which had come to him by the terms of his father's will. His name appears on the list of contributors to Harvard, who had been burned out by the Indians since their subscription, but who had "paid in Indian corn" on February 15, 1678. | Bullard, Joseph (I17548)
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JOSEPH CAPRON was a farmer, and settled in Attleborough. He had two wives, by whom lie had six children; viz. : Joseph, Hezekiah, Elijah, Amey, Judith, and Rhoda. He lived to be old man, but his age I cannot ascertain. | Capron, Joseph (I26699)
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Joseph CARRILL 1, Aaron Messervy and Edward Cos, a wheelwright, came to Salem to live in 1695. | Carrill, Joseph (I24261)
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Joseph DANIELL settled in Dedham, not far from the spot where the Grantville meeting house now stands. He was selectman of Needham in 1712, the year after the incorporation of that town, and from time to time held other important town offices. !NEHGR 28:186 | Daniel, Joseph (I15858)
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Joseph DANIELL settled in Dedham, not far from the spot where the Grantville meeting house now stands. He was selectman of Needham in 1712, the year after the incorporation of that town, and from time to time held other important town offices. !NEHGR 28:186 | Daniel, Joseph (I15858)
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Joseph Daniells and Marie Fayrbanke married 16 Nov 1665. | Family F585
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Joseph Daniells and Marie Fayrbanke married 16 Nov 1665. | Family F23
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Joseph Daniells, Sr., husband of Lidiea. | Daniel, Joseph (I10585)
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Joseph Daniells, Sr., husband of Lidiea. | Daniel, Joseph (I10585)
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Joseph died intestate. His eight children settled his estate, giving their brother Joseph quitclaim deeds for their various interests. | Benson, Joseph (I26650)
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Joseph Gibbs (12/25/1842 - 10/9/1916) Philadelphia, Jefferson Co., NY. Joseph is the son of Jester/Chester/Justin Gibbs and Mercy Post (Gibbs-Carter) according to his Death Transcript.
!Lilian Felshaw Kennedy (315)733-6244 | Gibbs, Joseph (I26707)
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Joseph Hill inherited his father's homestead in Holliston, where he established an inn. He was selectman in 1744 and 1759; and a member Capt. Samuel Bullard's Holliston train band, 22 Apr 1757. He died intestate. On 18 Jul 1767, Joseph HILL, yeoman, Bathsheba HILL, spinster, Eli POND, sadler, and Huldah his wife, all of Holliston, and Amos Ellis and Hannah his wife, of Wrentham, being all heirs of Joseph Hill, innholder, late of Holliston, conveyed land in Holliston to Samuel Daniel. !NEHGR Descendants of John Hill-July 1904, p.239
Mary HILL, daughter of Moses HILL and Joseph's sister, Hannah HILL, was blind, and on August 25, 1750, chose her uncle Joseph HILL for her guardian. !NEHGR Descendants of John Hill-July 1904, p.243 | Hill, Joseph (I11025)
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Joseph Jenckes was a master mechanic, an operator of an extensive foundry and metal works, and an expert blacksmith. He was presumably a descendant of the Welsh or ancient Britons, and of the Jenckes of Wolverton, co. Staffordshire, England. The following was clipped from an old newspaper; "Steel is aptly named. The first man who made a piece of iron that would stand a high test in carbon and fiber was a Mr. Jenckes of Wolverton, Staffordshire, England. He was an iron-master by trade and a skillful mechanic. He applied certain chemicals to the iron in its melted state, but no one but him knew for a long time the ingredients. He allowed no one to inspect his furnaces except those whom he could trust, and even his men knew nothing about the inner workings of his business. "He had a small shop in the rear of his foundry, and here behind locked doors, he arranged the chemicals for every bit of metal turned out. Finally two men, Henry Bessemer and William Cook, after planning for some time, succeeded in getting the watchman drunk after the foundry was closed for the night and climbed into Jenckes' laboratory, where they obtained a bottle of chemicals which they took to New York for analysis. A short time later a new firm was started, which succeeded in driving the real inventor to the wall and which received most of the credit for originating the tempered steel. These facts were well known to many steel workers of that day."
Joseph Jenckes was the acknowledged head of the iron-smelting and foundry business, ands first builder of machinery in this country. He was also the first patentee of inventions in America, having introduced the idea (first granted by act of Parliment in England in 1625) of protection for the manufacturer of improvements by petition to the government of Massachusetts Bay. Joseph was a proprietor in Lynn, MA in 1645. He was one of the petitioners for a plantation at Nashaway, but not a settler.
It appears that one of the first patents granted in America was to Joseph Jenckes in 1646, which reads as follows: "JENKES MONOPOLY At a general Court at Boston the 6th of the 3rd month 1646. The Court considers ye necessity of raising such manufactures of engine of mills to go by water for speedy dispatch of much works with few hands, and being sufficiently informed of ye ability of ye petition to perform such works grant his petition (ye no other person shall set up, or use any such new invention, or trade for fourteen years without ye license of him ye said Joseph Jenkes) so far as concerns any new invention, and so as it shall be always in ye power of this Court to restrain ye exportation of such manufactures, and ye prizes of them to moderation if occasion so require." In 1652 Joseph Jenckes, Sr., made the dies for coining the money known as the Pine Tree Shilling, by order of the Colony. In 1654 he designed the first fire engine ever built in this country to the order of the selectmen of Boston. A second patent appears to have been issued to Joseph Jenkes on 22 May 1655, and reads: "It is ordered by this court that Joseph Jenckes, Sr., and his assigns only shall have liberty granted to them to make the engin, the so Jenckes hath power to this court for the more speedy cutting of grass for seven years, and that no inhabitant or other person within this jurisdiction during that time shall make or use ye kind of engin without license first obtained from so Jenckes on the penalty of five pounds for every such engin so made or used as offered, to be recovered at any court in this jurisdiction by the so Joseph Jenkes, Sr." He had liberty form the Iron Works Co. in 1656 to set up a mill for making scythes or other iron-work by water. !Pope, "Jenks" !A Jenks Genealogy; Helen Clark Jenks Cleary; 1937 | Jenckes, Joseph (I18503)
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JOSEPH KENT1 appears in Dedham, Mass., in 1645, where he arrived from England in company with his brother Joshua, who had previously resided there. There can be but little doubt that Elizabeth Harder of Braintree was connected with this family, as is shown in her will, viz.:
WILL OF Elizabeth Harder, 1, 4th, 1664. I Elizabeth Harder of BRAINTREE, doe make this my last will, God hauing giuen mee only one Daughter, which is my only Childe. I: doe giue and bequeath my whole estate, mooveable & Imooveable unto her, her heirs & assigns foreuer, excepting such legacyes as are heerafter Specified. & doe Constitute & ordain her my sole executrix of this my Last will & Testament & Doe Intreate my Louing Friends, William Needham & Samuel Tomson, of Brantrye to be my Ouerseers. I giue unto Elisabeth Saunders. my. Daughter's Child ¶20. with my Bed I. lye on, with all belonging to it, to bee paid at the age of 18 yeares, or at the day of marriage, and if Shee Dye, if my Daughter haue Farther Issue, I giue it unto the next Child & if not then to Remaine unto my Daughter, I Giue unto JOHN KENT & JOSEPH KENT, 40s apiece to bee paid within two yeares after my Decease--I Giue unto Joshua Kents three Daughters 20s apiece, to bee paid to them when they are 18 yeares old, or at the Day of Marriage, I Giue unto Benjamin Thomson 40s: to bee paid unto him within halfe a year after my Decease I Giue unto John Day. ¶5. to be paid unto him when he is 20 yeares old, upon Condition he Liue with my Sonne or Daughter till hee be twenty year Old
Elisabeth H arder.
Test Samuell Bass. John Basse who deposed Octr 6th 1664.
We whose names are here underwritten do freely upon our admission to be inhabitants of the town of Swansey assent to a written agreement made between the Church of Christ now meeting here at Swansey, and Captain Thomas Willett and his associates; as the said agreement is Specified and declared in the three proposals aforewritten, With the several Conditions and explanations thereof, concerning the present and future Settlement of this township--In witness, we have hereunto Subscribed (1669)
Joseph Kent
COURT ACTION. 1675. Joseph Kent of Swansey complaineth against Nicholas Tanner of the same town for detaining and hindering of him of his right of what he was attested to in Swansey: and for withholding a copy of the records of his attestation notwithstanding authority against it. The jury find for the plaintiff. Samuell Dunham being one of the jury.
COURT ORDERS. June 7, 1681, Joseph Kent was mentioned to be propounded to be a freeman. June 6, 1682, Joseph Kent was made a freeman. July 7, 1681: "Forasmuch as there have bine some differences lately amongst the inhabitants of the towne of Swansey, respecting the laying out of lands in that towneshipe, this Court doth heerby rattify and confeirme whatsoever the former comitty have don respecting the pmises, and have made choise of Capt. John Browne, Leift Willam Ingraham, Sergeant Hugh Cole, Samuell Luther, Job Winslow, and Joseph Kent, to be a comittee in the townes behalfe for the regulateing of matters in difference concerning lands alreddy layed out in that townshipe, and what defects doe or shall appeer unto the said comittee above named, shalbe made up of the lands undevided, and for any further devision of lands in the towne, that are to be devided, that it may be don and pformed by the propriators, they haveing liberty by this order to choose a comittee for the lawing out of land according to the three fold ranke."
"In reference unto sixteen or seaventeen bushells of Indian corne, taken from Joseph Kent, of Swansey, and improved for the releife of some souldiers, in the time of the late lndian warrs, this Court have ordered that it, or the vallue thereof, to be repayed by the Treasurer."
We know that Joshua went to England in 1644, and returned next year with his two brothers. After that date John Kent is mentioned several times in the records previous to 1673, when he was received into the church at Charlestown. Joseph Kent is mentioned in the tax-rate of 1659. In 1664 Elizabeth Hardier of Braintree left 40 shillings each to John and Joseph Kent, and 20 shillings each to Joshua Kent's three daughters. From this we may reasonably infer that Joshua, John, and Joseph of Dedham held a similar relationship to her. But we have no record of Joseph in Dedham after 1659. The first we hear of Joseph is in Block Island. This island was settled in 1661, largely by Braintree people. When Joseph went to Block Island I do not know. Sheffield, in his history, says: "Joseph Kent of Swansea joined the settlement in 1661 or 1662." What his authority is I do not know. I have examined the Block Island records, which are in bad condition, and can find nothing. He was certainly in Block Island May 4, 1664, when he petitioned the legislature. The fact that this Joseph named his sons Joseph, Samuel, and Joshua, and that John Kent of Charlestown named his sons John, Joshua, Joseph, Samuel, and Ebenezer, would be some indication of a relationship to each other and to Joshua. I also find in Plymouth Col. Records that in 1681 Joseph Kent was appointed guardian of Joseph Cahoone, and that in 1690 Hannah, dau. of John Kent of Charlestown, married Joseph Cahoone. Perhaps Hannah became acquainted with him in the house of her uncle Joseph.
Baylies gives Joseph Kent as the signer of a covenant in Swansea in 1669, but I doubt if he was there as early as that. The latter names on that document probably came later than the date of drawing it up. The Swansea records say Joseph Kent was admitted an inhabitant 15 Dec., 1673, and his name frequently appears in the records after that, but not before.
Arnold in his History of State of Rhode Island, Vol. 1, p. 306, says: "May, 1664. The first regular assembly, as established by the Charter, met at Newport in May. The affairs of Block Island were definitely settled at this session. Three messengers, James Sands, Thomas Terry, and Joseph Kent, appeared from the Island to signify their obedience to His Majesty's will." | Kent, Joseph (I44310)
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Joseph married, second, about 1650, a woman named Elizabeth, whose origins are not currently known. She died at Lynn, MA in July 1679. | Elizabeth (I18577)
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Joseph Peck was prominent in the public affairs at Hingham, Mass., for about seven years, 1638-1645, and then moved to Rehoboth, which was incorporated as a town in 1645.
"2 Oct 1650 - Mr. Josepth Peck is ordered by the Court to administer the ordinance of marriage at Rehoboth, in case Mr. (John) Browne can not be persuaded thereunto." - Plymouth Colony Records 2:164
"Mr. Peck" on the proprietors list of "Seakunk," now Rehoboth, 1644. | Peck, Joseph (I44450)
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Joseph Peck was proprietor of an inn at Rehoboth--at the "Sign of the Black Horse." | Peck, Joseph (I44233)
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Joseph resided in the southeasterly part of Rehoboth. He was twice married: first, to Rebecca Brown, daughter of Jabez Brown; second to Hannah _____. He died 6 January 1741/42. Hannah, his widow, was appointed administratrix upon his estate, 20 April 1742, and guardian for his daughter Mary, 20 March 1743/44. A guardian was appointed for Jerusha and Winchester, they being above the age of fourteen years, May 1742. A division of the estate between the widow and children was made October 1745. | Peck, Joseph (I44227)
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Joseph Scott and his brother Sylvanus came from Pawtucket, RI to Bellingham, MA. In 1721 Joseph Scott, son of Sylvanus bought one fourth of a Bloomary Iron Works in Mendon on the Pentucket River at the Great Falls. This foundary was at Woonsocket near the land of Nicholas Cook. In 1725 he bought another quarter of the same bloomary and his father's house & 106 acres in Bellingham, bounded on the north by land of Zuriel Hall, on the east by common land and the burying place, on the south by common land and Richard Blood, on the west by Mendon. This was the burying place laid out in 1717. He later bought 97 acres from Banfield Capron and 170 acres from Richard Blood.
In 1727 Joseph and 3 neighbors were in jail in Boston because their "consciences do not allow them to pay the town tax for the support of the minister." The representatives refused a request to release them, but the Council did not agree and ordered them released if they gave bond to appear at the next meeting of the Court, when the town was ordered to present its case against them. That meeting was postponed for about a year, and there were similar cases in other towns. A thorough search at the State House has not shown any further record of the case.
Joseph & his wife Elizabeth had four children recorded in Bellingham from 1724-1733. He d. in 1742. His inventory mentions: Best suit head to foot, 18 pound, one sixteenth of a Bloomary, best dwelling house, 220 pounds, land, 2914 pounds; total, 4332 pounds, certainly the largest estate in town.
In 1817, Joseph's grandsons Samuel and Saul occupied his land at Scott Hill, which has been in the same family nearly 2 centuries. 70 persons of this name were born in Bellingham before 1850.
!History of the Town Bellingham, Mass. 1719-1919; George F. Partridge, published by the town 1919, p. 61
I. Joseph Scott, son of Richard(sic). b. Aug 15, 1697. D. about 1737. m. Elizabeth Jenks of Lynn MA. He settled in Bellingham, MA. Owned a large tract of land, and had seven children. II. Mary Scott, dau. of Joseph and Elizabeth. B. at Bellingham MA. m. Dec. 16, 1742 to Charles Capron.
Their son John and father Joseph died within a few hours of each other, of a fever. Joseph was age 40 and his widow lived till she was 70 yrs. old.
!Capron Genealogy, Holden | Scott, Joseph (I18442)
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Joseph sonne of John STAPELL borne 19 (12) 1641 | Staple, Joseph (I16055)
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Joseph Stannard was an early settler at Hartford, Connecticut (and perhaps an original settler), and was one of twenty-eight men from Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield who later settled at Haddam. At a town meeting in Haddam, February 7, 1667, he was granted six acres of common land on the mill river southeast of his own swamp. On June 13, 1671, a decision was made that twenty acres of land should be laid out to every hundred pounds valuation, and in the division the lots were were drawn as the names were drawn by lot. Joseph Stannard was eleventh on the list. Joseph's name is not found on Haddam records after 1671, so he doubtless moved to Westbrook Parish in Saybrook before 1700, being amongst the first settlers there. | Stonard, Joseph (I24293)
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