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Personal data Governor Joseph Jenckes 

• He was born in the year 1656 in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British America.
• He died on June 15, 1740, he was 84 years old.
• A child of Joseph Jenckes and Esther Ballard
• This information was last updated on March 10, 2015.

Household of Governor Joseph Jenckes

He had a relationship with Martha Brown.

Child(ren):

1. Lydia Jenks   
2. Obadiah Jenckes  ????-1763

Notes about Governor Joseph Jenckes

Joseph Jenckes - TimeLine

JOSEPH, b. 1656. Providence, R. I.; d. 1740, Jun. 15.
m. (1)
MARTHA BROWN, b. ; d. of John & Mary (Holmes) Brown.
m. (2) 1727, Feb. 3. .
ALICE DEXTER, (W. of John), b. 1665; d. 1736, Feb. 19. of John & Sarah (Whipple) Smith.
1681. Freeman.
1688, Aug. 6. Ratable estate, 3 acres planting land, an acre of orchard, 3 cows, heifer, mare.
1691-98-99-1700-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. Deputy.
1698-99-1707-8. Speaker of House of Deputies.
1707-8-9-10-11. Major for the Main.
1708-9-10-11-12. Assistant.
1715-16-17-18-19-20-21-22-23-24-25-26-27. Deputy Governor.
1719, Jun. 8. He deeded his son-in-law, William Turpin, and wife Catharine, 40 acres, for love, &c.
1720, Jul. 7. He was appointed agent in England, on account of the refusal of Connecticut, to stand to and comply with the bounds between the two colonies, as settled by the commissioners of both at Stonington, in the year 1703, and also of the further difference between this colony and the Province
of Massachusetts. He was authorized to draw bills of exchange on the General Treasury, for sum of £700, if he shall need or require so much. He to be allowed £60 per year and expenses, and also £60 to furnish himself with necessaries for the voyage. He and the other agent, Richard Partridge, subsequently memorialized the King as to the Connecticut controversy, praying finally that "they may not hereafter be molested, as they have hitherto been to their very great prejudice." His son, Dr. John Jenckes, died in England.
1721, Oct. He exhibited to the Assembly, his account of disbursements of the Colony's money, during his agency, amounting to £300, 18s. and it was approved and voted that he "have £30 allowed him as a gratuity out of the General Treasury, for his good service done the colony during his agency."
1726, Jan. 10. He was appointed by Assembly, one of the four commissioners to meet commissioners of Connecticut, to settle line of partition of two colonies.
1727. He wrote a letter on behalf of General Assembly, to King George II, thanking him for continuing unto us the great enjoyment of our ancient charter privileges, great in their nature, but far greater by being suited to the circumstances of this, your Majesty's colony; or rather in that we, your
Majesty's subjects, have had our birth, growth and improvements under the same." He apprizes him of "a regular and beautiful fortification of stone," built at Newport, with a battery where may be mounted sixty guns, &c.
1727-28-29-30-31-32. Governor.
1735, Dec. 22. Will—proved 1736, Apr. 17. Wife Alice. She left her estate to her children, by former husband, John Dexter. Inventory, £201, 2s.
1740, Aug. 25 He was "deemed to die intestate by reason of his insanity of mind," and his son Nathaniel, was appointed administrator.
Inventory, £124, 1s., viz: books £15, 2 cows, flask, tobacco box, wafer box, 2 canes, wearing apparel £84, 13s., &c.
He was buried in the North Burial Ground.

Governor Joseph Jenckes ... died June 15, 1740, married Martha, the daughter of John Brown (1630-1706), and his wife, Mary Holmes.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, page 190.

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