Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph JENKS
History of Bucks County Pennsylvania
W.W.H. Davis
Lewis Publishing Co., 1905 pg. 40
Joseph Jenks, third son of Thomas and Mercy (Wildman) Jenks, was born and reared on the old homestead in Middletown. He married, 6 mo. 22, 1763, Elizabeth Pearson, born in 1744, died 1768, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Duer) Pearson, and granddaughter of Enoch and Margaret (Smith) Pearson, of Buckingham, Enoch Pearson being a native of cheshire, England, having come to Bucks county with his parents, Edwar and Sarah (Burgie) Pearson, in 1687. Joseph and Elizabeth (Pearson) Jenks were the parents of three children: Margaret, born 6 mo. 6, 1764, died 1841; married 11 mo. 12, 1783, Samuel Gillingham. William, born 8 mo. 12, 1766, died 12 mo. 5, 1818; married 10 mo 12, 1790, Mary Hutchinson. Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 21, 1768, died 1828, married in 1787 Isaiah Shinn of New Jersey, who was a general in the war of 1812. Joseph Jenks married a second time, 4 mo. 25, 1770, to Mary Ingham, who lived but a few years after the marriage, and he married a third time, on 5 mo. 30, 1776, Hannah Davids; neither of the last two wives left issue.
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