Keziah Brown

Nathaniel married Sarah Jenckes about 1688 in Rehoboth. Sarah (daughter of Joseph Jenckes, Jr. (immigrant) and Esther Ballard) was born in 1660 in Pawtucket, Providence Co, Rhode Island; died in 1708 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He was baptized in Colnbrook, Horton, Co.Buckinghamshire on Oct 12,1628, the son of Joseph Jenckes (also spelled Jenks, Jencks) and his first wife Joan Hearne Jenckes.

Joseph Jenckes II is known as the founder of Pawtucket. A skilled ironworker, he had come to the New World to join his father, Joseph Jencks I, who had organized and operated the first American iron works in Saugus,MA. In 1670, Joseph II left Massachusetts, intending to build his own forge in Rhode Island. On October 10, 1671, he purchased 60 acres of land on the west bank of the Blackstone River, marking the establishment of the first permanent settlement of Pawtucket. However, it was short-lived, as the Jenckes settlement was burned to the ground in 1675 during King Philip's War. When the war ended, the Jenckes forge was rebuilt, and soon it became the center of a small village including the foundry, a gristmill, and sawmill. The commerce of the village was founded on the production of iron products essential to the survival of these early settlers.

Joseph Jenckes was admitted a freeman in 1677, and served several terms in the Rhode Island Assembly between 1679 and 1698. During 1685?1688, at the direction of King James II, Rhode Island became a county in the Dominion of New England, under Governor Sir Edmund Andros. After the Revolution of 1688, King William and Queen Mary ascended to the throne, and Joseph Jenckes was included in a small group selected to write a letter congratulating them on their ascension and informing them that Sir Edmund Andros had been arrested in Rhode Island.

About 1652 or 1653, he married Esther Ballard, in Lynn, Essex Co, MA.

Children: Joseph Jenckes III, Elizabeth Jenckes Tefft, Sarah Jencks Brown, Nathaniel Jencks, Esther Jenckes Miller, Ebenezer Jenckes, Joanna Jenckes Scott(mother of Sarah Scott Hopkins and Joanna Scott Jenckes, and possibly mother of Sylvanus Scott), William Jenckes, Abigail Jenckes Whipple, and Mary Jenckes Jenckes (possibly the second wife of Daniel Jencks).
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Joseph married Esther Ballard in 1655 in Lynn, Essex Co, Massachusetts. Esther was born on 28 Oct 1632 in Lynn, Essex Co, Massachusetts; died in 1717 in Providence, Providence Co, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Joan Hearne about 1627 in England. Joan was born in 1607 in England; died in Feb 1635 in Isleworth, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]