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• Name: John JENNEY
• Sex: M
• Birth: Before 1589 in Norwich, England ^b
• Death: Abt 1644 in Plymouth, Massachusetts ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John JENNEY Birth: Abt 1570

Family:
Marriage:

• Sarah CAREY on 1 Nov 1614 at Leyden, Holland .^m1
  
• Sarah CAREY Birth: Monks Soham, Suffolk, England Death: Before 5 Mar 1655/6 in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Children:

1. Samuel JENNEY Birth: Abt 1616 in Leyden, Holland Death: Abt Apr 1692 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts
2. (Unk Child) JENNEY Birth: 1618 in Leiden, Holland Death: 1618 in Leiden, Holland
3. Abigail JENNEY Birth: Abt 1621 in Leyden, Holland Death: After 1670
4. (Unk Son) JENNEY Birth: 1623 in Aboard Little James Death: Before 1627
5. Sarah JENNEY Birth: Abt 1625 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Death: Before 9 Jul 1683
6. John JENNEY Birth: Abt 1627 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Death: Abt 1644
7. Susanna JENNEY Birth: Abt 1634 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Death: Before 4 Apr 1654

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

by about 1589 based on date of marriage [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p294],

place:

[Ref: Holman SCOTT p286, Pope PioneersMA p258, Whitmore Leyden]

said to be from Norwich in England in his marriage record [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p294],

father:

[Ref: Hovius JENNEY p9]

Sources for death Information

date:

1643/4 [Ref: Roberts USPres p305]

1644 [Ref: Clark JENNY p71, Raymond AMES #120]

before 4 Apr 1654, when widow made will [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p115]

between 28 Dec 1643 and 25 May 1644 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p294]

early in year foll making will [Ref: Sav-age JENNEY John]

will dated 28 Dec 1643 pro 25 May 1644 [Ref: Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH],

place:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH, Roberts USPres p305]

Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah CAREY

date:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p295, Hovius JENNEY p5, Mayflower Jenney p129, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH, Sav-age JENNEY John, Whitmore Leyden],

place:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p295, Hovius JENNEY p5, Mayflower Jenney p129, Pope PioneersMA p258, Reitwiesner GeorgeBUSH, Sav-age JENNEY John],

names:

John JENNEY & Sarah ___ [Ref: Bowman JenneyWill p171],

child:

[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson GreatMigrationI p1093, Anderson Pilgrims p295, Bowman BartlettWill p44, Bowman JenneyWill p171, Cutter NE p94, Holman SCOTT p287, Raymond AMES #120, Roberts USPres p305, Sav-age JENNEY John, Worden POPE p15]

Sources with Inaccurate marriage information

date:

5 Sep 1614 [Ref: Pope PioneersMA p258]

Research Notes:
The origin of John1 Jenney has long intrigued -- and confounded -- his descendants. ... For a long time, especially since the advent of the internet, one of the most frequently repeated theories concerning John's origin has been the unfortunate idea that John of Plymouth was the John Jenney of Cressingham Magna shown in Walter Rye's edition of the Visitations of Norfolk.{Walter Rye, ed., "The Visitacion of Norffolk, Made and Taken by William Harvey, Clarencieux King of Arms, 1565, Enlarged with Another Visitacion made by Clarenceux Cooke, with Many Other Descents; and also the Vissitation Made by John Raven, Richmond, Anno 1613," Harleian Soc. Pubs., 32 (London, 1891), 171. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=HS8EAAAAIAAJ} I have not been able to determine when this idea first gained popularity.
This conclusion is easily dismissed by surveying any number of other works or documents. George Henry Dashwood's 1878 edition of the 1563 Visitation of Norfolk { George Henry Dashwood, et al., eds., "The Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563?," 2 vols. (Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Soc., 1878 -95), 1:132-39. This work's value to researchers interested in the Jenney family was augmented somewhat by the fortunate coincidence of one of its compilers, the Reverend William Grigson, having been a relation of the Jenneys by marriage, and so apparently taking an extra interest in their lineage. Available (both volumes) at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008881577. Volume 1 available at https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo00dashgoog and volume 2 at https://archive.org/details/visitationnorfo01dashgoog. Jenney pedigree at v1p132} has received little distribution in modern times, possibly because Rye's version comprises three visitations and is readily available over the Internet and on CD-ROM. Wider distribution of Dashwood's version would perhaps be advantageous to researchers, for he goes into much more detail than Rye regarding many Norfolk families, and he develops the line of John Jenney of Cressingham Magna down to some Norfolk residents of the mid-1770s. John Jenney, Lord of the Manor of Cressingham Magna, was baptized at the parish church on 21 December 1596. He inherited the manor from his father Henry in 1610, Henry Jenney having in turn inherited the land as heir male of his elder brother William Jenney, who had died in 1607 leaving a daughter but no sons. This John married a woman named Temperance, fathered four children in the 1620s and 1630s, is mentioned in assorted records during the reign of Charles I,{See for example PD 131/82, Norfolk Record Office, "Allegation against John Jenney and his replies re powers of jurisdiction of Peculiar and his status as parishioner."} and was buried at Cressingham Magna on 16 September 1656, being succeeded by his son and heir Owen Jenney. In published heralds' visitations, John Jenney of Cressingham Magna was -- as the crow flies -- the nearest person by that name to the City of Norwich, so perhaps it is understandable that some would jump to the conclusion that he was the man who settled in Plymouth. John Jenney of Cressingham Magna, can nevertheless be firmly and finally ruled out as the pilgrim colonist. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p3]

I am well aware that a proposed pedigree lacking in christening records for two generations and including that always uncomfortable element, a posthumous son, will dissatisfy some and likely generate controversy among others. At this point, however, having amassed and evaluated a vast amount of data on all branches of the medieval and "early modern" Jenneys, I would rather share the relevant clues and my interpretation of them, and give others a chance either to reach the same conclusion for themselves, to interpret the facts differently, or to strike out on new lines of research. I myself, once having determined that this Lakenham/Dunwich connection, however surprising, seemed the most plausible explanation of John's origins, have played devil's advocate against it on more than one occasion, and yet always find myself coming back to the Homberston family links to both areas, the chronology between the departure of an Avis Jenney from her dead husband's lands in Dunwich and the appearance of an Avis Jenney in a suburb of Norwich, and the seemingly inescapable connection between the John Jenneys of the two Lakenhams, that of Norwich and that of the Plymouth colony. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p27]

Herman Winslow Jennings {Herman Winslow Jennings, "The Jenney Family of Norfolk and Suffolk in England" (typescript, 1965), copy available at the Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, Norwich, England, and in US Library of Congress} took due notice of the name that John Jenney gave his farm as a possible clue to John's origins, and points out that in the 1929 work Charles F. Banks, writing of John {Charles Edward Banks, "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim fathers..." (New York: Grafton Press, 1929), 172}, stated that "as the land on which he lived in Plymouth was named Lakenham, it is probable that he was a resident of that parish which is a suburb of Norwich although his name does not appear in the parish register." Writing that "Banks fails to state whether or not the Lakenham parish records contain the names of any other Jenneys," Jennings indicated that he personally had not had access to Lakenham's parish records. The brief sketch by Banks for John Jenney is indeed distressingly vague on this point, and his imprecision may have kept other researchers from pursuing the Lakenham lead. In fact little or nothing should be construed from the absence of John Jenney from the Lakenham parish registers, because there practically are no parish registers. The earliest general register for Lakenham's church of Old St. John's bears a few entries for the years between 1572 and 1578, and the next entries on the same page, in a different hand, date to 1601 {St. John's, Lakenham, Parish Registers, Family History Library microfilm 1526493}. No pages appear to be missing from the register; it is not known whether the parish did not have a priest from 1578 to 1601, or whether it was entrusted to a lax cleric who simply did not bother to keep records. Either way, the knowledge that the Lakenham parish registers were defective rather than merely a dead end could have spurred researchers to search for other records documenting Elizabethan residents of the area. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p6]

A few muster returns survive for the county of Norfolk during the 1560s and 1570s. These records, published in two parts by the Norfolk Record Society in 1935 and 1936, are a valuable tool for researchers of other Norfolk families but provide no clues to the origin of John Jenney of Norwich and Plymouth {H. L. Bradfer Lawrence and Percy Millican, eds., "The Musters Returns for Divers Hundreds in the County of Norfolk, 1569, 1572, 1574 and 1577," 2 vols., Norfolk Record Soc., 6-7 (Norwich, 1935-36)}. The surviving muster lists and subsidy rolls for the city of Norwich have not been published, and it is in these records, formerly kept in Norwich Castle and today at the Norfolk Record Office, that we find the first known traces of John Jenney's immediate family in Norwich. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p7]

the question "Why Lakenham?" To be more precise, what member of the East Anglian Jenney family would have any reason to settle in this out-of-the way suburb or Norwich? I believe that the business connections, family ties, property dispositions, chronology, and the relative rarity of the name Avis, all of which have been discussed in the second part of this article, suggest that the answer may be "a son of Christopher Jenney of Dunwich." The foregoing certainly suggests that despite their gentry origins any children of Christopher Jenney of Dunwich may well have begun life with means modest enough that they would be more likely to be found operating a village mill than in the manorial dwellings of the squirearchy. The chronology of events described above, and the multiple business and social ties between individual Jenneys, Godsalves, Spanys, and Homberstons all argue in favour of John Jenney of Lakenharn being a son of the only Jenney known to have had business dealings with the Godsalve family, an association with the Spany family, and a wife who belonged to the Homberston family of Norwich. That said, the argument that John Jenney of Lakenham is the son of Christopher Jenney of Dunwich also rests partly on the relative rarity of the name Avis. My comprehensive search of parish records, wills, and indentures related to the Jenney family revealed no other woman of that name married to any Jenney in East Anglia during the 1500s. For Avis Jenney of Bracondale not to be the same woman as Avis Jenney of Dunwich, it will be necessary for two women named Avis to have married two men surnamed Jenney, the first couple apparently leaving no marriage record, wills, or documentary evidence of themselves before 1576. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p26]

There is a possibility that John Jenney of Lakenham was in fact the father of John Jenney of Plymouth, rather than having been the same man; father and son having presumably left Norwich together, and only the son traveling to North America. I base this possibility on the ages implied by the 1588 list of able-bodied men for Lakenham, and the similar list compiled in Plymouth in 1643, assuming that neither list is grossly erroneous; but it should be noted that on the original Plymouth list, John's name has been crossed off, with no reason for this having been specified. The 1581 assessment of arms and list of able-bodied men is not definitive as a tool for determining the possible birth date of John of Lakenham, because it merges three lists having uncertain dates, and it is not clear which date pertains to John. The first dated list specifically of able-bodied men is from 1588, which is also when John first appears as a constable in Lakenham. In addition, a man born in 1570 could well have had a son born near 1589 or a few years after, the likely period of birth for John of Plymouth, based on his 1614 marriage to Sarah Carey; and there would be no baptismal record, or a marriage record for the parents, given the lack of any sacramental records from Lakenham between 1578 and 1601. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p11]

went to Holland in his youth, lived at Rotterdam [Ref: Sav-age JENNEY John]

occupation: brewer and miller [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1089, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

1609: The first reference to a John Jenney in Dutch records of the Leiden pilgrims seems to be his having served as a witness to the marriage of Robert Peck and Jennie Marit in November 1609 {Pilgrim Archives, Leiden, Document 1001/A152v/22-11-1609}. John1 Jenney himself, it will be remembered, married Sarah Carey in the Dutch city of Leiden on the first day of November 1614. Crucially, the 1614 record identifies him as a "Jongman" [i.e., single man]
from Norwich {Pilgrim Archives, Leiden, Document 1021/B33-v/1-11-1614}. Little is known of John's life in the Netherlands. He seems to have worked as a brewer's apprentice, according to his marriage record and his contemporary, Edward Winslow, who would eventually witness John Jenney's will. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p5]

1623: Jenney arrived in Plymouth aboard the "Little James" in 1623. His arrival was recalled by Nathaniel Morton, who later wrote:
"One of the principal passengers that came in her [i.e. "Little James"] was Mr. John Jenny, who was a godly, though otherwise a plain man, yet singular for publicness of spirit, setting himself to seek and promote the common good of the plantation of New Plimouth; who spent not only his part of this ship (being part owner thereof) in the general concernment of the plantation, but also afterwards was always a leading man in promoting the general interest of this colony {Nathaniel Morton, "New England's Memorial," 6th ed. (Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1855), 66}. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p5]

1 Nov 1614: marriage records of Leyden give "John Jenney, single man, brewer's man, from Norwich in England, now dwelling at Rotterdam accompanied by Roger Wilson, his acquaintance, with Sarah Carey, single woman, from Moncksoon in England accompanied by Joanna Lyons, her acquaintance" [Ref: Holman SCOTT p286]

1623: arrived in Plymouth aboard the Little James [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p5]

immigrated from Norwich, co Norfolk, ship Little James, to Plymouth [Ref: Banks Topo p118]

1623: immigrated on ship Little James, from Leiden, Holland, to Plymouth [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1089, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

Jul-Aug 1623: arrived in Plymouth [Ref: Kilham CHADWICK pC13]

Aug 1623: arrived, ship James, 44 tons, built for the Pilgrims of Leyden [Ref: Sav-age JENNEY John]

The earliest records of the Plymouth plantation bear witness both to Jenney's industriousness and his increasing personal prosperity. Jenney built the colony's first grist mill, and was an active businessman, travelling frequently throughout the unexplored area near the colony and trading with the natives. At a time when many of the Norfolk and Suffolk Jenneys were running into financial difficulties, John flourished; at his death his estate was valued at L108 3s. 3d. and included several books and a globe, which suggest some degree of intellectual interest in the world beyond the shoreline {"Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories," "Mayflower Descendant" 6 (1904): 169-74 (John Jenney's will and inventory)}. In his will, short yet precise, he named as the supervisors of its execution his "worthy frends Mr Wm Bradford now Governor of Plymouth and Mr Thomas Prence," who would later become Governor. From his apparently humble station in society as a brewer's apprentice, John Jenney rose to become an individual of some note in the society that he helped build, and it may perhaps be considered a symbolic recognition of John's achievement that after his death the clerk entering his will in the colony's registers attached to John's name the social qualifier - gent. -- used by many landed Jenneys in the British Isles. [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p5]

1623: in Plymouth land division, was granted five acres as a 1623 arrival [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

built the first gristmill for the Plymouth Colony [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p5]

1627: in cattle division, John Jenny, his wife Sarah, Samuel, Abigail, and Sarah Jenney were the first five persons in the twelfth company [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

1633: in list of freemen, among those made free before 1 Jan 1632/3 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1089, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

2 Jan 1633: Committee to assess colony [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090]

25 Mar 1633: assessed #1,16s in tax list [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

25 Jul 1633: Plymouth records "John Smith hath covenanted to serve John Jenny the full term of seven years, after the manner of an apprentice, beginning the 24 of June, this present year; at the expiration whereof, the said John Jenny to give him twelve bushels of Indian corn, & twenty-five acres of land" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1693]

1633: in will of Samuel FULLER (dated 30 Jul 1633, proved 28 Oct 1633) received a 5s pair of gloves [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p715]

24 Oct 1633: took an inventory of the goods of John Adams [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p11]

1 Jan 1633/4: Thomas HIGGINS, having lived an extravagant life, was placed with John Jenny for eight years, to serve him as an apprentice, during which time the said John competently to provide for him, and at the end thereof to give him double apparel, 12 bushels of corn, and 20 acres of land [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p932]

2 Jan 1633/4: committee to assess the colony [Ref: Anderson Pilgrims p291]

2 Mar 1633/4: committee to assess the colony [Ref: Anderson Pilgrims p291]

27 Mar 1634: assessed #1,7s in tax list [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

1 Oct 1634: Committee to lay out highways [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

1635: sold to George Watson house and garden in Plymouth [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson GreatMigrationI p1945, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

5 Jan 1635/6: Committee to control wages and prices [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

2 Mar 1635/6: Committee to assess colony [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090]

2 Mar 1635/6: Coroner's jury on body of John Deacon [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090]

2 Mar 1635/6: Coroner's jury [Ref: Anderson Pilgrims p292]

14 Mar 1635/6: Committee on reuniting Plymouth and Duxbury [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

14 Mar 1635/6: Assigned as hayground for the year "the grounds from Joh. Wnyslow downward to Mr. Allerton's house, or the creek there [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

1636: given the right to erect a gristmill and the privilege of making salt [Ref: Holman SCOTT p286]

4 Oct 1636: Committee on revising laws [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

6 Jan 1636/7: agreed that the six acres of the lands of John Jenney, and the two acres of Mrs. Fuller, lying at Strawberry Hill, enclosed by Mr. Raph Smyth, sahll be yielded up unto them this year, that they may improve them to the setting of corn; provided that the said John Jenney shall erect a dwelling house near or upon the said six acres which are to belong unto the said house as long as it shall be a dwelling [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

20 Mar 1636/7: Committee to apportion haygrounds [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

One of the many colonial records pertaining to John Jenney is a grant of lands to him in March 1637/8. The record states that "one hundred and fifty acres of lands are graunted unto Mr John Jenney, lying on the east side of the Six Mile Brooke, in the way to Namascutt, to bee a farm belonging to the towne of Plymouth, and to be called by the name of Lakenhame" {Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England," 12 vols. in 9 (Boston: Press of W. White, 1855-61), 1:77}. Lakenham was and is a part of the English city of Norwich, the city already given by John as his place of origin in his 1614 marriage record. This Norwich suburb seems to have escaped the attention of many if not most Jenney researchers, and its status does generate some confusion for those unfamiliar with the area. Lakenham was outside the city's walls, was in fact on the very fringe of the city's limits, and while nearly every one of the city's parishes is named in records for the saint to whom its church is consecrated, Lakenham parish is usually referred to simply as Lakenham. All of this creates the erroneous impression that Lakenham is a separate town in the county of Norfolk, when in fact it is part of Norwich proper. Administratively, Lakenham, belonged to the city's ward of South Conisford, [Ref: Hovius JENNEY p6]

20 Mar 1636/7: assigned hayground "where he had the last year, and to edge more upon the sedgy place, that there may be hay also got there for the team of the town [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

20 May 1637: sued Samuel Chandler for a debt of #20. "Edmond Chaundler became bail to the action, and to satisfy the debt", and on Oct 2 1637 "Edmond Chandler undertook to pay the plaintiff" the remaining due [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p329]

1637-40: Assstant Governor [Ref: Kilham CHADWICK pC13]

1637-40: Plymouth Assistant Governor [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

5 Mar 1637/8: one hundred fifty acres of lands are granted unto Mr. John Jenny, lying on the east side of the Six Mile Brook, in the way to Namascutt, to be a farm belonging to the town of Plymouth, and to be called by the name of Lakenhame. And whereas there was not enough found on the east side of the said brook, the Court granted unto him a certain neck which is bounded as followeth, viz: by Lakenham Brook on the one side, and with a swamp on the other side, with a small brook in it. [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

2 Apr 1638: as part of a grant to Gabriell Fallowell, "the residue of the lands reserved for the mill, whereof the five or six acres aforesaid is a part, is, with Mr. Jenny's consent, granted to Gabriell Fallowell; and Mr. Jenney hath other lands granted to him in lieu thereof at Lakenharme" [Ref: Anderson Pilgrims p293]

29 Aug 1638: "Web Adey" sold to "Mr. John Jenney all that his house and garden place adjoining situate in Plymouth together with the three acres of lands in the new field thereunto belonging" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

24 Jan 1638/9: "Mr. John Jenney" sold to John Howland "all that his house, barns & outhouses at Rockey Nook together with all the lands thereunto belonging laid forth for the said Mr. Jenney's shares with that which was Phillip Delanoy's allowed him for want of measure and the five acres of meadow adjoining," receiving as partial compensation "three acres of lands of the said John Howland lying at Caughtaughcanteist Hill" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

5 Mar 1638/9: Mr. John Jenny was presented for not grinding corn serviceable, but to great loss & damage, both in not grinding it well, as also causing men to stay long before it can be ground, exdcept his servants be fed... and also for not keeping his stampers going, which is much to the detiment of all [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1089, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

10 Jun 1639: Richard Cluffe of Plymouth, tailor" sold to "Mr. John Jenney of the same ... all that his house & garden with the fence about the same all that the said Richard Cluff bought of Samuell Eddy" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

5 May 1640: Committee to survey meadows [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

1 Jun 1641: Deputh for Plymouth to General Court [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p291]

16 Sep 1641: "Mr. John Jenney is granted as much more upland as will make his farm at Lakenhame two hundred acres, and when that is used, then to have more added to it, in lieu of some land he hath yielded up at the town to Gabriell Fallowell" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

27 Sep 1642: Committee on providing soldiers against the Indians [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p292]

1643: in Plymouth Section, list of men able to bear arms [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090]

will dated 28 Dec 1643, names wife and five children, but provides that the eldest dau Abigail should live one year with Rev. Charles Chauncey of Scituate before marriage with Henry Wood. [Ref: Sav-age JENNEY John]

text of will given in [Ref: Winsor EarliestWills JENNY]

will dated 28 Dec 1643. Bequeathed to "my eldest son Samuell Jenney" a double portion of all his lands; to "Sarah my loving wife" for life "my dwelling house and mill adjacent with all the lands thereunto belonging"; and to the rest "of my said children John, Abigail, Sarah, and Suann" a single portion; "whereas Abigail my eldest daughter had somewhat given her by her grandmother and Henry Wood of Plymouth aforesaid is a suitor to her in way of marriage my will is that if she the said Abigaile will dwell one full year with Mr. Charles Chauncey of Scituate before her marriage ... that then my said daughter Abigall have two of my cows and my full consent to marry with the said Henry Wood" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

will proved 5 Jun 1644 [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1090, Anderson Pilgrims p293]

inventory of estate included a "small globe" 2s6d, and a Bible and other books, #1,1s. Inventory of Sarah included "a psalme booke 1s, Cartwright on the Remise 6s, Downham's Workes 6s, four old bookes 6d, Mr. Ainsworth on Genesis & Exodus 2s6d, and a Great Bible & a small one 11s" [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1089]

inventory of estate taken 25 May 1644, and totalled #108,3s,3d, real estate not included; a list of debts owed by the estate was appended [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1091, Anderson Pilgrims p293]



Pedigree of John JENNEY
                                                                /-----Edmond JENNEY
                                                       /-----William JENNEY
                                              /-----John JENNEY
                                             |         \-----Maud
                                     /-----Sir William JENNEY
                                    |        |         /-----John BOKILL
                                    |         \-----Maud BOKILL
                                    |                 |         /-----John LEYSTON
                                    |                  \-----Jane LEYSTON
                                    |                           \-----Anne GERARD
                            /-----Sir Edmund JENNEY
                           |        |         /-----Thomas CAWSE
                           |         \-----Elizabeth CAWSE
                   /-----John JENNEY
                  |        |                                    /-----John BOYS
                  |        |                           /-----Roger BOYS
                  |        |                          |         \-----Eustace SANDEBY
                  |        |                  /-----Sir Roger BOYS
                  |        |                 |        |         /-----Robert JENNYNGHAM Alias HONYNG
                  |        |                 |         \-----Margaret JENNYNGHAM
                  |        |         /-----Robert BOYS
                  |        |        |        |                  /-----Edmond ILLEY
                  |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Robert ILLEY
                  |        |        |        |        |         \-----Alice PLOMSTEAD
                  |        |        |         \-----Sibyl ILLEY
                  |         \-----Katherine BOYS
                  |                 |                           /-----Sir William WYCHINGHAM
                  |                 |                  /-----Nicholas WYCHINGHAM
                  |                 |                 |         \-----Margaret BREWES
                  |                 |         /-----Edward WYCHINGHAM
                  |                 |        |         \-----Joan De ANTINGHAM
                  |                  \-----Jane WYCHINGHAM
                  |                          |         /-----Sir John FASTOLFE
                  |                           \-----Alice FASTOLFE
          /-----Christopher JENNEY
         |         \-----Anne THIRKILL
 /-----John JENNEY
|        |                           /-----John HUMBERSTONE
|        |                  /-----John HUMBERSTONE
|        |                 |         \-----(Unk) TURPIN
|        |         /-----John HUMBERSTONE
|        |        |         \-----Ellen BROWNE
|         \-----Avis HUMBERSTONE
|                 |         /-----Alban HEWSE
|                  \-----Ceciley HEWSE
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