Ancestry of
Henry Hastings Sibley

1st Governor of Minnesota

Joseph Jenckes

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Henry Hastings Sibley — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 126 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Jenckes Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Hester Ballard   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1656 
  • Birth Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jun 1740 
  • Death Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Mineral Spring Cemetery, Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Martha Brown
  • Marriage Date:
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  • Marriage Location:
  • Providence, Providence Co., Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Nathaniel Jenckes

  Martha Jenckes

  Catherine Jenckes (Ahnentafel No:63 )

  • Notes: 

  • Colonial Governor of Rhode Island

    Gov. Joseph Jenckes surname is also seen as Jenks.

• Additional marriages for Joseph Jenckes

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  • Spouse:
  • Alice Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Feb 1727

• Sources for Joseph Jenckes

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 07/30/2015).
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1926, Vol. 80, p. 76.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1943, Vol. 97, p. 22.
  • ⁴ Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society, New Series, Providence: The Standard Printing Co., 1901, Vol. 8, No. 4, p. 278.
  • ⁵ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
  • ⁶ Austin, John Osborne, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of Settlers Who Came Before 1690, Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons (1887), 112-113, 209-210.
  • ⁷ Browne, William B., Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1952), 13-20.
  • ⁸ Bulkley, Abby Isabel (Brown), The Chad Browne Memorial: Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne, Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Daily Eagle Book Printing Department (1888), 13-14.
  • ⁹ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 1980, Vol. 13, p. 704.
  • ¹⁰ Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 122.
  • ¹¹ Tifft, Maria E. (Maxon), A Partial Record of the Descendants of John Tefft, of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and the Nearly Complete Record of . . ., Buffalo, New York: The Peter Paul Book Company and Publishers (1896), 14.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Joseph Jenckes (governor)", (accessed 09/06/2013).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Joseph Jenckes", (accessed 09/06/2013).