Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Nathaniel Jenckes

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 8th Generation
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  • Father:
  • Joseph Jenckes 
  • Mother:
  • Martha Brown   
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  • ABT 1687 
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  • 8 Jun 1753 
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  • Catherine Scott
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  Martha Jenckes (Ahnentafel No:99 )

• Sources for Nathaniel Jenckes

  • ¹ Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
  • ² Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Friends and Ministers - Vol. 7, p. 253.
  • ³ Rhode Island Vital Records, 1636-1850 - Town and Church Records, Friends and Ministers, Vol. 7, p. 253, Birth record for daughter Martha Jenckes.
  • ⁴ 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), 113.
  • ⁵ Browne, William B., Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1952), 13, 33-34.
  • ⁶ 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.

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