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Amelia Earhart

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Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer


    Joseph Jenckes Jr.

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    • 7th Great-grandfather of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 792 
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    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1632 
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    • Death Date:
    • 4 Jan 1717 
    • Death Location:
    • Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island 
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    • Marriage Date:
    • BEF 30 Nov 1652 
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    • Joseph Jenckes (Ahnentafel No:396 )

      Nathaniel Jenckes

      Joanna Jenckes

      Elizabeth Jenckes

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  • Sources for Joseph Jenckes Jr.

    • 2 Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
    • 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), 112.
    • 5 Browne, William B., Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1952), 1, 3-9.
    • 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.
    • 8 The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, "Stephen Hopkins", (accessed 12/21/2017).
    • 9 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.
    • 13 Wilkinson, M. M., Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families, Shelby, Mississippi: Shelby Book Store, Publishers (1949), 64, 81-82.

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