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Willis Carrier

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Willis Carrier

Inventor of Air Conditioning

    Joseph Jenckes

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    • 8th Great-grandfather of Willis Carrier — 11th Generation
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    • 1980 
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    • 26 Aug 1599 
    • Christening Location:
    • St. Ann Blackfriars, London, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 16 Mar 1682/1683 
    • Death Location:
    • Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts 
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    • Joseph Jenckes is often confused with the Joseph Jenckes who was born about 1603. That Joseph is believed to be this Joseph's half-brother.

      Joseph Jenckes is said to have cut the dies for the “Pine Tree Shilling” in 1652.

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  • Sources for Joseph Jenckes

    • 2 Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, Chicago: J. H. Beers and Co. (1908), 757.
    • 3 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.
    • 4 Browne, William B., Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press (1952), 1-2.
    • 5 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.
    • 6 The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, "Stephen Hopkins", (accessed 12/21/2017).