Dear Cynthia,
I am contacting you about this profile: https://www.geni.com/people/La-Infanta-Fantilina-of-Spain/600000004...
She was not an infanta of Spain. That's a legend.
Fantalina Joy was successively married to Gilbert Clark and to Philip Jenkins. It is not known which marriage produced the daughter Jane, who was a half-sister to Fantalina's oldest son, Joseph Joy.
For information on the maternal ancestry of the wife of John Scroggins, see the article "Fantelina Joy and her Husbands" by Neil D. Thompson, The American Genealogist, Vol. 48, no. 2, April 1972, pp. 65-71. The address of Mr. Thompson was: 420 Riverside Drive 10-8, New York, N.Y. 10028.
Fantelina Joy appears 1692 in the records of Charles Co., Md., accused of having born a bastard child. There seems to have been an opinion that the father was Gilbert Clarke, a planter, and former sheriff of the county. In any case, by 1697 Fantelina was married to Gilbert Clarke, and made a deed "to her children." Neil D. Smith indicates that the index which refers to this deed still exists, but the volume of records which would have contained the actual deed is missing from the Charles Co., Md. records. He died by February 1701. She remarried to Philip Jenkins [or Jenkinson], a Charles County planter, who appears in the records from 1698/99 to 12 August 1712. He was dead by 15 April 1714, when Fantelina Jenkins recorded the ages of her two sons Philip and John Jenkins and provided for the inheritance of their father's property upon their coming of age at eighteen years. [Mr. Neil D. Thompson states: You should understand that Frances Loften, widow of John Loften, and William Jenkins or Jenkinson just mentioned, signed the inventory of Philip Jenkins(on) in 1716 as next of kin. I believe that Frances was Philip's sister and William was his nephew or brother. Philip's children would have been too young to sign. John Newman was husband of Priscilla, dau. of John and Frances Loften].
By May of 1716, Fantelina had married a third husband, William Penn, the widower of Elizabeth Dutton, by whom he had two children. Fantelina apparently had no children by this marriage. William Penn died by March 1737, and she survived him. The Maryland Calendar of Wills, Volume VII, p. 207. Penn, William, Charles Co., 9th Feb., 1736; 14th Mch., 1736. To son William, ex., and hrs., 290 A. dwelling plantation "Pensalvania;" 2/3 of personal estate. To dau. Elizabeth wife of Joseph Joy, 1 guinea. To wife Fantalenah and hrs., 1/3 of personal estate. Test: Nath. Morell, Dr. John Harris, Major Robert Yates. 21. 749.
Sincerely,
V
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