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Abiah Jenkins (Allen)

Also Known As: "Rebeckah Abiah Allen"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Kingdom of England
Death: February 10, 1712 (45)
North Kingston, Kent, Province of Rhode Island, Kingdom of Great Britain
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Francis Allen and Mary Allen
Wife of Zachariah Jenkins
Mother of Mary Reynolds; Hannah Reynolds; Abiah Kingsley; Susanna Gifford; John Jenkins and 7 others
Sister of Rebecca Kirby; Dinah Smith; Rachel Allen; Abigail Allen and Hannah Allen

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About Abiah Jenkins

Abiah Allen

  • Birth: Dec 10 1666 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  • Death: Feb 10 1712 - East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island
  • Parents: Francis Allen, Mary Besse
  • Husband: Zechariah Jenkins
  • Children: 12- Zephaniah, Mary, Hannah, Abiah, Susanna, John, Job, Jedediah, Dinah, Abigail, Elizabeth, Rebecca

Abiah Allen, the daughter of Francis Allen and Mary Besse, was born on 10 December 1666 at Sandwich in the New Plymouth Colony of Massachusetts (now within Barnstable County, Massachusetts). She was later married at Sandwich, in what had then become Barnstable County, Massachusetts, to a man named Zachariah Jenkins on 11 December 1686. Zachariah, who was born at Sandwich during the month of September 1651, was the son of John Jenkins and Susannah Cooke (sometimes spelled Cook)

Zachariah and Abiah eventually moved to Providence County, Rhode Island, where they settled in the village of East Greenwich on 16 August 1708. (East Greenwich is now within Kent County, Rhode Island). Shortly thereafter, Zachariah was made a "freeman" of Rhode Island. Zachariah and Abiah later purchased four shares of boggy meadow at East Greenwich on 13 February 1708/09, and bought additional lands to the west of East Greenwich on 18 September 1710.

Abiah died at East Greenwich, Rhode Island on 10 April 1712. Zachariah later sold his lands near East Greenwich and moved to North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where he is believed to have died in about 1722

Notes

  • Re: NCWILKES John Francis Reynolds, Sr. / Sarah 2 May 2012. "This Sarah Rebecca Jenkins was the daughter of Zachariah Jenkins and Rebeckah A. Allen. John and Sarah's daughter Sarah Jane Reynolds was my 5-G Grandmother who married Joseph (Pourter) Porter. I have included four generations of this line. Descendants of Zachariah Jenkins .... "

Links

  1. The Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 5.  By James N. Arnold.  Page 153.

Abiah and Zachariah were married on 11 December 1686 in Sandwich, Barnstable County, Plymouth Colony.

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Abiah Jenkins's Timeline

1666
December 10, 1666
Sandwich, Barnstable, Plymouth Colony, Kingdom of England
1689
January 5, 1689
Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA, United States
1691
October 9, 1691
Sandwich, Barnstable County, MA, United States
1693
July 14, 1693
Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States
1695
May 28, 1695
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1697
April 5, 1697
Sandwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Kingdom of England
1699
June 5, 1699
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1701
April 2, 1701
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
1703
May 17, 1703
Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts