Job Cooke Jenkins

Job Cooke Jenkins

• Birth: Apr 14 1655 - Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts
• Parents: John Jenkins, Susanna Cooke
• Wife: Hannah
• Children: Susanna

'"Job coock jenkens was born to them, 2nd month 1655. Annotated as "Surely one of the earliest uses of a middle name."

"Susannah's son Zachariah eventually moved to Rhode Island (which was more tolerant of Quakers than Massachusetts was) and her son Job Cook Jenkins migrated to New Jersey (which developed a substantial Quaker population in time)."

• from Edwin Salter. A history of Monmouth and Ocean counties : embracing a genealogical record of earliest settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and their descendants, the Indians, their language, manners and customs, important historical events .... (page 50 of 50)

HISTORY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.

John Jenkins of Sandwich, in Plymouth Colony, was among those who contributed to buj the Land ot the Indians, 1667, and he was awarded a share. He was an active Quaker and in 1659, was, among others, Frequently fined for adherence to his faith and had property Levied on and sold to pay fines. His name is frequently mentioned in New England Local histories.

A John Jenkins appears to have been a resident in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1644 and probably earlier. In 1648, when he was about 23 years old, he moved south down the coast to Sandwich.

Sandwich is located where the arm of Cape Cod joins Massachusetts. He married Susanna Cooke, daughter of Job Cooke, one of the prominent Quaker families in Sandwich. John was born in about 1625 and died in 1684, but, his estate remained unsettled until April 2, 1708. The estate was valued at 116 pounds. It’s difficult to translate this amount into current values, but it is safe to say that 116 pounds would be equivalent to a comfortable amount in modern terms. The real estate was assigned to his son Zachariah, who paid 46 pounds to heirs of his brother Job, who had died, and 52 pounds to his spinster sister Elizabeth.

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1. The Narragansett Historical Register, Volume 5. By James N. Arnold. Page 152. "Sandwich, Mass. John Jenkins and Susanna, his wife, had children: Elizabeth, Zachariah, Job Cooke, Thomas ..."