John Jennings, of Hartford

John Gennings (Ginnings) was a proprietor “by courtesie of the town,” and his home-lot, m 1639, was on the brow of the hill now Asylum Hill, shutting on the highway on the west, on the west field on the east, on Richard Lord's land on the north, and on Nathaniel Bearding's land on the south. [1]

Savage says that John Jennings removed from Hartford to Southampton, in 1641, where he Was, in 1664.

family

Wife unknown.

From The Founders of Hartford

Children:

• i. Nicholas, mine in the “Francis,” from Ipswich, 1634, aged 22; 12e also was a proprietor at Hartford, “by courtesie of the town,” in 1639, and his home-lot was on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture; the town voted, Jan. 13, 1639-40, "that Nicholas Genings shall be sent vuto to come vnto the Towns in a certeine tyme lymited and to take up his habitacon beer, or else his loos to returne vnto the Townes handes, paying him for the worth of the labour done vppon it." Oct. 28, 1640, his house-lot “and y' in the Pyne field” were given to Thomas Porter; but he was here shortly after, and owned a house-lot, which he bought of William Adams, of Farmington, “abutting on the highway leading from Thomas Stanton's to the Pound hill,” on the east. He m. Mary Bedford. He appears to have left Hartford sometime between 1650 and 1660. Matthew Beckwith bought three parcels of land of him in 1650, apparently all he owned. Oct. 16, 1673, administration was granted to John Ginnings on the estate of his father, Nicholas Ginings, “sometime of Saybrook.”
• ii. Joshua (prob. a son of John) bought laud of Thomas Allcock (Olcott), being the western portion of Olcott's home-lot; and he owned also another parcel of land with tenement, part of which he received from the town, and part of which he bought of Olcott, “abutting on the meeting-house lott on the east, on a highway on the south, and on Thomas Olcott's land on the west and north.” He m. Dec. 23, 1647, Mary Williams; removed to Fairfield ab. 1656 ; d. there, 1676.

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• Reference: WeRelate Genealogy - SmartCopy: Nov 7 2016, 1:32:43 UTC
  • 1. Nicholas Jennings, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (NEHGS, 1999-2011), 4:53, 54, 57.
    • "When Nicholas Jennings returned to Hartford from New Haven, he sold several parcels of land which had come to him from 'his father John Ginings' [HaBOP 130, 168-69, 186, 310]. John Jennings, father of Nicholas, must have been dead by 26 February 1647[/7?], when the first of the sales was made.