Lettice Jenney

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Lettice Jenne (abt. 1662 - 1734)

Lettice Jenne aka Jenney

Born about 1662 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

Son of Samuel Jenney and Anne (Lettice) Jenney

Brother of Sarah Jenney [half], John Jenney [half], Job Jenney [half], Jonathan (Jenney) Genings [half], Susanna (Jenney) Vaughan, Samuel Jenney, Elizabeth (Jenney) Bonham, Mark Jenney and Ruth (Jenney) Jackson

Husband of Desire (Blackwell) Jenney — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

Father of Cornelius Jenne, Sarah (Jenne) Spooner, Reliance Jenne, Ignatius Jenne, Mary (Jenny) West, Benjamin Jenne, Caleb Jenney, Ruth (Jenne) Spooner, Samuel Jenne, Elizabeth Jenne, Elizabeth (Jenney) Hawes, Nathaniel Jenne and Parnell (Jenne) Whitefield

Died 1734 at about age 72 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts

15:49: Kathryn (Goodwin) Martin M.A. adopted the profile of Lettice Jenne (abt.1662-1734). [Thank Kathryn for this]

Biography

Lettice Jenne was born about 1662 in Plymouth, Massachusetts and died, probably, shortly before January 26, 1734[1] in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He married Desire Blackwell about 1696. They had twelve children.[2]

"Lettice Jenne took the oath of Freeman at Dartmouth March 24, 1686 and was one of the original proprietors of that town, being named in the confirmatory deed made by Governor Bradford. He was called yeoman in the old records and owned a homestead, which is now in the town of Fairhaven, part of which has been occupied for many years by his descendants.

He made his will January 24, 1732, which was proved March 19, 1734. In this document his name appears as "Letes Jennie" of Dartmouth." [3]

Children (surname Jenney):

Cornelius, b. 3 Nov. 1697; m. (1), Elizabeth ______; m. (2), Eleanor (Cole) Young;

Sarah, b. 28 May 1699; m. Simpson Spooner;

Reliance, b. 1 April 1701;

Ignatius, b. 6 Feb 1702/3; m. Catherine Green;

Mary, b. 20 April 1705; m. Thomas West;

Benjamin, b. 20 March 1707;

Caleb. b. 20 June 1709; m.(1), Patience Standish; m (2), Silence (French) House;

Ruth. b. 5 Sept. 1711; m. Jeduthan Spooner;

Samuel, b. 30 March 1714; m. Patience Hall;

Elizabeth, b.16 June 1716; m. Samuel Hawes;

Nathaniel, b. 3 Oct. 1720; m. Mary Mitchell;

Pernal, b. 1 Sept. 1722; m. William Mitchell Jr.

The Will of Lettice Jenne[4]
The twenty fourth day of January 1731-2 I Lates Jenne of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol in the Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England yeoman being under infermity of body but of perfect mind and memory thanks be given unto God thare fore calling unto mind the mortallity of my body and knowing that is is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principlly and first of all I give and recommend my soule into the hand of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in deasent Christian burial at the discretion of my executors and as touching such worly estate where with it hath pleased God to bless in this life I give demise and dispose of the same in the following mann and fom.

Imprimis that all my lawfull dibts be paid out fo my moveble estate

Item I give and bequeath to my eldest son Cornealus Jenne all that part of my home steed whare I do now liveth and the housing standing on it situate and lying and being on the east sid of Nasktucket Brook so called bounded as followith…I also give to my sd. son three acres of madow be it more or les that I bought of Stephen Samson as by one deed under his hand and seal may apear dated the 26th day of November 1701…my will is that my sd. son shall not have the improvement of any part of sd. madow untill one year after my decease and then for him to improve but the one half of sd. meadow untill my wife deceas or marrige and aftar wards the whole of sd. madow/ I also give to my sd. son all that my land that lyeth adjoyining to sd. madow so far as the madow extands/ all the above sd. lands madows and housing giving to my sd. son are to him his hairs and asigns for ever, he paying to my wife whan she shall so cause to damand it at any time aftar my deceas the full and just sum of ten pounds.

Item I give to my son Ignatious the northwest wardly part of my home steed whare he now liveth and the hous that is standing on sd land and is bounded as followeth…I do give to my sd. son Ignatious to gether with that part of my medow that is adjoyining unto that medow that I bought of Spephen Samson as a bove sd. and to extand from thence so far down ward untill it comes to a detch that lats out a pond into the main crick/ and my will is that my sd. son Ignatious shall not have the improvement of any part of sd. madow untill one year aftar my deceas and then for him to improve but the one half of sd. madow untill my wife decease or marrige and aftar wards the whole of sd. meadow/all the above sd. lands madows and house given to my sd. son Ignatious are to him his hairs and assigns for ever.

Item I give to my son Caleb the south west wardly part of my home steed whare my now dwelling house now standeth excepting one acre of land lying to the west ward of the above sd. brook and to the northward of the way that lyeth by Nathaniel Delenos and is adjoyning to sd. brook and way/ the land given to my sd. son Caleb is bounde east ward by by sd brook and north wardly by that land that I have given to my sd. son Ignatious/ all that part of my home steed that lyeth to the west ward of sd. brook and to the south ward of that land given to my son Igatious I do give unto my sd. son Caleb excepting the acre of land as above sd/ together with my housing and orchards standing upon sd. land / to gether with all my madow that is adjoyning to that land given to him to gether with two nols of sedgg lying in Nasktucket Crick to gether with one pond that a ditch is dug from it to the main crick/ all the above sd. lands madows housing and orchards that I have given to my sd. son Caleb are to him his hairs and assigns for ever aftar my wife deceas or maridg he paying to my wife fifteen pounds whan she shall so cause to demand it of him aftar my deceas.

Item I give to my son Samuel all my land that lyeth to the north of that land that I have given to my son Cornales and to the east ward of the above sd brook to gether with all my madow that lyeth below that ditch that lats out a pond into the main crick as afor said to gether with a nole of land lying in sd. madow/ all the above sd lands and madow given to my sd son Samuel are to him his hairs and asigns for ever he allowing to my wife the improvement of the madow during har natrell life or so long as she remains my wife.

Item I give to my son Nathaniel fifty one acres of land as it is laid out and bounded lying adjoyning to the ceader swamp commonly called Spoonors ceader swamp/ to gether with one acre of land lying to the west ward of Nasktucket Brook afore sd. and to the north ward of the way that lyeth by Nathaniel Delenos and is adjoning to sd brook and way/ and my will is that my sd. son Nathaniel shall not sell sd acre of land last mentioned from my son Caleb provided he will give as much for it as a nother will/ all the lands and ceader swamp given to my sd. son Nathaniel are to him his hairs and assigns for ever/ all the afore mentioned lands madows and ceader swamps are scituate lying and being in Dartmouth afore sd./ and my will is that all my sons shall have convanent ways through each others lands whare it shall be most convenant and least prededishall/ and my will is that if my sd. son Caleb shall be taken away by dese and shall leve no son surviving lawfully begoting of his body/ that then I do give to my son sd. son Nathaniel his hairs and asigns for ever all that estate both lands and madows that I have given to my sd. son Caleb/ and all the lands and ceader swamp that I have given to my sd. son NathanielI do give it to the daughtars of my sd. son Caleb if he has any surviving at his deceas to them their hairs and assigns for ever provided my sd. son Caleb dyes and leves no male hair/ Item I give to my son in law Jaduthan Spooner five shillings

Item I give to my daughtar Sarah the wife of Semeon Spooner besides what I have here to fore given her five pounds and that to be har full part and portion of all my estate

Item I give to my daughter Reliance the wife of Thomas Pope besides what I have here to fore given har twenty shillings and that to be har full part and portion of all my estate

Item I give to my daughtar Mary the wife of Thomas Wast besides what I have here to fore given har six pounds and that to be har full part and portion of all my estate/ said six pound to be paid to har three years aftar my deceas

Item I give to my grand daughtar Ruth Spooner twenty pounds to be paid to har whan she comes to the age of ten years and that to be har full part of portion of all my estate

Item I give to my daughter Elisabeth ten pounds five shillings of it to be paid with in one month aftar my deceas and the remainder part to be paid to har whan she comes to the age of twenty one years and that to be har full part and portion of all my estate

Item I give to my daughtar Pernell twenty pounds five shillings of it to be paid to har with in one month aftar my deceas and the remainder part to be paid to har whan she comes to the age of twenty one years and that to be har full part and portion of all my estate/ and my will is that all my debts and legasies be paid out of my moveble and parsenoll estate.

Item I give to my derly beloved wife Desiar Jenne whome I like wise constitute make and ordan my soule executrix of this my last will and testament the improvement of all that land madow housing and orchards that I have given to my son Caleb as thay are set fourth to him and for har to have the impreovement of them during har natrell life or so long as she doth remain my widow/ I also give to my sd. wife the imprevement of all that madow that Ihave given to my sons durig har life or widow hood as afore sd./ excepting the one half of that madow given to Cornales/and the one half of that madow given to Ignatious/ I also give to my sd wife all and singuler my parsonoll and moveble estate and utansels of all sorts aftar my debts and legases be paid out of them/ and for my wife to have the imprevement of all my moveble estate as afore sd. untill time of payment becoms due as it is set fourth and exprassed to be paid/ and also leberty to cut ceader in my swamp for har own yuse during har widow hood as a fore sd./ and I do here by utterly disalow revoke and disanul all and every other and former testemants will legisies and bequest and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeather ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testemant testament in witness whare of I have here unto set my hand and seal the dy and year first writen

Lates his [L] mark and seal Jenne

Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the sd. Lates Jenne as his last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers

Samuel Hammond Abraham Russell Benjamin Hammond

Sources

↑ Date of petition of Simpson Spooner: "if the…executor shall bring [the] will to your honour in order that it may be proved betwen that time and the day that your honour holds his court, I pray that your honor would not pas upon the probaite of it till I am notified at which time I doubt not but that I shall make out, to your honours satisfaction, that he was not in a capacity of making a will with what shall then be further offered."
↑ MICHAEL BLACKWELL OF SANDWICH MASS. (c. 1620-1710), By Lydia B.(Phinney) Brownson, of Duxbury, Mass.and Maclean W. McLean, of Pittsburgh, Pa. From: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 117
↑ Bertha W. Clark, Susan C. Tufts, The Jenney Book: John Jenney of Plymouth, and his Descendants, ed. Judith Jenney Gurney, (Gateway Press Inc., Baltimore, 1988) pg.41-42
↑ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Deeds and Probates: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD., 1994)
http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_1ce.htm#35
Application for membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants #84275