Major Daniel Jenkins

MAJ Daniel Jenkins

• BIRTH 1751
• DEATH 22 Feb 1801 - Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
• BURIAL Jenkins Burial Ground, Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 192932735 · View Source

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Family First Marriage:
Married: Hephsibah Capers Widow Frampton on Abt 1777.

Hephsibah Capers Frampton: Death: 15 May 1780

Children:
1. Daniel, Jr. Jenkins: Birth: 23 Jul 1778 in Bleak Hall Plantation, Edisto Island, SC. Death: 14 Mar 1804 in Drowned near Frampton's Inlet, Edisto Island, SC
2. Hephsibah Jenkins: Birth: 10 May 1780 in Charleston, South Carolina. Death: 4 Mar 1847 in Edisto Island, Colleton Co.,South Carolina

Second Marriage:
Married: Martha Emma Seabrook on 28 Feb 1781.

Martha Emma Seabrook: Birth: 1758. Death: 31 Mar 1802

Children:
1. Thomas Seabrook Jenkins: Birth: Mar 1784. Death: 14 Mar 1804 in Drown at Sea
2. Benjamin Whitmarsh Jenkins: Birth: Abt 1786. Death: 8 Oct 1836
3. Richard Jenkins: Birth: 1788 in South Carolina. Death: 14 Mar 1804 in Drowned at Sea
4. Amarinthia Jenkins: Birth: 28 Nov 1790 in South Carolina. Death: 7 Feb 1879
5. Mary Jenkins: Birth: Oct 1791. Death: 20 Apr 1830
6. Martha Seabrook Jenkins: Birth: 25 Aug 1792 in South Carolina. Death: 26 Nov 1859 in South Carolina
7. Joseph Daniel Jenkins: Birth: Abt 1796. Death: Aft 1880

Notes
a. Note: Note: Daniel was a planter and died at "Bleak Hall Plantation", Edisto Island, which Hephzibah inherited from her father.
Daniel was an officer in the Revolution. Justice of the Peace served in the S. C. House of Representatives (1778-80). State Senator 1782-90) and was a delegate to the State convention to ratify the Federal Constitution.
Daniel administered Martha's estate. Mar 31, 1802 (PC bk RR. p 381) (13)

The "Charleston Courier" March 16, 1804, gave an account of the downing of Daniel, Richard, and Thomas Jenkins. John Bailey of Edisto, Benjamin Scott of St. Helena's, Mr. Wood of Beaufort, and 12 Negroes. The Only person saved was Henry Bailey "and he was too injured to give an account".
 
Daniel Jenkins had purchased a new open boat and decided to take his guest to Beaufort. They left from "Bleak House" on Edisto Island with a crew of 12 slaves. Near Frampton's Inlet, the boat struck a sandbar and was upset. Rescuers tried to reach them but a sudden severe squall came upon them and by the time it cleared all had disappeared except that Henry Bailey was found clinging to a piece of wreckage. Later most of the bodies washed up onto the beach.

Source: Will: Daniel Jenkins (dated Feb 3, 1801; lst & 2nd codicils Feb 3, 1801, pr Mar 6, 1801). Planter of Edisto; wife, "in lieu of dower, 12 Negroes for life (plus 3 more by codicil), use of horse and my chair, 20 cows & calves, 10 steers, 15 ewes, all stock of hogs, & poultry, all household and kitchen furniture, and labor of my mulatto wench, Jane; son, Daniel "l300 ster, 15 Negroes, and mulatto, Jane, after the death of my widow, silver tankard & waiter, one dozen table & one dozen teaspoons, 10 cows & calves, 4 steer, bay gelding "republican", 10 ewes, 1 bedstead, mattress, and old furniture; dau, Hephzibah Townsend, "12 slaves, silver coffee pot & milk pot, set of tea china and 1-bed stead; sons, Benjamin Whitmarsh, Richard, & Thomas Seabrook, Joseph (each) "2 Negroes" dau's Amarinthia, Martha Seabrook, & Sarah (each) "2 Negroes; exec's son Daniel, sons Benjamin & Richard (when 21), bro Joseph Jenkins, friends Benjamin Seabrook & Joseph James Murray; wit's, Margaret Manners, Martha S. Jenkins, John Ward; "all unnamed Negroes to be held for youngest 7 children....faithful Negroes to be taken care of...Negroes left to children, Benjamin, Richard, & Joseph to be bound out apprentices to some trade..." (PC bk D, p 120) Qualified Benjamin Seabrook, Daniel Jenkins, Mar 18, 1801, Joseph Jenkins, June 6, 1804)

Note: Daniel was mentioned in the July 03, 1773 will of his grandmother, Abigail Townsend.

Planter of Bleak Hall Plantation on Edisto Island. He served as an officer during the Revolution; in 1780 was taken prisoner and held in the Old Exchange Building in Charleston. He was a Jusitice of the Peace, tax collector, representative to the South Carolina House of Representatives and a South Carolina senator. In 1788 he was a delegate from St Johns Colleton to ratify the Constitution.

Will of Daniel Jenkins, of Edisto Island, planter

dated 3 Feb 1801 proved 6 Mar 1801

Wife [not named] in full satisfaction of her dower, my fellows Bristol and Pompey, my wenches old Bess, Pegg, Miley and Molly, my boys Taffy and Adam and my negro girls Sally, Fanny, Phoebe and Grace; the use during her natural life of a horse, my chair, 20 cows and calves, 10 steers, 15 ewes, all my stock of hogs and poultry, all my household and kitchen furniture not specifically bequeathed, also the use of mulatto wench Jane.

 Son: Daniel Jenkins £300 sterling, my fellows George, Sam, Sanco, young Peter, my wenches Juno, Binah, Beck and Clarinda, my boys Toby and Jack, my girls little Flora and Abbey, old Cuff, Moll and Tamrin, my mulatto wench Jane after the death of my wife, my silver tankard and waiter, one dozen silver table spoons, one dozen silver teaspoons, ladle, 10 cows, 10 calves, 4 steers, bay gelding Republican, 10 ewes, one bedstead, bed, mattress, and furniture;

Children:

1. Benjamin Whitmarsh Jenkins,
2. Richard Jenkins,
3. Thomas Seabrook Jenkins,
4. Joseph Jenkins;
5. Hepsebah Jenkins Townsend,
6. Amarintha Jenkins,
7. Sarah Jenkins,
8. Martha Seabrook Jenkins - 7 youngest children under the age of 21.

Executors: son Daniel Jenkins, sons Benjamin and Richard (when 21), brother Joseph Jenkins, friends Benjamin Seabrook and Joseph James Murray

Witnesses: Margaret Manners, Martha S Jenkins, John Ward

Will Book D 1800-1807, p 120

Wills Charleston County SC, Film 0023481, Family History Library LD

Plantation: Bleak Hall of Charleston County, SC Location Ocella Creek (a branch of the North Edisto River) Edisto Island, St. John's Colleton Parish, Charleston County, SC

Plantation Details
Other Names: Townsend House

Timeline: John Frampton came to Carolina from County Somerset, England, about 1689. He was granted land on Poachey Island which is a part of Edisto Island. The land passed to his son, Jonathan Frampton. At some point, the land became known as "Bleak Hall Plantation". In 1850 the house was built and it was destroyed by fire.

Buildings:
Barns, stables, and storage houses and are on the National Register of Historic American Places.
Crops: Primary crop - Sea Island Cotton
Number of slaves: 273

Owners: Chronological –

• John Frampton,
• Jonathan Frampton (1744),
• Hephzibah Frampton (1762),

* Daniel Jenkins (1780),

• Hephzibah Jenkins Townsend,
• John Ferrars Townsend (1843),
• John Ferrars Townsend, Jr. (1881,
• Mary Caroline Townsend (1914),
• Mr. Harmon (1930),
• Dr. James C. Greenway,
• John E. Meyer

Additional Information John Frampton came to Carolina from County Somerset, England, about 1689. He was granted land on Poachey Island which is a part of Edisto Island.
The land passed to his son, Jonathan Frampton, who married Theodora Ashe about 1744.
It included all of Botany Bay, several small islands, large areas of marshland near the North Edisto River and Frampton's Inlet
At some point, the land became known as “Bleak Hall Plantation”.
Their daughter, Hephzibah Frampton inherited the plantation when Jonathan died about 1762. She married Daniel Jenkins (1751; Feb. 1801) about 1777 as his second wife and at her death in 1780 it became the property of her husband.
Daniel Jenkins and Hephzibah had a daughter, Hephzibah Jenkins (May 10, 1780; Mar. 1847)
who married Daniel Townsend III (June 17, 1759; May 21, 1842).
In 1796 she inherited the plantation and they lived at "Bleak Hall”.
Hephzibah organized the "Edisto and Wadmalaw Female Mite Society" of the Baptist Church in 1811.
It was the first mite society in the South. She was instrumental in establishing the first Baptist Church on Edisto Island. [Hephzibah (Jenkins) Townsend also received "Sharegould Plantation" from her brother, Daniel Jenkins, Jr., at his death in 1804.]

John Ferrars Townsend (Oct. 23, 1799; Feb. 3, 1881), son of Daniel Townsend III and Hephzibah Jenkins next inherited “Bleak Hall” about 1842 although he was probably living there earlier. He married Mary Caroline Jenkins in 1835.

He graduated from Princeton and studied but never practiced law, was a South Carolina State Senator (1850-58), a signer of the Ordinance of Secession, and was one of the largest planters in S.C. He is buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard on Edisto.

Their son, John Ferrars Townsend, Jr. inherited "Bleak Hall" in 1881and left it in 1914 to his daughter, Mary Caroline Townsend, who sold it in the 1930s to Mr. Harmon, and later it was sold to Dr. James C. Greenway of Connecticut.

Mary Caroline married Francis Winthrop Johnstone in 1912. It is not known whether they lived at “Bleak Hall”.
{"Warrants for Land in South Carolina", compiled by A.S. Salley, Jr. and Pamphlet 929 "Townsend Family", both in the SC Historical Library, Charleston}

References

	1. 	30-15 Plantation File, South Carolina Historical Society