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About Mercy Jenks
Marriage to Thomas Jenks Jr 1731 19 Mar — Age: 20 Middletown, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA Middletown Quaker Monthly Meeting: 3-4-1731, 3-6-1731, record of intention of marriage of Mercy Wildman & Thomas Jenks; 3-19-1731 authorized marriage; .
"The Jenkses are Welsh, and the genealogy of the family can be traced from the year 900 down to 1669, when it becomes somewhat obscure. The arms, which have long been in possession of the family at Wolverton, England, descendants of Sir George, to whom they were confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, in 1582, are supposed to have been granted soon after the time of William the Conqueror, for bravery on the field of battle (9). The first progenitor of the family in America was Thomas, son of Thomas Jenks, born in Wales in December or January, 1699. When [a child he came to Pennsylvania with his*] mother, Susan Jenks, who settled in Wrightstown, and married Benjamin Wiggins (10), of Buckingham, by whom she had a son, born in 1709. She died while he was young, and was buried at Wrightstown meeting. Thomas Jenks was brought up a farmer, joined the Friends in 1723, married Mercy Wildman, of Middletown, in 1731, and afterwards removed to that township, where he spent his life. He bought 600 acres southeast of Newtown, on which he erected his homestead, which he called Jenks' Hall, and built a fulling-mill on Core creek that runs through the premises, several years before 1742. He led an active business life, lived respected, and died May 4, 1797, at the good old age of ninety-seven. He was small in stature, but sprightly, temperate in his habits, and of great physical vigor. At the age of ninety he walked fifty miles in a week, and at ninety-two his eye-sight and hearing were both remarkably good. He had lived to see the wilderness and haunts of wild beasts become the seats of polished life."
"Thomas Jenks left three sons and three daughters: Mary, Elizabeth, Ann, John, Thomas and Joseph, who married into the families of Wier [Weir*], Richardson, Pierson, Twining, and Watson."
~• Core Creek joins the NESHAMINY at Bridgeton just south of Newtown
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Mercy Jenks's Timeline
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January 3, 1711
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April 20, 1733
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Middletown,Bucks,Pennsylvania,USA
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May 1, 1736
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December 9, 1738
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Middletown,Bucks County,Pennsylvania
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February 22, 1744
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Middletown township, Bucks, Pennsylvania
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September 8, 1749
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July 26, 1787
Age 76
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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