Silence House

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Silence (French) Jenney (1707 - bef. 1776)

Silence Jenney formerly French

Born Jun 1707 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts

Daughter of John French and Elizabeth (Foster) French

Sister of John French [half], Abigail (French) Staples [half], Israel French [half] and Hannah (French) Caswell [half]

Wife of David House — married 28 Feb 1727 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Wife of Caleb Jenney — married 29 May 1746 in Middleboro, Massachusetts

Mother of Lusannah (House) Babcock, Sarah House, Mercy (House) Hammond, Patience (Jenney) Taber and Caleb Jenney

Died before 24 Jun 1776 in Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts

This profile is part of the French Name Study. Biography

Silence was born in 1707. She passed away before 1776. She married David House on February 29 [sic], 1727. (Note: 1727 was not a leap year but both town and church records give the same date.) They had seven children together before his death.[1]

Luce b ca 1730-1; m George Badcock Sarah b ca 1732-3; m Samuel Robbins John b ca 1734-5; m Eleanor Barden Mercy b ca 1736-7; m Moses Hammond Abel b ca 1738-9; m (1) Susanna Hallett Elizabeth b ca 1740; m Hezekiah Hoxie Susanna b ca 1742; m (1) John Clark Silence married second, Caleb Jenney, and they had two children:[2]

Patience b 28 Mar 1747; m Jeduthan Tabor Caleb b 2 Jun 1729; m Mary Eure Sources

↑ Barclay, Mrs. John E. "Silence4 French, Her Husbands ((House and Jenny) and Children. The American Genealogist, Volume 37. New Haven, CT: 1961. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) By Subscription. Page 80. ↑ Barclay, 1961. By Subscription Page 83. See also:

The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1899) Vol. 1, Page 43 FSFTID LJLX-F25 https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/64681014/person/38... "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5NS-H2T : 10 February 2018), Silanc French, Jun 1707; citing BERKELEY,BRISTOL,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 903,401, 903,402.