Life History

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Notes

• "I have traced my family's origins to Shropshire, England to my ancestor John Jenkins, 1656-1717, married to Martha Garner, 1656-1752.  They settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia. ... They had two sons, Ezekiel Jenkins, 1695-1750, & William Jenkins, 1704-1747.  William Jenkins had one son, William Jenkins - 1740-1787, had 4 sons, one of which was James Randolph Jenkins, 1760-1824, who was born in Fairfax County, Va., & had 19 children, one of which was Samuel M. Jenkins, 1789-1872 ... the first of this set of Jenkinses to be born in Union County, South Carolina."
  --  Joseph H Miller, Ancestry Messaging to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 5 July 2016
  
  Family Data Collection - Individual Records
  William Jenkins
  Birth 1704 St Helena Island SC
  --  Family Data Collection, Compiled by Edmund West
  
  Jenkins, William
  Will dated 31 July 1747
  Will probated 17 Nov 1747
  Personal property to wife Mary; to sons Samuel, William & Job, all at age 18, brother Ezekiel Jenkins to take the children & estate on decease of wife & children, if Ezekiel is deceased, brothers John & James Jenkins to take estate & child Mary
  Executrix wife
  Witnesses Walter English, Henry Jenkins, William Guy (p 210)
  Refers to his sons, all less than 18 years old in 1747, as Samuel, Job and William
  Refers to his brothers Ezekiel (Ezra in this transcription appears to be an error), John and James
  Refers to his wife as Mary [where some sources and genealogies have her as Martha Ballenger]
  --  Will Book A 1742-1752, Abstracts Of Wills, Fairfax County, Virginia, by Estelle Stewart King, 1936, 1996, with additional notes by Dan Jenkins and Orville Boyd Jenkins;  This graphic by Orville Boyd Jenkins, 6 July 2016

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Messaging
• 2. Family Data Collection - Individual Records
• 3. Fairfax County Virginia Wills