Person:John Fenner (11)

BIOGRAPHY: The Fenner Family
Fourth Edition
Descendants of Captain Arthur Fenner (1619-1703) with additional Fenner lines in The United States, Germany, and Switzerland.

John Fenner and Phebe Brown [b 2 Oct. 1738/9; d 26 Nov. 1821] John Fenner m Phebe Brown [b 21 Apr. 1738; d 3 Aug. 1825] on 11 July 1758 at Providence. Phebe was the daughter of Obadiah Brown and Mary Harris. The census of 1774 gives three sons and four daughters. John and Phebe had a slave named Yockwh or Yockey. The following is and advertisement that appeared in the Providence Gazette, 18 Oct. 1777: Run away from John Fenner, of Glocester, a negro man named Yockwhy, about 28 years of age, 5 ft. 8 inches high, marked on both cheeks; had on and took with him a light-colored homespun coat, with wooden buttons, breeches of the same color, blue serge jacket, pair of thread stockings, one pair of white ribbed yarn do., on dark silk handkerchief, one linen do., one good castor hat without loops, one felt do., one pair of shoes without strings, one pair of silver sleeve buttons. Whoever will take up and secure said negro, and return him to his master, shall have six dollars reward. All masters of vessels are forbidden to carry off said negro at their peril.

The name Yockey Fenner appears in the register of the First Baptist Church of America, 22 Mar. 1789.

1. ↑ Providence Births, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   223.

   FENNER, John, of Arthur and Mary, [born] Oct. 2, 1739.