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Facts and Events
| Name[1][2] |
John Jenny |
| Alt Name[1] |
John Jenney |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Bef 1589 |
Estimate based on date of marriage. |
| Marriage |
1 Nov 1614 |
Leiden, Zuid-Holland, NetherlandsNew Style Dating.
to Sarah Cary |
| Immigration[1] |
1623 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesAboard the Little James. |
| Residence[1] |
1623 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
Bef 1 Jan 1632/33 |
Admitted freeman of Plymouth Colony. |
| Will[1] |
28 Dec 1643 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation[1] |
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Brewer. Miller. |
| Death[1] |
Bet 28 Dec 1643 and 25 May 1644 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United StatesBetween date of will and date of inventory. |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
25 May 1644 |
£108 3s. 3d., real estate not included. |
| Probate[1] |
5 Jun 1644 |
Will proved. |
John Jenny held a variety of offices in Plymouth Colony including Assistant (1637-1640) and Deputy to the General Court (1641).
"In his will, dated 28 December 1643 and proved 5 June 1644, John Jenney of New Plymouth bequeathed to 'my eldest son Samuell Jenney' a double portion of all his lands; to 'Sarah my loving wife' for life 'my dwelling house and mill adjacent with all the lands thereunto belonging'; and to the rest 'of my said children John, Abigall, Sarah and Susann' a single portion; 'whereas Abigail my eldest daughter had somewhat given her by her grandmother and Henry Wood of Plymouth aforesaid is a suitor to her in way of marriage my will is that if she the said Abigaile will dwell one full year with Mr. Charles Chauncey of Scittuate before her marriage … that then my said daughter Abigall have two of my cows and my full consent to marry with the said Henry Wood' [MD 6:169-70, citing PCPR 1:50]."[1]
| The Anne and The Little James (1623)
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| The Anne and the Little James left England together, and arrived a week or so apart in Plymouth. Most of the passengers were probably on the Anne, as the Little James was smaller and carried mostly cargo.
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| Sailed: | May(?) 1623 from an unspecified port in England under William Peirce (Master Anne), Emanuel Althan (Captain Little James), and John Bridges (Master Little James).
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| Arrived: | 10 July 1623 (the Anne) and about 10 days later (the Little James) at Plymouth, Massachusetts
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| Previous Vessel: | Weston's ships (Swan, Charity, Sparrow) (1622)
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| Next Vessel: | Jonathan (1623)
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References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 John Jenny, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
2:1089-94.
"ORIGIN: Leiden, Holland"
"FREEMAN: In the '1633' Plymouth list of freemen, among those made free before 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3]. In list of 7 March 1636/7 {PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen, among the Assistants (annotated 'dead') [PCR 8:173]."
"BIRTH: By about 1589 based on date of marriage, said to be from Norwich in England in his marriage record."
- ↑ John Jenny, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:546.
"Jenny, John, Plymouth, wh. was a brewer of Norwich, went to Holland in his youth, liv. at Rotterdam, came in the James, a little vessel of 44 tons, built for the Pilgrims of Leyden, arr. Aug. 1623. with w. Sarah (wh. he m. at Leyden, 1 Nov. 1614, by the name of Carey), and ch. Samuel, Abigail, and Sarah, at the same time with the Ann, therefore with her passeng. reckon. among 'old comers,' had b. here John, and Susanna, was an Assist. 1637-39, and rep. 1641. His will, 28 Dec. 1643, names w. and the five ch. but provides that the eldest d. Abigail should live one yr. with Rev. Charles Chauncey of Scituate bef. m. with Henry Wood. He d. early in the foll. yr. and his wid. wh. was one of the first purch. of Dartmouth in 1652, by her will, of 4 Apr. 1654, and codic. 18 Aug. 1655, nam. ds. Sarah Pope, and Abigail Wood, s. Samuel, and his ch. gr.ch. Sarah Wood, Susanna Pope, and Sarah Jenny, and giv. Elder Cushman 'the Bible wh. was my d. Susanna's,' permits us to infer that both the younger ch. were d. and perhaps that John had left d. Sarah."
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