Jenkins (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
Completed as of March 28, 2021:
- Recruiting patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of Joseph Jenkins for NGS/WGS testing. Any male who believes they are such a descendant should Read me First
IMPORTANT: Read me First
Biography
First Generation
Joseph Jenkins was born Barnstable the "last of" Mar 1669, son of John Jenkins and Mary Wallen. Joseph died there 13 Oct 1734. He married Barnstable Oct 1694 Lydia Howland (daughter of Joseph Howland) and they had nine children (born Barnstable): Abigail (1695), Bathsheba (1696), Ann (1701), Joseph (1703), Lydia (1705), Benjamin (1707), Reliance (1709), Prudence and Hannah.
Second Generation
Joseph Jenkins (II) was born Barnstable 29 Feb 1703/4 and died there 16 Jan 1749. He married Barnstable 15 Jul 1736 Mercy Howland (daughter of Shubael Howland) and they had six children (born Barnstable): Mercy (1737), Joseph (1739), Bathsheba (1741), Mary (1742), Abigail (1745) and Zaccheus (1748).
Benjamin Jenkins was born Barnstable 30 Jun 1707 and died Barre 1 Jun 1787. He married Barnstable 29 Oct 1730 Mehitable Blish and they had ten children (born Barnstable): Ann (1731), Hannah (1733/4), Lydia (1735), Mehitable (1737), Benjamin (1740), Southworth (1742), Timothy (1744), Bethiah (1747), Sarah (1750) and Abigail (1753).
Third Generation
Joseph Jenkins (III) was born Barnstable 3 May 1739. He married three times, first Barnstable 9 Dec 1762 Remember Stuard, second Barnstable 15 Mar 1776 Bethia Bursley and third, Tisbury 2 Oct 1787 Hannah Foster. By his first wife he had Joseph (1763) and by his second wife he had Lemuel (abt 1780).
Zaccheus Jenkins was born Barnstable 8 Feb 1748/9. He married twice, first Sarah Hinckley then Olive Conant.
Benjamin Jenkins (II) Esq. was born Barnstable 12 Apr 1740 and died Barre in Jun 1808. He married New Braintree 23 Nov 1775 Hannah Robinson but they had no surviving children.
Southworth Jenkins was born Barnstable 29 Nov 1742 and died Barre 13 Dec 1820. He married Hardwick 15 Nov 1770 Huldah Wright and they had (Barre): Tabitha (1771), Abraham (1773 m Molly Lord), Southworth (1775 d.y.), Sarah (1776), Patience (1778-1779), James Wright (1780 m Elizabeth Whipple & Aura Rice), Joseph (1781 m Wealthy Ann Daggett), Benjamin (1784 m Hannah Atwood), Charles (1786 m Ruth Benjamin & Amelia S. Leavitt), Huldah (1788 d.y.) and Lucia (1793).
Timothy Jenkins was born Barnstable 28 Jan 1744. He married twice, first Barre 24 Jan 1771 Mary Cunningham, then Barre 11 Jun 1789 Abigail Perry. By his first wife he had six children (Barre): Robert (1771 d.y.), Anna (1773-1781), Mary (1775), Hannah (1777), Sarah (1779) and Lydia (1781-1782). By his second wife he had seven more children (Barre): Timothy (1790 d.y.), Lot (1791 d.y.), Heta Blish (1793), Mercy Freeman (1794), Josiah (1796 m Harriet A. ___), Timothy (1799 m Florilla Tuttle & Harriet Tuttle) and Abigail (1801).
DNA results R1b-ZP75
Current results
There is a conflict in the Jenkins Surname DNA Project regarding the Y-DNA of John Jenkins (father of Joseph). GP B has four results (all close STR matches to each other) with one individual stating their Most Distant Known Patrilineal Ancestor (MDKPA) was "John Jenkins of Sandwich, MA, Quaker, b. ca 1625". Down at the bottom of the Jenkins Surname DNA Project, under Group Unm_R is another individual (who is NOT a STR match to the above) who claims his MDKPA was "John Jenkins, b.1609 Kent and d.1685 Barnstable, M"[1]
None of the Gp B participants have taken any Y-SNP testing. Two of the four individuals under GP B have taken Y67 Y-STR testing. Plugging in their modal values into the Nevgen Haplogroup Predictor arrives with a predicted subclade of R1b L21>DF13>Z39589>DF49>>ZP75 (64.1% certainty). The Unm_R tester has taken a Big Y test and been found to fall under: R1a-M417>PF6162>Z283>Z282>Y2395>Z289>Z284>S4458>S5301>S6842>YP670>S7759>YP1187>FGC42407>Y9077>FT345509
More testing needed
Additional Y-DNA Y-SNP testing is needed for Patrilineal (all male line, Y-DNA) descendants of John Jenkins to determine the true haplogroup for the family as well as possibly refine descendant branches.
- ↑ This individual has also joined the FTDNA Mayflower DNA Project Group: XX - Cooke, Francis YDNA/FF Tests
External links & References
Lainhart, Ann Smith and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23 (Howland) Part 1 (First 4 generations of some children), General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2006
