Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Cleek, Dunmore, Gum, Hill, Stephenson, Suit Family - Person Sheet
Birthbef 26 Mar 1611144666,144669,144731
Baptism26 Mar 1611144731
Deathbef 14 May 1643, England144726,144732,144733,144728,144734,144730,144685,144735
MemoAge 32
Burial14 May 1643, England144736,144732
Alias/AKATervoye144678
FatherJames Tervyn (ca1580-)
MotherMargery (ca1580-)
Spouses
MemoColebrooke, England? Hounslow, England? 1599? 1604?
Residence1645, Lynn, Essex County, MA144700
MemoSaugus Iron Works
Residence1647, Lynn, Essex County, MA144701,144702,144703,144704
Residenceca 1660, Pawtucket, Providence County, RI144701
Death16 Mar 1683, Lynn, Essex County, MA144705,144706,144707,144708,144709,144710,144711,144712,144713
Memo-1687; now Saugus; 81 years
BurialOld Jenks Burying Ground Cemetery near Read and High Streets, Providence County, RI144714
Occupationmaster-mechanic, to establish the iron-works - the first foundry & forge in the colonies; expert blacksmith144715,144716,144717,144718,144719,144720
Alias/AKAJencks, Jenckes, Jenkes144721
FatherArthur Jenks (ca1575-)
Misc. Notes
Vol III Pg 425 Joseph Jenckes introduced to the colony the idea of patenting inventions, and it seems to have been a motive for coming to the new country that he might protect and introduce his own ideas. In 1646 he secured a patent for fourteen years on an improved water-wheel, also a newly invented sawmill.144722

Pg 59 Joseph Jenckes senior was probably a descendant of the Jenckes family which originated in Wales, and later was of Wolverton in Shropshire, England144723

Pg 36 Three years after his arrival, on 6 May 1646 the MA General Court granted him a patent for three important inventions, - A water mill or wheel, a machine for making seythes and other edged tools and a saw mill. He then purchased the right (Annals of Lyn, ed 1865 p.208) 20 Jan 1647 from Richard Leader, the general manager, to build a forge at the iron works for the manufacture of seythes.67240

Part I Chapter I Pg 10 Joseph Jenckes I (1602-1683); first patentee of inventions in America, having introduced the idea (first granted in England by act of Parliament in 1625) of protection for the manufacturer of improvements by petition to the government of MA Bay.67235
Research
Joseph Jenckes, Male, Christening date: 26 Aug 1599 Blackfriars, London, England, d: Mar 1683 Lynn, Essex, MA; Marr: 1645 (no name); Father: John Jenks; Mother: Sarah Fulwater; Children: Samuel Jenckes50921. (Him? Different Father? Different wife? Different birth?)

US & International Marriage Records 1560-190020305 (Another wife - 1st wife?)
Joseph Jencks b: 1599 En, Marr: 1627 En, Joan Hearne b: 1607 En
Marriage30 Sep 1630, All Hallows, London Wall Parish, London, England144666,144668,144669,144676,144737,144678
Marr Memo28 Sep 1630 Allegation, St James, London
ChildrenGeorge (ca1631-)
 Joseph (1632-1717)
 Richard (1636-1666)
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