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Notes for William Jenks and Mary Hutchinson

"William Jenks, only son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Pearson) Jenks, born in Middletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1766, was a farmer and
miller on the old plantation in Middletown, dying there at the early age of fortytwo years, leaving a widow and ten children, six of whom were still in their minority at the time of his decease. He married, 10 mo. 28, 1790, Mary, daughter of Michael Hutchinson, of Makefield, Bucks county, many years a merchant of Makefield, and one of the prominent men of the county in his day, holding many positions of trust and honor. Her mother, Margery Palmer, was a great-granddaughter of John Palmer, of Cleiveland, Yorkshire, who, with Christian, his wife, arrived in the Delaware River in the ship "Providence," of Scarborough, 9 mo. 19, 1683, and settled in Falls township, Bucks county, where a number of his descendants of the name still reside. Her paternal grandfather, John Hutchinson, for many years an Overseer of Falls Monthly Meeting and prominent in the affairs of that section of the county, married Phebe Kirkbride, daughter of Joseph Kirkbride, by his first wife, Phebe Blackshaw, daughter of Randal Blackshaw, of Hollingee, in the county of Chester, England, who, with Alice, his wife, and children, Phebe, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Nehemiah and Martha, came over in the "Submission," arriving in Maryland, 9mo. 2, 1682, and made their way overland to Bucks county.

Dr. James Hutchinson, born in Bucks county in 1752, the distinguished physician of Philadelphia, Surgeon-General of the Continental Army during the Revolution, who died of yellow fever in Philadelphia, September, 1793, was a first cousin of Mary (Hutchinson) Jenks, being a son of Randal Hutchinson, brother of Michael, by his first wife, Elizabeth Harvey.

Joseph Kirkbride, the paternal great-grandfather of Mary Hutchinson Jenks, was a son of Mahlon and Magdalen Kirkbride, of Kirkbride, Cumberland. He came to Pennsylvania with Penn, in the "Welcome," and became one of the most prominent men of the province, serving many years as a Justice of Bucks county courts and in the Colonial Assembly, and was the largest landowner in Bucks county in his time, as well as owning large tracts of land in New Jersey and elsewhere. After the death of his first wife, Phebe Blackshaw, he married Sarah, daughter of Mahlon Stacy, the founder of Trenton, New Jersey, by his wife, Rebecca Ely, and left many descendants, who have been prominent in the affairs of Bucks county and of Philadelphia." [1]


Footnotes:

[1] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 584, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].