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Elizabeth Jenks

Generation 9 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans ← John Seamans ← Patience Hopkins ← Elizabeth Jenks

In brief

Born August 24, 1694. She died March 26 or April 26, 1768.

Family

Father

Daniel Jenks

Mother

Katherine Balcom

Spouse

Ezekiel Hopkins

Children

Patience Hopkins · in this line
b. 1734
m. John Seamans
d. May 1, 1791
Daniel Hopkins
Ezekiel Hopkins
Charles Hopkins
Nicholas Hopkins
Mary Hopkins
m. Robert Baxter
Catherine Hopkins

Siblings

Full siblings — children of Daniel Jenks and Katherine Balcom

Mary Jenks
b. Abt. 1692
m. Joseph Weatherhead
Abigail Jenks
b. July 8, 1696
Martha Jenks
b. August 5, 1698
m. John Arnold
m. James Aldrich
Susanna Jenks
b. May 24, 1700
m. Zebedee Hopkins brother of Ezekiel Hopkins (2025)
d. March 18, 1755
Daniel Jenks
b. March 12, 1702, in Attleboro, Massachusetts
m. Mercy Sprague, February 11, 1728, in Attleboro, Massachusetts
m. Leah Whipple, December 11, 1750
d. January 24, 1789
Hannah Jenks
b. February 2, 1704
m. David Rutenberg around 1727
Ruth Jenks
b. December 9, 1705
m. ____ Whipple
Joseph Jenks
b. March 5, 1709

Half-siblings — children of Katherine Balcom and Isaac Allen

Nehemiah Allen

Life story

A Scituate Widow's Household

Elizabeth Jenks was born August 24, 1694, and married Ezekiel Hopkins, later settling in Scituate, Rhode Island. Widowed by the time she wrote her will in September 1763, she noted that her other children had already received their portions of her late husband's estate, and left her remaining household goods — bedding, furniture, and pewter — to be divided between her daughters Patience Seamans and Mary Baxter, naming her son Daniel executor. Elizabeth died in the spring of 1768; the detailed inventory of her modest household taken after her death, everything from feather beds and linen sheets to a brass kettle, sheep, cows, and hogs, reflects the self-sufficient farm economy of colonial Rhode Island.

Sources (2)

Providence County, Rhode Island, “Probate and Council Records, Vol 1-3, 1731-1799,” 323-325 & 372, estate of Elizabeth Hopkins, 1762; images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649084_00324 : accessed 25 August 2026), Rhode Island, District and Probate Courts.
William B. Browne, Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1952); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofjenks00brow_0 : accessed 26 August 2026).