Mary Jenks
b. Abt. 1692
m. Joseph Weatherhead
Abigail Jenks
b. July 8, 1696
Martha Jenks
b. August 5, 1698
m. John Arnold; James Aldrich
Susanna Jenks
b. May 24, 1700 · d. March 18, 1755
m. Zebedee Hopkins brother of Ezekiel Hopkins (2025)
Daniel Jenks
b. March 12, 1702, in Attleboro, Massachusetts · d. January 24, 1789
m. Mercy Sprague, February 11, 1728, in Attleboro, Massachusetts; Leah Whipple, December 11, 1750
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
Nehemiah Allen (half-sibling)

In brief

Born August 24, 1694. She died March1/April2 26, 1768.

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.

At a glance

Lived

Scituate, 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).