Daniel Jenks

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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 ← Daniel Jenks

In brief

Born April 19, 1663 in Lynn, Massachusetts. He died 1736.

Family

Father

Joseph Jenckes

Mother

Elizabeth ____

Spouse

Katherine Balcom

Children

Mary Jenks
b. Abt. 1692
m. Joseph Weatherhead
Elizabeth Jenks · in this line
b. August 24, 1694
m. Ezekiel Hopkins
d. March 26 or April 26, 1768
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

Siblings

Full siblings — children of Joseph Jenckes

Sarah Jenks
b. 1652 in Lynn, Massachusetts
Samuel Jenks
b. 1654 in Lynn, Massachusetts
m. Elizabeth Darling
d. March 12, 1738
Deborah Jenks
b. June 11, 1658, in Lynn, Massachusetts
John Jenks
b. July 27, 1660, in Lynn, Massachusetts
m. Sarah Meriam
d. 1698, in Lynn, Massachusetts

Half-siblings — children of Joseph Jenks and Jone ____

Joseph Jenks
b. Abt. October 1612 in Colnbrook/Horton, Buckinghamshire, England
m. Esther Ballard
d. January 4, 1717, in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Beth Jenks
d. Abt. November 1638 near Isleworth Parish, Middlesex, England

Life story

An Attleboro Town Clerk

Daniel Jenks was born April 19, 1663, in Lynn, Massachusetts, son of the inventor Joseph Jenks, and served Attleboro, Massachusetts, as selectman from 1697 to 1704 and as town clerk beginning in 1699. In 1695 he took on guardianship of his wife's son from a previous marriage, agreeing to raise the boy and teach him reading, writing, and blacksmithing until he turned twenty. Daniel died in 1736.

Sources (2)

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).
Meredith B. Colket, The Jenks Family of England (1956); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/jenksfamilyofeng00brow : accessed 26 August 2026).