Individual Details

Jenkin came to New England as a servant of John Humfrey.
Jenkin Davis, Daniel Fairfield, and John Hudson had all been indentured servants of John Humfrey. These three became involved in a criminal matter related to two of Humfrey's daughters. Daniel Fairfield has been referred to as "the most notorious sexual offender in the early history of New England." In 1641, the three men were in court for "wanton dalliance" with the two girls. This arose when Humfrey had taken a trip to England and left his two daughters in the care of Fairfield who was by that time married. The abuse of the girls appears to have occurred over a period of time. Winthrop's history described the offenses in this way:
The two girls had visited Fairfield's house, and were by him abused very often, especially upon the Lord's days and lecture days, by agitation and effusion of seed, and after by entering the body of the elder, as it seemed; for upon search she was found to have been forced . . .
Another man, Jenkin Davis, was said to have "abuse[d] the elder of these girls ... but constantly denied any entrance to her body . . . . "
Of the third man accused, John Hudson, Winthrop reported:
he did abuse her [Dorcas] many times, so as she was grown capable of man's fellowship, and took pleasure in it.

Fairfield, who was found to be most at fault, received seven years in prison and was then expelled from the colony.

Source: Winthrop's Journal

Birth	1610	Dorsetshire, England
Immigration	1634	Lynn, Essex, Massacusetts Bay
Marriage	Abt 1636	Lynn, Essex, Massacusetts Bay - Mary Davis mnu
Death	1661	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay
Probate	25 Mar 1662	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts

Spouse	Mary Davis mnu ( - 1682)
Child	John Davis (1638 - )
Child	Mary Davis (1640 - 1732)

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