Individual Details

Probate

Son David Jenkins is administrator of probate –maybe I can find the file on familysearch This is probate index page – Old Estates A:549,1B:55, filing box number 441 – looks like nothing beyond what is on ancestryhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899P-PP7H?i=99&cc=1920234&cat=149713https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/624571:8800?tid=&pid=&queryId=cfd66f2fdb2681867a480e67ce844f9e&_phsrc=Fgz115921&_phstart=successSourcehttps://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1475001:8800?tid=&pid=&queryId=cfd66f2fdb2681867a480e67ce844f9e&_phsrc=Fgz115922&_phstart=successSource

Military

Lt. Joel Jenkins servednearly nine years during the Revolution. On 20 April 1775, Joel Jenkinsenlisted in the company of Capt. Henry Farwell, regiment of Col. William Prescottfor a period of eight months. He was at the Battle of Bunker Hill. At the endof that term, he continued in the same regiment in the company of Capt. Moresfor one year. In 1777, he enlisted for a three-year term in the company ofCapt. Benjamin Brown serving then as a Sergeant in Col. Michael Jackson’s 8thMassachusetts regiment. He was promoted to Ensign on 26 November 1779 andserved in this position until 3 July 1782. He participated in the siege of FortStanwix and the taking of Burgoyne. The regiment moved south to Pennsylvaniajoining Gen. Washington’s army at White Marsh. The army continued to ValleyForge for the winter. Joel was at the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. Thetroops then marched to New York. Joel received promotion to Lieutenant on 3July 1782 serving in Capt. Francis’s company part of the 10thMassachusetts regiment commanded by Col. Benjamin Tupper. He served until hisdischarge at West Point in January 1784. Prior to his discharge, he wastransferred to the 3rd Massachusetts regiment as forces were beingreduced.[1] Inaddition to the service as described in the pension record, Joel Jenkins ofGroton is named as a fifer in Capt. Henry Farwell’s company of Minute Men thatmarched at the alarm 19 April 1775.[2]On 30 March 1818, JoelJenkins of Garrison made application for a pension based on his service. Hereported he would be sixty-one years old on 12 September 1818. He was awarded apension of $20 per month, this amount raised to $320 annually in 1831. On 8June 1820, Joel provided additional information on his circumstances. Hishousehold was himself aged sixty-two years and his wife Elizabeth aged sixtyyears. Son Isaac Jenkins, able to support himself, was also in the home.Inventory of his possessions consisted of some stock animals and a few householditems, and he had $200 in debt. On 25 January 1837, widow Elizabeth Jenkinsaged 78 years and resident of Philips, New York applied to the widow’s pension.Elizabeth and Joel were married at Yorktown in the Fall of 1782 by Rev. SamuelSachet. Right after the wedding, Joel joined his regiment at New Windsor inOrange County and then on to West Point. Her oldest son was born while Joel wasstationed at West Point.On 1 June 1855, survivingson David Jenkins petitioned for pension arrears and for bounty land. Thesurviving children of Joel and Elizabeth on 1 January 1855 were David Jenkins,Hannah Curry, and Susan Croft of Philips (Garrison), New York and Mary Bishop,Sarah Masters, and Ann Jennings of Orange County, New York. There is a pension record W16616At Bunker Hill, served as a sergeant, withWashington at Valley Forge, also service as an ensign, then lieutenant – if yougo far enough that has a sheet with dates of commissionIsaac is son in living with him in 1820; date ofmarriage is in the file – they got married at Yorktown and went back to warafter the wedding – she had one son and five daughters surviving in 1848 whenElizabeth died – David Jenkins, Hannah Curry and Susan Croft of Philips(Garrison), Mary Bishop, Sarah Masters, and Ann Jennings – double-check the dateof those last statements as the son Isaac died in 1854There is also a statement from Ann Jennings in1855 who was resident of Newburgh, Orange CountyThere is also a statement from John C. Masters [1] U. S.Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, CaseW16616[2] MassachusettsSoldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Volume 8, p 751

Biography

I think Isaac Jenkins and Euphemia Miller who areburied in the same cemetery are a couple in this family – most of the stoneshave age in m, y , d so can calculated the birth dates There are 8 that can be supported with records,etc. and I have put in a Joseph and a Lydia that need to be confirmed – mayscratch the Lydia and Joseph if not more info on them – Joseph should probablygo in as Elizabeth says her oldest son was born while Joel was at West Pointand that would be JosephThere is potentially a daughter Lydia but I have not included herP 9https://archive.org/details/jenkinsfromjoelj00davi/page/n43/mode/2up?q=garrison