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GENEALOGICAL NOTES OF BAKN8TABLB FAMILIES. 97
is dated 29th Dec. 1749, and was proved in the following
February. He had no children, and he seems to have loved
his brothers and sisters more than his wife, for he is not liberal
to her in his will. The principal part of his estate he
gave to his brothers Ebenezer and Samuel, and legacies to
his sisters Thankful Taylor, Mercy White, Hope White,
Sarah Nye, and his cousin Nathan Jenkins. He had a
splendid wardrobe, and appears to have been a fashionable
man in his day.
24. VII. Hope, 5th July, 1704, married White.
25. ( VIII. Sarah, 1st Dec. 1706 married 1737 Lemuel Nye.
(8.)
Joseph Jenkins, son of John, resided at West Barnsta-
ble. He had lands at the "New Bridge" in 1690. His will is
dated Jan. 1733-4, and proved Nov. 8, 1734. He appears to
have been a man of good estate, and provides most liberally for
the support of his wife "Lidia." To his daughter Abigail Hinckley
he devises £10 ; to Lidia Crocker £25 ; to Prudence Baker 10
shs., and to his unmarried daughter Hannah £60. To his two
sons, Joseph and Benjamin, he devised all his estate, they providing
for their mother and paying the legacies to their sisters. He
died in 1734, aged 65, and his wife Lydia survived him.
Children horn in Barnstable.
26. I. Abigail, July, 1695, married Benj. Hinckley Nov. 2,
1716, and had eleven children.
27. II. Bathshua, July, 1696, died young.
28. III. Ann, May, 1701, married Oct. 19, 1721, Joseph Lothrop,
and did not survive long.
29. IV. Joseph, 29th Feb. 1703. This Joseph is called 3d on
the records—his father was Joseph 1st, son of John 2d.
After the death of his father in 1734 he is called junior.
He was published to Martha Phinney in 1728. July 15,
1736, he married Mercy Howland. He died Jan. 15, 1749.
His children born in Barnstable were : 1, Mercy, May 25,
1737; 2, Joseph, May 3, 1739, married Hannah Foster of
Tisbury Oct. 2, 1787 ; 3, Bathsheba, Oct. 22, 1741 ; 4,
Mary, March 13, 1742 ; 5, Abigail, Sept. 6, 1745 ; 6, Be-
thia, bap. June 14, 1747 ; 7, Zaccheus, 8th Feb. 1748 ; 8,
Sarah, bap. Nov. 26, 1749.
30. V. Lydia, 30th June, 1705, married Nov. 9, 1727, Cornelius
Crocker. (See Crocker.)
31. VI. Benjamin, 30th June, 1707. He resided at West
Barnstable on the estate formerly owned by Rev. Mr. Shaw,
now owned by Dea. David Parker. He married Oct. 29,
1730, Mehitabel Blush, and had: 1, Ann, Oct. 3, 1731,
married Isaac Goodspeed Oct. 17, 1754; 2, Hannah, Jan.
25, 1734-5, married Job Howland Dec. 6, 1753 ; 3, Lydia,