• Joseph Jenckes may refer to: Joseph Jenckes Sr. (1599–1683), recipient of first machine patent in America at Lynn, Massachusetts Joseph Jenckes Jr. (1628–1717)...
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  • colonial Rhode Island. Joseph Jenckes was baptized on August 26, 1599, at St. Ann Blackfriars, London. His parents were John Jenckes Sr. (b. c. 1556) and...
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  • sibling died in England, his father, Joseph Jenckes Sr., immigrated to New England. A few years later, in about 1647, Jenckes Jr. joined his father at his forge...
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    Joseph Jenckes (1656 – 15 June 1740) was a deputy governor and governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Jenckes was the son...
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  • Jenckes is a surname. People with that name include: Joseph Jenckes (disambiguation), three prominent early New England colonists Marcien Jenckes, the...
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  • Cranston of Newport; circa March 1698 - May 1727 (29 years 2 months.) Joseph Jenckes of Providence; May 1727 - May 1732 William Wanton of Newport; May 1732...
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    engine in 1719, years after Boston's 1654 model appeared there, made by Joseph Jenckes Sr., but before New York's two engines arrived from London. By 1730...
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    Jonathan Holmes Oct. 1696 Oct. 1698 Joseph Jenckes Jr. Oct. 1698 Feb. 1699 Founder of Pawtucket, Rhode Island; his son, Joseph, became the Colony's governor...
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    smaller fish that gathered at the falls. The first settler here was Joseph Jenckes Jr. who came to the region from Lynn, Massachusetts. He purchased about...
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    revolution." Deputy Governor Henry Tew was deposed, and replaced by Joseph Jenckes of Providence, and every Assistant but one was replaced, and only five...
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