JENKINS (JENKYN), John (?1626-1661), of Wells, Som.

Family and Education

bap. ?12 Feb. 1626, s. of William Jenkins (?d. 1657) of Worthenbury, Flint.Worthenbury Par. Reg. (Wrexham, [1995]), i. 11. m. Alice (d. 1672), wid. of one Jessopp, s.p.Durham UL, DPR/1/1/1661/J3/1-2; DPR/1/1/1673/J4/1-2. bur. 23 Dec. 1661 23 Dec. 1661.J. Brewster, The Parochial Hist. and Antiquities of Stockton upon Tees (Stockton, 1796), 134.

Offices Held

capt. of ft. (parlian.) regt. of Charles Essex, army of 3rd earl of Essex, 1642. Capt. of horse, regt. of Bartholomew Vermuyden, Eastern Assoc. army by Aug. 1643 – June 1645; regt. of Oliver Cromwell*, New Model army, June 1645 – Sept. 1649; regt. of John Disbrowe*, Sept. 1649-Jan. 1660.SP28/1a, f. 267; BHO, Cromwell Assoc. database; G. Davies, ‘The army of the Eastern Assoc. 1644–5’, EHR xlvi. 90; M. Wanklyn, Reconstructing the New Model Army (Solihull, 2015–16), i. 52, 73, ii. 52, 146; CJ vii. 704a, 706b. Maj. militia horse, Som. 28 Sept. 1650.CSP Dom. 1650, pp. 333, 511.

commr. securing peace of commonwealth, Som. by Dec. 1655.SP18/126, ff. 2, 4; R. Williams, ‘County and Municipal Government in Cornw., Devon, Dorset and Som. 1649–60’ (Bristol Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1981), 173, 527. J.p. 4 Mar. 1657-Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 360; C193/13/5, f. 92. Commr. assessment, 9 June 1657.A. and O.

Parlimentarian

JENKINS (JENKYN), John (?1626-1661), of Wells, Som.

Som.

JENKYN

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

JENKINS (JENKYN), John (?1626-1661), of Wells, Som.

Will

21 Dec. 1661, nuncupative cod. 21 Dec. 1661.Durham UL, DPR/1/1/1661/J3/1-2, 6; Brewster, Stockton upon Tees (1796), 134-5.

Estates

owned property at Stockton-on-Tees, co. Dur. by 1659.Brewster, Stockton upon Tees (1796), 134; Brewster, Stockton upon Tees (1829), 232, 345; Surtees, Co. Durham, iii. 192n.

Oxford 1644

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