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

Military: 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.

Local: 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.

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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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