Hello Jenkins List, I just subscribed so that I could submit this information in case anyone is interested. All of the following was researched by my husband's 2nd Great Grand Uncle who was born in 1845. His name was Ladd J. Lewis. His mother was Lois M. Squier, her mother was Dolly Foster, her mother was Dolly Jenkins and her father was OBADIAH JENKINS. This information was published in a book called, "The Family History of Ladd J. Lewis" OBADIAH JENKINS: Soldier in the War of the Revolution, State of Massachusetts "Appears with rank of Private on Lexington Alarm roll of Capt. Henry Farwill's company of "Minute Men," Col. William Prescott's Regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. Length of service 6 days. Town to which soldier belonged, Groton. - Vol. 12, page 62." "Appears with rank of Private on muster roll of Capt. Henry Farwill's Co., Col. William Prescott's Regt., dated August 1, 1775. Time of enlistment, April 25, 1775. Length of service, 98 days. Town to which soldier belonged, Groton. - Vol. 14, page 96." "Appears with rank of Private on company return of Capt. Henry Farwill's (1st) Co., Col. William Prescott's (10th) Regt., made up in October, 1775. Town to which soldier belonged, Groton - Vol. 56 page 60." "Appears as having signed with others an order for bounty coats or the equivalent in money, due for the eight month's service in 1775, in Capt. Henry Farwill;s Co., Col William Prescott's Regt., dated Sewall's Point, November 16, 1775. Residence, Groton." "Appears on an account dated Groton, March 10, 1776, rendered by said Jenkins of articles lost by his son Jonathan Jenkins, who was killed in battle at Charleston, June 17, 1775." "Amount allowed in Council, June 29, 1776." OBADIAH JENKINS, Groton, Mass. Children: Jonathan Jenkins-Died in Battle of Bunker Hill, Charleston, June 17, 1775 Dolly Jenkins - Married Jonathan Foster in 1779 Notes for Jonathan Foster: Jonathan Foster b. 1758, Ashby, Massachusetts, appears with rank of private on Lexington alarm roll of Captain John Jones Company, Colonel James Prescott's regiment, which marched April 20, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Ashby, Mass. Length of service: seven days. Jonathan Foster appears among a list of men drafted 8/19/1777, to 'serve three months'. The foregoing is a copy of a certificate from the office of the Secretary of State of Mass. " The rest of this line that I have includes the Foster and Squier families, I don't have any other information on the Jenkins line. In case anyone is interested in the battle of Lexington and Concord, I found this interesting first hand account: The following is from the book, "Mine Eyes Have Seen" by Richard Goldstein LEXINGTON GREEN Responding to England's tough line, colonial assemblies sent delegates to Philadelphia to draw up a coordinated response. The First Continental Congress, meeting in the autumn of 1774, called for a new boycott of British goods and passed resolutions voicing the rights of the colonists. An open break with England was coming closer. Moving to head off rebellion, English soldiers set out on the night of April 18, 1775, from Boston to arrest the patriot leaders John Hancock and Samuel Adams and seize guns and powder at Concord. The tolling of bells, the beating of drums, and the "midnight ride" of Paul Revere warned the colonial militia - the Minutemen-assembled on Lexington Green the following morning. When the British arrived, a skirmish ensued - the opening shots of the American Revolution. Sylvanus Wood, a twenty-three-year-old Minuteman from nearby Woburn, who stood only five feet tall, was on the scene: "I heard the Lexington bell ring, and fearing there was some difficulty there, I immediately arose, took my gun, and with Robert Douglass went in haste to Lexington, which was about three miles distant. When I arrived there, I inquired of Captain (John) Parker, the commander of the Lexington company, what was the news. Parker told me he did not know what to believe, for a man had come up about half an hour before and informed him that the British troops were not on the road. But while we were talking, a messenger came up and told the captain that the British troops were within half a mile. Parker immediately turned to his drummer, William Diman, and ordered him to beat to arms, which was done." Wood, joining the militiamen, heard an order from Parker. "Every man of you who is equipped, follow me. And those of you who are not equipped, go into the meeting-house and furnish yourselves from the magazine and immediately join our company." Wood and the others sprang into action. "Parker led those of us who were equipped to the north end of Lexington Common, near the Bedford road, and formed us in single file. I was stationed about in the center of the company. While we were standing, I left my place and went from one end of the company to the other and counted every man who was paraded, and the whole number was thirty-eight and no more. Just as I had finished and got back to my place, I perceived the British troops had arrived on the spot between the meeting-house and Buckman's (tavern), near where Captain Parker stood when he first led off his men. The British troops immediately wheeled so as to cut off those who had gone into the meeting-house. The British troops approached us rapidly in platoons, with a general officer on horseback at their head. The officer stood, the first platoon being about three rods distant. There they halted. The officer then swung his sword and said, 'Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men - Fire!' Some guns were fired by the British at us from the first platoon, but no person was killed or hurt, (the guns) being charged only with powder. Just at this time Captain Parker ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by any of Captain Parker's, within my knowledge. I was so situated that I must have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company...One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after Parker's company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave them the 'guts of his gun.' " Eight Massachusetts men were killed and ten wounded. The British, who claimed afterward that the Americans actually fired first, suffered only one minor casualty. They then headed for Concord. Wood concluded: "After the British had begun their march to Concord, I returned to the Common and found Robert Roe and Jonas Parker (an older cousin of Captain Parker) lying dead at the north corner of the Common, near the Bedford road, and others dead and wounded. I assisted in carrying the dead into the meeting-house. I then proceeded toward Concord with my gun." At the Concord bridge, militiamen ambushed the British troops, killing dozens. In May, colonists under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold seized a British arsenal at Fort Ticonderoga, New York. And in June, the Second Continental Congress moved to create an army with George Washington of Virginia as commander. . -Family History of Ladd J. Lewis, published 1921 by S. F. Finch printing Company, Adrian, Michigan.