I have trying to go through my "stacks" of genealogy piles and getting it organized in some way...I know that we all have this problem <grin>. I took all of my "Miscellaneous Records" on Jennings and have put them all together. Please read the following records and see if you know where any of these Jennings go. I have an idea of some of them but want to be sure. Also, if you have any Miscellaneous Records that you don't know where the Jennings go, Please share because I know that the records belong to one of you. All of our heads are better than one! Caren Various Samuel Jennings Records: Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography page 529 JENNINGS, SAMUEL, Quaker preacher, was born in England. He took up his residence in Philadelphia, where, in 1690-93, he was justice of the quorum and judge of the county court. He died in 1708 in Burlington, N. J. History of the United States by George Bancroft (6 Volumes) Volume 2 Part 3 Colonization of the West and of Georgia Chapter 2 The Middle States After the Revolution In New Jersey there were the same demands for money, and a still more wary refusal; representatives, elected in 1704 by a majority of votes, were excluded by the governor; one assembly after another was angrily dissolved. At last necessity compelled a third assembly, and among its members were Samuel Jennings and Lewis Morris. The latter was of a liberal mind and intrepid, yet having no fixed system; the former, elected speaker of the assembly, was a true Quaker, of a hasty yet benevolent temper, faithful in his affectious, "stiff and impracticable in politics." These are they whom Lord Cornbury describes "as capable of anything but good;" whom Quarry and other subservient counsellors accuse as "turbulent and disloyal," "encouraging the governments in America to throw off the royal prerogative, declaring openly that the royal instructions bind no further than they are warranted by law." The assembly, according to the usage of that day, in April, 1707, wait on the governor with! their remonstrance. The Quaker speaker reads it for them most audibly. It accuses Cornbury of accepting bribes; it deals sharply with "his new methods of government," his "encroachment" on the popular liberties by "assuming a negative voice to the freeholders' election of their representative;" "they have neither heads, hearts, nor souls, that are not forward with their utmost power lawfully to redress the miseries of their country." "Stop!" exclaimed Cornbury, as the undaunted Quaker delivered the remonstrance; and Jennings meekly and distinctly repeated it, with greater emphasis than before. Cornbury attempted to retort, charging the Quakers with disloyalty and faction; they answered, in the words of Nehemiah to Sanballat: "There is no such thing done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart." And they left, for the instruction of future governors, this weighty truth: "To engage the affections of the people, no artifice is needful but to let them be unm! olested in the enjoyment of what belongs to them of right." Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Philadelphia [p.191] MINUTES AND MARRIAGE RECORDS page 235 1684, 2, 7. Samuel [Jennings] gc to MM in Eng. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy: Philadelphia [p.450] MINUTES AND MARRIAGE RECORDS page 620 1699,11,16. Edward, Phila., Pa., m Sarah Jennings, dt Samuel, Burlington, West Jersey, at Burlington MH Source: South Carolina Hist. & Geneal. Magazine: 9-108 Samuel Jennings, June 30, 1737, early settler of Georgetown, South Carolina. Source: Charleston County, South Carolina: Will Book 6, 1747-52, page 427 Samuel Jennings, Parish of St. Phillips, Charles Town in Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina, Mariner, signed will September 8, 1743, no pr. date: Friend: John Colcock, L20's To: Ann Milner, L10 (relationship not stated) To: Job Milner, son of Ann; L5 Friend: John Fry, L10 Son: Samuel Jennings, "My eldest son" the remainder of Estate. Exor: son Samuel Jennings Witnesses: J. Colcock, George Oliver and John Fry.