Please read the below messages and see if anyone can help us figure out this Robert Jennings. Caren -----Original Message----- From: Caren Tidwell <[email protected]> To: Debbie Carter <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [JENNINGS-L] Robert Jennings >Debbie, > >Here are some miscellaneous records on a Robert Jennings that I have not >placed as of this time. Does anything look familiar? > >Subject: ROBERT JENNINGS >On September 8, 1667, John Stone of St. Georges sold two shares of land to >Anthony White. John Stone of Hamilton Tribe names several children in his >will of February 2, 1692. One of his sons was named Edwin Stone. Edwin >Stone married Mary the widow of Robert Jennings. (page 206) >Hint: May or may not be related; George jennings married Mary Stone; >William Stone, heretofore of the Parish of St. Phillip, Charlestown, South >Carolina but now of Walsall County, Stafford, England, signed will on May 2, >1778 probated on March 16, 1779; "Mentions one moiety of all my Estate not >bequeathed to my son-in-law, George Jennings to be considered as the fortune >of my daughter, his wife, Mary Jennings." Exors.: My wife, Elizabeth Stone >and my brother, Edward Stone. Witnesses: Mr. Jennings, 126 Strand, London, >England. (South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine: 7 pages >29-30) > >Source: >Barbados Records >Wills and Administrations >Volume I >1639-1680 >Joanne Mcree Sanders >Page 16 >The will of Dorothy Bannister >St. Thomas Parish >April 26, 1673 >Record Book 6/8 page 491 >Daughter Jane Middleton; grandson Thomas Cobham; Elizabeth Newman of Great >Luiford, County Buckingham, England; sisters Ann Manning and Johan Fitchett >both of Deddington, County, Oxford; mentions Mrs. Mansfield; Roger Bosewell; >lands purchased of Thomas Hogg; sons William Bannister and Richard >Bannister; my husband deceased; brother Edward Jackman; son in law Thomas >Cobham - Xtr. >Signed Dorothy Banister >Witnesses: John Mansfield, Helen (X) Mansfield, Roger Rosewell, Robert >Jennings >Proved June 10, 1673 > >Barbados Records >Wills and Administrations >Volume III >1701-1725 >Joanne Mcree Sanders >Pages 278 and 279 >Sgt. Maj. John Read of Barbados, being sick in body. >St. Georges Parish, 11 (or 12) August 1648, Record Book 3/3 (Deeds), page >457 >(Note: Clerk Error: Will begins John Read, ends Christopher Nevenson.) >My cousin Richard Williams at 18 son of Isabella Williams my sister - >produce of sugar sent to England this year in the Samaritane of Bensten and >consigned to Thomas Challenor of Benston, sugar aboard the ship consigned to >Phillip Sheshay London merchant, money due from Phillip Sheshay and from >Christopher Nevison late deceased; my cousin George Strange - land lying >near Black Rock butting John Hapnok; the siad George Franse; the said John >_eynett and his 3 brothers in England; the said George King and his 3 >brothers in England; Captain Henry Guy - plantation, goods, chattels, >horses, negroes, etc. that Robert Jennings gave to me by will; Gannon (or >Garmon) and his wife - one year each of the time they have to serve; Amelia >Staple and maid servants Mary and Margaret; (Then the error began and the >Neveson will began here). > >At a Council held in New Bern, September 28, 1750: Robert Jennings >petitions for 100 acres in Anson County. (Saunders: Colonial Records of >North Carolina: 4-1047) > >Now, the Robert Jennings that you are looking for knew the Read family >above. Now if you look, a Robert Jennings left all of estate to a John >Read. Interesting huh? Wonder who this Robert Jennings of Barbados was? I >really think that this is the direction to look. What do you think? Also, >the Barbados families and the Bermuda families were connected. I think that >your Robert descended from a Robert Jennings but we'll have to dig deeper to >prove it. > >Thomas Read, with no dower signs a deed to George Reed both of Rowan County, >North Carolina on May 5, 1794, tract of 100 acres on Beaver Dam and Dicas >Creek next to John Hollis, George Reed, and Robert Jinnings, original grant >to George Read now deceased by sale on November 4, 1784 and he willed it to >the said Thomas Read. (Rowan County, North Carolina: Deed Book 13-571) >-----Original Message----- >From: Debbie Carter <[email protected]> >To: Caren Tidwell <[email protected]> >Date: Monday, October 18, 1999 10:38 PM >Subject: Re: [JENNINGS-L] Robert Jennings > > >>Caren >>That is exactly the one I am looking for. >>I just wish I could get some info on the father of Robert Jennings >>A man emailed me earlier to say his ancestor was Robert and that he died in >>1828 in Madison county KY. >>Essentially restating what I had posted, but with no further info. >>I have had a reply from a man last week telling me he had the father of >>Robert as being a Robert and coming from England with the year >>of immigration--great I thought--till I looked at it. >>He had the father's death in 1715 and when I questioned how he could be the >>father when our Robert wasn't born till 1745 he never answered. >>Thanks >>Debbie >> >