On Dec 6, 2006, Arlene Haddock <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have this couple in their line? Is Susanna a Mayflower > Cooke? Torrey Marriages cites "JENKINS, John (-1684) & [?Susanna] _____; by 1649; Sandwich" Sources are {MD 16:122; Barnstable Fam. 2:101; Barnstable Co. Prob. 2:338} Otis, in Barns Families says two John Jenkins came early. The elder married widow Mary Ewer in Barnsable. The other John Jenkins "was a younger man, early joined the Quakers and settled in Sandwich, where he died in 1684" [p I-90] "In 1648 he became a resident of Sandwich. He married a daughter of one of the prominent Quaker families in that town:" He and the family were persecuted in Plymouth. She would hardly seem to be a Mayflower Cooke. Kardell, VR of Sandwich, NEHGS 1996, p 1-xxx, describes persecution of the Quakers and lists the 18 early families in Sandwich. John Jenkins is mentioned as one of them. No Cooke. Quaker Monthly Meeting records in Sandwich [Kardell, p1243] list children of John Jenkens and Susanah, starting in 1649, but not the marriage or any clue of which family Susanna came from. '"Job coock jenkens was born to them, 2nd month 1655. Annotated as "Surely one of the earliest uses of a middle name." Perhaps this gives a clue as the origin of claims that Susannah was a Cooke? Regards, Bob Carroll.