HISTORICAL NOTE

This collection consists almost entirely of deeds, dated between 1765 and 1846. Most of them, sixteen of thirty-seven, belonged to Samuel (6) Jenkins, 1775-c.1845. Others were written by his grandfather Samuel (4) , C. 1708—1785; his father Samuel (5), c. 1742-1777; and his sons Samuel (7), b. 1803 and Ebenezer (7), 1807-1883 his widow Lydia Damon Jenkins, d. 1856 and his daughter Lydia Jenkins Holt, b. 1801, wife of Ballard Holt.

To complicate matters, there were other men named Samuel Jenkins in Andover at the time. Samuel (4) b. 1790 had a son named Ben (5), 1756-1834, whose son Samuel (6) b. 1790 had sons Samuel W. (7) b. 1813, and Albert H. Jenkins, b.c.1820. Samuel (7) had one deed in this collection as grantor to Samuel Jenkins, probably Samuel W. and one as grantee from Albert H. Jenkins. The collection also contains Samuel (6) Jenkins’ will, 1829.

There are also deeds and other papers between the estate of Ezra Damon and Benjamin Holt of reading, George W. Ford and the same Benjamin Holt , and James and Charles Cheever in the collection.

The collection has been divided into eight parts, by individuals. Under each person, deeds as grantor as listed before these as grantee.

Used in writing this note were typewritten notes by Charlotte Helen Abbott on the Jenkins family.

The collection was given to the Society in 1939 by Alice C. Jenkins, grand-daughter of Ebenezer. It has the Accession Number 1939-64.

Processed by Mary F. Morgan, December 1982.