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Genealogical descent through the Families of Jennings, Chew, Smith and Leonard in South New Jersey

 

“GENEALOGICAL DESCENT THROUGH THE FAMILIES OF JENNINGS, CHEW, SMITH AND LEONARD IN SOUTH NEW JERSEY : Copied from Rev. Caleb E. Smith’s Notes Wenham Mass. 1939

Isaac Jennings came to America after the death of his father and settled on or near the land Henry had owned around Haddonfield (Barrington), but voted in Gloucester Township, in the latter years of his life. All records of him show him to have been a man of fine education such as was only given in those days to the sons of wealth. Henry’s circumstances would hardly have afforded it. So it seems as safe a guess to say that Sarah Jennings young children were carefully raised by some one of their mother’s people, on the money from her rights in her father’s estate (See page 2)-and that may have been why Isaac and his sister did not come to American when Henry and Margaret came. Tradition has always been insistent that Isaac was the rightful Jennings heir through his mother’s rights, but because Sarah’s marriage had displeased her folks, her son was not permitted to come into his own. no further records are found of Isaac’s daughter Margaret). He died in 1758.

Rev Smith makes a few assumptions and proposals including:

  • That Isaac was afforded a fine education as “the sons of wealth”
  • That Isaac was reared by his Mother’s family on money from her estate
  • That Sarah’s marriage displeased her parents and therefore Isaac was cut off from his entitlement.
Facts:
  • Isaac was the son of Anne Godwin and Henry Jennings
  • No records indicate education
  • Isaac was a Justice of the Peace for two year

In New Jersey, Isaac Jennings married Judith Marden Bates, a young widow with one daughter Rebecca, who married Richard Price.  The children of Isaac & Judith were Jacob, John, Ellis, Sarah and Ann. (Isaac Jennings’s children born in New Jersey were the following named five:-

  1. Sarah Jennings daughter of Isaac, married George Flannigan (Or Flanningham) in 1736 and had children named:- Isaac, Patrick, Samuel, Ann (She married Jaggard, Perce and Fisher.) William, Deborah, Elizabeth, Priscilla and Sarah.
  2. Ann Jennings, daughter of Isaac married John Chew 3rd, son of Richard Chew, Jr. (See page 28).

    Isaac had three daughters:  Sarah, Deborah and Elizabeth.  There are no Ann Jennings records.

  3. Deborah Jennings, daughter of Isaac, married Isaac Burrough and had issue:- Isaac, Priscilla and Hannah.
  4. Elizabeth Jennings, daughter of Isaac, married Aaron Lippincott in 1746 .. Her children were Samuel and Judith.
  5. Jacob Jennings, son of Isaac, married first wife, Mary Smith in 1761.  descendants of this marriage are not known to the writer. Jacob Jennings second marriage in 1783 was to Ann Hopkins, widow of Ebenezer and daughter of Josiah and Ann Albertson. The children of the second marriage were:- Mark, Joseph, James, Isaac and Job and Jacob, John and Judith. The last two may have been of the first marriage.