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William Jenison

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William Jenison

Birth
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
19 Jul 1819 (aged 61)
USA
Burial
Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
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62 yrs

Next to wife Sarah
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Additional information has been supplied by: Douglas Robinson

From the book "New England Families" by William Richard Cutter (1914).

William Jennison, son of Captain Israel Jennison, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, April 13, 1758, and died July 19, 1819. He was a soldier in the revolution. There were several others of the same name and it is difficult to distinguish his service from the others in the muster rolls, etc., in the archives. In 1777 he appears to be in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Worcester county regiment. He married, October 30, 1788, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Sarah Sumner, daughter of Rev. Joseph Sumner-(see Sumner V'l). She died at Swanton, Vermont, according to the history of Shrewsbury, in 1831, aged sixty-seven years. According to the family records her date of death was February i, 1832, aged sixty-eight years. He died at Swanton, July 19, 1819. aged sixty-two years. Children: Elizabeth Stowell, born July 24, 1789; Joseph Sumner, mentioned below; Nahum Eager, at Worcester, April 24, 1793: Charles Horace, at Southboro, March 2, 1796; William Danielson, September 10, 1798, at Shrewsbury. Born at Swanton: Israel, Sarah Sumner and Erastus Summer.
62 yrs

Next to wife Sarah
__________

Additional information has been supplied by: Douglas Robinson

From the book "New England Families" by William Richard Cutter (1914).

William Jennison, son of Captain Israel Jennison, was born at Worcester, Massachusetts, April 13, 1758, and died July 19, 1819. He was a soldier in the revolution. There were several others of the same name and it is difficult to distinguish his service from the others in the muster rolls, etc., in the archives. In 1777 he appears to be in Colonel Asa Whitcomb's Worcester county regiment. He married, October 30, 1788, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, Sarah Sumner, daughter of Rev. Joseph Sumner-(see Sumner V'l). She died at Swanton, Vermont, according to the history of Shrewsbury, in 1831, aged sixty-seven years. According to the family records her date of death was February i, 1832, aged sixty-eight years. He died at Swanton, July 19, 1819. aged sixty-two years. Children: Elizabeth Stowell, born July 24, 1789; Joseph Sumner, mentioned below; Nahum Eager, at Worcester, April 24, 1793: Charles Horace, at Southboro, March 2, 1796; William Danielson, September 10, 1798, at Shrewsbury. Born at Swanton: Israel, Sarah Sumner and Erastus Summer.


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