Son of Joseph Jenkins & Hannah Culver (or Colver). Date of birth supported by Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection).
“The first settler in the village of Rensselaerville was Mr. Samuel Jenkins, whose name it should have borne. He was the father of Jonathan Jenkins, Esq., and came here the 22nd Feb. 1788. The following April, he put up the first dwelling-house, one of logs, which stood where now stands the residence of Charles L. Mulford, Esq., and near it stood the first framed house. He also built the first mill, near the spot where the middle mill now stands. Mr. Jenkins died in Dec. 1837, aged eighty-four. In the sermon preached at his funeral, my father alludes to the origin of a village which now has 600 inhabitants and four houses of worship: - “Fifty years have passed since he was one of the first settlers of this town and built the first house in this village, which then was not a village, but a dense and dark forest excluding the rays of the sun, and little seen by human eyes, or trod by human feet. But by industry, economy, and perseverance, the forests were cleared, mills erected, and other useful improvements made, and thus a foundation was laid for the growth and prosperity which we now witness in this place.”” [From The Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Bartholomew's, New-York, on the 23d and 24th Sundays After Trinity by Samuel Cooke (T. N. Stanford, 1857).
“The first mill in the hamlet of Rensselaerville was built in 1789 by Samuel Jenkins from West Stockbridge, Mass. Zadoc Brown, then his son Harvey were the first millers. The mill was located approximately where the present Grist Mill is and was much smaller than the present mill. It had an overshot wheel about 25 feet high made out of wood. In winters ice often froze on the wheel and had to be chopped off before the wheel could turn.”
“The millstones were imported from France and brought from the southeast overland by oxen from the Hudson River. They were made of sections held together by an iron band. From time to time new grooves had to be cut in the faces of the stones. This was done by hand, using steel tools. Some of these tools and stones may be seen on display at the Rensselaerville Grist Mill which is open on Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays during summer months.” [From History of The Rensselaerville Grist Mill. By Janet Long Haseley, 1996 (revised 1999), adapted from a 1965 paper by Joseph Civalier of the Natural Sciences Institute.]
“The first settler in the village of Rensselaerville was Mr. Samuel Jenkins, whose name it should have borne. He was the father of Jonathan Jenkins, Esq., and came here the 22nd Feb. 1788. The following April, he put up the first dwelling-house, one of logs, which stood where now stands the residence of Charles L. Mulford, Esq., and near it stood the first framed house. He also built the first mill, near the spot where the middle mill now stands. Mr. Jenkins died in Dec. 1837, aged eighty-four. In the sermon preached at his funeral, my father alludes to the origin of a village which now has 600 inhabitants and four houses of worship: - “Fifty years have passed since he was one of the first settlers of this town and built the first house in this village, which then was not a village, but a dense and dark forest excluding the rays of the sun, and little seen by human eyes, or trod by human feet. But by industry, economy, and perseverance, the forests were cleared, mills erected, and other useful improvements made, and thus a foundation was laid for the growth and prosperity which we now witness in this place.”” [From The Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Bartholomew's, New-York, on the 23d and 24th Sundays After Trinity by Samuel Cooke (T. N. Stanford, 1857).
“The first mill in the hamlet of Rensselaerville was built in 1789 by Samuel Jenkins from West Stockbridge, Mass. Zadoc Brown, then his son Harvey were the first millers. The mill was located approximately where the present Grist Mill is and was much smaller than the present mill. It had an overshot wheel about 25 feet high made out of wood. In winters ice often froze on the wheel and had to be chopped off before the wheel could turn.”
“The millstones were imported from France and brought from the southeast overland by oxen from the Hudson River. They were made of sections held together by an iron band. From time to time new grooves had to be cut in the faces of the stones. This was done by hand, using steel tools. Some of these tools and stones may be seen on display at the Rensselaerville Grist Mill which is open on Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays during summer months.” [From History of The Rensselaerville Grist Mill. By Janet Long Haseley, 1996 (revised 1999), adapted from a 1965 paper by Joseph Civalier of the Natural Sciences Institute.]
Son of Joseph Jenkins & Hannah Culver (or Colver). Date of birth supported by Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection).
“The first settler in the village of Rensselaerville was Mr. Samuel Jenkins, whose name it should have borne. He was the father of Jonathan Jenkins, Esq., and came here the 22nd Feb. 1788. The following April, he put up the first dwelling-house, one of logs, which stood where now stands the residence of Charles L. Mulford, Esq., and near it stood the first framed house. He also built the first mill, near the spot where the middle mill now stands. Mr. Jenkins died in Dec. 1837, aged eighty-four. In the sermon preached at his funeral, my father alludes to the origin of a village which now has 600 inhabitants and four houses of worship: - “Fifty years have passed since he was one of the first settlers of this town and built the first house in this village, which then was not a village, but a dense and dark forest excluding the rays of the sun, and little seen by human eyes, or trod by human feet. But by industry, economy, and perseverance, the forests were cleared, mills erected, and other useful improvements made, and thus a foundation was laid for the growth and prosperity which we now witness in this place.”” [From The Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Bartholomew's, New-York, on the 23d and 24th Sundays After Trinity by Samuel Cooke (T. N. Stanford, 1857).
“The first mill in the hamlet of Rensselaerville was built in 1789 by Samuel Jenkins from West Stockbridge, Mass. Zadoc Brown, then his son Harvey were the first millers. The mill was located approximately where the present Grist Mill is and was much smaller than the present mill. It had an overshot wheel about 25 feet high made out of wood. In winters ice often froze on the wheel and had to be chopped off before the wheel could turn.”
“The millstones were imported from France and brought from the southeast overland by oxen from the Hudson River. They were made of sections held together by an iron band. From time to time new grooves had to be cut in the faces of the stones. This was done by hand, using steel tools. Some of these tools and stones may be seen on display at the Rensselaerville Grist Mill which is open on Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays during summer months.” [From History of The Rensselaerville Grist Mill. By Janet Long Haseley, 1996 (revised 1999), adapted from a 1965 paper by Joseph Civalier of the Natural Sciences Institute.]
“The first settler in the village of Rensselaerville was Mr. Samuel Jenkins, whose name it should have borne. He was the father of Jonathan Jenkins, Esq., and came here the 22nd Feb. 1788. The following April, he put up the first dwelling-house, one of logs, which stood where now stands the residence of Charles L. Mulford, Esq., and near it stood the first framed house. He also built the first mill, near the spot where the middle mill now stands. Mr. Jenkins died in Dec. 1837, aged eighty-four. In the sermon preached at his funeral, my father alludes to the origin of a village which now has 600 inhabitants and four houses of worship: - “Fifty years have passed since he was one of the first settlers of this town and built the first house in this village, which then was not a village, but a dense and dark forest excluding the rays of the sun, and little seen by human eyes, or trod by human feet. But by industry, economy, and perseverance, the forests were cleared, mills erected, and other useful improvements made, and thus a foundation was laid for the growth and prosperity which we now witness in this place.”” [From The Funeral Sermons Preached in St. Bartholomew's, New-York, on the 23d and 24th Sundays After Trinity by Samuel Cooke (T. N. Stanford, 1857).
“The first mill in the hamlet of Rensselaerville was built in 1789 by Samuel Jenkins from West Stockbridge, Mass. Zadoc Brown, then his son Harvey were the first millers. The mill was located approximately where the present Grist Mill is and was much smaller than the present mill. It had an overshot wheel about 25 feet high made out of wood. In winters ice often froze on the wheel and had to be chopped off before the wheel could turn.”
“The millstones were imported from France and brought from the southeast overland by oxen from the Hudson River. They were made of sections held together by an iron band. From time to time new grooves had to be cut in the faces of the stones. This was done by hand, using steel tools. Some of these tools and stones may be seen on display at the Rensselaerville Grist Mill which is open on Sunday afternoons and Wednesdays during summer months.” [From History of The Rensselaerville Grist Mill. By Janet Long Haseley, 1996 (revised 1999), adapted from a 1965 paper by Joseph Civalier of the Natural Sciences Institute.]
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SAMUEL JENKINS
Born in Litchfield Conn
First inhabitant of this
Village Feb. 22, 1788.
DIED
Dec. 12, 1837
Aged 81 years.
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