Jacob Kenney (1741 - bef. 1829)

Born 9 Sep 1741 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Fairhaven)

Ancestors

Husband of Pernal (Hammond) Kenney — married 20 Nov 1777 in Dartmouth,Bristol County, Massachusetts

Husband of Thankful (Ellis) Kinney — married 11 Dec 1817 in Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died before 5 May 1829 before age 87 in Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA

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Biography

Private Jacob Kenney served with Bristol County Militia, Massachusetts Militia during the American Revolution.

Jacob Kenney is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A208474.

Jacob Kenney was born on 9 Sep 1741 in Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1775, Jacob served as a Minuteman in Capt. Daniel Egery’s 2nd Bristol Co. militia regiment, responding to the alarm coming from Lexington on April 19th. They would march, most likely, to the gathering of militia troops at the siege of Boston.

Jacob married Pernall Hammond in 1777, and they would have at least 4 sons together. Pernall died in 1815. Jacob remarried to Thankful Ellis in 1817. His exact date of death isn’t yet known, but must have been in the first months of 1829. His Will, dated 9 Apr 1825 and proved on 5 May 1829, names his second wife Thankful (Ellis) and his four sons.

Last name has been seen as both Kinney, Kenney, and Kenny. Listed as Kenny in the

“Kenny, Jacob, Dartmouth. Private, Capt. Daniel Egery's co. of Minute-men, which marched April 21, 1775, in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775; service, 5 days.”

Children

1. Thomas, abt. 1779
2. Jonathan, 8 Oct 1780
3. Phineas H., 1785
4. Jacob, abt. 1796

Will & Probate

Be it remembered that I Jacob Kinney of Fairhaven being far advanced in life but a Sound mind and memory do make and publish this my last Will and testament in manner and form following Viz.

itm I give and bequeath to my wife Thankfull Kinney all the moveable Estat that she brought with her when I married her and all the she has made Since or Shall make while we live together also all that shall be bought while we live together I give her two hundred and fifty Dollars it being money that she Sold her land for I also give her the improvement of all my Real Estate also all my personal Estate of what nature over it may be of Excepting two feather beads that I shall hereafter give away in this will She is to have the improvement of bouts real and personal Estate so long as she remains my widow

itm I give and Bequeath unto my son Thomas Kinney five Dollars

itm I give and Bequeath unto my son Jonathan Kinney five Dollars

itm I give and Bequeath unto unto my son Phineas Kinney one feather bead and the one half of the beading that shall be left in the house that I had before I married my wife Thankfull also five dollars

itm I give and Bequeath unto my son Jacob Kinney one feather bead and one half of the beading there shall be left that I had before I married my wife Thankfull also all my real Estate that I shall leave at my deceased to live and to his heirs and assigns for ever also all my personal Estate of what nature so ever it may be of that and disposed of in this my will he allows my wife Thankfull to have the peasable improvement so long as she remains my widow and paying all my just debt and funeral chages and paying all the legacys as above ordered and paing my wife thankfull two hundred and fifty dollars in one year after my deceased and paying the Expence of settling my Estate

itm I do hereby appoint my nephew Joseph Kinney my sole Executor of this my last Will and testament hereby [re]voting all former Wills by me made in witness whereof I have hereunto let my hand and seal this ninth Day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand and Eight hundred and Twenty five

Jacob Kinney

signed sealed published and delivered by the above named Jacob Kinney to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who at his request and in his presents have hereunto subscribed our names as witness to the same

Seth Stevens
Delia Weeden
Barth[olomew] ? May 5 1829 Approved

An Inventory of the Estate of Jacob Kinney late of Fairhaven in the County of Bristol deceased
Appraised upon Oath by us the subscribers duly appointed to that service by the Honorable Hodiyah Baylis Esq Judge of the Probate of Wills ye for the County of Bristol

Real Estate
Homestead farm with building thereon — $450
One lot of woodland near Tripp’s Mills so called containing 12 acres — $84
[total] $534

Personal Estate
1 Fair Oxen — $55
1 Cow 25$ one ox cart 5$ one iron bar 150/100$ — $31.50
1 Grindstone 1$ English Hay 6$ two ox yokes 125/100$ — $8.25
1 Hayrake & Pitchfork 25/100 Cart ladders &Hay poles 50/100 — ¢75
2 Narrow axes 1$ two scythes and sticks 1$ — $2.00
2 Augers & one drawing knife 75/100$ — ¢75
2 Feather Beds Bolsters & Pillows 20$ 2 coverlid $3 2 ? $1 — $24
3 Bedquilts 3, - 9 cotton or linen sheets 3, - 2 flannel sheets 1,75 — $7.75
3 bolster cases and 4 pillow cases 1, - 1 bedstead and cord 1, — $2.00
1 feather bed, bolster + pillow $12, - 1 coverlid $4, - 1 bed quilt + coverlid — $18.00
2 Fancy blankets $4, - 7 flannel sheets $6, - 3 cotton sheets $2, - 2 t…..(?) 1,50 — $13.50
6 cotton pillow cases $1, - 6 knapkins 1,50 - 1 bedstead cord + under bed 2, — $4.50
1 bedquilt $1, - 2 chests + drawers $6, - 1 cupboard $1, - 1 looking glass,50 — $8.50
2 tables + 1 stand $2,50 - 6 Windsor chairs 2, kitchen chairs ,50 - 1 steelyard ,50 — $5.50
1 pair iron dogs ,50 - shovel + tongs ,50 - 1 flat iron ,25 - 1 tin camp ,12 — $1.37
2 iron candlesticks ,25 - 1 pair bellows ,20 - 1 iron crane hooks + tramels 2, — $2.45
1 cook pot - 2 dish kettles - 1 bake pan - 2 spiders and 1 tea kettle — $4.00
5 bushels corn 3,75 - 2 bushels rye 1,60 - Pork 1,80 - 1 warming pan ,50 — $7.65
Pewter ware 3, - tin ware ,50 - 1 Black tin teapot ,50 - crockery ware $2, - — $6.00
stone earthen + Glass ware ,50 - 1 cedar churn ,50 - 2 rives-,25 — $1.25
Lot knives forks + spoons 1, lot of old casks tubs pail barrels etc 1, — $2.00
One note of hand on William Ellis of Rochester for two hundred and thirty dollars dated January 28th 1828 — $230.00
One note of hand on Simeon Clifford for seventy five 40/100 dated Oct 7th 1828. In payment on the same $52, — $23.40
Lot of boards $2, the deceased wearing apparel $15, — $17.00
[Total] $477.12

Fairhaven February 17th 1829

1829
Bartholemew Taber [Executor]

Alfred Nye
Clement D. Nye
David Mitchell Appraisers

Sources

• www/alden.org John Alden Society

Dartmouth Vital records

• https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/122025/ocm12601336-1902-v.9.pdf?sequence=9&isAllowed=y
• Source: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State. Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: a compilation from the archives. Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1896. Vol. 9
• Source: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Peter Brown , vol. 7, 2nd ed., by Robert S. Wakefield. Plymouth, 2002.
• Source: Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Provo, UT, 2015.
• Fairhaven, Leonard H. Smith Jr. and Dorothy Marvelle Boywe, eds. Vital Records of Fairhaven, Massachusetts to 1850. (Clearwater, FL: Leonard H. Smith, 1986; repr. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1993)